Information Please
Panel quiz program features Clifton Fadiman posing listener questions to expert regulars and celebrity guests.
Information Please is 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" and later called "directory assistance".
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Information Please. Radio program.
Original schedule
- 1938–19408:30 PM ETBlue Network · nightSuMoTuWeThFrSa
- 1940–19438:30 PM ETBlue Network · nightSuMoTuWeThFrSa
- 1943–19458:30 PM ETNBC Radio Network · nightSuMoTuWeThFrSa
- 19458:30 PM ETNBC Radio Network (Mobil Oil) · nightSuMoTuWeThFrSa
Ben Grauer
Announcer
D
EDon Baker
Announcer
Ed Herlihy
Announcer
JJay Jackson
Announcer
M
RMilton J. Cross
Announcer
Ron Rawson
Announcer
EEmory S. Land
Cast
FFranklin P. Adams
Cast
J
LJo Davidson
Cast
Larry MacPhail
Cast
Orson Welles
Cast
S
WSidney Joseph Perelman
Cast
Walter D. Edmonds
Cast
W
DWilliam Lyon Phelps
Cast
Dan Golenpaul
Director
W
Wilfred S. King
Director
Clifton Fadiman
Host
A
Al Smith
Cast
C
CCarlos P. Romulo
Cast
Christopher Morley
Panelist
Clifton Fadiman
Cast
Cornelia Otis Skinner
Cast
Deems Taylor
Panelist
EErskine Caldwell
Cast
F
Franklin Pierce Adams
Panelist
Fred Allen
Guest panelist
GGroucho Marx
Guest panelist
HHarold Ickes
Cast
HHelen Wills Moody
Cast
H
Hendrick Van Loon
Guest panelist
H
HHenry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
Cast
Herbert Bayard Swope
Cast
JJohn Erskine
Guest panelist
JJohn Kieran
Panelist
J
LJoseph 'Joe' Kahn
Pianist
Lewis E. Lawes
Guest panelist
OOscar Levant
Panelist
S
Stuart Chase
Guest panelist
W
WWalter 'Red' Barber
Guest panelist
Wendell Willkie
Cast
EElizabeth Janeway
Writer
J
John P. McEvoy
Writer
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