On June 6, 1961 IGAS broadcast a clips show to celebrate its ninth anniversary. Garry Moore and the panel sat around a talk show set and reminisced about various stunts they had done over the years, as clips from past episodes rolled by. Some of the stunts worked fine. And some of the stunts worked even better when things didn't go quite as expected.
Interspersed throughout the other clips were bits from Jack Moseley's epic inner-tube stunt, broadcast on January 14, 1959. Poor Jack huffed and puffed and finally, after twenty minutes, blew an inner tube to rubber smithereens. Jack appeared at the end of the anniversary show and, of course, tried to blow out the candles on the nine-year birthday cake.
The clips reminded me how far I've Got a Secret developed from its origins as Goodson-Todman's in-house clone of What's My Line. It's not easy to visualize John Daly, Bennett Cerf and the rest of the WML bunch doing the pratfalls and hijinks IGAS eventually specialized in. At least, nobody ever exploded an inner tube while Mr. Daly turned over the cards.
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