Speaking of Radio

Selected interviews we think you’ll like

This star of the Golden Age of Television was appearing on stage in Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite at the Drury Lane Theatre in suburban Chicago when we sat down to talk about his amazing career.   He was born September 8, 1922 and was 48 at the time of our conversation as we talked about the Admiral Broadway Revue, Your Show of Shows and Caesar’s Hour.

He died February 12, 2014 at age 91.

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

Men Behind the Badge

DAVID HARDING, COUNTERSPY (4-4-50) “Magic Murder”

DRAGNET (1940s)

SAN FRANCISCO BEAT (1940s) “Telegraph Hill”

OUR SPECIAL GUEST is actor RED BUTTONS, interviewed in Chicago (2-20-74)

MR DISTRICT ATTORNEY (10-4-54) “Set-up for Re-entry”

I WAS A COMMUNIST FOR THE FBI (1950s) “Kiss of Death”

GANGBUSTERS (1950s) “$35,000 Theft”

SPECIAL NOTE;— On the day before this program, Friday, February 22, 1974, radio station WLTD in Evanston was off the air for almost the entire broadcast day due to an area-wide power failure caused by a mid-winter storm. The next day, near the beginning of this TWTD program, Chuck describes what happened at the station and the reaction from many regular listeners who were unable to hear the usual programming.

On the Air 1-5 p.m. Saturday, Feb 23, 1974 on WLTD, Chicago