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Beer and Uncle Carl
Rerun Date: Tuesday - December 19, 1972

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 hesitate to bring you truly and clearly. . .

Show Description

[ Courtesy: Lowell Thelin - - ]   
  Nose flute accompaniment to Mozart.

Discusses techniques for inspiration - Sherlock Holmes had his pipe. For Shep - Occasionally the nose flute, other times the Jew's Harp, but sometimes "nothing will do it like beer!"

Notes that recent show about beer on public TV network generated more response than any other show.

Beer as an ancient craft - Neanderthal man had a form of beer.

Notes that "TV would totter on its foundation without beer".

First hand observation that beer factory employees "dig the product".

Ernie Oest - world's greatest collector of beer cans, caps, and beer related items.

Women beer tasters at Allied Breweries in England.

Uncle Carl reveals his secret basement brewery to a young Shep and his Dad - complete with stone crocks covered with big rubber caps connected to pipes with meters, all in an locked and insulated room built by Carl, himself.

The "curious sweet, rich, vaguely sickening smell" noted - "New batch, want to try some?"

An explosive ending to Uncle Carl's brewery and his quick escape  by the back door.

"To ignore beer is to ignore life"  JS

WOR ID

Time	Station ID (All times approximate)
• 12:14	Speaking of Monsters this is WOR New York. . .

Commercials (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
• 12:21	House of Chan
• 13:33	Movie Promotion	Avanti
• 14:07	Gramercy Park Clothes
• 15:03	General Tire
• 16:08	WOR Christmas Fund

Music (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
• 01:48	Unknown - Mozart with nose flute - "Coo Coo Bird" music

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
• 01:46	Nick Brown

Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show

Instruments Played

Nose Flute

Related Plots / Story Lines and Other References Used

Time	Category	Date	Title	Comments
• [ 17:06 ]	Television		Beer
• [ 34:35 ]	People		Carl, Uncle

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

This Show

Date	Title
December 17, 1971	Beer and Uncle Carl	Original Airing
December 19, 1972	Beer and Uncle Carl	WOR Rerun

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