THE PASSING PARADE

Broadcast History:
1937-51, many network timeslot changes
NBC Feb. 1-Aug. 16, 1937 15m.
Mutual Sept. 12-Dec. 5, 1937 15m.
CBS July 3, 1938-Jan. 1, 1937 30m.
Blue Net Work 194-41 West Coast
NBC June 29- Sept. 21, 1943 30m.
NBC 1943-45 30m
CBS March-Oct 1944 15m. 3 times a week
Mutual 1948-49 15m. weekdays
NBC West 1950-51 30m. weekdays.

Host Storyteller: John Nesbitt.

Series Description: Tall tales and strange happenings.

The Passing Parade was John Nesbitt's version of Believe It Or Not. It was a series of stories almost too incredible to believe but thoroughly documented by Nesbitt. Nesbitt told his stories "straight without sound effects or music-a major difference between his show and Ripley's Believe I Or Not. Nesbitt's stories often contained unexplainable elements, heightening their interest. Usually he told two stories in each program, he told adventure tales, stories of daring prison breaks, of the man who lived for four years in a cupboard. His stock in trades were disasters, disappearances, inventions, fanatics, swindlers, unexplained phenomena that changed people's lives.

Reference:
On the Air: John Dunning
Tune In Yesterday: John Dunning