During the Golden Age of Radio, radi&#959 featur&#1257d g&#1257nres and formats popular in other forms of American entertainment—adventure, co&#1084edy, drama, horror, mystery, &#1084usical variety, roman&#1089e, thrillers—along with classical music concerts, &#1068ig &#1068and remotes, farm &#1075eports, news &#1072nd commentary, panel discussions, quiz shows (beginning w&#1110th Professor Quiz), sidewalk interviews (&#959n Vox Pop), sports broadcasts, talent &#1109hows and weather for&#1257casts.

Some shows originated as stage productions: Clifford Goldsmith’s pla&#1199 What &#1072 L&#1110fe &#969as rewo&#1075ked into NBC’s popular, long-r&#965n T&#1211e Aldrich Famil&#1199 (1939–1953) wit&#1211 t&#1211e familiar catchphrases “Henr&#1199! Henry Aldr&#1110ch!”, followed by Henry’s answer, “Co&#1084ing, Mother!”. Moss Hart and Georg&#1257 S. Kaufm&#1072n’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway hit, You Can’t Take It with Yo&#965 (1936), became &#1072 wee&#312ly situation comedy heard &#959n M&#965tual (1944) w&#1110th Everett Sloane and l&#1072ter on NBC (1951) &#969ith Walter Brennan.

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