Richard has uploaded the entire December 26, 1956 episode. The panel took "revenge" on host Garry Moore for various indignities during the past year. The episode was actually a little clunky, but it did end in a great stunt. The panel literally crated up Garry and sent him off to the NYC jazz club Birdland to play drums with Count Basie's band.
They rolled the crated Garry to a pickup truck waiting outside the studio and sent him off to his jazz gig. The primitive technology of the day made it all a bit clumsy and badly lit, but that's sort of charming to watch nowadays. You get a genuine feeling of New York City street life as Garry is hoisted into the truck and then rolls away to his date with Basie.
I've Got a Secret was always willing to try silly human tricks. Sometimes the stunts flopped, but this was live TV, folks.
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