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Twenty Questions
11 episodes · 1946–1954 · Mutual, AFRS · Variety & Music
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Listeners mailed in subjects, and a panel had twenty questions to guess each one. The show began on the Mutual Broadcasting System on February 2, 1946, from New York's Longacre Theatre, and the last radio show was broadcast on March 27, 1954.
Sources: Wikipedia: Twenty Questions; RadioGOLDINdex
Episodes
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1946
- The Wall That Humpty Dumpty Sat On
- The Mouse That Ran Up the Clock
Bill Slater hosts, with New Yorker writer E. J. Conn as guest; the panel's first object is the mouse that ran up the clock. - Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Raven'
Bill Slater hosts the guessing panel, with Sylvan Levin as guest panelist; the first subject is Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven. - Lucille Ball
Bill Slater's panel, joined by guest Lucille Ball, starts with Man o' War. This copy is an Armed Forces Radio rebroadcast.
1947
1948
- William Gaxton
Bill Slater hosts, with William Gaxton as guest; the panel's first subject is the wet hen in "mad as a wet hen."
1949
1950
- Dr. Roswell G. Ham
Bill Slater's panel, with Roswell G. Ham of Mount Holyoke College, starts with Jimmy Valentine; the broadcast is announced as a television simulcast. - The Political Symbols of the Elephant and the Donkey
Bill Slater hosts, with Madison Square Garden head John Reed Kilpatrick on the panel; the first subject is the elephant and the donkey that stand for the two parties.
1951
- Santa Claus on the Panel
Bill Slater's panel welcomes Santa Claus as its guest panelist.