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Greatest Story ever Told - Three episodes of the religious program from 73 Christmases ago that tells the story of the birth of Jesus as broadcast seventy three years ago. First from December 14, 1947 Go and Be Counted. Then from December 21, 1947, No room at the Inn. Finally from December 28, 1947, Flight into Egypt. The program on ABC was sponsored by Goodyear Tire and Rubber company, but no commercials ran during the show, there was no studio audience, and no acknowledgement of casts were ever made nor photos of the production taken. The program was the first to characterize Christ on the air, and was, as John Dunning put it in his “On The Air: The Encyclopedia of Old Time Radio,” ”a simple, popular dramatization of Christ’s life.”