I've Got a Secret | |
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Genre | Game show |
Created by | Allan Sherman, Howard Merrill |
Directed by | Franklin Heller (1956–1967) |
Presented by | Garry Moore Steve Allen Bill Cullen Stephanie Miller Bil Dwyer |
Composers | Leroy Anderson Norman Paris Steve Allen Edd Kalehoff Score Productions Tim Mosher Alan Ett Scott Liggett |
Country of origin | United States |
No. of episodes | CBS (1952–1967): 680 Syndication (1972–1973): 39 CBS (1976): 4 Oxygen (2000–2001): 120[1] GSN (2006): 40 |
Production | |
Producers | Mark Goodson Bill Todman Allan Sherman Chester Feldman |
Running time | 22–26 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | CBS (1952–1967, 1976) Syndicated (1972–1973) Oxygen (2000–2001) GSN (2006) |
Release | June 19, 1952 June 9, 2006 | –
Related | |
What's My Line? To Tell the Truth | |
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I've Got a Secret is an American panel game show produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman for CBS television. Created by comedy writers Allan Sherman and Howard Merrill, it was a derivative of Goodson–Todman's own panel show, What's My Line?. Instead of celebrity panelists trying to determine a contestant's occupation, however, as in What's My Line, the panel tried to determine a contestant's secret: something that is unusual, amazing, embarrassing, or humorous about that person.
The original version of I've Got a Secret premiered on CBS on June 19, 1952,[2] and ran until April 3, 1967. The show began broadcasting in black and white and switched to color in 1966, when all commercial prime-time network programs in the US began to be produced in color.
The show was revived for the 1972–1973 season in once-a-week syndication and again from June 15 to July 6, 1976, as a summer replacement series on CBS. Oxygen launched a daily revival series in 2000, which ran until 2001. A second revival by GSN premiered on April 17, 2006, and aired new episodes daily until June 9, 2006.