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In A Christmas Mood; Pre Christmas Show
Airdate: Friday - December 22, 1972

WOR Show

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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

Hello, test, do mind if I sing the only verse I know of a Christmas carol. . .

Show Description

[ Courtesy: Lowell Thelin - - ]   
  "Deck The Halls with Boston, Charlie"

Short history of Christmas cards

Ebenezer "Stooge" quiz

Slob Art - Bank displays huge tin Christmas tree with the corporate emblem replacing the Star of Bethlehem

Merry Christmas wishes to a "call in" listener representing the entire audience

Give your friends "you" - ad for full dimensional sculptured facsimile of you "to take your place at long meetings or dull parties"

Christmas greetings from Conway Tweedy (Shep's guinea pig)

Wife opens 6' 2" talking sculptured facsimile of husband received as Christmas gift - "It's Alive"

Prediction of ego centered Christmas gift giving by 1980

Phone calls from guinea pig owners and listening to their guinea pigs squeal

Comments

• Shepherd talks with Leigh several times during the show and is in a happy mood throughout. Leigh imitates guinea pig.

Commercials (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
•	General Tire
•	Mama Leone's
•	Shell Oil Company
•	Shep Promo - Books	The Ferrari in the Bedroom
•	Shoetown

Music (All times approximate)

Not Determined yet

Needs to be ID'd

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
•	Ed Scaterday

Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show

Not Determined

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

This Show

		Date	Title
		December 22, 1972	In A Christmas Mood; Pre Christmas Show

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Show	Replay Date
Mass Backwards	December 23, 2003

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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