For the film by this name, see The Answer Man (film). For DC comics "Answer man", see Bob Rozakis.
The offices of The Answer Man were across the street from the New York Public Library, a source for many of the answers.
The Answer Man is a United States 15-minute radio program that aired from 1937 to 1956 on the Mutual Broadcasting System and also in syndication.[1] It was broadcast late Sunday evening on some stations. During the 1940s, the program was sponsored by Trommer's White Label Beer. The Answer Man was Albert Carlyle Mitchell, who was born May 31, 1893, in Elsberry, Missouri. The series was created by Mitchell and Bruce Chapman.[1][2]
Questions submitted by listeners were answered on the air by Mitchell, and those who sent questions not used in the program were given answers by mail. The program's offices were located across the street from the New York Public Library, which helps to explain how Chapman and his staff (along with 40 helpers)[1] were able to deal with a constant flow of nearly a million[1] questions a year. They also kept their own specialized library of several thousands of volumes, and they created a card index of 20,000 authorities who could be consulted when all research avenues failed. The show was carefully scripted, yet it created the illusion that Mitchell was answering spontaneously. Many listeners believed that he was a genius with total recall of all information.
Mitchell would often close an episode with a short poem that was relevant to a previous question and which provided a thoughtful and tranquil conclusion for the listener.
^ abcdDunning, John (1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio (Revised ed.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. p. 37. ISBN 978-0-19-507678-3. Retrieved 2019-10-25.
^"NOW YOU can be Your Own "ANSWER MAN" (advertisement)". Boys' Life. 37 (4): 42. April 1947. Retrieved 2019-10-25.
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