Full Moon and Halloween Poetry
Airdate:
Monday - October 23, 1961
WOR Show Original Airing
Last Update: 10-25-2025
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
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"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
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"Fantasy" by Ruth Mather Skidmore
[ Courtesy: Max Schmid - 10-25-2025 ]
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. . .
