The serial of panel discussions presented the origin of words. There were four panelists for each broadcast, three regulars and one guest "word master," almost always a female (there were a few exceptions). The reason for the weekly guest being a female was to add a "female element" to the discussions. For the first two broadcasts, Don Hollenbeck, Abe Burrows and Dr. Lyman Bryson were the regular panelists. Beginning with episode three, John K.M. McCaffrey took over Don Hollenbeck’s seat on the panel discussions as the moderator, and these three stayed with the program until the very end. We Take Your Word was broadcast on television from April of 1950 to March of 1951, which means the radio program outlived the television version! Sixty-three episodes were broadcast.

For any curious parties, in May of 1940, Invitation to Learning premiered over CBS, and the first two broadcasts were entitled We Take Your Word. Although that program dealt with the intellectual side of our written civilization, this series bore no relation to the two broadcasts of May 1940. (Just wanted to make sure that was clear.)

Episodes 1 to 21 was broadcast Sunday evening from 10:30 to 11 p.m., EST.

Episodes 22 to 25 was broadcast Sunday evening from 9 to 9:30 p.m., EST.

Episodes 26 to 63 was broadcast Friday evenings from 10 to 10:30 p.m., EST.

1. (1/29/50) Faye Emerson
2. (2/5/50) Faye Emerson
3. (2/19/50) no guest known, and there was no broadcast on February 12.
4. (2/26/50) Meg Mundy
5. (3/5/50) Jan Struthers
6. (3/12/50) Faye Emerson
7. (3/19/50) Lois Wheeler
8. (3/26/50) author Emily Kimbrough
9. (4/2/50) Vicki Cummings
10. (4/9/50) Cornelia Otis Skinner
11. (4/16/50) no guest known
12. (4/23/50) no guest known
13. (4/30/50) Eva La Gallienne
14. (5/7/50) Jan Struthers, author of Mrs. Miniver
15. (5/14/50) Harriet Van Horne
16. (5/21/50) Jan Struthers
17. (5/28/50) Faye Emerson
18. (6/4/50) Harriet Van Horne
19. (6/11/50) Faye Emerson
20. (6/18/50) Hiram Sherman
21. (6/25/50) Sylvia Sidney
22. (7/2/50) Margie Hart
23. (7/9/50) Agnes Rogers
24. (7/16/50) Cornelia Otis Skinner, co-author of Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
25. (7/23/50) Jan Struthers
26. (9/22/50) Ilka Chase
27. (10/6/50) Emily Kimbrough
28. (10/13/50) singer Jeannette MacDonald
29. (10/20/50) Jan Struthers
30. (11/10/50) Anna Lee
31. (11/17/50) Jan Struthers
32. (11/24/50) Ilka Chase
33. (12/1/50) Jan Struthers
34. (12/8/50) Vicki Cummings
35. (12/15/50) Jan Struthers
36. (12/22/50) Emily Kimbrough
37. (12/29/50) Jan Struthers
38. (1/5/51) Harriet Van Horne and John Faulk
39. (1/12/51) Jan Struthers
40. (1/19/51) Anna Lee
41. (1/26/51) Faye Emerson
42. (2/2/51) Jan Struthers
43. (2/9/51) Wendy Barrie
44. (2/16/51) Jan Struthers
45. (2/23/51) Harriet Van Horne
46. (3/2/51) Anna Lee
47. (3/9/51) Anna Lee
48. (3/16/51) Jan Struthers
49. (3/23/51) Kitty Carlisle
50. (3/30/51) David L. Cohn
51. (4/6/51) Anna Lee
52. (4/13/51) Jan Struthers
53. (4/20/51) Emily Kimbrough
54. (4/27/51) Jan Struthers
55. (5/4/51) Mary Orr
56. (5/11/51) Jan Struthers
57. (5/18/51) Ethel Barrymore Colt
58. (5/25/51) Jan Struthers
59. (6/1/51) Margaret Ernst
60. (6/8/51) Jan Struthers
61. (6/15/51) Harriet Van Horne
62. (6/22/51) Jan Struthers and Max Shulman
63. (6/29/51) Jan Struthers and Basil Davenport

Martin Grams, Jr. is the author and co-author of many books about old-time radio, television and movies including Inner Sanctum Mysteries: Behind the Creaking Door, The Alfred Hitchcock Presents Companion and Invitation to Learning.