Yet another secret

While still trying to figure out why GSN will mercilessly rerun-abuse a handful of Power of 10 episodes, I've also been rummaging around YouTube for, you guessed it, remnants of the original I've Got a Secret.

It's a harmless pastime, after all, and once in a while a gem turns up. This 1964 segment brought on three civvie guests named Messrs. Ex, Wye and Zee. Naturally, host Garry Moore introduced them as Mr. X, Mr. Y and Mr. Z. He then turned them over to the befuddled panel.

Woody Allen was subbing for Bill Cullen, but he came no closer to the goofy secret than anybody else...until Henry Morgan stumbled onto the gentlemen's names in a sudden light-bulb moment. Morgan was so pleased with himself that he wanted the eighty-dollar prize. By all accounts, though, Henry was already well compensated.

I'm not going to make any more excuses for my fogey-ish interest in ancient black-and-white game shows. It's more fun than stamp-collecting, anyway.