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Information Please

Heard
1938–1945
Episodes
219
Language
English

Information, Please was one of the first examples of show being electronically transcribed for broadcast on both coasts. The quiz show was notable for its humor along with timely issues and observations.

Episodes, in broadcast order page 1 of 3

  1. Harry Overstreet, Marcus Dufield

    · 30 min

  2. Marc Connolly

    · 31 min

  3. Oscar Levant

    · 25 min

  4. Carmen Show

    · 30 min

  5. Oscar Levant

    · 29 min

  6. Quincy Howe, George S Kaufman

    · 29 min

  7. Thomas Craven, Ben Hect

    · 30 min

  8. Oscar Levant, John Gunther

    · 30 min

  9. Moss Hart, Quincy Howe, George Kaufman

    · 28 min

  10. Alton Cook, Alice Dever Miller

    · 29 min

  11. Percy Waxman

    · 29 min

  12. Ben Hect

    · 29 min

  13. Ben Bernie, Bernard Jaffe

    · 30 min

  14. Percy Waxman

    · 29 min

  15. Basil Rathbone, Sigmund Spaeth

    · 28 min

  16. Dorothy Thompson, William Bonnell

    · 29 min

  17. Lillian Gish

    · 30 min

  18. Gene Tunney

    · 29 min

  19. Lillian Gish

    · 30 min

  20. Oswald Jacoby

    · 29 min

  21. John Gunther

    · 29 min

  22. Kathleen Norris

    · 28 min

  23. William Lyon Phelps, Yale Professor

    · 29 min

  24. Cornelia Otis Skinner, Erwin Edgar

    · 28 min

  25. Alxender Wolcott

    · 31 min

  26. General Hugh Johnson

    · 31 min

  27. Gilbert Seldes, Elizabeth Hoare

    · 29 min

  28. Russel Crause, Frank Sullivan

    · 29 min

  29. Moe Berg

    · 30 min

  30. John Gunther

    · 29 min

  31. Rex Stout, Moss Hart

    · 29 min

  32. Deems Taylor, Marc Duffield

    · 28 min

  33. HV Kaltenborn

    · 28 min

  34. Arthur Crock, Alice Roosevelt Longworth

    · 28 min

  35. John P Marquand

    · 29 min

  36. Stanley Walker

    · 28 min

  37. Helen Wills Moody

    · 28 min

  38. Gracie Allen, John Gunther

    · 28 min

  39. Wilber Cross

    · 28 min

  40. Lillian Gish, Marc Duffield

    · 29 min

  41. Elliot Roosevelt

    · 29 min

  42. Clarence B Kellen, William Peavey

    · 29 min

  43. Maury Maverick

    · 29 min

  44. Russel Krause, James Kiernan

    · 29 min

  45. H Napier Moore

    · 29 min

  46. Rex Stout, Wilford Funk

    · 29 min

  47. Raymond Graham Swing

    · 28 min

  48. Alice Marble, Bernard Jaffe

    · 28 min

  49. P Cal Simms

    · 29 min

  50. Rex Stout, Carl Van Doren

    · 29 min

  51. Christopher Morley, John T Flynn

    · 29 min

  52. Moe Berg

    · 28 min

  53. Deems Taylor, Louis Untermeyer

    · 29 min

  54. Carl Sandberg

    · 29 min

  55. Christopher Morley, Marcus Jacques

    · 30 min

  56. James Farley

    · 28 min

  57. Moe Berg, JP MacElvoy

    · 28 min

  58. Deems Taylor, Henry Pringle

    · 29 min

  59. Walter B Pitkin

    · 28 min

  60. Christopher Morley, Albert Spaulding

    · 28 min

  61. Sir Cedric Hardwick

    · 29 min

  62. Carl Van Doren, Gloria Stewart

    · 28 min

  63. Walter Wanger

    · 28 min

  64. Christopher Morley, James Roosevelt

    · 27 min

  65. Henry Beedle Hough

    · 29 min

  66. Jan Struther, John Gunther

    · 29 min

  67. Otto Tallicious

    · 29 min

  68. Alva Johnson, Marc Connolly

    · 29 min

  69. Clair Boothe

    · 29 min

  70. Jan Struther, Louis Bromfield

    · 29 min

  71. Louis Hacker

    · 29 min

  72. John Mason Brown

    · 29 min

  73. Christopher Morley

    · 28 min

  74. Fred Allen

    · 30 min

  75. Warden Louis E Law, Deems Taylor

    · 29 min

  76. Leon Henderson

    · 29 min

  77. Elmer Rice, Jan Struther

    · 29 min

  78. Professor Ernest Albert Puton

    · 29 min

  79. Louis Bromfield, Herbert Marshall

    · 29 min

  80. Walter Edmonds

    · 29 min

  81. Deems Taylor, Vincent Sheehan

    · 30 min

  82. Judge James C Wallace, Kenneth Simpson

    · 28 min

  83. Owen Davis

    · 29 min

  84. Boris Karloff, Warden Lewis E Laws

    · 29 min

  85. Alexander Wolcott, Sj Perleman

    · 29 min

  86. Jan Struther, Sir Wilmot Lewis

    · 29 min

  87. Deems Taylor, Dr Henry Noble McCracken

    · 29 min

  88. Jo Davidson

    · 30 min

  89. John O'Hara, Deems Taylor

    · 27 min

  90. Christopher Morley, Elmer F Slavin

    · 29 min

  91. Claude Wickard

    · 30 min

  92. Roland Young, Deems Taylor

    · 29 min

  93. Elsa Lanchester

    · 31 min

  94. John Gunther, Lymon Bryson

    · 30 min

  95. Philip Merrivale

    · 29 min

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The archive items its episodes are played from, best first, with each one’s rights as its archive states them. An episode two sets both hold is played from the first.

  1. Information Please

    Old Time Radio · 219 episodes here · archive.org (opens in a new tab)

    Uploader’s mark: Public Domain Mark 1.0: Marked Public Domain Mark 1.0 by its uploader at the Internet Archive; the record gives no basis for it.

5 more sets hold only episodes played here from a set above.

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