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Information Please was a radio quiz
show. The show was created by Dan Golenpaul, and aired on NBC from May 17,
1938 to June 25, 1948. The series moderator was Clifton Fadiman . A panel of
experts would attempt to answer questions submitted by listeners. If the
panelists were stumped, the questioner earned five dollars and a complete
edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. As the years went by, the prize
money increased accordingly.
Panel regulars included writer-actor-pianist Oscar Levant, newspaper
columnists and renowned wits and intellectuals Franklin P. Adams and John
Kieran. All the panelists were well-versed in a wide range of topics, though
each had a specialty. Music questions were often addressed to Levant. Adams
was well known for his mastery of poetry and Shakespeare. Kieran was an
expert in languages and botany. A typical question would have three or four
parts and would require the panelists to get a majority of the questions
right, lest they lose the prize money.
The show would always have a fourth guest panelist, usually either a
celebrity, a politician or writer. Guest panelists included Fred Allen,
Boris Karloff, Clare Booth Luce, Dorothy Parker, S. J. Perelman, Sigmund
Spaeth, Rex Stout, Jan Struther, Deems Taylor, Alexander Woollcott, and
Orson Welles.
The show was as much a comedy as a quiz show. The panelists displayed a
quick wit in answering the questions, reveling in puns and making it up as
they went along. Due to the spontaneous nature of the program, it became the
first show for which NBC allowed a prerecorded repeat for the West Coast.
During World War II, the show frequently went on tours from its New York
City base to promote the buying of war bonds. Instead of the usual cash
prize, a question writer would win a bond. The show received several awards
as an outstanding radio quiz show. In 1947, Golenpaul edited the Information
Please Almanac, a reference book which continued through the years in
different formats..
Information Please went to television in 1952. For 13 weeks, from June 29 to
September 21, it was telecast by CBS on Sunday nights at 9:30pm as a summer
replacement for the musical variety series The Fred Waring Show. Fadiman,
Adams and Kieran were back in their usual seats, along with two guest
celebrities, but that turned out to be the program's last moment of glory.
The popularity of the series also led to film shorts (1940-1943) and two
card games. The show was satirized by the zany panel of radio's It Pays to
Be Ignorant.
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