Information Please make sure to was a quiz display that aired on NBC radio from 1938 until 1951. Moderated by Clifton Fadiman, the show featured a -panel of experts who attempt to solution questions mailed in by target audience members. Listeners were paid two dollars if the question was utilized and five dollars more if the experts could not answer the question properly (when the show landed Canada Dry out as a sponsor, the quantities were increased to five dollars and ten dollars, respectively, and improved higher by the time Lucky Strike got over sponsorship).

-panel regulars included writer-actor-pianist Oscar Levant and newspaper columnists and renowned intellectuals Franklin P. Adams and John Kieran. Frequently, there was a fourth “visitor” panelist, generally either a superstar, a politician, or a writer. Guest panelists included Fred Allen, Boris Karloff, Rex Stout, Deems Taylor, Jackie Robinson, Orson Welles, Basil Rathbone, and Myron “Mike” Wallace.

Information Please enjoyed a long operate on radio and produced a brief changeover to television in 1952. You will enjoy sixteen shows and try to guess along with the panelists!

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