Several months back, we reviewed the classic game show, I've Got a Secret. However, there was one incarnation of the series we forgot.
CBS reacquired the series as a summer replacement in 1976, lasting just 4 weeks. If memory serves me correctly, it aired on Tuesday nights this time, opposite reruns of Happy Days. Unfortunately, even reruns of Fonzie, Richie, & the gang were more popular than a 25 year old game show making another comeback.
Game show icon Bill Cullen, one of the most prolific MC's in the business, and a regular panelist on the original Secret, hosted this version, which, if I'm not mistaken, would be his first for CBS. He'd do two more for the network, Pass The Buck & Child's Play, in succeeding years. The panel consisted of IGAS regular Henry Morgan, journalist Pat Collins, actress Elaine Joyce, and ever-busy Richard Dawson, who was racking up the frequent flyer miles, since he was also still on Match Game at the time, and Family Feud was just getting rolling. The featured guest is comedy icon Rodney Dangerfield, who by this point had opened a nightclub, Dangerfield's, in New York. Rodney brought along with him second generation voice actor Vance Colvig, whose father, Pinto, was the original voice of Goofy. As you'll see, Vance was a chip off the old block, since his secret involves something Goofy would likely do. Oh, by the way, Vance's family background was never brought up.
Had it been on another night, maybe this gets renewed for the fall. Instead, it'd be almost 20 years before the series would return.
Rating: A.
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