Speaking of Radio
Selected interviews we think you’ll like
Chicago announcer-actor-newsman on radio who easily made a transition to television and was popular in all media. He was born in 1916 and was 56 at the time of our conversation at WLS-TV studios in Chicago. The beloved Windy City personality died on August 8, 1983 at age 67.
To commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Those Were the days, we produced a limited series of audio vignettes selected from programs originally heard between 1970 and 2020.
Twenty episodes were presented on selected TWTD programs between October 2019 and April 2020.
Chuck Schaden hosts
RADIO FOR MOTHER’S DAY
MY FAVORITE HUSBAND (1950) Lucille Ball and Richard Denning star as Liz and George Cooper. Both mothers are coming to visit the Coopers, but neither George nor Liz are excited about it.
LUX RADIO THEATRE (1-4-56) Mother Wore Tights” starring Dan Dailey and Mitzi Gaynor in the story of a vaudeville family.
SUSPENSE (1-4-59) Don’t Call Me Mother” starring Agnes Moorehead with Cathy Lewis and James McCallion. Young man’s mother is not very pleased when he brings a young lady home for dinner.
WHISPERING STREETS (1958) The Distraught Mother.” Bette Davis is hostess and narrator for this daytime radio series. In this complete story, a widow of 18 months still clings to the memory of her husband in spite of the urging of her friend and her 15-year old son.
SCREEN GUILD PLAYERS (11-23-42) Bachelor Mother” starring Ann Sothern, Fred MacMurray and Charles Coburn. A sales girl unwittingly becomes guardian for an abandoned baby, causing a scandal in the department store where she works.
PLUS –We pay tribute to Don McNeill, long-time host of radio’s Breakfast Club, who died May 7, 1996 at age 88.
