NBC University Theatre
The series was retooled and renamed NBC University Theater (aka NBC University Theater of the Air, NBC Theater of the Air and NBC Theater) and moved from Chicago to Hollywood. That series was heard from July 30, 1948 to February 14, 1951. In the new format, the program also included adaptations of short stories and plays in addition to novels and occasionally featured commentary on the original work by distingushed writers and critics. The new series won a Peabody Award and was considered one of the most distingushed radio programs of its day; all of the episodes from this period still survive.
The NBC University of the Air also produced a summer replacement series, American Novels, which was broadcast when The World's Great Novels was off during the summers of 1947 and 1948.
Some sources give the title of the 1944-48 series as The World's Greatest Novels, but there is no evidence this title was ever used.
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