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Radar and Practical Jokes
Airdate: Monday - September 22, 1969

WOR Show
Original Airing

audio

First Spoken Line After Theme Ends

Hey, you wanna hear about a real total kookie. . .

Show Description

Salute to most creative criminals of the week: Chaarleston W. Virginia - man cons women out of their hair Dribble Glasses Exploding Cigars Stink Bombs set off in joke shop Shep tells a story about being in the signal corps radar outfit, the equipment they used and all about setting it up and testing it. They begin to power it up, a process involving more that flipping a switch, each man carefully watching the settings on his part of the equipment. As they get this unit almost up to max power, Gassor suddenly says he smell something. This is followed by a high pitched squeal that fills the air when suddenly - BOOOM! Everyone heads for the trees taking cover. When it's all over they find that someone had rigged it with a buzz bomb.

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Comments

• Show was rerun on January 21, 1971 and again in 1976

Commercials (Up to date) (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
•	Department of Housing and Urban Developemet
•	Shop Rite
•	TV Guide

Music (Up to date) (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
•	Ballet Mecanique
•	Hindustan

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

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Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show

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Rating

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Related Plots / Story Lines and Other References Used

Time	Category	Date	Title	Comments
•	People		Edwards, Roswell T

Record: 916 / ID: 19690922W0916

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

Date	Title
September 22, 1969 Recno: 916	Radar and Practical Jokes	Original Airing
September 29, 1969 Recno: 6724	Radar and Practical Jokes	WGBH Boston Replay
December 1976 Recno: 2432	Practical Jokes, Army Signal Corps Oscillator Buzzbomb

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Show	Replay Date
Dustbin of History	September 23, 2020

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Database Record Status

Database ID #:	19690922W0916	Sponsors up to date:	Yes
Record Created:		Sources up to date:	Yes
Last Update:	None	Station ID up to date:	No
Show Redated From: See Dating Notes		Engineers up to date:	No
Music up to date:	Yes	Instruments up to date:	No
Description up to date:	Yes

Known Recordees

None Known

Notes

Dating Notes

Notes

Source: Jim Clavin

The first copy of this show that surfaced was Max's MH-108a Schmidco tape. Another copy dated 9-24-69 came to Max from Zirul. Zirul had two shows dated 9-24 so it is possible thia may havee been misdated and was 9-22 FHC had this dated 9-22-69, but it is unknown from where it came since he would rip Max's tapes and knowing that Max's was a Boston rerun, redated it to 9-22.

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Max / Schmidco

Max's super secret page of shows never played and not on internet - maybe. . .

Max / Schmidco Notes

Notes

Zirul - wed - Radar / Hofstra, Compoz et al - Mets clinch NL east (2 Shows with same date)

Replays

Mass Backwards

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WBAI Golden Age of Radio

NONE

Yesterday USA

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Dustbin of History!

Replay Date

September 23, 2020

Max / Schmidco Notes

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Schmidco Sets - 0 found

Set Name	Show #	Media	File Name	Source
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Shows Known via Recordings or Lists
(1950 to 1974 Sources 100% Complete - 1975-1977 in process)

3 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

FHC / JSP

Running Time: 42:11

Available on Internet

Inventory Name: 1969 09 22_W0916_030 Army Radar Joke WOR Jean Shepherd.mp3
Source filename: 1969 09 22 Army Radar Joke WOR Jean Shepherd.mp3
Source ref number: 3, 3d
Station: WOR

Zirul

NEED A COPY OF THIS RECORDING Source description: 69-09-24 Wed - Radar.wav

Comments: Zirul - wed - Radar / Hofstra, Compoz et al - Mets clinch NL east (2 Shows with same date)

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Dustbin of History

Running Time: 48:17

Available on Internet

Inventory Name: 1969 09 22_W0916_552_D2020-09-23 Radar and Practical Jokes.mp3
Station: WBAI

Comments: Dustbin od History recording

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