20TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW – THANKS FOR LISTENING

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, April 28th, 1990

NOSTALGIA (1969) Chuck Schaden hosts a program of old time radio clips designed to be an audition tape for a prospective sponsor, Bank of Lincolnwood. (15:30; 13:40)

SALUTE TO BING CROSBY (1-9-51) Art Linkletter hosts an all-star tribute to Bing Crosby on the occasion of his 20th anniversary in show business. Stopping by to praise Bing are Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, Louis Armstrong, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, Bob Hope, Dorothy Kirsten, Mary Martin, William S. Paley, Jack Teagarden, Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires, John Scott Trotter and the orchestra. Sustaining, CBS. (10:55; 15:00)

FIBBER MC GEE AND MOLLY RECREATION (4-28­90) A live broadcast of a newly written script by Ken Alexander, based on the Fibber McGee and Molly radio programs. Our cast will include listeners who have auditioned for the various roles in the sketch: Fibber, Molly, Harlow Wilcox, Wallace Wimpole, Teeney, Gildersleeve, Mayor LaTrivia, Mrs. Uppington, the Old Timer, Horatio K. Boomer, the King’s Men, and the sound effects man!

WE TAKE YOU BACK (3-13-58) A special 20th anniversary program commemorating the start of regular CBS news broadcasts in 1938. Dallas Townsend hosts this look at the “new form of journal­ism”—radio news reports from around the world. Heard are Edward R. Murrow, Robert Trout, William L. Shirer, H.V. Kaltenborn, John Daly and others. Sustaining, CBS. (16:05; 13:45)

FIBBER MC GEE AND MOLLY (10-21-47) Jim and Marian Jordan are joined by regulars Gale Gordon, Arthur Q. Brian, Bill Thompson, Harlow Wilcox, the King’s Men, Billy Mills and the orchestra. The McGees must go downtown to the Wistful Vista Finance Company to make a late payment on their car. Johnson’s Wax, NBC. (8:45; 11:35; 9:10).

NOTE: The first 12 minutes of this TWTD broadcast have been found! Thanks to Jim Haas of Lombard for sending us his over the air copy!