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- ↑ "Noel Craig, Ralph Drischell, Patricia McAneny, Anne Meacham and Paul Hecht from the stage production Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead". NYPL Digital Collections. Retrieved 2023-03-31.
- ↑ Payton, Gordon; Jr, Martin Grams (2015-09-17). The CBS Radio Mystery Theater: An Episode Guide and Handbook to Nine Years of Broadcasting, 1974-1982. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-9228-2.
