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Full Moon and Halloween Poetry
Airdate: Monday - October 23, 1961

WOR Show
Original Airing

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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

Ever since sun down tonight. . .

Show Description

There's been the bite of the soul at sundown tonight The effects of the full moon on people Shep reads: "Silver" by Walter de la Mare "Who Knows if the Moon's a Balloon" by E.E. Cummings "The Pumpkin" by Robeert Graves "Bewitched" by Walter De la Mare "Who Knows if the Moon's a Balloon" by E.E. Cummings (again) "Wise Sarah and the Elf" by Elizabeth Coatsworth ? ? "A Poison Tree" by William Blake "Old Adam the Carrion Crow" by Thomas Lovell Beddoes "The Broomstick Train" by Oliver Wendall Holmes "The Counting Man" by William Vaughn Moody "The White Owl" by F.J. Patmore "The old wife and the ghost" by James Reeves ? "Fantasy" by Ruth Mather Skidmore

[ Courtesy: Max Schmid - - ]   
  Tuesday nights in the early days of TV, everything stopped for Milton Berle

Full moon, Shep gets call from police Captain - "Leave the phones open, something will happen!" Mayhem ensues!

Cmml cut, General Tire,  

Gesang under poems

"Silver" by Walter de la Mare

WOR ID

Time	Station ID (All times approximate)
• 15:56	Speaking of fantasies this is WOR AM and FM New York. . .

Commercials (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
• 16:23	General Tire

Music (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
• 17:15	Gesang Der Junglinge

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
•	None Mentioned

Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show

Instruments Played

None

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

This Show

		Date	Title
		October 23, 1961	Full Moon and Halloween Poetry	Original Airing

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