Note that the quality level of each program varies.

One month after giving this speech, President Roosevelt signed the "lend-lease" appropriation bill into law. It was a compromise bill to appease isolationist legislators who'd previously denied direct financial help to the British war effort against Hitler. Even Stalin admitted publically that, without lend-lease, the war against Hitler might have been lost (before America became involved later that year on December 7th).

A very rare episode ... in fact, the ONLY episode made for radio. The show was already enjoying its first season on TV. And the episode had already aired on TV on 2/11/1952. However, the audio was "re-worked" for radio - and this was meant to be the pilot episode for radio. But even though Lucy had a sponsor, the episode never aired on radio (for reasons only Lucy and Desi know).

While scripts were fictional, the essense of this show transitioned to TV. The TV version, "I Led Three Lives," was based upon the life of Herbert Philbrick, a Boston ad-agency executive who infiltrated the U.S. Communist Party in the 1940s on behalf of the FBI.

Here's some Groucho "lore" that may or may not be true. Groucho's original sponsor was the Elgin watch company. However, during one show, he had a contestant whose information card indicated he had 10 children. As the story goes, Groucho asked, "Is it true you have 10 children?" The contestant confirmed it. Groucho asked, "Why so many?" And, the contestant replied, "Well, I love my wife." Groucho then supposedly replied, "I love my cigar, too, but I take it out every once in a while." The story contends that Elgin dropped its sponsorship at that point - forcing Groucho to find a new sponsor. This may have occured during his time with ABC or CBS ... though it was NBC that aired the episode on this site.