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Title:First Episode
Air Date:September-15-1940
Plot:Blue Network. Sustaining. The first show of the series. Wilma Gray is interviewed. She's been in the audience of about 32,500 broadcasts. An NBC page named Billy Livingstone has been late to work twice a week, he's on the board of directors of a company in Baltimore, a friend of society girl Brenda Frazier (of "Brenda and Cobina" fame) and also appears in the soap opera, "Society Girl" (which went off the air 3 weeks after this program (October 4, 1940). Ward Wilson (a former NBC engineer) who became "Beetle" on, "The Phil Baker Show," recalls 1932 when he did imitations as a line test. Radio song pluggers: an interview with George Marlowe. Leonard Carleton answers questions from listeners: Was Phil Cook the first ventriloquist on the air? What's the difference between a recording and a transcription? How a radio character played a part in a boy's fight for life: House Jameson tells how "Renfrew Of The Mounted" came to the rescue. Graham McNamee (host), Charles Noble (announcer), Wilma Gray, Billy Livingtone, Ward Wilson, George Marlowe, Johnny Green, Leonard Carleton (radio editor of the New York Post), House Jameson, Johnny Novak. 
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