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Well, you already know I'm one . . .
"MORE SUGAR !!!"
Me thinks that there will be few replies to this post and it will slide down the list and into obscurity quickly.
If I had to bet, I'd say Raoul, based on his sense of humor and obvious intelligence would at least know of them.
FORWARD, INTO THE PAST !!!!
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You don't mean this one eh?
Fireside Theater was an anthology series, latterly presented by actress Jane Wyman. Little seems to be known about this show, and details of some episodes are sketchy at best.
The show started out as a fifteen-minute live drama series in April 1949. It soon switched to half-hour, with two stories run back-to-back, and pioneered pre-filming: it was one of the first TV dramas to be shot entirely on film (rather than continue to be broadcast live from a TV studio. It was hosted initially by producer Frank Wisbar from 1952, and by Gene Raymond from 1953.
With Wyman hosting and producing (and taking the possessive screen credit), it was thoroughly overhauled, and ran from 1955 to 1958.
Jane Wyman_Bradbury Episodes
Bradbury wrote one script for the series, but it is also rumored that another episode was based on one of his books.
"The Relentless Weavers" (30 March 1954)
Starring Leo Gordon and Tim Considine, this episode is rumored to be based on Dark Carnival. This is an unlikely claim, as anyone familiar with Bradbury's work knows that Dark Carnival is a collection of very diverse stories. The possibility remains, however, that one of the stories might have been adapted. No details of scriptwriter or director seem to have survived. This episode would have pre-dated Wyman's involvment with the show, which began with the 1955-56 season.
"The Marked Bullet" (20 Nov 1956)
Starring Jane Wyman and Joseph Wiseman, this episode was scripted by Bradbury. Wyman plays a character called Madame Olivia. Several sources - and Bradbury himself - refer to this as "The Bullet Trick", which may have been Bradbury's original title.
In a 1972 interview with Arnold Kunert, Bradbury said "My first work in script writing after Moby **** was in television. I didn’t get into television until after about ten years from its beginnings in the late 1940s. I recall first doing a story for The Jane Wyman Theatre, a fantasy about a carnival man and his wife, called “The Bullet Trick.” The wife was having an affair and they have to go through a bullet trick routine in which the husband forces the lover through some means to fire a bullet at the end of the act, which the wife is supposed to catch in her teeth. We have a feeling at the fade out that maybe the husband substituted a real bullet for the blank so that when the lover fires the wife will be killed. Joseph Wiseman played the husband, who was quite good. It was fair. That was my first television show. I was afraid of television, and for good reason. Quality has rarely been there. At least when you make films, even if they’re magnificent failures, there’s a helluva lot more quality."
Fireside Theater was an anthology series, latterly presented by actress Jane Wyman. Little seems to be known about this show, and details of some episodes are sketchy at best.
The show started out as a fifteen-minute live drama series in April 1949. It soon switched to half-hour, with two stories run back-to-back, and pioneered pre-filming: it was one of the first TV dramas to be shot entirely on film (rather than continue to be broadcast live from a TV studio. It was hosted initially by producer Frank Wisbar from 1952, and by Gene Raymond from 1953.
With Wyman hosting and producing (and taking the possessive screen credit), it was thoroughly overhauled, and ran from 1955 to 1958.
Jane Wyman_Bradbury Episodes
Bradbury wrote one script for the series, but it is also rumored that another episode was based on one of his books.
"The Relentless Weavers" (30 March 1954)
Starring Leo Gordon and Tim Considine, this episode is rumored to be based on Dark Carnival. This is an unlikely claim, as anyone familiar with Bradbury's work knows that Dark Carnival is a collection of very diverse stories. The possibility remains, however, that one of the stories might have been adapted. No details of scriptwriter or director seem to have survived. This episode would have pre-dated Wyman's involvment with the show, which began with the 1955-56 season.
"The Marked Bullet" (20 Nov 1956)
Starring Jane Wyman and Joseph Wiseman, this episode was scripted by Bradbury. Wyman plays a character called Madame Olivia. Several sources - and Bradbury himself - refer to this as "The Bullet Trick", which may have been Bradbury's original title.
In a 1972 interview with Arnold Kunert, Bradbury said "My first work in script writing after Moby **** was in television. I didn’t get into television until after about ten years from its beginnings in the late 1940s. I recall first doing a story for The Jane Wyman Theatre, a fantasy about a carnival man and his wife, called “The Bullet Trick.” The wife was having an affair and they have to go through a bullet trick routine in which the husband forces the lover through some means to fire a bullet at the end of the act, which the wife is supposed to catch in her teeth. We have a feeling at the fade out that maybe the husband substituted a real bullet for the blank so that when the lover fires the wife will be killed. Joseph Wiseman played the husband, who was quite good. It was fair. That was my first television show. I was afraid of television, and for good reason. Quality has rarely been there. At least when you make films, even if they’re magnificent failures, there’s a helluva lot more quality."
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Originally posted by canyonslicker
Is "Billy was a Mountain and Ethel was a tree" one of theirs?
Is "Billy was a Mountain and Ethel was a tree" one of theirs?
Does..."Oh Nick, you're such a tool." strike a familiar note with anyone?
Maybe..If you're a fan...post a quote. Then we'll know if you're one of us.
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Originally posted by canyonslicker
Is "Billy was a Mountain and Ethel was a tree" one of theirs?
Is "Billy was a Mountain and Ethel was a tree" one of theirs?
If I'm not mistaken, those are the words of the late Frank Zappa (Just Another Band From L.A.)
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Originally posted by kobiashi
No, not that one . . .
FireSIGN Theatre,
not FireSIDE Theater....
rather than Jane Wyman, this was done by Four or Five Crazy Guys Productions
No, not that one . . .
FireSIGN Theatre,
not FireSIDE Theater....
rather than Jane Wyman, this was done by Four or Five Crazy Guys Productions
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Originally posted by kobiashi
If I'm not mistaken, those are the words of the late Frank Zappa (Just Another Band From L.A.)
If I'm not mistaken, those are the words of the late Frank Zappa (Just Another Band From L.A.)
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Originally posted by ConcreteGuy
Hello....Frank is dead ?? I thought he was on Larry King Weekend not long ago.....I'm always the last to know these things...dam....
Hello....Frank is dead ?? I thought he was on Larry King Weekend not long ago.....I'm always the last to know these things...dam....
but in case you're not, he died in December of 1993
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Originally posted by Odin's Wrath
He ate the yellow snow.
He ate the yellow snow.
Meanwhile . . . it appears, as I feared, no other Firesign Theatre fans.
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Originally posted by kobiashi
Meanwhile . . . it appears, as I feared, no other Firesign Theatre fans.
Meanwhile . . . it appears, as I feared, no other Firesign Theatre fans.
"Acording to my careful prosthesis", this topic, "has the plague".
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