RADIO TO PLAN YOUR CHRISTMAS LIST BY

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, December 2nd, 1989

CINNAMON BEAR (1937) Chapter 11 in the continuing adventures of Judy and Jimmy Barton and Paddy O’Cinnamon in the search for the silver star for the top of the Christmas tree. Fee Foo the Friendly Giant. Syndicated. (12:00)

TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES (12-20-47) Ralph Edwards hosts the audience participation show with a holiday consequence for a contestant. The show also visits a hospitalized, disabled World War II veteran Hubert C. Smith for a warm-hearted, sentimental This Is Your Life”-type segment. A touching, moving program for the Christmas season. Duz, Drene, NBC. (7:02; 22:23)

INTERVIEW with Hubert C. Smith, the veteran who was the subject of Ralph Edwards’ Truth or Consequences program. Conversation recorded on Dec. 22, 1988. (7:07)

CINNAMON BEAR (1937) Chapter 12. The Rhyming Rabbit and the Bumble Bee. (12:00)

CHICAGO THEATRE OF THE AIR (12-24-39) “Babes in Toyland” is the Christmas Eve offering of this popular program. Marian Claire narrates the childhood operetta by Victor Herbert with a cast that includes Mary Frances Desmond, Jonathon Hole, Norman Gottschalk, Sondra Gair, Elmira Roessler, Everette Clark. The story is preceded by a musical rendition of “Twas the Night Before Christmas” and a brief message by Col. Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune. Sustaining, MBS. (13:08; 14:33; 14:38; 16:53)