Strange as it Seems was a radio program that offered listeners strange and unusual tales about fantastic people and events. Based on the daily syndicated newspaper cartoon panels created by John Hix, the show featured a blend of dramatized events, mini plays, and fanfare music, all designed to entertain and educate the audience about the marvels of the world. The program typically included 2 or 3 dramatic segments, followed by an Ex-Lax commercial and 2 or 3 strange stories. The show would then conclude with a preview of the next show's stories, another Ex-Lax commercial, a quirky fact, and a short musical ending. Live interviews with unusual personalities, such as the World's Fastest Talker, were also occasionally featured.

The radio show first aired on March 22, 1935, on the Columbia Don Lee Coast radio network and was initially broadcast three nights a week. Later changes in the schedule and format occurred until December 1938 when the show ceased airing. The program returned as a 30-minute network program on the CBS network from August 17, 1939, to December 26, 1940. The show had a final run in its original 15-minute format from November 10, 1946, to April 13, 1947. Throughout its years of broadcast, the program had several sponsors, such as Ex-Lax and Palmolive Shave Cream. Many of the original programs were recorded on 16-inch 33 RPM records, with at least 39 of these records, encompassing a total of 78 programs, known to exist.

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