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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
07.04.1939	lillian gish and marc duffield	+ Blue Network. Sponsored by: Canada Dry. The first question is, "Give the exact wording given by Mi...
10.11.1938	lillian gish	+ Blue Network. The first question is, "Name five typical cliches used in the home." The . The clo...
10.25.1938	lillian gish	+ A new type of question and answer game in which the public quiz the professionals. The public are ...
12.20.1940	louis bromfield and herbert marshall	+ Sponsored by: Lucky Strike. The first question is, "Name a prominent world statesman well-known f...
09.12.1941	louis bromfield and margarite leach	+ Sponsored by: Lucky Strike. The first question is, "Make up a menu of nursery rhymes which happen...
01.03.1944	louis bromfield	+ Sponsored by: Heinz. The first question is, "What comic character is brought to mind by these aut...
12.06.1943	louis brown and sinclair lewis	+ Sponsored by: Heinz. The first question is, "What melodramatic event, commemorated in verse, happ...
10.15.1940	louis hacker	+ Blue Network. Sponsored by: Canada Dry. The first question is, "In what states did these three lad...
08.01.1941	lyman bryson and dr henry noble mccracken	+ Sponsored by: Lucky Strike. The first question is, "Who is or was the son of the following..."
06.14.1938	marc connolly	+ Blue Network. The first question is, "We're going to play a few notes from several famous songs, ...
05.08.1942	margaret webster and richard manney	+ Sponsored by: Lucky Strike. The first question heard is, "Who said this military maxim?"
06.07.1943	marsha davenport and deems taylor	+ Sponsored by: Heinz. The first question is, "In each of these sets of words; which doesn't belong...
09.13.1943	marsha davenport and deems taylor	+ Sponsored by: Heinz. The first show of the season. The first question is, "Men do odd things for ...
10.18.1943	marsha davenport
07.11.1941	mary boland	+ Sponsored by: Lucky Strike. The first question is, "How did each of these numbers figure in the re...
07.25.1939	maury maverick	+ Blue Network. Sponsored by: Canada Dry. The first question is, "What is the occupation of the man ...
08.14.1942	mildred h macafee	+ Sponsored by: Lucky Strike. The first question is, "Name these people who are associated with cir...
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...
02.21.1939	moe berg	+ Blue Network. Sponsored by: Canada Dry. The first question is, "What were these famous quarrels ab...
10.17.1939	moe berg	+ Blue Network. Sponsored by: Canada Dry. The first question is, "What Mother Goose character did th...
08.02.1938	moss hart	+ Blue Network. The first question is, "Answer the following questions based on famous ballads."
08.07.1942	ned sparks	+ Sponsored by: Lucky Strike. The first question is, "Where in literature are these lines repeated ...
07.26.1938	oscar levant john gunther	+ Blue Network. Franklin P. Adams was in the hospital and not on the program. The first question is...
06.21.1938	oscar levant	+ Blue net, WJZ, New York origination. The first question heard is, "If a sports writer characteriz...
07.05.1938	oscar levant	+ Blue Network. The first question is, "What performer made 'I Don't Care' famous?"

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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