The I’ve Got a Secret panel and the To
Tell the Truth panel switch places for this special show. Earlier in the evening, Bill, Bess, Henry and
Betsy tried to identify John Turk (the British royal swan keeper), Patricia
Salmon (the director of a fashion school in Japan) and Richard Spencer (the
editor of the Harvard Lampoon). This program ends up being a “greatest hits”
collection of games similar to, and in some cases identical to, games played
with the regular panel over the past few years.
For the record, Poston is the only one of the four who had never been on the Secret panel before.
Three women named Helen Luth all from Newman, Illinois: “We share
the same telephone party line”
The Luth
women first appeared in 1960 (
E369
) with the same secret. Here, they are presented in To Tell the Truth fashion, seated
together at a table, and introduced with the familiar, “What is your name,
please?”
Seaman Apprentice Sherlin of the WAVES, who helped the panel learn
to play the game in rehearsals earlier: “I’ve never met this panel before…They
met my sister”
The contestant is Joan Sherlin. The panel met her sister Jane. In a bonus twist that appears to have even tricked Steve,
there is a third sister, Jean. The
Sherlin sisters of Asheville, North Carolina are the only WAVE triplets on
active duty, and went through training together. The setup for this game closely resembles a
1963 trick (
E518
) involving two men named Reverend Kehm, but with the added
third twist.
Special guest Alan King challenges the
panel on how well they know each other, by such identifying traits as what they
had for breakfast, what’s in their refrigerator, and what the Secret staff pulled from their wastebaskets.
The regular panel played a game along these lines in 1962 (
E477
). Steve plugs King’s latest book, Help, I’m a Prisoner in a Chinese Bakery (Dutton 1964).
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