Pat Carroll, Bert Convy, Anita Gillette, Richard Dawson
13-year-old Greg Smith from Thousand Oaks, California: “I’m going to ride a motorized pogo stick”
A one-cylinder gas-powered engine drives the piston up and
down, so that Greg is mostly just holding on.
He still has to jump, but the pogo stick does much of the work. The device, called a “Hop-Rod,” is a product
of the Chance Manufacturing Company of Wichita, Kansas. Greg is the son of a staffer at the station
where Secret is produced, and got the call when word got out that the
show needed an experienced pogoist. For
his troubles, he got to keep the device.
Though newspaper articles of the day breathlessly touted the $70 gizmo
as a solution to the energy crisis, it was a novelty whose time quickly came
and went.
Bud Dashnaw from Sunnyvale, California and his dog Mallard, who has the secret: “That man is my dentist”
Dr Dashnaw is a pediatric dentist by trade, but also serves canine patients. Mallard is a brown Chesapeake Bay retriever.
Special guest George Burns has the simple secret that he tells lies.
With the panel offstage he explains that he and Steve are just
going to lie during the questioning, which makes the game itself pointless but
does provide lots of laughs. Burns has nothing to plug but is on the cusp of
his remarkable late-in-life career resurgence.
At the age of 79, he would win an Oscar for his performance in the 1975
film The Sunshine Boys, in a role that was originally going to be played
by his old friend Jack Benny. Benny had died
the previous year. In 1977 he had a box
office hit playing the almighty in Oh, God!, the success of which led to
two less well-received sequels. Other
movie roles followed, as did sold-out concert and nightclub appearances. Burns remained in the public eye for more
than 75 years. He died in 1996, 49 days
after turning 100.
Steve Kilston from Venice, California: “I had a comet named after me”
Kilston, a Harvard graduate studying for his doctorate at UCLA, discovered the comet in 1966 while watching the skies at the Lick Observatory in San Jose. Dr Kilston would have a career as an aerospace engineer and astronomer, and today gives lectures and presentations about our place in the universe.
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