Time to check in with Richard Carson's terrific I've Got a Secret channel on YouTube. Back in the pre-feminist days of 1958, the show uncorked a pleasant gender role reversal stunt.
They brought on an engaged couple from Oklahoma, Sandra Keister and K.C. Jones. As you can probably tell from the screenshot, Sandra was the only girl in a boys' school and K.C. was the only boy in a girls' school.
Bill Cullen stumbled onto the right idea when he asked about the couple's "physiological attributes." Bill then got a lot of humor out of the phrase. He could get humor out of anything. But he also forced Garry Moore to admit that, yes, the difference in sexes was important to the secret. This opened the door for an impossibly young-looking Betty White to guess the secret about the girls' and boys' schools.
Just to show how times have changed, the audience laughed when K.C. revealed that he was studying to be a nurse. Nowadays the situation would almost be routine. At least an audience wouldn't do anything so politically incorrect as laugh at the idea.
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