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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
08.29.1939	rex stout and wilford funk	+ Blue Network. Sponsored by: Canada Dry. The first question is, "Name the last three presidents who...
09.05.1939	raymond graham swing	"Name four popular tune which titles suggest physical distress" is the first question on this radio ...
09.12.1939	alice marble and bernard jaffe	+ Blue Network. Sponsored by: Canada Dry. The first question is, "All males are asked to close your ...
09.19.1939	p cal simms	+ Blue Network. Sponsored by: Canada Dry. The first question is, "What characters of fiction played ...
09.26.1939	rex stout and carl van doren	+ Blue Network. Sponsored by: Canada Dry. The first question is, "Name four vegetables or plants tha...
10.03.1939	dean c mildred thompson of vasser college	+ Blue Network. Sponsored by: Canada Dry. The first question is, "When Vassar was founded, how many ...
10.10.1939	christopher morley and john t flynn	+ Blue Network. Sponsored by: Canada Dry. The first question is, "Name five flowers that are contain...
10.17.1939	moe berg	+ Blue Network. Sponsored by: Canada Dry. The first question is, "What Mother Goose character did th...
10.24.1939	deems taylor and louis untermeyer	+ Blue Network. Sponsored by: Canada Dry. The first question is, "What is the succeeding command or ...
10.31.1939	carl sandberg	+ Blue Network. Sponsored by: Canada Dry. The first question is, "What notorious living American aut...
11.07.1939	christopher morley and marcus jacques	+ Blue Network. Sponsored by: Canada Dry. The first question is, "Each of these four terms suggest a...
11.14.1939	james farley	+ Blue Network. Sponsored by: Canada Dry. The program originates from the Waldorf Astoria, where Mr....
11.21.1939	moe berg and j p macelvoy	+ Blue Network. Sponsored by: Canada Dry. The first question is, "Give the date of your wife's birth...
12.05.1939	deems taylor and henry pringle	+ Blue Network. Sponsored by: Canada Dry. The first question is, "Name five books, the titles of whi...
12.12.1939	walter b pitkin	+ Blue Network. Sponsored by: Canada Dry. The first question is, "Name the recent news stories sugge...
12.19.1939	christopher morley and albert spaulding	+ Blue Network. Sponsored by: Canada Dry. The first question is, "Who was the famous musician and th...
12.26.1939	sir cedric hardwick	+ Blue Network. Sponsored by: Canada Dry. The first question is, "Where would a travel agent infer t...
01.02.1940	carl van doren and gloria stewart	+ Blue Network. Sponsored by: Canada Dry. Martin Lewis, Associate Editor of "Radio Guide Magazine" p...
08.20.1940	walter wanger	+ Blue Network. Sponsored by: Canada Dry. The first question is, "Complete the lines from poetry or ...
08.27.1940	christopher morley and james roosevelt	+ Blue Network. Sponsored by: Canada Dry. The first question is, "Name a child of each of these pair...
09.03.1940	henry beedle hough	+ Blue Network. Sponsored by: Canada Dry. The first question is, "What is the significance of the fo...
09.10.1940	jan struther and john gunther	+ Blue Network. Sponsored by: Canada Dry. The first question is, "What recent news events are sugges...
09.17.1940	otto tallicious	+ Blue Network. Sponsored by: Canada Dry. The first question is, "What is at the beginning and the e...
09.24.1940	alva johnson and marc connolly	+ Blue Network. Sponsored by: Canada Dry. The first question is, "What toys wrote poetry? What toy w...
10.01.1940	clair boothe	+ Blue Network. Sponsored by: Canada Dry. The first question is, "Name the contemporary government h...

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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