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- Bette Davis Got a Secret.
- 1952–196730mTV-G9.5 (144)TV EpisodeBette Davis Got a Secret.
- Joan Fontaine Got a Secret.
- Steve Allen and the panel welcome Marlon Brando's female movie stand-in and four military men from four different branches of the service who all won gold medals at the Olympics. Guest Lucille Ball is asked questions posed by the audience while the panel (including her husband Gary Morton) must answer as Lucy would.
- Dee Woolem can draw, load, and fire a gun before Garry Moore can clap his hands. One parachutist saves another, whose parachute didn't open, midair in the Canadian Forces. Ray Bolger tries to trick the panel into asking questions.
- 1952–1967TV-G8.5 (13)TV EpisodeLucille Ball sits on the panel, replacing the vacationing Faye Emerson. The first contestant is a woman who built the chairs that the panel is sitting on. The next player is a 96 year-old man who was at Fords Theatre the night Abraham Lincoln was shot. His memory is of John Wilkes Booth falling to the stage after jumping from Lincoln's box. Stumping the panel, he wins a can of pipe tobacco as he doesn't smoke cigarettes. Desi Arnaz is the guest, and his secret is "I love Lucy."
- The wives of crossdressing New York City police officers. The parents of Neil Armstrong, a pilot who had been selected as an astronaut that morning. Paul Anka returns to the show, to improvise songs.
- Steve Allen and the panel welcome a man who plays jazz on bagpipes and a dog who wears contact lenses. Lucille Ball is the guest. She plays a polling game with the audience surrounding the latest Carnaby Street fashions.
- Includes a secret about Mrs. Smith's four children answering questions from the panel. Of her 13 children these four each have a twin. Includes a secret about a corrugated box manufacturer that sailed a "paper boat" from Washington D.C. To Jacksonville, FL. It was made of water-proofed cardboard with wood supports. Includes a "secret" with Lucille Ball trying to get the panelist to match the emotion in which she answers their questions.
- Nathan Boya went over Niagara Falls. Policeman George F. Healey wasn't informed of the banquet in his honor. Radio sound effects with Eve Arden.
- British actress Lynn Redgrave is the celebrity guest.
- A man whose company invented a drill that can puncture a hair. Two sport writers who picked Cassius Clay to win a fight against Sonny Liston. Woody Allen attempts to duet with a "talking" dog.
- The show's theme is "I've Got a Secret Country Fair". Activities include rooster crowing, cake tasting, and square dancing.
- For the next six months after this episode, the program would alternate with 'Racket Squad' eleven times. Sponsored by Arrid Cream Deodorant (new footage). Garry had an empty water glass and read a Christmas poem about the panel. Bill successfully guessed in Game 1 that Herman Perlman of Washington, D.C. decorated the bathtubs in the White House, and was also the winner of the national 'I've Got a Secret' contest, of which he got a $500 bond; Garry remembered this at the last minute. Henry successfully guessed in Game 2 that Marion Ettie was the 1953 Orange Ball Queen. For the Special Guest Round in Game 3, Jayne successfully guessed that Basil Rathbone was wearing long red flannels (of which he subsequently shows off), and Garry forgot to go to Bill at the fourth turn. The panel was stumped in Game 4 by Mrs. Saretta of Manhattan, New York, who was nurse for Kitty Carlisle's husband, playwright Moss Hart.
- Boris Karloff's secret was that he was afraid of mice. A man's secret was that he wears girdles. No copies of this episode are known to have survived.
- Melville Cooper left after this episode, and Nina Foch sat in the 4th chair for a while. Sponsored by Arrid Cream Deodorant. Garry read a bulletin at the beginning. The panel was stumped in Game 1 by Dick Mullaly of Dick Malolly, Massachusetts, who spent a weekend at the YWCA. The panel was stumped in Game 2 by Mrs. William Say Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, went to school with Jayne Meadows, 15 years ago. For the Special Guest Round in Game 3, the panel was stumped by Mickey Mantle, who was going to be the youngest father in Baseball. The panel was stumped in Game 4 by Alice Samuels of Brooklyn, New York, who lost her teeth in Radio City Music Hall.
- Sponsored by Arrid Cream Deodorant. Garry gave the panelists made-up backgrounds just for this episode. Jayne successfully guessed in Game 1 that Alice Shaw of Rockville Centre, New York had five sets of twins, and Garry says she had 18 children, which Alice then named. The panel was stumped in Game 2 by Mr. Duggar of Upstate New York, who discovered Aureomycin. For the Special Guest Round in Game 3, the panel was stumped by Diana Lynn, who was wearing Bill Cullen's wife's wedding ring, and she subsequently gave it back to Bill. The panel was stumped in Game 4 by Leo Mattersdorf, who figured out Albert Einstein's income tax (a clip from this episode later appeared in the 4th Year Anniversary Special).
- This episode is missing and assumed lost.
- 1952–1967TV-GTV Episode
- Henry Morgan fills in for Garry Moore, with Carl Reiner in his panel chair. Pitcher Bob Turley appeared. Actor Broderick Crawford appeared as a contestant in Game 1.
- Audrey Meadows fills in for Faye Emerson. Preempted the following week for 'Lucy Takes a Cruise to Havana' of 'The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour'.
- Features John Cage's iconic television performance of his piece "Water Walk".
- Guest Star Vivian Vance demonstrates the then-new Goodson-Todman game 'Password'.
- Paul Tomlin pollutes water, then purifies it. Dwight and Laura Misner were engaged in 1898, but only married a month before the show. The panel is challenged by Peggy Cass to dress boys in snow suits.
- Learn contestant's secrets.
- 1.Evelyn Curry of Ringling Brothers and Barnum Bailey Circus, puts her head inside a lion's mouth. 2.Turnis Anderson of Carlton Fisheries caught a nuclear submarine in his net, USS Nautilus. 3.Guest Jonathan Winters: Each panelist is assigned to a Marine recruit and is instructed on how to give him orders.
- 1952–1967TV-GTV Episode
- The first guest's secret was that he had a live cobra in his basket. The panel guessed it quickly, as they recognized 'Mr. X", who ran a reptile garden, from an earlier appearance on the show. Then Gary Moore played the flute at the basket, and the cobra came out and danced! The man claimed that cobras cannot hear, but are reacting to the vibrations and the nearness of the flute, which the cobra views as a threat! The second guest was Marion Marshall, whose secret was that he was the only man to defeat Heavyweight Champion Sonny Liston. They guessed this quickly, mentioning that he had a fighter's body and 'distinctive ears'. Marshall then predicted that "Clay" could beat Liston. Clay (Ali) did this two tears later. Marshall said that he lost two subsequent fights with Liston, and he then ran a gym. He then posed holding Gary Moore's head at arms length while Moore flailed away helplessly at Marshall. After a vintage commercial for Toni permanents, Janet Leigh came on, promoting her new movie "The Manchurian Candidate". The two women panelists left the room. Gary Moore and Leigh then showed photos of 'nutsy' hair styles. Bill Cullen and Henry Morgan then were challenged to create their own hairstyles on Betsy Palmer and Bess Myerson. Of course, they both botched the job, and the women looked ridiculous. A vintage commercial for Dream Whip desserts followed. Then the women were permitted to put wigs on the men. This episode aired in the middle of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a time of great international tension. The country needed escapist humor.
- Three people who taught Steve Allen to play instruments for The Benny Goodman Story (1956). A man who found the Gettysburg Cyclorama from the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. Shelley Winters asks "intimate and personal questions" of the panel.
- 1952–1967TV-GTV EpisodeThis episode is missing and presumed lost. Show now airs Monday nights at 10:30 p.m. Set and intro updated to have diamonds in the logo. The theme music was now an upbeat arrangement of Max Steiner's "Theme from 'A Summer Place", replacing Leroy Anderson's 'Plink, Plank, Plunk!' that had been used since the beginning.
- Sponsored by Arrid Cream Deodorant. Garry's spelling teacher was in the audience. Two Special Guests appeared here. Bill successfully guessed in Game 1 that Nellie Hayden's of California father (Steve Brodie) jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge. The panel was stumped in Game 2 by cartoonist Ham Fisher, who said that Joe Palooka was going to become a father next Thursday. For the Special Guest Round in Game 3, Bill successfully guessed that Veronica Lake's feet were too big, which she subsequently showed off, and Garry tried on some women's shoes at the very end. The panel was stumped in Game 4 by Mrs. George Bergener of New York City, New York, who was Laraine Day's cousin.
- Special guest is James Garner. Also featured are the world's smallest airplane and 2 young boys (Hugh and Gordon Hawthorne) rescued from drowning by their dog.
- 1952–196730mTV-GTV Episode
- Ray Walston, with Steve Allen's assistance, demonstrated a carved pumpkin that was powered by noise like applause or whistling. The technology was invented by DuPont.
- Singer-actor Robert Goulet and the singing Shangri-Las have a secret for panelists Bess Myerson, Henry Morgan, Betsy Palmer and Bill Cullen.
- Dunwood Kirby reviews the panel's predictions for 1964, and asks them to guess what will happen in 1965. A chorus of New York City residents sing their last names, which collectively sound like "Auld Lang Syne."
- 1952–1967TV-GTV Episode
- 1952–1967TV-GTV Episode