Al Capp took over from the following week until sometime in the Fall, when John McCaffery took the reins through the show’s end in 1955.
The series is most notable for being the last regular series to air on the DuMont network, after the game show Have a Heart (ended June 14, 1955) and It's Alec Templeton Time (ended August 26, 1955).
[1] A panel of well-known newspaper columnists and/or other celebrities were asked to try to identify famous events from clues given by the moderator and his assistants.
Although many DuMont shows survive at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, the Paley Center for Media, and Chicago’s Museum of Broadcast Communications, there are no copies of What’s the Story at any of these archives.
[3] Only one episode is known to exist, and is held in the J. Fred MacDonald collection at the Library of Congress.