A firing

All The Price is Right lawsuits remind us of the occasional spats behind the scenes in our little genre.

A classic like I've Got a Secret was not immune to such conflicts. On YouTube Richard Carson just posted the 6/11/58 episode, the last ever produced by Allan Sherman. The guest segment with Tony Curtis was seen as such a flop that Mark Goodson fired Sherman afterwards.

The segment does seem like a bore, with everyone yakking about kid games. Finally Tony Curtis tells substitute host Henry Morgan his secret: he's going to become a father (of Jamie Lee Curtis, by the way). You'll have to decide for yourselves if the segment was bad enough to get Allan Sherman fired. There was supposedly bad blood between Goodson and Sherman dating back to the show's origins. A YouTube commenter adds this note:

Allan's autobiography says that Goodson and he were at odds for awhile. He claims that Goodson bought the game concept from him and never gave him proper compensation or credit. After Allan became an overnight sensation in the early 1960's, he and Goodson made up and apologized.

An offbeat story, anyway, even if I can't vouch for it.