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Christmas BB Gun Story
Airdate: Thursday - November 7, 1963

WOR Show
Original Airing

audio

Last Update: 11-06-2025

First Spoken Line After Theme Ends

Do you have everything under control?

Show Description

Do you have your hands on the great controls of life. . . Wake up you lazy hound. . . I'm a terrible singer. . . Lady wakes up to find her TV stolen "Learning to handle guns called beneficial to child" NY Times 11-1-1963 Shep tells an early (1st?) version of the Red Ryder BB gun story Og Son of Fire - by J. Irving Crump Kopfspeilen Buck Jones B.B. Gun "You'll Shoot your eye out" He gets it for Christmas and almost shoots his eye out - saved by his glasses

News Articles Read by Shep During Show

Shep would often read articles he recently read or were sent in by fans

Time	Image	Description
• 9:28		TV Stolen

WOR ID

Time	Station ID (All times approximate)
• 12:56	speaking of bull this is WOR AM and FM New York

Commercials (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
• 13:10	Mandarin House
• 14:42	Shep Promo - Live Appearance	Fairleigh Dickinson

Music (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
• 01:01; 14:24; 25:24	Gesang Der Junglinge
• 05:14; 08:10	Stars and Stripes
• 09:53	The Okeh Laughing Record
• 18:02	Beethoven's 5th Symphony

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
• 07:17	Ed

Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show

Instruments Played

Kopfspeilen

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Related Plots / Story Lines and Other References Used

Time	Category	Date	Title	Comments
• [ 11:27 ]	People		Norton, Miss
• [ 14:42 ]	Live Shows		Fairleigh Dickinson
• [ 21:44 ]	Plots / Story Lines		Red Ryder BB Gun

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

	Date	Title
	November 7, 1963 Recno: 3561	Christmas BB Gun Story	Original Airing

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Show	Replay Date
Dustbin of History	November 06, 2025

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