Your Show Time

The Bookshop Man (26 episodes, 1949)

In an unusual situation for a program lasting less that one full season, "Your Show Time" received two Emmy nominations in the television academy's first two ceremonial years (1949 and 1950). The eligible programs for the 1949 Emmy winners and nominees were produced and televised in the Los Angeles area only. Presumably, the anthology and the segment "The Necklace" aired in Los Angeles a few months before airing nationally on NBC. The first Emmy ceremony was held January 25, 1949. "Your Show Time" premiered on NBC on January 21, 1949.

The series was sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes.

Film editor Dann Cahn recommended a young woman he was dating for the part of a beautiful young woman in Your Show Time (1949). Producer Stanley Rubin auditioned her and turned her down because she did not have enough experience. The young woman's name was Marilyn Monroe.