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Sundays with Shep

"Wimpy Doll" (December 26, 2021)

By Ryan Priest
Published January 30, 2022 at 1:29 PM CST
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A box of childhood memories arrives just in time for Christmas

Not all of Shep's Christmas stories involved BB Guns. In this program from December 25, 1971; he reads a short story originally published in Playboy Magazine where Ralphie, now an adult, receives a package from home. In it are toys and memories of his childhood in Indiana.

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