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Last Summary Update: 04-23-2021

Escape From Reality
Rerun Date: Tuesday - February 18, 1975

WOR Show
WETA Synd Replay

(Syndicated Release)

audio

First Spoken Line After Theme Ends

Oh, yes, do you ever imagine life itself as an incredible 60 yard hurdle race. . .

Show Description

[ Courtesy: Max Schmid - 04-23-2021 ]   
   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 - 04-23-2021 ]   
  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)
•	None

Commercials (Up to date) (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
•	No Commercials or Commercials Cut

Music (Up to date) (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
• 03:33	Unknown - Laugh Record
• 09:23	All right everybody, let's dance
• 09:30	Unknown - "That Finale"
• 25:13	Theme and Prelude

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
• 10:14	'Corny' - Elga Cornell Brown

Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show

Instruments Played

None

Rating

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Record: 7012 / ID: 19750218W7012

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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General Info

Database Record Status

Database ID #:	19750218W7012	Sponsors up to date:	Yes
Record Created:		Sources up to date:	Yes
Last Update:	04-23-2021	Station ID up to date:	Yes
Show Redated From: See Dating Notes		Engineers up to date:	Yes
Music up to date:	Yes	Instruments up to date:	Yes
Description up to date:	Yes

Known Recordees

Lee Rotter

Notes

Dating Notes

Notes

Source: Jim Clavin

Shep mentions getting this week off to an upbeat start which puts it most likely as a Monday for the original airdate.

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WBAI Golden Age of Radio

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Dustbin of History!

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Schmidco Sets - 0 found

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Shows Known via Recordings or Lists
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1 Known copies from various Sources and Lists (Up to date)

	Recordee			¹ Shortened Theme: 55 seconds ² Audibly Dated: By recordee or other ³ Modified Theme: Theme added by Gary Hines ⁴ Syndicated Intro: Intro broadcast as part of Synd Shows
	This copy used for summary time references		Inventory File Name coding explained

Source Name

Information

Lee Rotter

Running Time: 34:58

Recordee:
98 - Lee Rotter

Timing Reference
Inventory Name: 1975 02 18_W7012_098 Escape From Reality - WETA.mp3
Source filename: 1975_02_18_Laughing_at_times_book_logs_Reads_Boy_Chums_in_Mystery_Land_Transcendental_Escapism_WETA.mp3
Source ref number: 20
Station: WETA
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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