January 19 Chuck interviews actor Hans Conried at the Pheasant Run Playhouse in suburban St. Charles, Illinois.
March 19 Another Old Time Movie Night for TWTD listeners is presented at North West Federal. Shown are comedies by Laurel and Hardy, Buster Keaton, Eddie Cantor, Jack Benny and Bob Hope.
April 2 The Old Time Movie Night is repeated for TWTD listeners who couldn’t squeeze into the capacity-filled North West Federal Community Room the preceding month.
April 3 WLTD eliminates Mutual news and sportscasts during TWTD so vintage programs may be heard without long interruptions.
April 26 Chuck records a conversation with actor Mel Blanc at WLS-TV studios in Chicago and Danny Thomas at the Mill Run Theatre in Niles.
May 1-31 North West Federal salutes National Radio Month with an exhibit of old radios, microphones, posters and radio premiums. Chuck appears on Thursday and Friday evenings in the NWF lobby, where he meets, for the first time, two listeners who soon become part of the TWTD volunteer support staff: Dennis Bubacz and Mort Paradise.
May 18 TV appearance. Ray Rayner and Friends WGN-TV, Channel 9, Chicago. Chuck is Ray’s guest showing viewers various radio premiums and souvenirs.
MAY 29, 1971 Ma Perkins re-enactment, live on Those Were The Days — Starring, from left, Chicago-based actors Phil Bowman, Johnny Coons and Viola Berwick.
May 29 TWTD presents a live re-enactment of an original Ma Perkins script (from 1-2-41) featuring radio veterans Rita Ascot Boyd, Viola Berwick, Johnny Coons and Phil Bowman and WLS-TV morning show host Bob Kennedy.
July 17 Chuck interviews actress Agnes Moorehead at the Marriott in Chicago.
July 24 In a “Sentimental Swap Shop” segment of TWTD, Chuck offers his 1936 Radio Orphan Annie secret decoder with hopes of “trading up.” He ends up getting a 1929 Atwater Kent radio receiver with matching speaker.
August 21 & 28 TWTD runs overtime as vintage shows continue to 4:19 p.m. and 4:25 p.m. respectively.
September 8 Chuck records a conversation with actor Vincent Price at WLS -TV studios in Chicago.
September 9 Chuck records a telephone conversation with Rudy Vallee, who is in his home in Beverly Hills, California.
September 12 TWTD moves to Sunday during the 11-week Northwestern football season, broadcast on WLTD.
September 19 At the request of the Federal Correctional Institution at Sandstone, Minnesota, the 11-week Sunday series of TWTD is broadcast weekly on the United States Department of Justice closed-circuit station WFCI, “the Voice of Sandstone.”
September 25 & October 2 Taking advantage of the switch to Sundays during the football season, there’s a special Saturday event in the Community Room at North West Federal Savings. Chuck hosts an “Old Time Saturday Movie Matinee” with a Roy Rogers feature, an episode of “The Whispering Shadow,” a Robert Benchley featurette, “Crime Control,” plus a cartoon and a newsreel.
October 7 Chuck records a telephone conversation with Ralph Edwards, who is in his office in Hollywood, California.
October 24 Nelson-Hirschberg Ford of Chicago begins its long-term sponsorship of Those Were The Days.
November 20 “Laurel and Hardy Movie Night,” a special event for TWTD listeners is held in the Community Room at North West Federal.
November 25 A special four-hour Thanksgiving Day edition of TWTD is presented on WLTD.
December 7 Chuck interviews actor Don Ameche at the Pheasant Run Playhouse in suburban Chicago.
December 25 Schaden hosts Happy Holiday, a special two-hour program of seasonal music and memories from 10 a.m-Noon on Christmas morning from WLTD, Evanston. The TWTD Christmas Day broadcast follows at 1 p.m.
