I've Got A Secret Website

GETTING STARTED

This is a website devoted to the TV series I've Got a Secret.  If you know nothing at all about the series (Seriously? Nothing?), or if you'd like a little bit of insight and background about what we're doing here,  THIS PAGE is a good place to start. Otherwise, use the drop down menu above (or the links in the footer below) to explore what we have to offer.  There is a page for every episode of the original series (all 681 of them) regardless of how much or how little we might know about each one.  There are also indexes to search for your favorite celebrities or subjects , episode guides broken down by calendar year (not by season) and lots more.  Whether you know a little or a lot about the show, we hope you find something you like.

WHAT'S NEW?

8/6/24 -   We've added something pretty special.  Thanks to access we've been granted to original handwritten notes maintained by the show's executive producer Gil Fates, we can now describe what happened on dozens of episodes, despite having never seen them.  The notes are scribbled, brief and sometimes hard to decipher.  The photo below shows one page representing nine episodes.  Still, we've been able to use those notes on top of our own research to reconstruct hundreds of details about shows that are either lost or hidden away in hard to access collections.  The notes are so brief that Fates frequently failed to identify the contestants by name.  We've filled them in when we could figure them out, and we try to indicate where we're making some educated guesses, but until we get more to work with, a lot of the contestants will reman "unidentified".

The notes started in 1954, which is where we've begun our efforts as well.  In fact, the entire year of 1954 is complete on the site, so feel free to start with George Jessel and a mixed up house painter on January 6 and work your way through the year to visits from the first female aviator and a young Carl Reiner on December 15.  (We already had the last two shows from that year.)  And yes, we'll be using this resource to add more stories and details for episodes that remain inaccessible to fans.

Kevin Segura is the man responsible for access to these notes.  Kevin has carefully transcribed them and shared them, often adding his own research.  He really has become a collaborator for this part of the project, and as I've told him many times, grateful doesn't begin to describe it. In addition, Brendan McLaughlin has independently been sending us dozens of articles he's dug up abut the series, which have been helpful in filling in some gaps.  I'm grateful to him too.

SEARCH THE SITE

BROWSING SUGGESTIONS

SPORTS:  The only American ice hockey player.  E635

BROADWAY: it's a Bird!  It's a Plane! It's Superman!   E641

FASHION/ART: Vincent Price puts funny captions to classic works of art.  E331

POLITICS: Vice-President Alben Barkley's granddaughter.   E5

INVENTORS/EXPLORERS: Philo Farnsworth invented electronic television.  E242

CELEBRITIES:  Soupy Sales does the Watusi with Watusi.  E616