I've Got a Secret

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== Broadcast ==
== Broadcast ==
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Associated-Rediffusion for ITV, 1956
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Associated-Rediffusion for ITV, 5 January to ?, 1956
BBC1, 1986?
BBC1, 1986?
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Panel of celebs are goaded on by O'Connor to try and identify an obscure claim to fame that a member of the public has. A clue was given at the start to get them going in the right direction, and there was a "look away now" moment if you didn't want to know the answer.
Panel of celebs are goaded on by O'Connor to try and identify an obscure claim to fame that a member of the public has. A clue was given at the start to get them going in the right direction, and there was a "look away now" moment if you didn't want to know the answer.
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Similar to [[What's My Line?]], we vaguely recall that a 'No' reply meant that the questioning passed on to the next celebrity - or maybe they had 30 seconds each?
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Similar to [[What's My Line?]], we vaguely recall that a 'No' reply meant that the questioning passed on to the next celebrity - or maybe they had 30 seconds each? Either way, in the original 1950s version at least, the contestant won a crisp pound note each time the questioning passed from one panellist to another, up to a maximum of eight pounds (i.e. twice round the panel).
== Key moments ==
== Key moments ==

Revision as of 14:01, 5 October 2008

Contents

Host

Ben Lyon (50s)

Tom O'Connor (80s)

Broadcast

Associated-Rediffusion for ITV, 5 January to ?, 1956

BBC1, 1986?

Synopsis

Panel of celebs are goaded on by O'Connor to try and identify an obscure claim to fame that a member of the public has. A clue was given at the start to get them going in the right direction, and there was a "look away now" moment if you didn't want to know the answer.

Similar to What's My Line?, we vaguely recall that a 'No' reply meant that the questioning passed on to the next celebrity - or maybe they had 30 seconds each? Either way, in the original 1950s version at least, the contestant won a crisp pound note each time the questioning passed from one panellist to another, up to a maximum of eight pounds (i.e. twice round the panel).

Key moments

One guest was the man who acted as a telegraph operator during WWII, and became the first person in Britain to know that the Germans had surrendered.

Inventor

Based on a 1950s US game show, an early entry in the Mark Goodson-Bill Todman canon, though actually invented by Allen Sherman (of "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh" novelty hit fame).

See also

Top Secret

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