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I've Got A Secret Website
JohnXXVII:
Great site! It just makes me want to see all the episodes. Any way to partner with anyone official, like Fremantle, or Buzzr, or an archive, and upload master copies of episodes to the site, including ones that have never before been aired?
Matt Ottinger:
--- Quote from: JohnXXVII on May 10, 2023, 08:26:12 PM ---Great site! It just makes me want to see all the episodes. Any way to partner with anyone official, like Fremantle, or Buzzr, or an archive, and upload master copies of episodes to the site, including ones that have never before been aired?
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Thanks! There are definitely hopes for the site, and high among them is accessing the episodes that have never been rerun. I'm convinced I have ever episode that HAS, whether on GSN or Buzzr, plus there's another fifty or so with full writeups on every secret based on long-ago GSN notes. I think I'm close to acquiring more of those, but even then that's not the same as watching and sharing the episodes. Stay tuned!
TwoInchQuad:
Matt--
You've got mail (through your gmail account)... and if my attachment didn't make it through, please let me know.
And by the way-- great site!
- Kevin
JohnXXVII:
It's interesting how many "special" episodes have ended up missing. It's almost as if someone at the time decided to set those episodes aside, maybe so that they wouldn't end up lost, and by so doing, those episodes ended up lost.
A Google search for Garry Moore I've Got A Secret turns up a NY Times article from February 21, 1964 saying Garry announced yesterday that he will be leaving IGAS and his CBS daytime radio show in May, all while still getting paid next season in excess of $100,000 from his long term CBS contract. He's going to get paid to do nothing. I guess he really wanted to stick it to them for canceling his variety show, he was that offended by it? I don't think he ever mentioned he was leaving IGAS on air on IGAS, until the September 1964 transition show, which is a missing episode?
The NY Times article says IGAS was owned by Moore and CBS. Is that right? CBS gave Garry an ownership stake in it?
Matt Ottinger:
--- Quote from: JohnXXVII on May 17, 2023, 12:12:15 PM ---It's interesting how many "special" episodes have ended up missing. It's almost as if someone at the time decided to set those episodes aside, maybe so that they wouldn't end up lost, and by so doing, those episodes ended up lost.
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I have a slightly different theory that certain special episodes were probably meaningful to certain important people, so they just took them. It couldn't have possibly occurred to anybody that this archive was going to have value decades later, and therefore it had to be maintained perfectly. I strongly believe, for example, that Gil Fates took the 1960 election special out of the collection when he was writing his What's My Line? book, and then never bothered to return it.
--- Quote ---I don't think he ever mentioned he was leaving IGAS on air on IGAS, until the September 1964 transition show, which is a missing episode?
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Yes, it was widely reported that Garry was sore about his show being cancelled and was going to walk away from Secret, but he never mentioned it on air until the missing transition episode. Aside from the very first episode, that's the one I'd most love to locate some day. Maybe Garry took it?
--- Quote ---The NY Times article says IGAS was owned by Moore and CBS. Is that right? CBS gave Garry an ownership stake in it?
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Goodson-Todman sold the show to "Telecast Enterprises," a partnership between CBS and Garry that seems to have had no other purpose than this. While most reports at least suggest it was an equal partnership, others say Garry had a minority stake.
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