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Last Summary Update: 12-15-2023

Escape From Reality
Airdate: Monday - December 16, 1974

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

Oh, yes did you ever imagine life itself is an incrediby difficult hurdle race. . .

Show Description

[ Courtesy: Max Schmid - - ]   
  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 - - ]   
  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

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

This Show

Date	Title
December 16, 1974	Escape From Reality	Original Airing
February 18, 1975	Escape From Reality	WETA Synd Replay

More Ways To Hear or Buy It

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	Cassette

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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