Of Many Things

Of Many Things is a half-hour panel discussion television series that aired on ABC from October 5, 1953, to January 11, 1954.

"[2] The staff dealt with a backlog of mail from viewers such that workers were two months behind in handling letters when the show ended.

[2] Bill Ladd wrote about the program in the (Louisville, Kentucky) Courier Journal the week after it ended: "I thought Evans did a mighty enjoyable show.

Beginning on November 27, 1955, he presented essays on topics that included "Art of Being Nasty", "Byron and Hemingway", "The New Suburbia", "On Being Funny", "Phrase Origins", and "Some Aspects of Shakespeare".

A review in the periodical EdScreen & AV Guide called the recordings "a rare find which will delight instructors in English and in speech in secondary schools and in colleges.