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- Typical Amos 'n Andy storyline has the boys trying to make a go of their "open-air" taxi business while they get caught up in a society hassle, involving driving musicians to a fancy party. All the regular characters are here (or mentioned), including the famous Mystic Knights of the Sea. The only film appearance of radio's long-running characters.
- This historic first TV broadcast was seen by only a few hundred people who had access to the new television. It is a variety show of sorts, similar to the show preceding the feature film in cinemas of the 1930s. There are newsreel items, including Haile Selassie of Ethiopia pleading before the League of Nations for aid to repel the invading Italian forces of Mussolini. There are entertainment segments to appeal to women, such as the female dancers performing a water lily dance on the lawn outdoors (no high-kicking Rockettes) as well as a fashion show indoors of the latest in fashions (short ermine coats are in, as are hostess gowns). There is the obligatory lineup of important white males who are overseeing this "advancement in education and entertainment", and there are comic bits as well, none funnier than the solemn moderators trying to sound as suave as the radio professionals.
- Sherlock Holmes receives a letter from a Nathan Garrideb of 136 Little Ryder Street, asking for help in a most peculiar quest. He is looking for another man with his unusual surname, for it will mean a $5 million inheritance for him. He has been approached by another man, John Garrideb of Kansas, who says that he needs to find others with the same last name.
- A sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
- "Hay Fever" (1939) is a satire based on the impoliteness of hosts towards their guests as seen through the lives of a family of four and the four guests who arrive at their home for a dinner party.
- The story revolves around the efforts of a middle-class family, newly impoverished by the financial panic, to survive against a villainous banker.
- Television adaptation of George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's play depicting the lives of struggling Broadway actresses living in a boarding house for women.
- A sailor falls for the daughter of his captain, while being unaware of the love a young country girl holds for him.
- Young Frederick leaves the zany band of pirates he was raised by to find true love and respectability, but when the Pirate King turns up to call on an old debt, Frederick must choose between the girl he loves and his sense of duty.
- Contest for The New York World's Fair Television Girl, the first televised beauty contest.
- At Marks Priory, Lady Lebanon is eager for her son, William, to marry Isla Crane, his cousin, who is reluctant to do so, and is also frightened by the two footmen of the household who she suspects of locking her in her room at night.
- Colonel Humphrey J. Flack is a modern-day Robin Hood, helping people in need.
- Ridiculed because of his enormous ears, a young circus elephant is assisted by a mouse to achieve his full potential.
- Documentary films on diverse subjects.
- Weekly televised boxing bouts.
- A series of educational films, travelogues, etc. Think of the weekly short subjects shown in movie theaters: "Popular Science," "Unusual Occupations," newsreels and so on. Shown on NBC's three TV stations in New York City, Philadelphia, and Schenectedy, New York.
- An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces to achieve justice from the society that has ostracized them.
- "Lights Out" was a US narrated horror short story series.
- An almost forgotten landmark series in TV history, "Hour Glass" was the first variety show produced for network television. Included were songs, skits, and a chorus line. Many of the biggest names in the entertainment industry were guests.
- A television series consisting of boxing matches.
- A short, 15-minute long variety show featuring music, song and dance.
- This was a combination sports/variety program aimed at teenagers. The setting was a soda shop and the program had "cheerleaders" and "students" who talked about sports, sang, danced to music from a jukebox and had quizzes. The sports was narrated by Bob Stanton, an NBC sportscaster.
- Mrs. Wells, a world traveler who shot 16 mm films of her journeys, narrated her home movies, first on WNBT, New York City, then on the NBC network. When she ran out of films, the series ended. Epitomizes the era of primitive TV when broadcasters were willing to show anything that moved.
- This early game show had an artist draw a picture of an unseen person from verbal clues given to him, then compare the results when the actual person came into the studio.
- Cookbook author James Beard demonstrated recipes for the home audience in the first network cooking show.
- Magazine format featuring various subjects and people. Because this was one of the earliest scheduled shows, not many famous people could be lured to the show.
- Jon Gnagy was a young artist who completed drawings on stage while describing his techniques.
- Evelyn Eaton hosts the premiere with comedians Joe Besser and Doodles Weaver, dancer Miriam LaVelle, singer Evelyn Knight, dancer Mirian LaVelle, dance team Enrica and Novella, and actors Owen Davis, Jr., James Monks, and Paul Douglas. Knight sings "Grandfather's Clock" and "The Lass With the Delicate Air." Monks and Douglas perform Arthur Hopkins' one-act "Moonshine." Besser does stand-up and Weaver tells a comic story about a rabbit. Owen Davis Jr. explains TV to the viewers. Edgar Bergen appears in a clip from one of his old shorts featuring Spanish dance.
- Has the doctor murdered his flighty wife? And if he hasn't, will he, sometime soon?
- A man, driven crazy by his wife's constant nagging and the oppressive summer heat, decides to strangle the woman. The murderers dream of a nice, cool place ends with a date with the hangman.