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Pioneer TV producer-director whose productions included Your Show of Shows, the Kate Smith Show, Milton Berle Buick Show, Texaco Star Theatre, the Dean Martin Show and the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts. He was born February 20, 1924 and was 52 when we spoke with him in advance of his 1976 prime time salute to the Peacock Network’s history, NBC – the First Fifty Years. He died March 25, 2005 at age 81.
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
Happy New Year
EDDIE CANTOR SHOW (12-27-44) Eddie and Harry Von Zell discuss plans for the New Year’s Eve show at the Hollywood Canteen. WW II setting.
FIBBER MC GEE AND MOLLY (12-26-44) Fibber is having a bad day, but when Molly starts to cry, he resolves to control his temper, no matter what!
SWING AROUND THE CLOCK (12-31-44) During WWII, on New Year’s Eve, Don Wilson is master of ceremonies for an all-star Armed Forces Radio swing around the country to hear the big bands and the big singers from various military installations. Featured are Jimmy Dorsey, Ella Mae Morse, Louis Jordan Timpani Five, Harry James, Kay Kyser, Lena Horne, Benny Goodman, Bing Crosby, Ginny Simms, Woody Herman, Tommy Dorsey, Gene Krupa, Johnny Mercer and the Pied Pipers, Vaughn Monroe, GI Jill with Meredith Willson and the orchestra, Spike Jones and Count Basie.
WORLD NEWS TODAY (12-31-44) Douglas Edwards and CBS correspondents with a New Year’s Eve broadcast of the long-running Sunday afternoon news program. “On the Western Front today the Germans have failed in their latest effort to close the relief corridor to the highway town of Bastogne. American and British planes have continued their attack on German supply points and 52 German fighters were shot down in air battles today.”
GREAT GILDERSLEEVE (12-31-44) Gildy arranges to take Leila Ransom to the New Year’s Eve dance.
On the Air 1-5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 31, 1994 on WNIB, Chicago
