I've Got a Secret

Name: I've Got a Secret
Genre: Documentary

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The What's My Line? format inverted — the panel knows there is a secret and has to find out what it is.

One opening sequence is catalogued for I've Got a Secret, covering season 1.

It arrived on CBS in 1952, when Candid Camera, Guiding Light and Truth or Consequences were also on the network.

1 sequence

The opening titles

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1958–BBC OneDocumentary

The world's longest-running children's programme, opening on a ship in full sail and a hornpipe.

1951–1982ABC / SyndicationDocumentary

Champagne music, bubbles in the titles, and thirty-one years of the same band leader counting in.

1956–CBSDocumentary

Three people claiming to be the same person, and the line that ends it — will the real one please stand up.

1953–BBC OneDocumentary

The longest-running current affairs programme in the world, and a theme borrowed from Rachmaninoff.

1950–1988CBS / NBC / SyndicationDocumentary

A radio stunt show that reached television in 1950 and persuaded a New Mexico town to rename itself after it.

1957–BBC One / BBC FourDocumentary

The longest-running programme with the same presenter in television history, opening on Sibelius' At the Castle Gate.