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Red Ryder Story
Airdate: Thursday - December 25, 1969

WOR Show
WOR Rerun

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(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

I'm going to get right to it today. . .

Show Description

[ Courtesy: Lowell Thelin - - ]   
  Notes large volume of listener requests over past year to read the Red Ryder BB Gun story (4 or 5 hundred)

Story background relating two men in an Indiana bar at Christmastime who had known each other since childhood but had taken separate paths - one had remained in Indiana as a bartender while the other had since become an effete New Yorker ("Do you remember that particular Christmas?"...)

Notes background music of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky as being identified with Christmas

Notes that the the Red Ryder story had originally appeared in Playboy magazine �a few years back, and later in In God We Trust All Others Pay Cash

Reading of "DUEL IN THE SNOW or RED RYDER NAILS THE CLEVELAND STREET KID".

Comments

• This show was repeated on 12-25-72 with different commercials

WOR ID

Time	Station ID (All times approximate)
•	Speaking of Christmas largess is old Santa Claus on 710 WOR here in New York City [11:45]

Commercials (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
•	Great Shanghai
•	Miller Beer
• 11:47	Miller Beer
• 12:52	Great Shanghai

Music (All times approximate)

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Needs to be ID'd

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

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Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show

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

This Show

Date	Title
December 25, 1967	Red Ryder	Original Airing
December 25, 1969	Red Ryder Story	WOR Rerun
December 25, 1972	Red Ryder BB Gun Story	WOR Rerun

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