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Summary

Escape From Reality
Airdate: Monday - December 16, 1974

WOR Show
Original Airing

audio

Last Update: 12-15-2023

First Spoken Line After Theme Ends
Oh, yes did you ever imagine life itself is an incrediby difficult hurdle race. . .
Show Description
[ Courtesy: Max Schmid - 12-15-2023 ] Let's get a good running start-under theme First line: "Oh yes did you ever imagine life itself is an incredibly hard 60-yard hurdle race?" Spy sez laughter is gettng scarce - put radio on the windowsill - Laughing record as a public service. Plus cheering! That's why TV shows have laugh-tracks. defrocked Monk runs bar on 3rd Ave, enter 2 Scotsmen Why doesn't radio provide more of an escape for people? This show will provide Escape From Reality Christmas approaching True Escape - Stealing copper wire with Schwartz & Stanley Roper Prowling in used book store -25 cents, basket included Uses books as firewood. Reads 1919 book "The Boy Chums in Mystery Land"
[ Courtesy: David Goldin - 12-15-2023 ] A laugh track. Escape from reality. Shep tells a fascinating joke but won't give the punch line! He reads chapter one of, "The Boy Chums In Mysteryland," published in 1919, and Haiku poetry.
WOR ID
Time Station ID (All times approximate)
• 14:07 This is WOR New York. . .
Commercials (All times approximate)
Time Sponsor Notes
• 11:32 John Barleycorn Pub
• 13:13 Schlesinger's
• 14:07 New York Magazine
• 15:14 Schrafts Candy's
• 15:38 Bellevue Hospital Volunteers
• 39:44 General Tire
• 40:47 Grand Union
• 41:48 Americana Hotel
• 42:50 Gramercy Park Clothes
Music (All times approximate)
Time Music Title Notes
• 03:36 Unknown - Laugh Record
• 09:17 All right everybody, let's dance
• 09:19 Unknown - "That Finale"
• 30:04 Theme and Variations - The Prince and the Ugly Maiden
Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth
Time Engineer, Staff or Guest
'Corny' - Elga Cornell Brown
Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show
Instruments Played
None
Rating / Review
None Yet
Airdate History ' - Original' date is earliest known broadcast)
Date Title  
December 16, 1974
Recno: 1802
Escape From Reality Original Airing
February 18, 1975
Recno: 7012
Escape From Reality WETA Synd Replay
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Show Replay Date
Dustbin of History
December 13, 2023

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Found in the following set(s)
Set Name Show # Media
Series 100 Group B
106Aa
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