January 1 Old–Time Radio Classics on WBBM moves the Saturday and Sunday evening broadcasts to midnight-1 a.m. Now the series is on the air during the midnight hour seven nights a week.
February 5 Chuck’s audio biography “Speaking of Radio: The Jack Benny Program” has its premiere broadcast on TWTD. It is a 12-part, in-depth look at one of radio’s most popular programs featuring comments from most of the members of the cast with a generous supply of clips selected from Benny broadcasts through the years. Recordings of the audio biography are published by the AudioFile.
FEBRUARY 13, 1994 Interviewing Jack Benny’s grandson Bobby Blumofe and Jack’s daughter Joan Benny as TWTD listeners celebrate the 61st anniversary of the comedian’s 39th birthday.
February 13 The Sixty–first Anniversary of Jack Benny’s Thirty–ninth Birthday is celebrated by more than 500 TWTD listeners who pack the Preston Bradley Hall at the Chicago Cultural Center for the Benny Centennial celebration. The event features an original radio production of a script by Ken Alexander. John Sebert appears as Jack; Joan Benny, Jack’s daughter, co-stars as Mary Livingstone; and Jack’s grandson Bobby Blumofe has a role written especially for him. They are supported by Chicago weatherman Harry Volkman and members of the Those Were The Days Radio Players.
April 16 Those Were The Days presents a 70th Anniversary salute to the National Barn Dance with many of the program’s stars and a rebroadcast of the show’s last on-the-air performance.
May 28 Chuck interviews actors Jack Kruschen, Peter Leeds, Tyler McVey and Les Tremayne in a “roundtable” conversation at the Pacific Pioneers’ Club Room in Hollywood, California.
June 4 Cragin Federal Bank for Savings, about to be merged into the LaSalle Bank, ends its sponsorship of TWTD. This concludes more than 24 years of continuous TWTD sponsorship by area financial institutions, which began with the first broadcast in 1970 with North West Federal Savings, continued in 1982 with Talman Home Federal Savings, and in 1984 with Cragin Federal.
July 8 TV appearance: Fox Thing in the Morning WFLD-TV Channel 32 Chicago. Hosts Bob Sirott and Marianne Murciano with guest Chuck Schaden, who offers his review of the new movie, “The Shadow.”
August 13 TWTD begins a multi-month 60th Anniversary salute to the Lux Radio Theatre and its programming through the years.
December 1 Nostalgia Digest marks 20th anniversary.
