 When CBS canceled the show after one season, Sheldon Leonard (qv)  traveled to Procter & Gambles main headquarters in Cincinnati to  make a personal plea for sponsorship, hoping it would sway CBS  toward renewal. Procter & Gamble agreed to sponsor half a season.  Eventually, Lorillard Tobacco Company, makers of Kent Cigarettes,  agreed to pick up the other half, and the show was picked up by CBS  for a second season. Ironically, when the show went off the air on  its own, CBS was doing the pleading for the show to continue.