I've Got a Secret
CBS (69 episodes)
Garry Moore (1952-64)
- (8-21-52) Special Guest: Mischa Auer (The first game provides the exact style of comedy that the show would later be known for) [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (12-25-52) Special Guest: Basil Rathbone (Christmas episode) [GSN/CC-1/A-]
- (10-7-53) Special Guest: Cesar Romero, in a GREAT secret that features poor Garry Moore's foot!! (Features a GREAT opening segment that's a follow-up from last week where Henry Morgan revealed to the audience that he had really worn out shoes. Also Garry Moore pronouncing "Patchogue", a local town near where I grew up, was a delight in itself. Harry Stuldreher of the famous Four Horsemen of Notre Dame is a mystery guest in one game) [GSN/CC-1/A-]
- (12-23-53) Special Guest: Paul Hartman, in a GREAT Christmas secret involving Henry Morgan's mother!! (Christmas episode, and the games and the consequences from them are another great example of just how special this show was) [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (12-22-54) Special Guest: No one. Each member of the panel that week has their own special secret that the other three panelists have to "guess"!! There is no game in this, it's just the panel having fun for half an hour and ending with a big singalong. Wonderful episode!! Virginia O'Hanlon Douglas, of "Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" fame is in the audience!! If you love Christmas that segment ALONE is worth it for you!! (Christmas episode, with various members of the staff appearing in the opening!! The set is also decorated for the occasion!!) [GSN/CC-1/B+]
- (6-22-55) Special Guest: Jack Lemmon, in a secret that involves Bill Cullen!! (There's supposed to be a new set, but it was delayed and the original set had already been destroyed, so a bunch of staff made a makeshift set out of spare wood and boxes!! [GSN/CC-1/A-]
- (12-21-55) Special Guest: No one. The panel once again all has secrets (introduced by friends and family members) that will get revealed on the show!! (Christmas episode, with the set, uh, "decorated" for the occasion!! "It isn't how much money the Christmas thing is, but the feeling you put into it!!" Skitch Henderson is brought out to provide background music for the show!!) [GSN/CC-1/B+]
- (2-8-56) Special Guest: Desi Arnaz (Lucille Ball is on the panel) [KINw/OC/CC-1/A]
- (3-28-56) Special Guest: No one. In this special Easter episode, each secret involves animals [KINw/OC/CC-1/A]
- (9-26-56) Special Guest: James Mason (Ripped from YouTube. This episode has NEVER been aired on BUZZR or GSN!! It's Jayne's birthday, so Garry brings out a cake (which Garry and later Jayne cut to give out slices to the panel) and has the audience sing her a happy birthday!! Features a hilarious ad involving Garry, Winston cigarettes, and a donkey!! Show runs five minutes shorter than usual (likely why GSN and BUZZR never aired this) because of an Adlai Stevenson political ad [KINw/OC/CC-1/A]
- (10-10-56) Special Guest: Orson Welles [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (10-31-56) Special Guest: Bud Collyer (Special Halloween edition, with goofy skits starring Garry, pranks played on the panel, a very decorated set, and more!! This show is FANTASTIC) [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (12-5-56) Special Guest: Art Linkletter (Art's HILARIOUS secret involves "good ol' Bill" Cullen, and a collection started up for him via members of the audience!!) [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (12-12-56) Special Guest: No one. The episode features only Garry, Bill, and Henry, as they open up various packages sent to Bill Cullen due to the "good ol' Bill" drive started up the week before!! (Garry, Bill, and Henry perform a musical number to start the show) [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (12-19-56) Special Guest: Vincent Price [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (12-26-56) Special Guest: Faye Emerson (This is the final show for 1956, and it’s done-up in a way that only this show could do it. After the first game, Faye takes over as host, and Garry is a poor victim!! A real keeper of an episode) [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (1-30-57) Special Guest: George Gobel, who leads the audience into a singing of "Happy Birthday to You" for Garry in the intro!! [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (2-13-57) Special Florida edition of the show, that was aired live in an outdoor amphitheater in Winter Haven, Florida!! Special Guest: Rocky Graziano [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (4-24-57) Special Guest: Mickey Rooney (The World's Tallest Man is a contestant so of course Garry makes him stay for the celebrity guest introduction so he can have him and Mickey stand side by side!!) [GSN/CC-1/B+]
- (9-4-57) Special Guest: Hal March (Garry returns after a six week absence. The first secret has to do with Garry Moore's six-week absence... and in another secret, Henry Morgan guesses it in seconds!! Hal takes over hosting for his secret while Garry plays... in which we learn some secrets about Garry, and more!!) [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (9-18-57) Special Guest: Tony Randall (The first secret involves an I've Got a Secret staff cameraman!!) [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (10-9-57) Henry Morgan subs in as host for Garry. Special Guest: Jerry Colonna (Garry is sick with the flu so Henry calls him to check up on how he's doing in the beginning of the show!! Broderick Crawford shows up for a great game where he's watching himself in an episode of his TV show, Highway Patrol!! And then in another game, New York Yankee Bill Turley shows up in a mask as a contestant!! The panel finishes each game off so early that there's literally seven+ minutes of time they need to fill, so Carl Reiner does a little comedy skit) [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (12-4-57) Special Guest: Rudy Vallee (Rudy Vallee's secret involves the panel's doodles being analyzed by a psychologist... with hilarious results!!) [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (12-18-57) Special Guest: Farley Granger (One contestant has a HILARIOUS secret involving Henry Morgan!!) [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (1-15-58) Henry Morgan subs in as host. Special Guest: Miiko Taka [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (6-4-58) A Salute to Marriage. Special Guest: Dana Andrews, and Jack Narz in another game with a bag over his head in a great secret for Bill Cullen fans!! (Jack and Bill's wives also cameo. INCREDIBLE Henry Morgan secret via Dana Andrews!!) [GSN/CC-1/B+]
- (7-2-58) Special Guest: Art Carney (Garry makes a major booboo that leads to him just giving a contestant $20 right off the bat!!) [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (7-16-58) Special Guest: Keenan Wynn, in a secret that involves the entire panel doing impersonations of each other!! (Jayne's impersonation of Henry Morgan is maybe one of the most underrated fine moments of the show, and then Henry tops it with his impersonation of Jayne!!) [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (8-29-58) Special Guest: Bob Crosby [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (9-17-58) Special Guest: Mickey Rooney [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (1-14-59) Special Guest: Andy Griffith, who never actually gets to present his secret!! (One contestant absolutely struggles while performing his secret, with Andy having them not start his segment until the contestant successfully performs his stunt... which he doesn't succeed in doing until there's a minute left in the show!!) [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (8-19-59) Special Guest: Johnny Carson (This is the legendary episode where Johnny uses a bow and arrow to knock an apple off of Garry's head that you've likely seen in clip shows before) [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (12-2-59) Special Guest: Jayne Meadows (This is the episode where a cow defecates on stage!!) [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (12-9-59) Special Guest: Eva Gabor (Garry mentions the incident with the cow from last week, and that same cow is the first special guest!!) [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (12-23-59) Special Guest: Elsa Maxwell (Christmas episode, with the panel testing out toys!!) [GSN/CC-1/A-]
- (2-10-60) Special Guest: Steve Allen (game one's demonstration is a minor disaster with Henry Morgan shitting all over the concept and then the demonstration itself goes haywire when the celebrities get their turn to try it out!! Game two features the host of I've Got a Secret in the UK, Ben Lyon, in a HILARIOUS round!!) [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (3-30-60) Special Guest: Janis Paige, in a bizarre but very funny secret when the big reveal occurs!! (Betsy makes an adorable jab at Bill by saying with how he was questioning he should go on The Price is Right!! :)) [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (8-3-60) Special Guest: Johnny Carson [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (8-17-60) Special Guest: Alan King (Audio is annoyingly buzzy the entire time. The entire Vernon family, stars of the extremely obscure syndicated television series "Homestead USA", appear on the show with their own secret) [GSN/CC-1/B-]
- (12-21-60) Special Guest: Faye Emerson (Christmas episode, with the set decorated for the occasion!! Carol Burnett fills in for Betsy Palmer. One contestant won over the audience's heart so much last week with letters and phone calls that he's brought back on immediately just to perform again and receive a contract from Garry to appear on his show that next Tuesday!! Faye's secret involves Henry and it's legendary and also extremely sweet and heartfelt) [GSN/CC-1/A-]
- (1-4-61) Special Guest: Keenan Wynn [GSN/CC-1/A, also available from BUZZR with OC on CC-2 in A+ quality]
- (2-15-61) Special Guest: Lucille Ball [GSN/CC-1/A+, also available from BUZZR with OC on CC-2 in the same quality]
- (6-14-61) Special Guest: Edgar Bergen (w/Mortimer Snerd) in a FANTASTIC secret featuring Chuck McCann!! (Everyone is given dummies of themselves in the opening, and have to ask questions in the first game as their dummies!! Henry Morgan literally gets two secrets IN A ROW a few seconds after each game starts, which even leaves the audience gasping!!) [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (6-28-61) Special Guest: Jerry Lewis, in a HILARIOUS secret that is akin to Make Me Laugh!! [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (7-19-61) Special Guest: Jack E. Leonard [GSN/CC-1/A+, also available from BUZZR with OC on CC-2 in the same quality]
- (7-26-61) Special Guest: Dennis, Lindsay, and Phillip Crosby [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (8-2-61) Special Guest: Sam Levenson [GSN/CC-1/A+, also available from BUZZR with OC on CC-2 in the same quality]
- (8-16-61) Betsy Palmer subs in as host for Garry. Special Guest: Edie Adams [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (10-9-61) Special Guest: No one. This episode is a special "Salute to the County Fair" [BUZZR/CC-2/A+]
- (12-11-61) Special Guest: Janet Leigh, with a great Christmas present secret in one game, and then Michel de la Vega appears for a CLASSIC magic trick involving Garry Moore and Henry Morgan!! [BUZZRw/OC/CC-2/A+]
- (12-18-61) Special Guest: Jack E. Leonard (Garry brings up that the show has gotten many letters about the magic trick from last week. Our very first secret tonight is FANTASTIC and involves how Bess Myerson was the only person to not receive a Christmas gift in the previous episode) [BUZZRw/OC/CC-2/A+]
- (12-25-61) Special Guest: No one. This Christmas episode is a special "family edition" of the show where all guests are related to famous people that the panel must identify[BUZZRw/OC/CC-2/A+]
- (2-12-62) Special Guest: Michel de la Vega [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (3-12-62) Special Guest: Liberace, in a secret that involves the women on the panel, and then the men!! (Wilt Chamberlain shows up as a contestant, with his secret being having scored 100 points in an NBA game!!) [BUZZR/CC-1/A+]
- (4-2-62) Special Guest: Van Johnson [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (4-16-62) Special Guest: Jonathan Winters [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (5-21-62) Special Guest: Arlene Francis [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (9-10-62) Special Guest: No one. Instead, Garry presents, in this season premiere, HILARIOUS outtakes from a commercial the panelists filmed before the season finale a few months back!! [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (1-28-63) Special Guest: Boris Karloff [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (2-4-63) Special Guest: Jack Benny (If you adore Jack Benny as much as I do then you will love this episode, he's all over it and it's fantastic) [BUZZRw/OC/CC-1/A]
- (3-11-63) Special Guest: Dick Van Dyke (From the brief period where the show taped in Hollywood, California!!) [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (6-3-63) Special Guest: Hugh O'Brian (Henry hosts a round while Garry plays, due to Henry wanting to bring a secret to this show. Garry accidentally gives away half of Hugh's secret...) [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (6-17-63) Special Guest: Peggy Cass, who will be playing a little game of To Tell the Truth with the panel!! [GSN/CC-1/A-]
- (9-9-63) Special Guest: Phil Silvers (Garry shows off some snapshots that were secretly taken of the panel during their Summer vacation) [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (4-6-64) Special Guest: Wally Cox (Col. Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame is a contestant!!) [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (5-18-64) Special Guest: No one, as this is a special Armed Forces Salute with contestants to match (Rough tracking lines on the bottom of the screen for the first few minutes, but they clear up after that) [GSN/CC-1/B]
Steve Allen, CBS (1964-67) (10 episodes)
- (11-23-64) Special Guest: Louis Nye (Thanksgiving episode, with a Thanksgiving-centric secret for Louis Nye!!) [GSN/CC-1/A-]
- (2-21-66) Special Guest: John Charles Daly (Phyllis Diller is subbing for Henry Morgan, but he still shows up during the celebrity segment to sit with the panel anyway) [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (3-21-66) Special Guest: Bob Holiday [BUZZR/CC-1/A+]
- (9-5-66) Special Guest: Garry Moore!! (The final episode to air in black and white) [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (10-17-66) Special Guest: Lucille Ball (A secret with a bagpipe player is featured with a live performance and not gonna lie, he was playing a god damned bop) [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (12-19-66) Special Guest: No one. Special Christmas show with a great secret about panelist Bess Myerson!! [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (1-23-67) Special Guest: Pearl Bailey (and George Kirby!!) [KINw/OC/CC-1/B+]
- (2-20-67) Special Guest: Dina Merrill (Steve introduces a CBS staffer in the beginning to give him a retirement sendoff!! Bob McGrath shows up as a guest with a secret of his own as well!! Dina's secret is great, even though the markers don't feel like working!!) [GSN/CC-1/A-]
- (2-27-67) Special Guest: Woody Allen, whose secret feels like a precursor to the future Mark Goodson game show Child's Play [GSN/CC-1/A-]
- (3-27-67) Special Guest: Jayne Meadows (This one has never been reran on GSN or Buzzr!! Jayne's segment is extremely flat though Henry (and later Bill) does everything in his power to try and save it, and it makes me wonder if the producers were watching backstage and were like "maybe it's a good thing this show is ending") [KINw/OC/CC-1/B+]
Syndication (1972-73) (36 episodes)
- (1972) 1. Special Guest: Paul Lynde (Premiere episode) [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (1972) 2. Special Guest: Joan Rivers (Richard nabs the first person's secret right away) [GSN/CC-1/B, also available in A+ form as a SMw/slate that's ripped from YouTube]
- (1972) 3. Special Guest: Alan Alda (Video is pretty shaky and the audio is fuzzy) [GSN/CC-1/B-]
- (1972) 4. Special Guest: Monty Hall (Johnny Olson and Florence LaRue of The Fifth Dimension make a cameo. Monty's secret involves a game of Let's Make a Deal!!) [GSN/CC-1/B+, also have an OC clip of this episode, eight minutes in length, ripped from YouTube with a watermark]
- (1972) 5. Special Guest: Jo Anne Worley (Audio is low. Professional basketball player Dick Van Arsdale, then playing for the Phoenix Suns, has his own secret, and it involves his twin brother, professional basketball player Tom Van Arsdale!! Who'd have thought Anita Gillette was randomly a big basketball fan?) [GSN/CC-1/B+]
- (1972) 6. Special Guest: Buddy Hackett [GSN/CC-1/B+]
- (1972) 7. Special Guest: Milton Berle [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (1972) 8. Special Guest: Rich Little [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (1972) 9. Special Guest: Dom DeLuise (Dom's secret gets a little haywire once it's revealed!!) [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (1972) 10. Special Guest: Red Buttons (The first secret is an animated cartoon on a TV screen who looks UNCANNILY like Malcom of the ill-fated Alex Trebek game show pilot. In fact, I'm like 95% sure it's Malcolm. Holy crap) [GSN/CC-1/B]
- (1972) 11. Special Guest: Greg Morris (you can literally see Steve whisper to Arte Johnson to try and dunk in the tinier basket during the segment after Greg's secret) [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (1972) 12. Special Guest: Bob Barker (A few seconds of Bob's segment is missing due to a cable glitch) [GSN/CC-1/A+, also available from BUZZR in the same quality on CC-2+]
- (1972) 13. Special Guest: Kaye Ballard (One game involves Lassie and the son of famed animal trainer Rudd Weatherwax!! Meanwhile "Our Gang" actor (and I've Got a Secret staff member) Tommy Bond is a contestant!!) [GSN/CC-1/B+]
- (1972) 14. Special Guest: Charles Nelson Reilly (Another GSN gaffe, as they "crunch" during a portion of the questioning during the last game. However, the fee plugs are left untouched because of this. Janice Pennington makes an appearance during Charles' game) [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (1972) 15. Special Guest: Alan Sues (Children's television personality (and frequent Steve Allen guest!!) Professor Julius Sumner Miller is the guest in the first game and his secret involves Richard Dawson. Meanwhile game two is an ALL-TIMER as Steve Allen has to deal with two kids, one of them being a mischievous little guy who loves playing with and almost breaking the microphone the entire time!! And then to top it off, Alan's secret is the kind of fantastic nosense that made the original version of this show so special. This is the episode that's the closest to the Garry Moore vibes that I've ever seen. This should be reran on GSN or Buzzr sometime) [GSN/CC-1/B+]
- (1972) 16. Special Guest: Rod Serling (Tracking line present on the bottom of the screen. In a rare bit of history for video game fanatics, Rod's secret involves a Magnavox Odyssey) [GSN/CC-1/B-]
- (1972) 17. Special Guest: George Kirby [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (1972) 18. Special Guest: George Burns [GSN/CC-1/B]
- (1972) 19. Special Guest: Marty Allen (Great video quality, but the audio is lightly buzzy. Not distracting whatsoever, however) [SMw/slate/CC-1/A-]
- (1972) 20. Special Guest: Martin Milner [GSN/CC-1/B+]
- (1972) 21. Special Guest: Cliff Robertson (Peanuts buffs will enjoy this episode, as Chad Webber and Bill Melendez (appearing as "Mr. X") are both contestants!!) [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (1972) 22. Special Guest: Jack Carter (Taped 11-16-72) [SMw/slate/CC-1/A+]
- (1972) 23. Special Guest: Cass Elliott (Steve reads letters about secrets that the show decided not to use. Cass' secret features Richard Dawson's answering machine, and is HILARIOUS) [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (1972) 24. Special Guest: Paul Winchell (Taped 11-30-72) [SMw/slate/CC-1/A+]
- (1972) 25. Special Guest: Allen Ludden (Allen plays Password with the panel to get them to guess his HILARIOUS secret!!) [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (1972) 26. Special Guest: Vincent Price (Taped 12-14-72) [SMw/slate/CC-1/A+]
- (1972) 27. Special Guest: Jack Klugman (Taped 12-28-72) [GSN/CC-1/B+]
- (1972) 28. Special Guest: Bill Macy (Taped 12-28-72) [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (1973) 29. Special Guest: Michael Landon [GSN/CC-1/B]
- (1973) 31. Special Guest: Joel Grey (Joel's secret is really cute and involves becoming an I've Got a Secret cameraman, and Pat Carroll's extremely delayed reaction is priceless. Comedian Benny Rubin is a contestant with a *great* secret about Steve Allen!!) [GSN/CC-1/B+]
- (1973) 33. Special Guest: Frank Gorshin (Taped 2/73. The panel has to do with the first secret in a fun little bit, and Frank's secret involves pranking poor Anita Gillette!!) [GSN/CC-1/B+]
- (1973) 35. Special Guest: Robert Reed [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (1973) 36. Special Guest: Don Knotts [GSN/CC-1/A-]
- (1973) 37. Special Guest: John Davidson (Buzz Aldrin makes a cameo) [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (1973) 38. Special Guest: Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller (One secret involves four people having the same names as the panel!!) [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (1973) 39. Special Guest: Chad Everett (Final taped episode) [GSN/CC-1/B]
Bill Cullen, ABC (1976) (1 episode)
- (6-15-76) Special Guest: Rodney Dangerfield (Premiere. Now available in much better quality, and with the slate!!) [SMw/slate/CC-1/A-]
Stephanie Miller (2000-01) (1 episode)
- (2000) Amy Yasbeck, Christopher Reid, Hal Sparks, Terri Garr. (Premiere. Audio is a little low. The inventor of the Egg McMuffin is a contestant) [OC/CC-1/A-]
Bil Dwyer, GSN (2006) (7 episodes)
- (4-17-06) Special Guest: Adam West (Premiere episode) [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (4-25-06) Special Guest: George Wendt [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (5-8-06) Special Guest: Tom Bergeron [GSN/CC-1/A-]
- (5-30-06) Special Guest: James Van Praagh (James is WAY into this and it's kind of charming) [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (6-6-06) Special Guest: Barry Williams [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (6-9-06) Special Guest: Barbara Eden [GSN/CC-1/B]
- (2006) Special Guest: Jermaine Taylor's Mom [GSN/CC-1/B+]
Garry Moore (1952-64)
- (8-21-52) Special Guest: Mischa Auer (The first game provides the exact style of comedy that the show would later be known for) [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (12-25-52) Special Guest: Basil Rathbone (Christmas episode) [GSN/CC-1/A-]
- (10-7-53) Special Guest: Cesar Romero, in a GREAT secret that features poor Garry Moore's foot!! (Features a GREAT opening segment that's a follow-up from last week where Henry Morgan revealed to the audience that he had really worn out shoes. Also Garry Moore pronouncing "Patchogue", a local town near where I grew up, was a delight in itself. Harry Stuldreher of the famous Four Horsemen of Notre Dame is a mystery guest in one game) [GSN/CC-1/A-]
- (12-23-53) Special Guest: Paul Hartman, in a GREAT Christmas secret involving Henry Morgan's mother!! (Christmas episode, and the games and the consequences from them are another great example of just how special this show was) [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (12-22-54) Special Guest: No one. Each member of the panel that week has their own special secret that the other three panelists have to "guess"!! There is no game in this, it's just the panel having fun for half an hour and ending with a big singalong. Wonderful episode!! Virginia O'Hanlon Douglas, of "Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" fame is in the audience!! If you love Christmas that segment ALONE is worth it for you!! (Christmas episode, with various members of the staff appearing in the opening!! The set is also decorated for the occasion!!) [GSN/CC-1/B+]
- (6-22-55) Special Guest: Jack Lemmon, in a secret that involves Bill Cullen!! (There's supposed to be a new set, but it was delayed and the original set had already been destroyed, so a bunch of staff made a makeshift set out of spare wood and boxes!! [GSN/CC-1/A-]
- (12-21-55) Special Guest: No one. The panel once again all has secrets (introduced by friends and family members) that will get revealed on the show!! (Christmas episode, with the set, uh, "decorated" for the occasion!! "It isn't how much money the Christmas thing is, but the feeling you put into it!!" Skitch Henderson is brought out to provide background music for the show!!) [GSN/CC-1/B+]
- (2-8-56) Special Guest: Desi Arnaz (Lucille Ball is on the panel) [KINw/OC/CC-1/A]
- (3-28-56) Special Guest: No one. In this special Easter episode, each secret involves animals [KINw/OC/CC-1/A]
- (9-26-56) Special Guest: James Mason (Ripped from YouTube. This episode has NEVER been aired on BUZZR or GSN!! It's Jayne's birthday, so Garry brings out a cake (which Garry and later Jayne cut to give out slices to the panel) and has the audience sing her a happy birthday!! Features a hilarious ad involving Garry, Winston cigarettes, and a donkey!! Show runs five minutes shorter than usual (likely why GSN and BUZZR never aired this) because of an Adlai Stevenson political ad [KINw/OC/CC-1/A]
- (10-10-56) Special Guest: Orson Welles [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (10-31-56) Special Guest: Bud Collyer (Special Halloween edition, with goofy skits starring Garry, pranks played on the panel, a very decorated set, and more!! This show is FANTASTIC) [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (12-5-56) Special Guest: Art Linkletter (Art's HILARIOUS secret involves "good ol' Bill" Cullen, and a collection started up for him via members of the audience!!) [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (12-12-56) Special Guest: No one. The episode features only Garry, Bill, and Henry, as they open up various packages sent to Bill Cullen due to the "good ol' Bill" drive started up the week before!! (Garry, Bill, and Henry perform a musical number to start the show) [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (12-19-56) Special Guest: Vincent Price [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (12-26-56) Special Guest: Faye Emerson (This is the final show for 1956, and it’s done-up in a way that only this show could do it. After the first game, Faye takes over as host, and Garry is a poor victim!! A real keeper of an episode) [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (1-30-57) Special Guest: George Gobel, who leads the audience into a singing of "Happy Birthday to You" for Garry in the intro!! [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (2-13-57) Special Florida edition of the show, that was aired live in an outdoor amphitheater in Winter Haven, Florida!! Special Guest: Rocky Graziano [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (4-24-57) Special Guest: Mickey Rooney (The World's Tallest Man is a contestant so of course Garry makes him stay for the celebrity guest introduction so he can have him and Mickey stand side by side!!) [GSN/CC-1/B+]
- (9-4-57) Special Guest: Hal March (Garry returns after a six week absence. The first secret has to do with Garry Moore's six-week absence... and in another secret, Henry Morgan guesses it in seconds!! Hal takes over hosting for his secret while Garry plays... in which we learn some secrets about Garry, and more!!) [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (9-18-57) Special Guest: Tony Randall (The first secret involves an I've Got a Secret staff cameraman!!) [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (10-9-57) Henry Morgan subs in as host for Garry. Special Guest: Jerry Colonna (Garry is sick with the flu so Henry calls him to check up on how he's doing in the beginning of the show!! Broderick Crawford shows up for a great game where he's watching himself in an episode of his TV show, Highway Patrol!! And then in another game, New York Yankee Bill Turley shows up in a mask as a contestant!! The panel finishes each game off so early that there's literally seven+ minutes of time they need to fill, so Carl Reiner does a little comedy skit) [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (12-4-57) Special Guest: Rudy Vallee (Rudy Vallee's secret involves the panel's doodles being analyzed by a psychologist... with hilarious results!!) [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (12-18-57) Special Guest: Farley Granger (One contestant has a HILARIOUS secret involving Henry Morgan!!) [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (1-15-58) Henry Morgan subs in as host. Special Guest: Miiko Taka [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (6-4-58) A Salute to Marriage. Special Guest: Dana Andrews, and Jack Narz in another game with a bag over his head in a great secret for Bill Cullen fans!! (Jack and Bill's wives also cameo. INCREDIBLE Henry Morgan secret via Dana Andrews!!) [GSN/CC-1/B+]
- (7-2-58) Special Guest: Art Carney (Garry makes a major booboo that leads to him just giving a contestant $20 right off the bat!!) [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (7-16-58) Special Guest: Keenan Wynn, in a secret that involves the entire panel doing impersonations of each other!! (Jayne's impersonation of Henry Morgan is maybe one of the most underrated fine moments of the show, and then Henry tops it with his impersonation of Jayne!!) [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (8-29-58) Special Guest: Bob Crosby [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (9-17-58) Special Guest: Mickey Rooney [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (1-14-59) Special Guest: Andy Griffith, who never actually gets to present his secret!! (One contestant absolutely struggles while performing his secret, with Andy having them not start his segment until the contestant successfully performs his stunt... which he doesn't succeed in doing until there's a minute left in the show!!) [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (8-19-59) Special Guest: Johnny Carson (This is the legendary episode where Johnny uses a bow and arrow to knock an apple off of Garry's head that you've likely seen in clip shows before) [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (12-2-59) Special Guest: Jayne Meadows (This is the episode where a cow defecates on stage!!) [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (12-9-59) Special Guest: Eva Gabor (Garry mentions the incident with the cow from last week, and that same cow is the first special guest!!) [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (12-23-59) Special Guest: Elsa Maxwell (Christmas episode, with the panel testing out toys!!) [GSN/CC-1/A-]
- (2-10-60) Special Guest: Steve Allen (game one's demonstration is a minor disaster with Henry Morgan shitting all over the concept and then the demonstration itself goes haywire when the celebrities get their turn to try it out!! Game two features the host of I've Got a Secret in the UK, Ben Lyon, in a HILARIOUS round!!) [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (3-30-60) Special Guest: Janis Paige, in a bizarre but very funny secret when the big reveal occurs!! (Betsy makes an adorable jab at Bill by saying with how he was questioning he should go on The Price is Right!! :)) [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (8-3-60) Special Guest: Johnny Carson [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (8-17-60) Special Guest: Alan King (Audio is annoyingly buzzy the entire time. The entire Vernon family, stars of the extremely obscure syndicated television series "Homestead USA", appear on the show with their own secret) [GSN/CC-1/B-]
- (12-21-60) Special Guest: Faye Emerson (Christmas episode, with the set decorated for the occasion!! Carol Burnett fills in for Betsy Palmer. One contestant won over the audience's heart so much last week with letters and phone calls that he's brought back on immediately just to perform again and receive a contract from Garry to appear on his show that next Tuesday!! Faye's secret involves Henry and it's legendary and also extremely sweet and heartfelt) [GSN/CC-1/A-]
- (1-4-61) Special Guest: Keenan Wynn [GSN/CC-1/A, also available from BUZZR with OC on CC-2 in A+ quality]
- (2-15-61) Special Guest: Lucille Ball [GSN/CC-1/A+, also available from BUZZR with OC on CC-2 in the same quality]
- (6-14-61) Special Guest: Edgar Bergen (w/Mortimer Snerd) in a FANTASTIC secret featuring Chuck McCann!! (Everyone is given dummies of themselves in the opening, and have to ask questions in the first game as their dummies!! Henry Morgan literally gets two secrets IN A ROW a few seconds after each game starts, which even leaves the audience gasping!!) [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (6-28-61) Special Guest: Jerry Lewis, in a HILARIOUS secret that is akin to Make Me Laugh!! [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (7-19-61) Special Guest: Jack E. Leonard [GSN/CC-1/A+, also available from BUZZR with OC on CC-2 in the same quality]
- (7-26-61) Special Guest: Dennis, Lindsay, and Phillip Crosby [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (8-2-61) Special Guest: Sam Levenson [GSN/CC-1/A+, also available from BUZZR with OC on CC-2 in the same quality]
- (8-16-61) Betsy Palmer subs in as host for Garry. Special Guest: Edie Adams [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (10-9-61) Special Guest: No one. This episode is a special "Salute to the County Fair" [BUZZR/CC-2/A+]
- (12-11-61) Special Guest: Janet Leigh, with a great Christmas present secret in one game, and then Michel de la Vega appears for a CLASSIC magic trick involving Garry Moore and Henry Morgan!! [BUZZRw/OC/CC-2/A+]
- (12-18-61) Special Guest: Jack E. Leonard (Garry brings up that the show has gotten many letters about the magic trick from last week. Our very first secret tonight is FANTASTIC and involves how Bess Myerson was the only person to not receive a Christmas gift in the previous episode) [BUZZRw/OC/CC-2/A+]
- (12-25-61) Special Guest: No one. This Christmas episode is a special "family edition" of the show where all guests are related to famous people that the panel must identify[BUZZRw/OC/CC-2/A+]
- (2-12-62) Special Guest: Michel de la Vega [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (3-12-62) Special Guest: Liberace, in a secret that involves the women on the panel, and then the men!! (Wilt Chamberlain shows up as a contestant, with his secret being having scored 100 points in an NBA game!!) [BUZZR/CC-1/A+]
- (4-2-62) Special Guest: Van Johnson [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (4-16-62) Special Guest: Jonathan Winters [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (5-21-62) Special Guest: Arlene Francis [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (9-10-62) Special Guest: No one. Instead, Garry presents, in this season premiere, HILARIOUS outtakes from a commercial the panelists filmed before the season finale a few months back!! [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (1-28-63) Special Guest: Boris Karloff [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (2-4-63) Special Guest: Jack Benny (If you adore Jack Benny as much as I do then you will love this episode, he's all over it and it's fantastic) [BUZZRw/OC/CC-1/A]
- (3-11-63) Special Guest: Dick Van Dyke (From the brief period where the show taped in Hollywood, California!!) [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (6-3-63) Special Guest: Hugh O'Brian (Henry hosts a round while Garry plays, due to Henry wanting to bring a secret to this show. Garry accidentally gives away half of Hugh's secret...) [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (6-17-63) Special Guest: Peggy Cass, who will be playing a little game of To Tell the Truth with the panel!! [GSN/CC-1/A-]
- (9-9-63) Special Guest: Phil Silvers (Garry shows off some snapshots that were secretly taken of the panel during their Summer vacation) [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (4-6-64) Special Guest: Wally Cox (Col. Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame is a contestant!!) [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (5-18-64) Special Guest: No one, as this is a special Armed Forces Salute with contestants to match (Rough tracking lines on the bottom of the screen for the first few minutes, but they clear up after that) [GSN/CC-1/B]
Steve Allen, CBS (1964-67) (10 episodes)
- (11-23-64) Special Guest: Louis Nye (Thanksgiving episode, with a Thanksgiving-centric secret for Louis Nye!!) [GSN/CC-1/A-]
- (2-21-66) Special Guest: John Charles Daly (Phyllis Diller is subbing for Henry Morgan, but he still shows up during the celebrity segment to sit with the panel anyway) [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (3-21-66) Special Guest: Bob Holiday [BUZZR/CC-1/A+]
- (9-5-66) Special Guest: Garry Moore!! (The final episode to air in black and white) [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (10-17-66) Special Guest: Lucille Ball (A secret with a bagpipe player is featured with a live performance and not gonna lie, he was playing a god damned bop) [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (12-19-66) Special Guest: No one. Special Christmas show with a great secret about panelist Bess Myerson!! [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (1-23-67) Special Guest: Pearl Bailey (and George Kirby!!) [KINw/OC/CC-1/B+]
- (2-20-67) Special Guest: Dina Merrill (Steve introduces a CBS staffer in the beginning to give him a retirement sendoff!! Bob McGrath shows up as a guest with a secret of his own as well!! Dina's secret is great, even though the markers don't feel like working!!) [GSN/CC-1/A-]
- (2-27-67) Special Guest: Woody Allen, whose secret feels like a precursor to the future Mark Goodson game show Child's Play [GSN/CC-1/A-]
- (3-27-67) Special Guest: Jayne Meadows (This one has never been reran on GSN or Buzzr!! Jayne's segment is extremely flat though Henry (and later Bill) does everything in his power to try and save it, and it makes me wonder if the producers were watching backstage and were like "maybe it's a good thing this show is ending") [KINw/OC/CC-1/B+]
Syndication (1972-73) (36 episodes)
- (1972) 1. Special Guest: Paul Lynde (Premiere episode) [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (1972) 2. Special Guest: Joan Rivers (Richard nabs the first person's secret right away) [GSN/CC-1/B, also available in A+ form as a SMw/slate that's ripped from YouTube]
- (1972) 3. Special Guest: Alan Alda (Video is pretty shaky and the audio is fuzzy) [GSN/CC-1/B-]
- (1972) 4. Special Guest: Monty Hall (Johnny Olson and Florence LaRue of The Fifth Dimension make a cameo. Monty's secret involves a game of Let's Make a Deal!!) [GSN/CC-1/B+, also have an OC clip of this episode, eight minutes in length, ripped from YouTube with a watermark]
- (1972) 5. Special Guest: Jo Anne Worley (Audio is low. Professional basketball player Dick Van Arsdale, then playing for the Phoenix Suns, has his own secret, and it involves his twin brother, professional basketball player Tom Van Arsdale!! Who'd have thought Anita Gillette was randomly a big basketball fan?) [GSN/CC-1/B+]
- (1972) 6. Special Guest: Buddy Hackett [GSN/CC-1/B+]
- (1972) 7. Special Guest: Milton Berle [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (1972) 8. Special Guest: Rich Little [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (1972) 9. Special Guest: Dom DeLuise (Dom's secret gets a little haywire once it's revealed!!) [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (1972) 10. Special Guest: Red Buttons (The first secret is an animated cartoon on a TV screen who looks UNCANNILY like Malcom of the ill-fated Alex Trebek game show pilot. In fact, I'm like 95% sure it's Malcolm. Holy crap) [GSN/CC-1/B]
- (1972) 11. Special Guest: Greg Morris (you can literally see Steve whisper to Arte Johnson to try and dunk in the tinier basket during the segment after Greg's secret) [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (1972) 12. Special Guest: Bob Barker (A few seconds of Bob's segment is missing due to a cable glitch) [GSN/CC-1/A+, also available from BUZZR in the same quality on CC-2+]
- (1972) 13. Special Guest: Kaye Ballard (One game involves Lassie and the son of famed animal trainer Rudd Weatherwax!! Meanwhile "Our Gang" actor (and I've Got a Secret staff member) Tommy Bond is a contestant!!) [GSN/CC-1/B+]
- (1972) 14. Special Guest: Charles Nelson Reilly (Another GSN gaffe, as they "crunch" during a portion of the questioning during the last game. However, the fee plugs are left untouched because of this. Janice Pennington makes an appearance during Charles' game) [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (1972) 15. Special Guest: Alan Sues (Children's television personality (and frequent Steve Allen guest!!) Professor Julius Sumner Miller is the guest in the first game and his secret involves Richard Dawson. Meanwhile game two is an ALL-TIMER as Steve Allen has to deal with two kids, one of them being a mischievous little guy who loves playing with and almost breaking the microphone the entire time!! And then to top it off, Alan's secret is the kind of fantastic nosense that made the original version of this show so special. This is the episode that's the closest to the Garry Moore vibes that I've ever seen. This should be reran on GSN or Buzzr sometime) [GSN/CC-1/B+]
- (1972) 16. Special Guest: Rod Serling (Tracking line present on the bottom of the screen. In a rare bit of history for video game fanatics, Rod's secret involves a Magnavox Odyssey) [GSN/CC-1/B-]
- (1972) 17. Special Guest: George Kirby [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (1972) 18. Special Guest: George Burns [GSN/CC-1/B]
- (1972) 19. Special Guest: Marty Allen (Great video quality, but the audio is lightly buzzy. Not distracting whatsoever, however) [SMw/slate/CC-1/A-]
- (1972) 20. Special Guest: Martin Milner [GSN/CC-1/B+]
- (1972) 21. Special Guest: Cliff Robertson (Peanuts buffs will enjoy this episode, as Chad Webber and Bill Melendez (appearing as "Mr. X") are both contestants!!) [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (1972) 22. Special Guest: Jack Carter (Taped 11-16-72) [SMw/slate/CC-1/A+]
- (1972) 23. Special Guest: Cass Elliott (Steve reads letters about secrets that the show decided not to use. Cass' secret features Richard Dawson's answering machine, and is HILARIOUS) [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (1972) 24. Special Guest: Paul Winchell (Taped 11-30-72) [SMw/slate/CC-1/A+]
- (1972) 25. Special Guest: Allen Ludden (Allen plays Password with the panel to get them to guess his HILARIOUS secret!!) [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (1972) 26. Special Guest: Vincent Price (Taped 12-14-72) [SMw/slate/CC-1/A+]
- (1972) 27. Special Guest: Jack Klugman (Taped 12-28-72) [GSN/CC-1/B+]
- (1972) 28. Special Guest: Bill Macy (Taped 12-28-72) [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (1973) 29. Special Guest: Michael Landon [GSN/CC-1/B]
- (1973) 31. Special Guest: Joel Grey (Joel's secret is really cute and involves becoming an I've Got a Secret cameraman, and Pat Carroll's extremely delayed reaction is priceless. Comedian Benny Rubin is a contestant with a *great* secret about Steve Allen!!) [GSN/CC-1/B+]
- (1973) 33. Special Guest: Frank Gorshin (Taped 2/73. The panel has to do with the first secret in a fun little bit, and Frank's secret involves pranking poor Anita Gillette!!) [GSN/CC-1/B+]
- (1973) 35. Special Guest: Robert Reed [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (1973) 36. Special Guest: Don Knotts [GSN/CC-1/A-]
- (1973) 37. Special Guest: John Davidson (Buzz Aldrin makes a cameo) [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (1973) 38. Special Guest: Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller (One secret involves four people having the same names as the panel!!) [GSN/CC-1/A+]
- (1973) 39. Special Guest: Chad Everett (Final taped episode) [GSN/CC-1/B]
Bill Cullen, ABC (1976) (1 episode)
- (6-15-76) Special Guest: Rodney Dangerfield (Premiere. Now available in much better quality, and with the slate!!) [SMw/slate/CC-1/A-]
Stephanie Miller (2000-01) (1 episode)
- (2000) Amy Yasbeck, Christopher Reid, Hal Sparks, Terri Garr. (Premiere. Audio is a little low. The inventor of the Egg McMuffin is a contestant) [OC/CC-1/A-]
Bil Dwyer, GSN (2006) (7 episodes)
- (4-17-06) Special Guest: Adam West (Premiere episode) [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (4-25-06) Special Guest: George Wendt [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (5-8-06) Special Guest: Tom Bergeron [GSN/CC-1/A-]
- (5-30-06) Special Guest: James Van Praagh (James is WAY into this and it's kind of charming) [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (6-6-06) Special Guest: Barry Williams [GSN/CC-1/A]
- (6-9-06) Special Guest: Barbara Eden [GSN/CC-1/B]
- (2006) Special Guest: Jermaine Taylor's Mom [GSN/CC-1/B+]