Dreamland
| Series | |
|---|---|
| Work In Progress | |
| Original Broadcast Date | |
| 1986 | |
| Cast | |
| Arthur Miller, Paul Mantell, Avery Hart, Lester Nafzger, Joe Frank | |
| Format | |
| Absurd Monologue, Improv Actors, 59 minutes | |
| Preceded by: | Cocktails Before Dinner |
| Followed by: | Rose |
| Purchase / Stream | |
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, and welcome.
Dreamland is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series Work In Progress. It was originally broadcast in 1986.
Synopsis
Joe announces what's coming on tonight's show: global leaders rigged up as marionettes, the Red Army Chorus, Bruno of Vienna, Bog Man (a 100,000 year old corpse preserved in a peat bog), the Yaco (sp?) people of Guam who have bred with teak trees, thus becoming very hard…
3:40: Somebody tells about the Kapts, a people in ancient Turkey who kidnapped others. Because no one else lived there they kidnapped inanimate objects, then each other.
6:20: Joe tells about his favorite wrestler, Mr Capital, a predatory capitalist who perpetrates all the common crimes of Capitalists. He bought all the organic farms on Long Island, converted them to a theme park, Dreamland. Mr Capital has a sequence of surreal experiences, including throwing a little girl who floats into space.
18:20: Joe calls his bank's automated telephone service, finds his balance is $1.62.
19:30: Joe talks about kidnapping.
24:50: Joe tells of Dr Ostrowsky (sp?) and his wife. He has a sequence of surreal experiences, visits Dreamland, which has fallen into disrepair.
36:40: Joe tells of a new wave band's recording session that ends up with such a severe anthrax outbreak that authorities detonate a small nuclear weapon, killing 200,000, to stop its spread. "This story has never been told."
45:20: People (2-3 men, 1 woman) tell how much ransom was paid for them when they were held hostage.
52:00: Joe calls the White House switchboard, can't talk to the president.
53:00: Joe talks to a Yaco person: he's hard.
54:20: Joe eats the sweetmeat recovered from Bog Man.
Music
- "Pastime" - Tangerine Dream (from Heartbreakers, 1985) | YouTube [intro]
- "Bent Cold Sidewalk" - Tangerine Dream (from Cyclone, 1978) | YouTube [5:55]
- "Barbakane" - Tangerine Dream (from Poland (The Warsaw Concert), 1984) | YouTube [24:00]
Additional credits
The original broadcast credits state: "[W]ritten and produced by Joe Frank. Special thanks to Paul Mantell, Irene Wagner, Lester Nafzger, and Arthur Miller. Technical production by Tom Strother."
