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Top Secret
| Top Secret | |
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| Premiere | unaired |
| Creator | Wink Martindale, Jerry Gilden |
| Host | Wink Martindale |
| Network/Provider | CBS |
| Style | 30-minute game show |
| Company | Martindale-Gilden Productions |
| Episodes | 3 pilots in 1988 |
| Origin | USA |
Top Secret is a game show intended for CBS daytime. Three pilots were prepared in March 1988.
Three contestants each possess a “secret identity” of a subject that has four clues which have money values of $250, $500, $750 and $1000. A toss-up question is asked; whoever rings in stops a randomizer on a board of cash scores of $100 to $1000. If that contestant is correct, he/she scores the money and, if enough, buys any one of the identity clues from an opponent. (An incorrect answer locks the contestant out of the next question.) He/she attempts to guess the identity. If the guesser is right, he/she wins the score money and the identity holder is eliminated from the round. If wrong, the game resumes. Play continues until one player remains.
The surviving player goes to the Super Sleuth round, identifying six subjects using three clues per subject in sixty seconds with each subject worth $200 and $5000 for all six.
All three original players compete in game two. If the winner of game one wins again, the Super Sleuth payoff becomes $10,000. The objective of the other players is to beat or tie that winnings score.
Top Secret was prepped to replace Blackout on CBS, but the return of The $25,000 Pyramid was green lit instead.
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DVD Releases
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