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|header5 = Cast | |header5 = Cast | ||
|data6 = Barbara Sohmers, Joseph Palmieri, Lester Nafzger, Irene Wagner, Tim Jerome, Leslie Cass, David Rapkin, Rosemary Foley, Charles Potter, Arthur Miller, Brother Theodore, Joe Frank | |data6 = [[Barbara Sohmers|Barbara Sohmers]], [[Joseph Palmieri|Joseph Palmieri]], [[Lester Nafzger|Lester Nafzger]], [[Irene Wagner|Irene Wagner]], [[Tim Jerome|Tim Jerome]], [[Leslie Cass|Leslie Cass]], [[David Rapkin|David Rapkin]], [[Rosemary Foley|Rosemary Foley]], [[Charles Potter|Charles Potter]], [[Arthur Miller|Arthur Miller]], [[Brother Theodore]], Joe Frank | ||
|header7 = Format | |header7 = Format | ||
|data8 = 1 hour | |data8 = 1 hour | ||
|header9 = Chronology | |header9 = Chronology | ||
|label10= Preceded by: | |label10= Preceded by: | ||
|data10 = [[ | |data10 = [[Pilot_::_The_End|Pilot :: The End]] | ||
|label11= Followed by: | |label11= Followed by: | ||
|data11 = [[ | |data11 = [[The Queen Of Puerto Rico]] | ||
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''"Hoffman died today."'' | ''"Hoffman died today."'' | ||
"The Decline of Spengler" is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[WBAI And NPR Playhouse]]. It was originally broadcast in | "The Decline of Spengler" is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[WBAI And NPR Playhouse]]. It was originally broadcast in 1983. | ||
== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
Hoffman dies in surgery | * Hoffman dies in surgery | ||
* Joe ponders technology and society on a plane. Robot stewardess. | |||
* Joe dreams he is a doctor on horseback. Hoffman's funeral and the fountain of youth is in Florida. | |||
* Dream: film of Austria with weapons demos. | |||
* Human centrifuge and fast-moving-foods dialog. | |||
* Dream: Joe is a lawyer before a jury of prophets and seers. | |||
* Joe gets cold call from Mrs. Waterman, they go to hotel, she is in a wheelchair (monologue, followed by actress). | |||
* A doctor is called to a hotel where an operation is performed on him. | |||
* A German engineer is mistakenly trapped on a train bound for a concentration camp, he escapes and finds the messiah. | |||
* A three act play about a film about a man who loses his memory, emerges from the screen and is shot. The shooter than begs the projectionist to run the film backwards. Later a muffled telephone conversation accompanies a theological debate. | |||
* A doctor dismisses a patient in a call-in medical program. | |||
* Old people at a beach chat. Joe visits the zaddik of Rome. | |||
* The messiah talks about time and decay, denies responsibility. | |||
* Joe imagines a life married to a woman in Tampa who finds Jesus. | |||
* Cleaning out Hoffman's room, finding a ticket to a rocket ship launch in Dreamland, ending up crashed in the swamp hundreds of years in the future. | |||
* Nonsense monologue. | |||
== Interesting Facts == | == Interesting Facts == | ||
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[[Category:Scripted_Actors]] | [[Category:Scripted_Actors]] | ||
[[Category:Lester Nafzger]] | [[Category:Lester Nafzger]] | ||
[[Category:Barbara Sohmers]] | |||
[[Category:Joseph Palmieri]] | |||
[[Category:Lester Nafzger]] | |||
[[Category:Irene Wagner]] | |||
[[Category:Tim Jerome]] | |||
[[Category:Leslie Cass]] | |||
[[Category:David Rapkin]] | |||
[[Category:Rosemary Foley]] | |||
[[Category:Charles Potter]] | |||
[[Category:Arthur Miller] | |||
[[Category:Brother Theodore]] | |||
[[Category:1983]] |
Revision as of 14:12, 12 March 2018
Series | |
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WBAI And NPR Playhouse | |
Original Broadcast Date | |
1983 | |
Cast | |
Barbara Sohmers, Joseph Palmieri, Lester Nafzger, Irene Wagner, Tim Jerome, Leslie Cass, David Rapkin, Rosemary Foley, Charles Potter, Arthur Miller, Brother Theodore, Joe Frank | |
Format | |
1 hour | |
Chronology | |
Preceded by: | Pilot :: The End |
Followed by: | The Queen Of Puerto Rico |
"Hoffman died today."
"The Decline of Spengler" is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series WBAI And NPR Playhouse. It was originally broadcast in 1983.
Synopsis
- Hoffman dies in surgery
- Joe ponders technology and society on a plane. Robot stewardess.
- Joe dreams he is a doctor on horseback. Hoffman's funeral and the fountain of youth is in Florida.
- Dream: film of Austria with weapons demos.
- Human centrifuge and fast-moving-foods dialog.
- Dream: Joe is a lawyer before a jury of prophets and seers.
- Joe gets cold call from Mrs. Waterman, they go to hotel, she is in a wheelchair (monologue, followed by actress).
- A doctor is called to a hotel where an operation is performed on him.
- A German engineer is mistakenly trapped on a train bound for a concentration camp, he escapes and finds the messiah.
- A three act play about a film about a man who loses his memory, emerges from the screen and is shot. The shooter than begs the projectionist to run the film backwards. Later a muffled telephone conversation accompanies a theological debate.
- A doctor dismisses a patient in a call-in medical program.
- Old people at a beach chat. Joe visits the zaddik of Rome.
- The messiah talks about time and decay, denies responsibility.
- Joe imagines a life married to a woman in Tampa who finds Jesus.
- Cleaning out Hoffman's room, finding a ticket to a rocket ship launch in Dreamland, ending up crashed in the swamp hundreds of years in the future.
- Nonsense monologue.
Interesting Facts
Music
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Commentary
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External Links
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