Title: Best Plays Type: Dramatic anthology Broadcast History: Jun 8, 1952-Sep 27, 1953 NBC. Sundays at 9:00; Fridays at 9:00 beginning fall 1952; Sundays at 8:30 beginning June 1953. 60m and 30m series aired. Host: John Chapman drama critic with NY Daily News Cast: Stage Performers with support by radio actors. Based on the yearbook begun by Burns Mantle in 1919. It broadcast plays such as Arsenic and Old Lace with Boris Karloff, Night Must Fall with Alfred Drake etc. Source: On the Air - John Dunning