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Americana was a history quiz show.

Broadcast

NBC 1947-1949

Packager

Martin Stone Productions

Distributor

NBC Productions

Hosts

John Mason Brown (1947–1948)
Deems Taylor (1948)
Ben Grauer (1948–1949)
Ben Grauer and Vivian Ferrer (1949)

Announcers

Dick Dudley
Hugh James

Gameplay

The quiz, whose slogan was "Your program about your country", involved five contestants (originally adults, changed to high school students by March 1949) answering viewer-submitted questions about American history. A panel of three actors would perform short skits (with either one actor or more in each), after which the contestants would try to answer the questions.

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