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NBC Universityof the Air's The World's Great Novels was produced by NBC Red key station WMAQ in Chicago
NBC Universityof the Air's The World's Great Novels was produced by NBC Red key station WMAQ in Chicago

Stromberg-Carlson promotion of University of The Air from August 21 1927
Stromberg-Carlson promotion of University of The Air from August 21 1927

Season One Novels:

  • Don Quixote by Cervantes
  • Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
  • Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
  • Candide by Voltaire
  • Emma by Jane Austin
  • The Heart of Midlothian by Sir Walter Scott
  • Le Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac
  • The Spy by James Fenimore Cooper
  • The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
  • Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Madame Bovary by Flaubert
  • Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
  • The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The Mill On The Floss by George Eliot
  • Candide by Voltaire

Season Two Novels:

  • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoi
  • The Advs. of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
  • The Cloister and The Hearth by Charles Reade
  • The Haunted Man by Charles Dickens
  • Rib Van Winkle by Washington Irving
  • Ninety-Three by Victor Hugo
  • Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky
  • Tristam Shandy by Laurence Stern
  • The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard by Anatole France
  • Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
  • The Last of The Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
  • Youth by Samuel Ullman
  • The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

Season Three Novels:

  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoi
  • Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • The Adventures of Sinbad from Sir Richard Francis Burton
  • Moby Dick by Herman Melville
  • The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett
  • Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
  • Cesar Birroteau by Honore de Balzac
  • The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
  • The Return of The Native by Thomas Hardy

Season Four Novels:

  • Diana of The Crossways by George Meredith
  • Silas Marner by George Eliot
  • A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  • A Child is Born by Stephen Vincent Benet
  • The Christmas Chapters from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
  • Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
  • Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott
  • The Man Without A Country by Edward Everett Hale
  • The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howell
  • The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
  • Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Washington Square by Henry James
  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
  • The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
  • The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howell
  • Free by Theodore Dreiser
  • Pastorale by Sherwood Anderson
  • Giant on A Rock from the writings of Thomas Wolfe

Background

From the November 4, 1944 edition of the Williamsport Gazette and Bulletin:

 RADIO CHART LISTENING POST
      Another quartet of distinguished experts will bring commentary, criticism and analysis to "The World's Great Novels," presentation of the NBC University of the Air (Saturdays, 7 p.m., EWT).  They are James Hilton, Dr. William A. Nielson, Roland Young and Katherine Anne Porter.

     Hilton, new in Hollywood working on films, rocketed to fame as the author of "Lost Horizon" and "Goodbye, Mr. Chips."  He was born in England, and also authored "We Are Not Alone," "Random Harvest" and "The Story of Dr. Wassell."

     President of Smith College from 1917 to 1939, Dr. Neilson is one of the nation's leading educators.  A native of Scotland, he has taught at Harvard, Columbia, Bryn Mawr and the University of Paris.  Author of a host of books on English literature, editor of many others, he is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

     Young, distinguished actor of stage and screen, was born in London and educated at University College and the Academy of Dramatic Art.  He has appeared in scores of plays and motion pictures, is noted for his droll humor.

     Miss Porter, twice winner of the Guggenheim Fellowship, is well known for her short stories latest of which is "The Leaning Tower."  Among others are "Noon Wine", "Flowering Judas", "Pale Horse, Pale Rider" and "The Itching Parrot."   Dates of their radio appearances will be announced later.

  "The World's Great Novels" is the literature series of the NBC University of the Air, of which Sterling Fisher is director.  Margaret Cuthbert supervises the series and Frank Papp directs production.

NBC-Red's NBC University of The Air wasn't just a promotional gimmick. From the outset, NBC set out to underwrite a series of educational, uplifting and historically accurate sustaining productions of the highest production values and integrity. Between 1923 and approximately 1948, the NBC University of The Air, serving as NBC's educational component, introduced all manner of educational programming over its system to both the U.S. and Canada, "as a public service of the National Broadcasting Company":

  • 1923-1926 NBC University of The Air Talk
  • 1925-35 NBC University of The Air
  • 1928 Music Lectures
  • July 6, 1942 The Lands of The Free
    (NBC Inter-American University of The Air)
  • October 10, 1942 Music of The New World
  • 1944-45 The American Story
  • 1944 Pursuit of Learning
  • 1944-48 The Worlds Great Novels
  • 1944-45 We Came This Way
  • 1945 Our Foreign Policy
    (NBC Inter-American University of The Air)
  • 1945 The Story of Music
  • 1944-46 The Land of The Free
  • 1946 Featuring Our Families
  • 1946 Tales of The Foreign Service
  • 1946 Your United Nations
    (NBC Inter-American University of The Air)
  • 1946 Home Around The World
    (NBC Inter-American University of The Air)
  • 1947 American Novels
  • 1946 Concert of Nations
    (NBC Inter-American University of The Air)

NBC's Blue network also participated in University of The Air productions, but the primary impetus for NBC's educational programming over this period came from NBC Red flagship station WEAF and its affiliated NBC-Red key stations, such as WMAQ, Chicago.

NBC University of The Air introduces The World's Great Novels

NBC-Red key station WMAQ, Chicago was responsible for much of the educational programming that NBC broadcast throughout the Midwest, over the entire NBC Red network and throughout much of Canada.

With the reinauguration of NBC University of The Air (and NBC Inter-American University of The Air) on July 6, 1942, NBC directly collaborated with colleges and universities throughout the U.S. and Canada to help create curricula that would grant higher-education credits for some of the University of The Air programming. This collaboration continued through approximately 1948.

NBC University of The Air's The World's Great Novels, while not the most enduring of the NBC University of The Air runs, was certainly one of its most ambitious. Running for some one-hundred and forty-nine episodes, the series aired for four complete seasons between October 14, 1944 and July 23, 1948. During that period, The World's Greatest Novels aired a total of sixty, single-episode and multi-part dramatizations of the world's greatest novels (as cataloged in the sidebar at left).

 Although some of the novels were occasionally repeated, they were never rebroadcasts. Popularly repeated novels were Gulliver's Travels, Vanity Fair, and The Rise of Silas Lapham. Presumably these were either by popular listener request, or repeated at the behest of a college or university employing the radio programs in their curricula. NBC University of The Air made bound pamphlets of the scripts for each season's episodes available for the cost of postage and handling--twenty-five cents for each season's listening guide and bound scripts. NBC employed this practice often throughout the Golden Age of Radio. They made similar listener guides available for their Best Plays and Great Plays canon as well as through other of their prestigious sustaining productions.

The newspapers of the era often cited references to The World's Great Novels as employed in higher education curricula throughout the U.S. and Canada. Apparently the intiative was also popular with high school teachers of the era.

There's no question that NBC's educational programming division held great sway within the corporation. The decisions regarding NBC University of The Air programming were apparently made at the highest levels, with the continuing goal of improving both the breadth and scope of the various productions each year between 1942 and 1948.

Indeed, if anything, NBC University of The Air was a victim of its own success with educators. As the demand for the educational programming increased, NBC focused more on doing the more prestigious works justice, once observing that if the series would continue beyond 1948, the network would demand far more than the "five to seven hours of rehearsal" that most of the productions had been allotting for each program.

In the end, it was determined that the quality of such productions was no longer sustainable in their existing format. NBC University of The Air ended, for all intents, with the last broadcasts of their U.N. themed NBC Inter-American University of The Air programs of 1947 and 1948. From that point forward, the NBC University of The Air became somewhat more commercialized or main-streamed with the introduction of the NBC Presents and NBC University productions from 1948, on.

Series Derivatives:

 NBC University Theatre; NBC Presents
Genre: Anthology of Golden Age Radio Novel Dramatizations
Network(s): NBC
Audition Date(s) and Title(s): None
Premiere Date(s) and Title(s): 44-10-14 01 Don Quixote
Run Dates(s)/ Time(s): 44-10-14 to 48-07-23; NBC Red [WMAQ, Chicago]; One hundred forty-nine, 30-minute programs;
Syndication: NBC Orthacoustic
Sponsors: Sustaining
Director(s): Sidney Breese, Sherman Marks, Frank Papp
Principal Actors: Alma Platts, Boris Aplon, Cliff Norton, Donald Gallager, Fred Sullivan, Geraldine Kaye, Jim Humberland, Ruth Rowe, Sondra Gair, William Everett, Wilms Herbert, Hilda Graham, Hope Summers, Curt Kupfer, Muriel Brenner, Arthur Peterson, Charles Egleston, Dave Garroway, Nannette Sargent, Sherman Marks, Sidney Breese, Virginia Payne, John Barclay, Maurice Copeland, Nathan Davis, Rita Ascot, Thomas Post, Arthur Sedgewick, Arthur Young, Ken Nordine, Lucille Lorell, Patty Wilkes, Wallace Orn, Sidney Ellstrom, Harry Elders, Johnny Coons, Ted Bliss, Leo Curley, Curt Cooper, Wiley Hancock, George Kluge, Burr Lee, Charles Flynn, Jean Mowery, Lary Alexander, Patricia Dunlap, Phillip Lawrence, Sherman Marks, George Kluge, Joyce McCluskey, Philip Lord, Duke Watson, Harlan Emthwaite, Tony Parish, Tommy DeLeon, Doris Grundy, Ruth Shayne
Recurring Character(s): Within the multi-part arcs of individual presentations only.
Protagonist(s): Within the multi-part arcs of individual presentations only.
Author(s): Samuel Butler, Thomas Hardy, William Makepeace Thackery, Arnold Bennett, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Alessandro Monzoni, Cervantes, Henry Fielding, Voltaire, Jane Austin, Sir Walter Scott, Honore de Balzac, Charles Dickens, James Fenimore Cooper, Alexandre Dumas, Charlotte Bronte, Flaubert, Victor Hugo, Carl Van Doran, Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Eliot, Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Charles Reade, Laurence Stern, Anatole France, Elizabeth Gaskell, Stephen Vincent Benet, Edward Everett Hale, Wilkie Collins, Robert Louis Stevenson, Stephen Crane, William Dean Howell, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Thomas Wolfe
Writer(s) Adapters: Virginia Wells, Frank Wells, Clarice A. Ross, Ernest Kinoy Writers: Dave Garroway, Frank Wells
Music Direction:
Musical Theme(s): Unknown
Announcer(s): Dave Garroway, Charles Mountain, John Conrad [Announcers]
Bob McKee [Narrator]
Estimated Scripts or
Broadcasts:		 149
Episodes in Circulation: 78
Total Episodes in Collection: 31
Provenances:

Original Advert for the first edition of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Original Advert for the first edition of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

From the January 13 1945 edition of the Lima News:

"World's Greatest Novels "To Dramatize "The Spy" 

     James Fenimore Cooper's "The Spy" is dramatized on "The World's Great Novels" Saturday, over WEAF at 6 p.m. Lima time.  Bennett Cerf, author, editor, publisher and radio commentator, will be commentator on the program.

     "The Spy" was published in 1821.  John Jay told Cooper the story of a spy, and he turned it into one of the most successful novels in the history of literature.  It has been said that the book was written with extreme carelessness and that Cooper wrote the last chapter before he had finished the book to see how long it would run, and then he filled in the intermediate chapters.  However, the novel immediately scored a prodigious success

 RadioGOLDINdex, Hickerson Guide, Martin Grams' Radio Drama, The New York Public Library.

Notes on Provenances:

The most helpful provenances were the log of the radioGOLDINdex and newspaper listings.

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The World's Great Novels Radio Program Log
Date Episode Title Avail. Notes
44-10-14
1
 Don Quixote
N
 [Premiere]

44-10-14 Wisconsin State Journal
6 p. m.—World's Great Novels (WIBA): "Don Quixote;"

44-10-14 Salamanca Republican
Tonight at 7 NBC is opening a
forty-weeks series of dramatizations,
under the listing of "World's Great
Novels." The first is Cervantes' "Don Quixote."
44-10-21
2
 Gulliver's Travels
N
 44-10-21 Wisconsin State Journal
6 p. m.—World's Great Novels (WIBA): Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels;" speaker, Frances Hackett, literary critic and author
44-10-28
3
 Tom Jones Part One
N
 44-10-28 Wisconsin State Journal
6 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WIBA): "Tom Jones" by Henry Fielding.
44-11-04
4
 Tom Jones Part Two
N
 44-11-04 Daily Courier
KDKA 7:00 World's Great Novels.

44-11-04 Wisconsin State Journal - 6 p.m.--Dane County Progressive Club.
44-11-11
5
 Candide
N
 44-11-11 Wisconsin State Journal
6 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WIBA): dramatization of "Candide" by Voltaire.
44-11-18
6
 Emma
N
 44-11-18 Wisconsin State Journal
6 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WIBA): "Emma" by Jane Austin; guest speaker, Amy Loverman, assistant editor of Saturday Review of Literature.
44-11-25
7
 The Heart of Midlothian
N
 44-11-25 Wisconsin State Journal
6 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WIBA): "The Heart of Midlothian" by Sir Walter Scott; Dr. William Allen Neilson, author, as speaker.
44-12-02
-
 Pre-Empted
N
 [Preempted]

44-12-02 Wisconsin State Journal
6 p.m.--Twenty-five Years of Broadcasting (WIBA): dramatized story of radio's development.
44-12-09
8
 Le Pere Goriot
N
 44-12-09 Wisconsin State Journal
6 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WIBA): "Le Pere Goriot," by Balzac; Mme. Andre Maurois, commentator.
44-12-16
9
 Pickwick Papers Part 1
N
 44-12-16 Wisconsin State Journal
6 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WIBA): Dickens' "Pickwick Papers;" guest commentator, I.A.R. Wylie.
44-12-23
10
 Pickwick Papers Part 2
N
 44-12-23 Wisconsin State Journal
6 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WIBA): Dickens' "Pickwick Papers;" James Hilton, author, as guest commentator.
44-12-30
11
 Pickwick Papers Part 3
N
 44-12-30 Wisconsin State Journal
6 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WIBA): "Pickwick Papers," Part III, by Dickens; guest commentator, Katherine Anne Porter, novelist.
45-01-06
12
 Pickwick Papers Part 4
N
 45-01-06 Wisconsin State Journal
6 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WIBA): "Pickwick Papers," Part IV, with Sir Gerald Campbell, minister plenipotentiary and special assistant to the British ambassador as guest commentator.
45-01-13
13
 The Spy Part 1
N
 45-01-13 Wisconsin State Journal
6 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WIBA): "The Spy," guest commentator, Bennet Cerf.
45-01-20
14
 The Spy Part 2
N
 45-01-20 Wisconsin State Journal
6 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WIBA): part 2 of James Fennimore Cooper's "The Spy"; guest commentator, Norman Cousins, editor, Saturday Review of Literature.
45-01-27
15
 The Count of Monte Cristo Part 1
N
 45-01-27 Wisconsin State Journal
6 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WIBA): drama, "The Count of Monte Christo," by Alexandre Dumas; guest commentator, Andre Maurois, author.

45-01-27 Lima News
 
"Count Of Monte Cristo"
To Be Dramatized On Air
 
     Alexandre Dumas' "The Count of Monte Cristo" is dramatized on "The World's Great Novels" for four weeks starting Saturday, over WEAF at 6 p.m.  Guest commentator is Andre Maurois, distinguished French Man-of-letters.
     Laid in the year 1815, "The Count of Monte Cristo" stars as a story of romantic and exciting adventure.  The second half is in a different key, sombre and filled with the motive of revenge.  Dumas' splendid imagination, however, transfigures the book and its intensity persuades the reader that the is-possible is the actual.
45-02-03
16
 The Count of Monte Cristo Part 2
N
 45-02-03 Lima News
Chapter Two of Alexandre Dumas' famed "Count of Monte Cristo" is the dramatization on "The World's Great Novels" Saturday over WEAF at 6 p.m. Guest commentator is Mme. Andre Maurois.
45-02-10
17
 The Count of Monte Cristo Part 3
N
 45-02-10 Lima News - 6:00--The Great Novels, Drama--nbc.
45-02-17
18
 The Count of Monte Cristo Part 4
N
 45-02-17 Lima News
6:00--The Great Novels, Drama--nbc.
45-02-23
19
 Jane Eyre Part 1
N
 45-02-03 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): new time and day; "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte.
45-03-02
20
 Jane Eyre Part 2
N
 45-03-02 Wisconsin State Journal
10:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WIBA): final chapter of "Jane Eyre" (WMAQ at 11:30).
45-03-09
21
 Vanity Fair Part 1
N
 45-03-09 Wisconsin State Journal
10:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WIBA): "Vanity Fair" byu William Thackeray; guest, Carl Van Doren, author.
45-03-16
22
 Vanity Fair Part 2
N
 45-03-16 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): "Vanity Fair," Part II, with Carl Van Doren, author, as commentator.
45-03-23
23
 Vanity Fair Part 3
N
 45-03-23 Wisconsin State Journal
10:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WIBA): Part III of "Vanity Fair," with J. Donald Adams, author, as guest commentator.
45-03-30
24
 Vanity Fair Part 4
N
 45-03-30 Wisconsin State Journal - 10:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WIBA): Part IV "Vanity Fair;" commentator, Sir Gerald Campbell, minister plenipotentiary and special assistant to British ambassador.
45-04-06
25
 Madame Bovary Part 1
N
 45-04-06 Wisconsin State Journal
10:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WIBA): "Madame Bovary" by Flaubert; Eva LeGallienne, guest commentator.
45-04-13
26
 Madame Bovary Part 2
N
 45-04-13 Wisconsin State Journal
10:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WIBA): Part II of "Madame Bovary," with Eva LeGallienne as commentator.
45-04-20
27
 Madame Bovary Part 3
N
 45-04-20 Wisconsin State Journal
10:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WIBA): Part 3 of "Madame Bovary," guest speaker, Eva LeGallienne, actress.
45-04-27
28
 Les Miserables Part 1
N
 45-04-27 Wisconsin State Journal - 11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): "Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo; guest commentator, Carl Van Doran, author.
45-05-04
29
 Les Miserables Part 2
N
 45-05-04 Wisconsin State Journal - 11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): Part 2, "Les Miserables," with Carl Van Doren, guest commentator.
45-05-11
30
 Les Miserables Part 3
N
 45-05-11 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): "Les Miserables."
45-05-18
31
 Les Miserables Part 4
N
 45-05-18 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): Part 4, "Les Miserables," with Carl Van Doren as guest commentator.
45-05-25
32
 Les Miserables Part 5
N
 45-05-25 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): Part 5, "Les Miserables."
45-06-01
33
 Les Miserables Part 6
N
 45-06-01 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels--WMAQ.
45-06-08
34
 The House Of the Seven Gables Part 1
N
 45-06-08 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): "The House of the Seven Gables."
45-06-15
35
 The House Of the Seven Gables Part 2
N
 45-06-15 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): "House of the Seven Gables."
45-06-22
36
 The Mill On The Floss
N
 45-06-22 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): "The Mill on the Floss" by George Eliot.
45-06-29
37
 Candide
N
 45-06-29 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): "Candide" by Voltaire.

45-07-06 Salamanca Republican
NBC, 11:30, American Story by Archibald MacLeish, entire historical drama series of ten programs to be rebroadcast starting with Columbus' voyage to America and with MacLeish as narrator; replaces Great Novels. --17
45-09-14
38
 War and Peace Part 1
N
 45-09-14 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): return of series; Tolstoi's "War and Peace," with Pavel P. Mikhailov, acting counsel general for USSR as guest commentator.
45-09-21
39
 War and Peace Part 2
N
 45-09-21 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): Part 2 of Tolstoi's "War and Peace;" Sir Bernard Pares, professor fo Russian at London university, guest commentator.
45-09-28
40
 War and Peace Part 3
N
 45-09-28 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): Part 3 of Tolstoi's "War and Peace"; guest, Vincent Sheean, author.
45-10-06
41
 War and Peace Part 4
N
 [Moves to 8 a.m.]

45-10-05 Wisconsin State Journal
8 a.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): "War and Peace" by Tolstoi; guest commentator, Louis Kronenberger of Time magazine.
45-10-13
42
 War and Peace Part 5
N
 45-10-12 Wisconsin State Journal
8 a.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): "War and Peace."
45-10-20
43
 War and Peace Part 6
N
 45-10-19 Wisconsin State Journal
8 a.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): Part 6, Tolstoi's "War and Peace;" guest commentator, Ernest J. Simmons, head of Russian department, Cornel university.
45-10-27
44
 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Pt 1
N
 45-10-26 Wisconsin State Journal
8 a.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): first installment of "Huckleberry Finn."
45-11-02
45
 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Pt 2
N
 [Moves back to 11:30 p.m.]

45-11-02 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.-World's Great Novels (WMAQ): Part 2, "Huckleberry Finn."
45-11-09
46
 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Pt 3
N
 45-11-09 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): third part of "Huckleberry Finn."
45-11-16
47
 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Pt 4
N
 45-11-16 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.-World's Great Novels (WMAQ): final installment of "Huckleberry Finn."
45-11-23
48
 Cloister And The Hearth Part 1
N
 45-11-23 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.-World's Great Novels (WMAQ): Charlles Reade's "The Cloister and the Hearth."
45-11-30
49
 Cloister And The Hearth Part 2
N
 45-11-30 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.-World's Great Novels (WMAQ): Part 2, "The Cloister and the Hearth."
45-12-07
50
 Cloister And The Hearth Part 3
N
 45-12-07 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.-World's Great Novels (WMAQ): Part 3, "Cloister and the Hearth."
45-12-14
51
 Cloister And The Hearth Part 4
N
 45-12-14 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.-World's Great Novels (WMAQ): Part 4, "The Cloister and the Hearth."
45-12-21
52
 The Haunted Man
N
 45-12-21 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.-World's Great Novels (WMAQ): "The Haunted Man" by Charles Dickens.
45-12-28
53
 Rip Van Winkle
N
 45-12-28 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.-World's Great Novels (WMAQ): "Rip Van Winkle."
46-01-04
54
 Ninety-Three Part 1
N
 46-01-04 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.-World's Great Novels (WMAQ): "Ninety-Three" ("Quatre-Vingt-Trieze" by Victor Hugo.
46-01-11
55
 Ninety-Three Part 2
N
 46-01-11 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.-World's Great Novels (WMAQ): second installment of Victor Hugo's "Ninety-Three."
46-01-18
56
 Ninety-Three Part 3
N
 46-01-18 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.-World's Great Novels (WMAQ): part three of "Ninety-Three."
46-01-25
57
 Ninety-Three Part 4
N
 46-01-25 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.-World's Great Novels (WMAQ): Part 4 of "Ninety-Three."
46-02-01
58
 Crime And Punishment Part 1
N
 46-02-01 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): Part 1 of "Crime and Punishment" by Dostoevski.
46-02-08
59
 Crime And Punishment Part 2
N
 46-02-08 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): Part 2, "Crime and Punishment."
46-02-15
60
 Tristram Shandy Part 1
N
 46-02-15 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): Laurence Stern's "Tristram Shandy."
46-02-22
61
 Tristram Shandy Part 2
N
 46-02-22 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): Part II of "Tristram Shandy."
46-03-01
62
 The Crime Of Sylvestre Bonnard
N
 46-03-01 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): "The Crime of Sylvester Bonnard" by Anatole France.
46-03-08
63
 Cranford Part 1
N
 46-03-08 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): Part I of "Cranford" by Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell.
46-03-15
64
 Cranford Part 2
N
 46-03-15 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): Part 2 of "Cranford."
46-03-22
65
 The Last Of the Mohicans Part 1
N
 46-03-22 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): "The Last of the Mohicans."
46-03-29
66
 The Last Of the Mohicans Part 2
N
 46-03-29 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): second part of "The Last of the Mohicans."
46-04-05
67
 Youth Part 1
N
 46-04-05 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels--WMAQ.
46-04-12
68
 Youth Part 2
N
 46-04-12 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): part 2 of "Youth."
46-04-19
69
 The Way Of All Flesh Part 1
N
 46-04-19 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): "The Way of All Flesh."
46-04-26
70
 The Way Of All Flesh Part 2
N
 46-04-26 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): "The Way of All Flesh."
46-05-03
71
 The Mayor Of Casterbridge Part 1
N
 [Moves to 10:30 p.m.]

46-05-03 Wisconsin State Journal
10:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): "The Mayor of Casterbridge."
46-05-10
72
 The Mayor Of Casterbridge Part 2
N
 46-05-10 Wisconsin State Journal
10:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): "Mayor of Casterbridge."
46-05-17
73
 The Mayor Of Casterbridge Part 3
N
 46-05-17 Wisconsin State Journal
10:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): Part 3, "The Mayor of Casterbridge."
46-05-24
74
 The Mayor Of Casterbridge Part 4
N
 46-05-24 Wisconsin State Journal
10:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): "The Mayor of Casterbridge."
46-05-31
75
 The Mayor Of Casterbridge Part 5
N
 46-05-31 Wisconsin State Journal
10:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): "The Mayor of Casterbridge."

46-06-07 Salamanca Republican
NBC — 11:30 "Tales of Foreign Service," new series of dramatizations using material obtained from files of slate department as replacement for "Great Novels." --14
46-11-01
76
 Anna Karenina Part 1
N
 46-11-01 Wisconsin State Journal
10:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): return of series; "Anna Karenina" with Geraldine Kay, Ken Nordine, Everett Clark.
46-11-08
77
 Anna Karenina Part 2
N
 46-11-08 Wisconsin State Journal
10:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): Part II, "Anna Karenina."
46-11-15
78
 Anna Karenina Part 3
N
 46-11-15 Wisconsin State Journal
10:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WIBA): Part 3, "Anna Karenina." (WMAQ) at 11:30).
46-11-22
79
 Anna Karenina Part 4
N
 46-11-22 Wisconsin State Journal
10:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WIBA): Part 4, Tolstoi's "anna Karenina."
46-11-29
80
 Vanity Fair Part 1
N
 46-11-29 Wisconsin State Journal
10:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WIBA): Thackery's "Vanity Fair."
46-12-06
81
 Vanity Fair Part 2
N
 46-12-06 Wisconsin State Journal
10:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): Part 2, "Vanity Fair."
46-12-13
82
 Vanity Fair Part 3
N
 46-12-13 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): Part 3 of "Vanity Fair."
46-12-20
83
 Vanity Fair Part 4
N
 46-12-20 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): Part 4 of "Vanity Fair."
46-12-27
84
 The Adventures Of Sinbad
N
 46-12-27 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): John Cannon in "Adventures of Sinbad."
47-01-03
85
 Moby Dick Part 1
Y
 47-01-03 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): Part I of "Moby Dick."
47-01-10
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 Pre-Empted
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 47-01-10 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World Affairs Forum (WMAQ): "The Place of the United States in the American Family of Nations;" Rafael de La Colina, member of Mexican UN delegation; George Gorge Garcia Granados, ambassador from Guatemala.

11:45 p.m.--Cleveland Forum (WMAQ): Robert Crulkshank, editor, London News-Chrinical; Ahmed Emin Talmen, editor of newspaper, Vatan, of Istanbul; John Scott, head of Time magazine Berlin Bureau.
47-01-17
86
 Moby Dick Part 2
Y
 47-01-17 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): Part 2 of "Moby Dick." Part 2 of "Moby Dick."
47-01-24
87
 Moby Dick Part 3
Y
 47-01-24 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): Part 3, "Moby Dick."
47-01-31
88
 Moby Dick Part 4
Y
 47-01-31 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): final episode, "Moby Dick."
47-02-07
89
 The Old Wives' Tale Part 1
N
 47-02-07 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): Part 1, "Old Wives Tale."
47-02-14
90
 The Old Wives' Tale Part 2
N
 47-02-14 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): Part 2, "Old Wives' Tale."
47-02-21
91
 The Old Wives' Tale Part 3
N
 47-02-21 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): Part 3 of "Old Wives Tale."
47-02-28
92
 The Old Wives' Tale Part 4
N
 47-02-28 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): Part 4 of "Old Wives' Tale."
47-03-07
93
 Gulliver's Travels
N
 47-03-07 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): "Gulliver's Travels" with Harry Elders.
47-03-14
94
 The Brothers Karamazov Part 1
N
 47-03-14 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): Part 1, "The Brothers Karamazov" by Dostoyevski.
47-03-21
95
 The Brothers Karamazov Part 2
N
 47-03-21 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): Part 2 of "The Brothers Karamazov."
47-03-28
96
 The Brothers Karamazov Part 3
N
 47-03-28 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): Part 3, "The Brothers Karamazov."
47-04-04
97
 The Brothers Karamazov Part 4
N
 47-04-04 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): Part 4, "The Brothers Karamazov."
47-04-11
98
 Cesar Birroteau Part 1
N
 47-04-11 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): Part 1 of "Cesar Birroteau" by Balzac.
47-04-18
99
 Cesar Birroteau Part 2
N
 47-04-18 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--Great Novels WMAQ.
47-04-25
100
 Cesar Birroteau Part 3
N
 47-04-25 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--Great Novels WMAQ.
47-05-02
101
 Cesar Birroteau Part 4
N
 47-05-02 Wisconsin State Journal
10:30 p.m.--Great Novels WMAQ.
47-05-09
102
 The Heart Of Midlothian
N
 47-05-09 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): "Heart of Midlothian."
47-05-16
103
 The Betrothed Part 1
N
 47-05-16 Wisconsin State Journal
10:30 p.m.--Great Novels (WMAQ): first part of "The Betrothed."
47-05-23
104
 The Betrothed Part 2
N
 47-05-23 Wisconsin State Journal
10:30 p.m.--Great Novels WMAQ.
47-05-30
105
 The Return of the Native Part 1
N
 47-05-30 Nevada State Journal
8:00 KOH--World's great novels.
47-06-06
106
 The Return of the Native Part 2
N
 47-06-06 Wisconsin State Journal
10:30 Great Novels WMAQ.

47-06-06 Hutchinson News Herald
9:30 World's Great Novels Return of the Native.
47-06-13
107
 The Return of the Native Part 3
N
 47-06-13 Wisconsin State Journal
10:30 Great Novels WMAQ.

47-06-13 Hutchinson News Herald - 9:30 World's Great Novels Return of the Native.
47-06-20
108
 The Return of the Native Part 4
N
 47-06-20 Wisconsin State Journal
10:30 Great Novels WMAQ.

47-06-20 Hutchinson News Herald - 9:30 World's Great Novels Return of the Native.

Replaced for the Summer by American Novels -11
47-10-10
109
 Diana Of the Crossways Part 1
Y
 47-10-10 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): "Diana of the Crossways." 47-10-10 Hutchinson News Herald - 10:30 American Novels Diana of Crossways.

47-10-10 Morning Herald
The American Novels series of NBC at 11:30 is turning next to "Diana of the Crossroads," the first part of which will comprise the weekly half-hour.
47-10-17
110
 Diana Of the Crossways Part 2
Y
 47-10-17 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 American Novels WMAQ.

47-10-17 Hutchinson News Herald
11:30 American Novels Diana of Crossways.
47-10-24
111
 Diana Of the Crossways Part 3
Y
 47-10-24 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 American Novels WMAQ.

47-10-17 Evening Independent
11:20 American Novels.
47-10-31
112
 Diana Of the Crossways Part 4
Y
 47-10-31 Lowell Sun
11:30 WBZ--World's Great Novels.
47-11-07
113
 Silas Marner Part 1
Y
 47-11-07 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): "Silas Marner."
47-11-14
114
 Silas Marner Part 2
Y
 47-11-14 Lowell Sun
GREAT NOVELS: "Silas Marner," final installment; WBZ, 11:30.
47-11-21
115
 A Tale Of Two Cities Part 1
Y
 47-11-21 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): "A Tale of Two Cities," first installment.
47-11-28
116
 A Tale Of Two Cities Part 2
Y
 47-11-28 Morning Herald
World's Great Novels of NBC at 11:30 will have part two of "The Tale of Two Cities."
47-12-05
117
 A Tale Of Two Cities Part 3
Y
 47-12-05 Wisconsin State Journal
10:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): Continuation of Dicken's "A Tale of Two Cities."
47-12-12
118
 A Tale Of Two Cities Part 4
Y
 47-12-12 Wisconsin State Journal
10:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): Part IV of Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities."
47-12-19
119
 A Child Is Born
Y
 47-12-19 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): Maurice Copeland and Geraldie Kay in "A Child Is Born," adapted from Stephen Vincent Benet's novel.
47-12-26
120
 The Christmas Chapters From The Pickwick Papers
Y
 47-12-26 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): The Christmas chapters from Dickens' "Pickwick Papers."
48-01-02
121
 Wuthering Heights Part 1
Y
 47-01-02 Hutchinson News Herald
10:15 P.M. KWBW Great Novels (Wuthering Heights)
48-01-09
122
 Wuthering Heights Part 2
Y
 48-01-09 Morning Herald
The World's Great Novels of NBC at 11:30 proceeds into Part II of the radio version of "Wuthering Heights."
48-01-16
123
 Wuthering Heights Part 3
Y
 48-01-16 Hutchinson News Herald
10:15 P.M. KWBW Great Novels (Wuthering Heights)
48-01-23
124
 Wuthering Heights Part 4
Y
 48-01-23 Hutchinson News Herald
10:15 p.m. KWBW Great Novels (Wuthering Heights)
48-01-30
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 Preempted
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 48-01-30 Hutchinson News Herald
10:15 p.m. Pres. Truman, all networks (March of Dimes)
48-02-06
125
 Kenilworth Part 1
N
 48-02-06 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): first installment of "Kenilworth."
48-02-13
126
 Kenilworth Part 2
N
 48-02-23 Lowell Sun
GREAT NOVELS: Sir Walter Scott's "Kenilworth," Part 2; WBZ, 11:30.
48-02-20
127
 Kenilworth Part 3
N
 48-02-20 Morning Herald
11:30 Great Novels, "Kenilworth" Part III.
48-02-27
128
 The Man Without A Country
Y
 48-02-27 Lowell Sun
GREAT NOVELS: Edward Everett Hale's "Man Without a Country;" WBZ, 11:30.
48-03-05
129
 The Rise Of Silas Lapham Part 1
N
 48-03-05 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): "The Rise of Silas Lapham."
48-03-12
130
 The Rise Of Silas Lapham Part 2
N
 48-03-12 Morning Herald
The World's Great Novels of NBC at 11:30 is taking up the story of "The Rise Of Silas Lapham," being reading for the second part of the broadcast.
48-03-19
131
 The Rise Of Silas Lapham Part 3
N
 48-03-19 Morning Herald
Part III of "The Rise of Silas Lapham" comes to the NBC great novels dramatizations at 11:30.
48-03-26
132
 The Rise Of Silas Lapham Part 4
N
 48-03-26 Evening Independent
11:30 Great Novels
48-04-02
133
 The Moonstone Part 1
Y
 48-04-02 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): "The Moonstone."
48-04-09
134
 The Moonstone Part 2
Y
 48-04-09 La Crosse Tribune
GREAT NOVELS program on the WKBH stations at 10:30 tonight will continue a dramatization of one of the great mystery stories of all time. The program is bringing to the air Wilkie Collins' "The Moonstone," the story of a fabulous diamond that reputedly carries a curse with it.
48-04-16
135
 The Moonstone Part 3
Y
 48-04-16 Wisconsin State Journal
WMAQ 11:30 Great Novels
48-04-23
136
 The Moonstone Part 4
Y
 48-04-16 Wisconsin State Journal
WMAQ 11:30 Great Novels
48-04-30
137
 Kidnapped Part 1
Y
 48-04-30 Wisconsin State Journal
11:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): "Kidnaped."
48-05-07
138
 Kidnapped Part 2
Y
 48-05-07 Morning Herald
It will be part II for "Kidnaped", by Robert Louis Stevenson in the Great Novels series on NBC at 11:30.
48-05-14
139
 Kidnapped Part 3
Y
 48-05-13 Wisconsin State Journal
Friday WMAQ 10:30 Great Novels
48-05-21
140
 Washington Square Part 1
N
 48-05-21 Wisconsin State Journal
10:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): "Washington Square."
48-05-28
141
 Washington Square Part 2
N
 48-05-28 Morning Herald
11:30 Great Novels "Washington Square."
48-06-05
142
 A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court Part 1
Y
 48-06-04 Wisconsin State Journal
10:30 p.m.--World's Great Novels (WMAQ): A Connecticut Yankee."
48-06-12
143
 A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court Part 2
Y
 48-06-11 Olean Times-Herald
11:30 Great Novels: 'Connecticut Yankee'
48-06-19
144
 A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court Part 3
Y
 48-06-18 Wisconsin State Journal
WMAQ 10:30 Great Novels
48-06-25
145
 The Red Badge Of Courage
N
 48-06-25 New York Times
11:30-12 World's Great Novels: "The Red Badge of Courage," by Stephen Crane WNBC.
48-07-02
146
 The Rise Of Silas Lapham
N
 48-07-02 New York Times
11:30-12 World's Great Novels:. "The Rise of Silas Lapham," by William Dean Howell--WNBC.
48-07-09
147
 Free
N
 48-07-09 New York Times
11:30-12 World's Great Novels: "Free," by Theodore Dreiser--WNBC.
48-07-16
148
 Pastorale
N
 48-07-16 New York Times
11:30-12 World's Great Novels: "Pastorale," by Sherwood Anderson-WNBC.
48-07-23
149
 The Words of Thomas Wolfe--Giant On A Rock
N
 48-07-23 New York Times
11:30-12 World's Great Novels: "Giant on the Rack," by Thomas Wolfe WNBC.
48-07-30 New York Times
11:311-12 Drama: "Pursued," by P. Dean Raymond--WNBC. -18

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