We invite you to listen to a complete 4-hour program from the 39-year run of Those Were The Days (1970—2009) hosted by Radio Hall of Famer Chuck Schaden. The encore programs that run on this page are exactly as first broadcast over the air. They contain vintage radio shows, special guests and commercials and messages as originally presented on WLTD, Evanston (May 2, 1970 thru July 31, 1975); on WNIB, Chicago (September 6, 1975 thru February 10, 2001) and on WDCB, DuPage County (February 3, 2001 thru June 27, 2009). Encores are selected by us and are available on demand 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week. Program selections are added every week on Wednesday, 6 a.m. Central Time.

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VARIETY OF SHOWS

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, January 15, 2000

THEATRE FIVE (1960s) “Tomorrow 6-1212” featuring Rosemary Rice, Donald Buca, Marie Masters, George Petrie, Arlene Wacker. A woman calls to get the weather in New York, but instead she gets a strange forecast. Fred Foy announces. Syndicated, ABC. (21 min)

YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR (3-5-66 thru 3-9-56) “The Plantation Matter” star­ring Bob Bailey as “the man with the action-packed expense account, America’s fabulous free-lance insurance investigator.” When a mysterious woman dies, Johnny is questioned. A complete adventure in five parts. Sustain­ing, CBS. (75 min in five, 15-min segments) Those Were The Days listeners have voted YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR one of the 20 Best Old Time Radio Shows of the 20th Century.

BURNS AND ALLEN SHOW (9-14-43) George and Gracie with Bill Goodwin, Hans Conried, singer Jimmy Cash, Felix Mills and the orches­tra. Gracie tries to get guest Brian Donlevy to join the “Upstairs Greek Art Theatre.” Swan Soap, CBS. (29 min)

SPACE PATROL (1950s) “Voyage to the Fu­ture” offers “high adventure in the wild, vast reaches of space” with Ed Kemmer as Com­mander Buzz Corey and Lyn Osborn as Cadet Happy. In this episode, Corey and Happy travel through time and space with their prisoner, Dr. Scarno. AFRTS. (22 min)

RECOLLECTIONS (3-6-57) Program 29 in our series of 33 broadcasts. Ed Herlihy hosts a look back at NBC programming: Dinah Shore; Charles Laughton; Wynn Murray and Ray Heatherton; Babe Diedrickson Zaharis; John Boles, Sir Harry Lauder. Sustaining, NBC. (24 min)

Updated: 1/14/25 9:30 P.M. C.S.T.

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