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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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Franklin P. Adams Clifton Fadiman John Kieran Milton Cross Oscar Levant L. A. Speed Riggs Dan Golenpaul Ben Grauer Deems Taylor Jan Struther Christopher Morley Basil Ruysdael John Gunther Marcus Duffield Russell Crouse Bernard Jaffe Cornelia Otis Skinner Leon Henderson Louis Bromfield Fred Allen Gregory Ratoff Boris Karloff Rex Stout Alexander Woollcott James Wallace John Mason Brown Moss Hart Nelson Case Quincy Howe Richard Manney Thomas Beecham Alfred Hitchcock Alva Johnston Artur Rubinstein Ben Hecht C. Mildred Thompson C. S. Forester Carl Sandburg Carl Van Doren Clare Boothe Luce Clarence Budington Kelland Frank Sullivan Gene Tunney Grantland Rice Henry Cabot Lodge John Carradine John P. Marquand Kenneth Simpson Lewis Browne Lillian Gish Lyman Bryson Marc Connelly Marcia Davenport Mark Duffield Moe Berg Paul Gallico Percy Waxman Roland Young Wallace Deuel Will Rogers Jr.Alben Barkley Albert Johnston Albert Spalding Alden Cook Alec Templeton Alexander Knox Alexander Scourby Alfred E. Smith Alfred Wallenstein Alice Marble Alice Newell Miller Alice Roosevelt Longworth Arthur Garfield Hays Arthur Krock Basil Rathbone Ben Bernie Betty Smith Bill Stern Bill Tilden Carlos Romulo Carmel Snow Cedric Hardwicke Charles Coburn Claude Rickard Clifton Webb Doc Rockwell Donald Ogden Stewart Donna Keyes Dorothy Thompson Douglas Miller Drew Pearson Ed Herlihy Edna Ferber Edward Egan Elizabeth Hawes Elizabeth Janeway Elliot Roosevelt Elmer F. Layden Elmer Rice Elsa Lanchester Emil Ludwig Emily Kimbrough Emory S. Land Ernest Albert Houton Erskine Caldwell Esme Davis Ethel Barrymore F. Van Wyck Mason Faith Baldwin Fiorello La Guardia Ford Frick Franchot Tone George Fielding Eliot George S. Kaufman George Shuster George V. Denny Jr Gilbert Seldes Gloria Stuart Gracie Allen Groucho Marx H. I. Phillips H. Napier Moore H. V. Kaltenborn Hanson Baldwin Harold Ickes Harold Young Harpo Marx Harry Overstreet Helen Traubel Helen Wills Moody Hendrikk Willem Van Loon Henry Beedle Hough Henry Curran Henry McCracken Henry Noble MacCracken Henry Pringle Henry Wallace Herbert Bayard Swope Herbert Hayes Herbert Marshall Hillary St. George Saunders Howard Claney Howard Dietz Howard Lindsay Hugh Johnson Hugh Thompson Ilka Chase Irving Mansfield Irwin Edmund J. P. McEvoy James Farley James Kieran James Roosevelt Jay Jackson Jesse Stewart Joe Davidson John Chamberlain John Coffee John Erskine John O'Hara John T. Flynn Jone Allison Joseph Ball Joseph Davies Julian Huxley Kathleen Norris Larry MacPhail Lauritz Melchior Lefty Gomez Leverett Saltonstall Lewis E. Lawes Lewis Lawes Lister Hill Louis Gannett Louis M. Hacker Louis Untermeyer Margaret Leach Margaret Webster Marion Hargrove Marquis James Martin Lewis Mary Boland Maurie Maverick Mike Wallace Mildred McAfee Monty Woolley Ned Sparks Norman Brokenshire Ogden Nash Orson Welles Oswald Jacoby Otto Tolischus Owen Davis P. Cal Simms Paul Lukas Philip Merivale Ray Baldwin Raymond Clapper Raymond Gram Swing Red Barber Richard Lockridge Robert Allen Robert St. John Roger Pryor Ruth Hussey S. J. Perelman Sally Benson Sigmund Spaeth Sinclair Lewis Stanley Walker Stephen Vincent Benet T. F. Chiang Ted Jewett Theodore Green Thomas Craven Vincent Sheean Walter D. Edmonds Walter Durante Walter Pitkin Walter Wanger Walter Yust Wendell Willkie Wilbur Cross Wilfred Funk Wiliiam Lyon Phelps Will Durant William Beebe William Boehnel William Fulbright William L. Shirer William Primrose Wilmot Louis

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Original schedule

1938–19408:30 PM ET
Blue Network · night
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1940–19438:30 PM ET
Blue Network · night
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1943–19458:30 PM ET
NBC Radio Network · night
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19458:30 PM ET
NBC Radio Network (Mobil Oil) · night
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