I've Got a Secret Episode Guide

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I've Got a Secret — 1952

This page lists 23 episodes. Most of the information is from the Kinescopes list. All air dates are Thursdays.

Cast

Host: The episode of 8/7 (week 8) was hosted by Steve Allen. Otherwise, there is no indication that anyone but Garry Moore was host, so the host is omitted from the table.
Panel: Of the six people who were longtime regular panelists over the show's run, only three (Bill Cullen, Jayne Meadows, and Henry Morgan) made their debuts during the first year, so this year never had a regular panel that consisted of four of those six people.

Crew

Nothing is known about the onscreen credits for the first year.

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Calendar Week	Air Date	Guest	Panelist 1	Panelist 2	Panelist 3	Panelist 4
1: 6/15-21	6/19/52¹	Boris Karloff	Orson Bean	Louise Allbritton	Melville Cooper	Laura Z. Hobson
2: 6/22-28	[N/A]
3: 6/29-7/5	[N/A]
4: 7/6-12	[N/A]
5: 7/13-19	7/17/52	Buster Keaton	[Unknown]
6: 7/20-26	[N/A]
7: 7/27-8/2	7/31/52	Ralph Kiner	Bill (debut)²	Jayne (debut)²	Melville Cooper	Laraine Day
8: 8/3-9	8/7/52	Paul Lukas	Bill	Jayne	Melville Cooper	Laura Z. Hobson
9: 8/10-16	8/14/52	Wanda Hendrix	Bill	Jayne	Melville Cooper	Laura Z. Hobson
10: 8/17-23	8/21/52³	Mischa Auer	Bill	Jayne	Melville Cooper	Laraine Day
11: 8/24-30	8/28/52	Gloria Swanson	Bill	Jayne	Walter Kiernan	Laraine Day
12: 8/31-9/6	9/4/52	ZaSu Pitts	Bill	Jayne	Melville Cooper	Laraine Day
13: 9/7-13	9/11/52	Sam Levenson	Bill	Jayne	Melville Cooper	Laraine Day
14: 9/14-20	9/18/52	Veronica Lake	Bill	Jayne	Melville Cooper	Laraine Day
15: 9/21-27	9/25/52	Pat O'Brien	Bill	Jayne	Melville Cooper	Laraine Day
16: 9/28-10/4	10/2/52	Mickey Mantle	Eddie Bracken	Jayne	Melville Cooper	Nina Foch
17: 10/5-11	10/9/52	Corinne Calvet	Bill	Jayne	Eddie Bracken	Nina Foch
18: 10/12-18	10/16/52	Melvyn Douglas	Bill	Jayne	Eddie Bracken	Nina Foch
19: 10/19-25	10/23/52	Elsa Maxwell	Bill	Jayne	Eddie Bracken	Kitty Carlisle
20: 10/26-11/1	10/30/52	Linda Christian	Bill	Jayne	Eddie Bracken	Kitty Carlisle
21: 11/2-8	11/6/52	Barry Fitzgerald	Bill	Jayne	Eddie Bracken	Kitty Carlisle
22: 11/9-15	11/13/52	Chester Morris	Bill	Jayne	Henry (debut)	Kitty Carlisle
23: 11/16-22	11/20/52	Margaret O'Brien	Bill	Jayne	Henry	Kitty Carlisle
24: 11/23-29	11/27/52	Lizabeth Scott	Bill	Jayne	Henry	Kitty Carlisle
25: 11/30-12/6	[Unknown]
26: 12/7-13	12/11/52	Dick Haymes⁴	Bill	Jayne	Henry	Kitty Carlisle
27: 12/14-20	12/18/52	Maxie Rosenbloom	Bill	Jayne	Henry	Kitty Carlisle
28: 12/21-27	12/25/52	Basil Rathbone	Bill	Jayne	Henry	Kitty Carlisle

Week 28, 12/25/52

Sponsor: Arrid

In a practice that would later be abandoned, the questioning is allowed to go twice around the panel. This entire episode is viewable on YouTube.

Garry introduces the panel by reading a poem sent in by William Fawcett of New Haven.
Herman Perlman, Washington, DC: "I decorated the bathtubs in the White House." Bill guesses.
Marion Ettie: "I am the 1953 Orange Bowl Queen." Henry guesses.
Guest Basil Rathbone: "I'm wearing long red flannels." Jayne guesses.
Kay Sirota, Manhattan: "I was nurse for Kitty Carlisle's husband" (Moss Hart).

¹ In the episode of 1/31/66, Bill answers the question of who was on the first panel. The seating order is a guess based on the later known appearances of Melville Cooper and Laura Z. Hobson.
² In the 4th anniversary episode of 6/13/56, Bill and Jayne agree that they both began in the third episode.
³ Includes contestant Martin Rafferty, Brooklyn: "I became the father of triplets this week." Sponsor is Arrid. This segment is viewable on YouTube.
⁴ Secret: "I'm sitting on Bill's hat."