Trivia / Let's Pretend

• Missing Episode:
  • The Bluebeard episode was later pulled from reairing after parents complained about it, despite the episode explicitly having the wives be rescued (they were kept prisoner in the chamber instead of being killed). This was pointed out on the air after a child wrote a letter to the show asking why the episode never played. Despite this, it was released on records.
  • Due to being a '30s-'40s radio show, some of the episodes have been lost to time. One such episode, for example, was an adaptation of "The Girl Without Hands."
• Recycled Script: During the run, the more popular fairy tales were often staged more than once, often with a few changes. At one point, for example, Donkeyskin was rewritten as Allerleirauh. At least two different surviving recordings of Cinderella exist, with one having the Fairy Godmother narrate the story as a Framing Device.
• What Could Have Been: At one point, Orson Welles was going to appear as Santa Claus in a Christmas special. Nila Mack vetoed this because of her rule that only children could perform the scripts.
• Underage Casting: Originally, Nila Mack only hired children and teenagers to act out the stories. This might not be immediately obvious to modern listeners as most of the surviving episodes are from the end of the run, and because the vinyl records eschewed the process by hiring adult voice actors. It also helps that many of the actors sounded older than they actually were.^note To give a little context, series regular Miriam Wolfe once got cast as a witch in another radio show; when she showed up on her first day, production kept getting delayed until one of the higher-ups explained they were waiting on Wolfe, even calling her an expletive, only for her to step out and explain she'd been there the whole time. No one realized she was just a teenager and assumed she was an old woman.

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