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+ Information Please was an American radio quiz show, created by Dan Golenpaul, which aired on NBC from May 17, 1938 to April 22, 1951. The title was the contemporary phrase used to request from telephone operators what was then called "information" but is now called "directory assistance". The series was moderated by Clifton Fadiman. A panel of experts would attempt to answer questions submitted by listeners. For the first few shows, a listener was paid two dollars for a question that was used, and five dollars more if the experts could not answer it correctly. When the show got its first sponsor (Canada Dry), the total amounts were increased to five and ten dollars respectively. A complete Encyclopaedia Britannica was later added to the prize for questions that stumped the panel. The amounts went up to ten and twenty-five dollars when Lucky Strike took over sponsorship of the program.-WikiPedia Click here to read more about Information Please

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Air Date	Title	Synopsis
10.31.1941	groucho marx	+ Sponsored by: Lucky Strike. The first question is, "Name three people whose nicknames describe a ...
11.07.1941	douglas miller	+ Sponsored by: Lucky Strike. The first question is, "What notable collaborators were not on speaki...
11.21.1941	cornelia otis skinner	+ Sponsored by: Lucky Strike. The first question is, "What person was or is still known by the foll...
11.28.1941	drew person and robert allen	+ Sponsored by: Lucky Strike. The first question is, "Quote a line from a once popular song that rh...
12.05.1941	edna ferber and deems taylor	+ Sponsored by: Lucky Strike. The first question is, "Name the lady mentioned in each of these fami...
12.12.1941	dr george n shuster	+ Sponsored by: Lucky Strike. The first question is, "If your sleep is interrupted by the followin...
12.19.1941	jan struther and joseph e davies	+ Sponsored by: Lucky Strike. The first question is, "Identify these "Toms" in fiction."
12.26.1941	john gunther
01.16.1942	paul galico and russell krause	+ Sponsored by: Lucky Strike. The first question is, "In what play is a marriage ruined for the fol...
01.23.1942	alexander wolcott and deems taylor	+ Sponsored by: Lucky Strike. The first question is, "What event traditionally occurs at this hour...
02.06.1942	ruth hussey and christopher morley	+ Sponsored by: Lucky Strike. The first question is, "In each of these lines of poetry, the pronoun...
02.20.1942	boris karloff and john carradine	+ Sponsored by: Lucky Strike. The first question is, "Name the following victims of treachery."
02.27.1942	emil ludwig	+ Sponsored by: Lucky Strike. The first question is, "What was opened to release all the ills of th...
03.06.1942	julian huxley and jan struther	+ Sponsored by: Lucky Strike. The first question is, "Who rested in the following ways?"
03.20.1942	john carradine and sir thomas beecham	+ Sponsored by: Lucky Strike. The first question is, "Give the phrase that precedes the end part of...
03.27.1942	wallace r dual	+ Sponsored by: Lucky Strike. The first question is, "What word means scraps of waste materials and...
04.17.1942	grantland rice	+ Sponsored by: Lucky Strike. The first question is, "What was the answer to each of these question...
05.08.1942	margaret webster and richard manney	+ Sponsored by: Lucky Strike. The first question heard is, "Who said this military maxim?"
05.22.1942	deems taylor	+ Sponsored by: Lucky Strike. The first question is, "Recite a line of poetry about a snail, a moth...
05.29.1942	henry cabot lodge jr	+ Sponsored by: Lucky Strike. The first question is, "Who asked these questions: Where are you goin...
06.19.1942	paul gallico	+ Sponsored by: Lucky Strike. The first question is, "Can you quote the line of poetry or song tha...
07.10.1942	roland young	+ Sponsored by: Lucky Strike. The first question is, "What are the parallels in the present war to ...
07.14.1942	information please (219) guest wallace r deuel
07.24.1942	cornelia otis skinner	+ Sponsored by: Lucky Strike. The first question is, "Who went from San Juan to Vichy to Washinton,...
08.07.1942	ned sparks	+ Sponsored by: Lucky Strike. The first question is, "Where in literature are these lines repeated ...

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This comedy quiz program was hosted by the former Simon and Schuster book editor Clifton Fadiman. Panelists on the program during its run was Franklin P. Adams (columnist for the New York Herald Tribune) and sports columnist John Kiernan. It was broadcast on NBC, CBS and Mutual from 1938 to 1951.

INFORMATION PLEASE

My mother listened to "Information, Please" principally to hear Oscar Levant whom she appreciated for his wit and wisdom. (What a roster of guest participants!) I recall her watching Levant's short-lived talk show on KCOP (Channel 13) in Los Angeles (1958-60). I just watched a tape of that show with Fred Astaire. Poor visual quality, but priceless. All the other tapes of the show were lost. This one exists because Astaire himself taped it. Thanks for the detailed information on "Information, Please." Very much appreciated.

Sam Ludu