I've Got a Secret (1976)

This is chronicling the short-lived 1976 version of I've Got a Secret.

Game format
A panel of four celebrity guests faced one contestant or a group of contestants. Each contestant that appeared had a weird, fabulous, laughable and/or unusual secret. When the game started after the contestant came out & introduced himself/herself, the contestant whispered the secret into the host's ear, and the home audience was shown the secret. After that, the host would give a clue to the panel concerning the secret; that's when the questioning began. Each panelist one at a time in turn asked yes or no questions to the contestant in an attempt to guess the secret. The panelist in control would have an unmentioned amount of time to question the contestant. When the time was called by the producers and the panelist in control did not guess the secret, the next panelist in line would do the questioning. The process went on until either the secret was guessed, or until the entire panel questioned the contestant. After the game, the contestant would talk about his/her secret via the host's interview and sometimes a video/movie clip or demonstration would be shown.

Also on I've Got a Secret, celebrity guests played the game themselves. At the start of each show, the celebrity guest in question would introduce himself/herself followed by saying, "...and I've Got a Secret." The game was pretty much the same as with the regular contestants, but sometimes the panel would be off-stage in preparation of the game. Sometimes the secrets would be a personal secret, or something they were going to do that day.

Personnel

 * Host: Bill Cullen
 * Announcer: Johnny Olson
 * Executive Producer: Gil Fates
 * Producer: Chester Feldman
 * Director: Lloyd Gross
 * Set Designer: Jim Ryan
 * Music Director: Norman Paris

Panelists
Regular Panelists included:
 * Richard Dawson
 * Henry Morgan
 * Pat Collins
 * Elaine Joyce

Trivia
Bill Cullen was a panelist on the original IGAS, Dawson was also panelist on the 1972 version of IGAS.

Merchandise
No Merchandise

Episode Status
The masters for all four episodes are said to exist, but it was not rerun on Game Show Network/GSN or Buzzr.

Episode Guide
Recorded in New York City, New York at CBS Broadcast Center (Studio 41) in September 1975, and at The Ed Sullivan Theater (Studio 50) in June 1976.

Link
I've Got a Secret ('76) @ Game Show Utopia