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Halloween, The Evil Darkness
Airdate: Tuesday - October 31, 1972 (Airdate Confirmed)

WOR Show
Original Airing

audio

(NOTE ABOUT TIME REFERENCES: Since there are many different copies of shows out there from different sources, all time references are from the beginning of one single recorded copy, since various copies, depending on when the recordee started recording, had news at the beginning or shortened themes. The times would vary from copy to copy.)

First Spoken Line After Theme Ends

And by George I'm going to make it stick. . .

Show Description

Trick or treat! Come across or I don't do a show! Come across or I'm going to play excerpts form John Gambling shows of the past. Riding the F train - Shep is riding the train when it stops at 18th street and a man gets on and sits down. Eventually he gets up, takes out a can of orange spray paint, writes "Superman" on the door and gets off at the 23rd street station. Putting a pin in the doorbell, hanging a pin by a string on the outside of a window so it keeps taping in the breeze. Going to a Halloween party Darkness - All of man is afraid of the dark. Hunters in the darkness.Shep does a haunting commentary with spooky music about the evils of blackness.

WOR ID

Time	Station ID (All times approximate)
15:26	This is WOR New York

Commercials (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
09:55	Movie Promotion	Escape to the Sun
10:54	Political Ad	Transportation Bond Issue
11:39	General Tire
15:32	Political Ad	Frank Lloyd Hickey
16:55	Gramercy Park Clothes

Music (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
08:28	Apres la Mort 1
25:12	Souffle 1

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
15:32	Bill
09:44	Jerry Lambert

Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show

Instruments Played

None

Airdate History ' - Original' date is earliest known broadcast)

This Show

		Date	Title
		October 31, 1972	Halloween, The Evil Darkness	Original Airing

More Ways To Hear or Buy It

Show	Replay Date
Mass Backwards	October 29, 2002
YesterdayUSA	December 01, 2010
Dustbin of History	November 01, 2023

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"Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory?
Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty." - Jean Shepherd - 1975