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Full episode of I’ve Got a Secret with original commercials from Feb 9/56, guests are Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz

Bob F — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:39:21 +0000

I\’ve Got a Secret, Feb 8, 1956

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New “show experience” posted

Tommy Gun — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:57:40 +0000

Paul tells his story about being on IGaS.

Thanks Paul!

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New photo of Garry Moore

Tommy Gun — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:39:08 +0000

Just got this email:

Attached is a picture of my father and Gary Moore in 1956 when my father was on I Got a Secret. He is holding up 4 fingers because his secret was that he just had his 4th set of Twins. It is my understanding that no one guessed his secret.

David Walsh

See photo here

Thanks David!

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Interview with “Senga Niprut” (the “Finnish” Girl!) is up!

Tommy Gun — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:06:30 +0000

One of my favorite secrets from the show, and I got to speak with the star! I also added a few screenshots to the transcript page.

If you have any comments, please leave them on the interview page, rather than this post.

Read the Interview

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IGaS episode guide up!

Tommy Gun — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:22:16 +0000

Thanks to Richard Carson, we now have an episode guide up! He did a ton of work on it, and was kind enough to let it be mirrored here — which can be updated by other people, if anyone wants to help complete it! You can see it here:

http://ivegotasecretonline.com/about/episode-guide/

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Welcome to IGaSol version 3.0! Now interactive!

Tommy Gun — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 01:39:22 +0000

I know I’ve barely touched this site in years, and it really bothered me, but I just couldn’t dedicate much time to it. With this new version, updates are really quick and easy to do, the pages are better organized, there’s a search function, and best of all, YOU can add content to the site! Every page has a comment form, so you can add your thoughts directly to the page, and if you’d like to actually write an article or transcript, I can give you privileges to do so! So please contact me if you’d like to contribute anything! It was a lot of work to overhaul the whole site a third time, but I hope it’ll be worth it. This means the links have changed, so if you’re linking to a specific page on this site, please update your links (the old links go to a page that suggests a new link to the user).

There are a couple new transcripts up, which were almost ready years ago, but missing pictures. They’re still not entirely finished, so if you’d like to help out, let me know. The new ones are Jokes by Bill Cullen and Quadruple Cross with Phil Silvers!

A new interview is coming soon with a guest who was on IGaS with Garry Moore! I was really excited to get to speak with her, as she was involved in one of my favorite secrets of all time!

I hope you enjoy the new site, and please add your own comments to any page! Again, if you’d like to write any articles, please contact me! I’d also love to hear your feedback on the site, and if you find any broken links let me know in the comments.

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Henry Morgan radio shows for download!

Tommy Gun — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:21:44 +0000

A while back willettd sent me a whole bunch of Henry Morgan mp3 files. They’re old radio shows he did in the late forties. Not all of them are labelled, but most of them are. They hold up fairly well, and are pretty funny, but even when the jokes fall flat Henry’s commentary is funny, and they’re interesting to hear. I put them all up in a directory, so you can browse and download at your leisure:

http://ivegotasecretonline.com/audio-files/Henry-Morgan/

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IGaS on (homemade) DVDs for sale!

Tommy Gun — Tue, 13 May 2008 23:19:36 +0000

Bob sends this message:

Hey Tommy, i thought you might like to know that Thomas Film Classics, www.thomasfilmclassics.com has a LOT of IGAS on DVD, i contacted them and bought them all for about $130 including shipping, the quality is excellent altho you can see they were originally taped off of black and white overnight, but who cares? Well worth checking out!

Thanks Bob! That is a bit pricey, but Vol. 1 claims it contains 39 episodes, so that’s about a dollar per episode if you’d like to think of it that way. It takes a lot of clicks to actually navigate to the IGaS store, but you should be able to get straight to the IGaS section with this link. Three volumes are currently available, and they also have some other game shows if you’re interested.

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IGaS on DVD! In COLOR! Sorta.

Tommy Gun — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 23:18:24 +0000

While we’re all still waiting for IGaS to be released on DVD (not holding my breath), you can at least get a taste. “Lucy’s Really Lost Moments” is on DVD (see image at left), and contains a couple segments. The first one has Lucy as the guest. It is in color, although is looks to be colorized in post-production (though I could be wrong):

02/15/1961 – Lucy’s secret is that she’s trying to get the panel to imitate her, through the power of suggestion. Johnny Carson was sitting in for Bill. This is the order of the panelists, with Lucy’s “moods”:

Betsy: Excited, Happy (Betsy pretty much guesses in, but Garry doesn’t want to ruin the whole thing, so he lies and says that’s not it)
Henry: Dignified, Sad
Bess: Nervous
Carson: Romantic, Tipsy

Lucy (while acting tipsy) asks Johnny Carson if he’s married, and he replies with the great line, “My story’s the same as yours.” (Remember, this was in 1961, less than a year after her divorce.)

The sponsor on Garry’s desk is Clairol, and the sponsor on the panel is Bufferin.

02/08/1956 – Black and white. This is found in the bonus features. Lucy replaces Faye Emerson on the panel, Desi is the guest. Jayne, Bill, and Henry are the other panelists. Desi’s secret is, “I love Lucy.” All the panelists pass, so it’s entirely up to Lucy to guess. Contains the Winston ad at the beginning.

The DVD also contains other clips, including Desi and Lucy on “What’s My Line?” as the mystery guests. You can find more info at the Amazon link above. You can also help support this site if you purchase it through that link.

Also, I found a recent interview with Betsy Palmer, if you’re interested. Don’t expect her to talk about IGaS though. There is also an older interview with her, farther down the page.

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Update Archive 07/2004 – 06/2006

Tommy Gun — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 23:15:45 +0000

06/29/06 : Fixed links, text

It was brought to my attention that some of the links weren’t working (because of the domain switch), so I fixed those. Things like the wallpapers, or more importantly, the downloadable audio files. I checked the rest of the site and found a few other things to fix, removed some text that was no longer relevant, etc.

Unfortunately I’ve moved on to other projects and they are taking up most of my time, so don’t expect anything major to happen to this site in the near future. This was always just for fun, and I can’t dedicate much time to it anymore.

04/07/06 : New version of IGaS to air!

Although this site really only covers the original version of IGaS, I should still mention that there’s a new version of IGaS, and it will air on GSN! Previously there was a version that aired on the Oxygen Network in 2000. This newer version has a new cast, host, and set, so it doesn’t look like there’s any connection to the Oxygen version (or to the original, for that matter). It premieres Monday, April 17th at 10:30pm central. I guess now we know why GSN recently started re-airing the original IGaS.

03/26/06 : Domain no longer a redirect, IGaS back on GSN!

Well, I finally switched this site to a separate server, and made the domain point here rather than be a redirect. The old links will still work, but I will probably make them redirect here. If you are using the old domain, please update it to this one ( www.ivegotasecretonline.com )!

In bigger news, it seems that IGaS is FINALLY coming back to GSN! According to my schedule, it will be back on starting April 4th, from 2:00 – 2:30 AM (central time). Check your listings to be sure! I’m not sure how long it will last, but it’s great to see it back on!

03/13/05 : “It Happened to Jane” on DVD!

On February 22, 2005, “It Happened to Jane” was finally released on DVD! If you’ve read the transcript about it on this site then you would know it’s the only existing color footage of IGaS! You can pick up the DVD on Amazon.com here:

Amazon.com: DVD: It Happened to Jane

11/09/04 : Interviews with Betsy and Jayne!

Willettd emailed me a couple links to some fantastic audio clips! They’re each about an hour long, broken into three clips (the next clip loads automatically). They’re streaming WMA files (as far as I can tell). Definitely worth a listen! Unfortunately they saved the biggest question for last (“why did the show end so abruptly?”), so Betsy had no time to answer!

Here is his email:

This is an interview with Betsy Palmer aired on TV Time Machine on World Talk Radio on 04/28/04. An interesting fact in this interview is how she almost quit IGAS because of Henry Morgan (she isn’t completely blameless.) There is also audio from the Mark Goodson episode and others.

This is an interview with Jane Meadows on the same show on 11/3/04 on which she discusses IGAS.

Those links are also listed on the links page.

Thanks Dennis!

07/23/04 : HUGE behind-the-scenes update!

*gasp*! An update! Actually, I worked on a lot of this stuff *last year*, but then I moved and now I’m doing that “work” thing where I make money so I haven’t had much time for other stuff. Sorry. So anyway, I got sick of not having this stuff up because it is perhaps the greatest behind-the-scenes content I will ever receive. So here is the stuff. Of course there are links to each in their respective sections, but so you don’t have to go digging to find it all:

Gary Senese (not the actor) was on IGaS in 1959. He contacted me, I sent him the episode. I put up a transcript with pictures of his appearance, an article he wrote about his experience (for this site), complete with scans of the official letters and telegrams! (I won’t link to those here, read the article for the links.) The “welcome letter” is the best piece of IGaS history I’ve ever seen! If you’re interested in behind-the-scenes type stuff, this is a MUST SEE! You get to learn lots of awesome IGaS trivia. For instance, the money handed out on the show is indeed fake money, and when the contestants whisper their secret to Garry, they don’t actually say anything!

So that it would be faster loading (since it’s basically just text anyway), I typed out the Official I’ve Got a Secret Welcome Letter! If you prefer, you can also see the scan of the actual letter (longer loading and a little blurry).

Oh yes, and I acquired some IGaS tickets last year from ebay. I’ll have better scans eventually, but here is a shot of the tickets in screwdown cases that I have.

Hope you like the new stuff! Sorry I haven’t updated this in a while!

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