CHICAGO RADIO IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, August 7, 1999

SPEAKING OF RADIO (6-16-70) Actors John Gannon and Sarajane Wells talk about their roles as Billy and Betty on the Jack Armstrong se­ries in a conversation with Chuck Schaden at Sages East Restaurant in Chicago. (9 min)

JACK ARMSTRONG, THE ALL-AMERICAN BOY (11-18-40) Isolated episode of the long-run­ning kids’ adventure se­ries featuring Charles Flynn as Jack, John Gannon as Billy, Sarajane Wells as Betty, Jim Goss as Uncle Jim. Franklyn MacCormack announces. Wheaties, NBC. (14 min)

SPEAKING OF RADIO (6-16-70) Actor Harry Elders talks about his Chicago radio career which included his five-year stint on Curtain Time in a conversation with Chuck Schaden at Sages East Restaurant in Chi­cago. (8 min)

CURTAIN TIME (5-24­47) “Wanted: An Old-Fashioned Girl” starring Harry Elders and Nannette Sargent in a ro­mantic comedy about a magazine writer who is tired of writing about career women. Cast includes Hope Summers, Sidney Ellstrom, Viola Berwick, George Cisar. Mars, Inc., NBC. (28 min)

SPEAKING OF RADIO (8-1-70) Actress Rita Ascot Boyd and casting director Alice Carey Ricca talk with Chuck Schaden about their Chicago radio days in a conversation recorded at Findlay Galleries, Chicago. (23 min & 14 min)

SPEAKING OF RADIO (6-16-70) Phil Bowman, the director of Ma Perkins remembers that long-running series in a brief conversation with Chuck Schaden re­corded at Sages East Restaurant in Chicago. (5 min)

THOSE WERE THE DAYS (5-29-71) Excerpt featuring an on-the-air recreation of a Ma Perkins episode from January 2, 1941 star­ring Viola Berwick as Ma, Rita Ascot Boyd as Fay, Johnny Coons as Shuffle, Chicago TV personality Bob Kennedy as Paul, and Phil Bow­man as announcer-director. WLTD, Evanston. (12 min & 18 min)

SPEAKING OF RADIO (6-16-70) Actor Paul Barnes recalls his Chicago radio performances, including his role as Cap­tain Midnight, in a short conversation with Chuck Schaden recorded at Sages East Restaurant in Chicago. (4 min)

CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT (1950) “The Flying Ruby” starring Paul Barnes as Captain Midnight with Jack Bivens as Chuck Ramsey, Angela Orr as Joyce Ryan, and Art Hem as lchabod Mudd. Complete story. Ovaltine, WGN-MBS. (28 min)