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09-16-2004, 07:23 PM
From tvgameshows.net:
40 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK: GARRY MOORE PASSES THE TORCH
Forty years ago Tuesday night, television marked the end of a major game show era.
Garry Moore, one of the medium's most beloved personalities, who originated "I've Got a Secret" for Mark Goodson and Bill Todman in 1952, gave up the show to temporarily retire from televison. He passed the baton to Steve Allen on the popular Monday night panel show.
Moore's Emmy-winning variety hour was canceled after six years at the end of the 1963-64 season. He pitched an idea for a revamped format to CBS President James Aubrey, known unflatteringly as The Smiling Cobra. Aubrey, according to several books on the history of CBS, nonchalantly told Moore: "Not a chance."
Moore opted to give up television altogether and travel around the world with his wife. He surrendered his long-running saily 10-minute show on CBS Radio.
The premise of the final episode with Moore was of him showing the ropes of how to conduct the game to Allen. Ironically, Allen had prior experience hosting "Secret". He subbed for Moore for a week during the series' first season.
The celebrity guest: magician Milbourne Christopher. The secret: Christopher was going to make Garry disappear in an illusion. Instead, the trick "backfired: and Allen vanished, leaving Moore to say his final farewell.
Said Moore to the audience: "I hate long goodbyes. Thanks for 12 wonderful years and a s we've always said... be kind to each other and goodbye out there."
Unfortunately, the transition episode is not included in the package Fremantle Media owns of the Goodson/Todman library, as licensed by GSN. The following week's show, with Allen taking over as host, is.
Moore returned to "Secret" once---as a guest---in September 1966, on the series' final black-and-white episode before converting to color and moving to the suiside slot of Mondays at 10:30. Moore plugged his new Sunday night variety hour, which was killed in 13 weeks opposite "Bonanza".
"Secret" perished at mid-season of the 1966-67 campaign after 15 years on the air. At the end of the season, three other Goodsn/Todman standbys also bade farewell to CBS: "Password", the nighttime "To Tell the Truth" and the venerable "What's My Line?".
40 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK: GARRY MOORE PASSES THE TORCH
Forty years ago Tuesday night, television marked the end of a major game show era.
Garry Moore, one of the medium's most beloved personalities, who originated "I've Got a Secret" for Mark Goodson and Bill Todman in 1952, gave up the show to temporarily retire from televison. He passed the baton to Steve Allen on the popular Monday night panel show.
Moore's Emmy-winning variety hour was canceled after six years at the end of the 1963-64 season. He pitched an idea for a revamped format to CBS President James Aubrey, known unflatteringly as The Smiling Cobra. Aubrey, according to several books on the history of CBS, nonchalantly told Moore: "Not a chance."
Moore opted to give up television altogether and travel around the world with his wife. He surrendered his long-running saily 10-minute show on CBS Radio.
The premise of the final episode with Moore was of him showing the ropes of how to conduct the game to Allen. Ironically, Allen had prior experience hosting "Secret". He subbed for Moore for a week during the series' first season.
The celebrity guest: magician Milbourne Christopher. The secret: Christopher was going to make Garry disappear in an illusion. Instead, the trick "backfired: and Allen vanished, leaving Moore to say his final farewell.
Said Moore to the audience: "I hate long goodbyes. Thanks for 12 wonderful years and a s we've always said... be kind to each other and goodbye out there."
Unfortunately, the transition episode is not included in the package Fremantle Media owns of the Goodson/Todman library, as licensed by GSN. The following week's show, with Allen taking over as host, is.
Moore returned to "Secret" once---as a guest---in September 1966, on the series' final black-and-white episode before converting to color and moving to the suiside slot of Mondays at 10:30. Moore plugged his new Sunday night variety hour, which was killed in 13 weeks opposite "Bonanza".
"Secret" perished at mid-season of the 1966-67 campaign after 15 years on the air. At the end of the season, three other Goodsn/Todman standbys also bade farewell to CBS: "Password", the nighttime "To Tell the Truth" and the venerable "What's My Line?".