I’ve Got a Secret is a weekly panel game show produced by Mark Goodson and
Bill Todman for CBS-TV. Instead of celebrity panelists trying to determine the contestant’s occupation, the panel tries to determine a contestant’s “secret”,
something that is usual, amazing, sometimes embarrassing, or humorous. The
show was originally hosted by radio and television personality Garry Moore. The panelists included Bill Cullen, Jayne Medows,  Henry Morgan, and Faye Emerson
(shown above). The original version of I’ve Got a Secret began broadcasting in
black and white and switched to a color format in 1966. It ran until April 3, 1976

Bud Collyer was a radio actor/announcer who became one of the nation’s
first major television game show stars. He is best remembered for his work
as the voice of Superman/Clark Kent in three media: radio, film and television.

Collyer’s best-remembered radio role arrived in early 1940: the title role in The Adventures of Superman on the Mutual Broadcasting System. 

In 1956, Collyer became equally, if not more, familiar as the host of a
new Goodson-Todman production, To Tell The Truth, on CBS-TV. 

Bud Collyer was host of Beat The Clock which ran on CBS from 1950
to 1958 and ABC from 1958-1961.

The $64,000 Question was a CBS-TV game show that premiered June 7, 1955
and ran till 1958. The host of the show was Hal March (below) It was sponsored by cosmetics maker Revlon and originating from the start live from CBS-TV studio 52
in New York. The game show’s first contestant was a housewife from Trenton, New Jersey who won a 1955 Cadillac Convertible. The $64,000 Question later became embroiled in the scandals involving TV quiz shows of the day.

M.C. Hal March reads a question to jockey Billy Pearson on the set of The $64,000 Question, 1956.

George Gobel was a comedian and actor, best known as the star of 
his own weekly NBC- TV show, The George Gobel Show. It ran from
1954 to 1960.

Take It or Leave It was a CBS radio quiz show, which followed in the wake of
Professor Quiz, radio’s first quiz program. The show was first hosted by Bob Hawk ( 1940-41), followed by Phil Baker (1941-47). It aired until July 27, 1947. In 1947
the radio series switched to NBC and was hosted various times by Baker, Garry
Moore (1947-49), Eddie Cantor (1949-50), and Jack Paar who hosted the show beginning on June 11, 1950. On September 10, 1950, Take It or Leave It changed
its title to The $64 Question and continued, with Paar as host, until June 1, 1952. It
was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1990.

Phil Baker