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''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&hellip;

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.

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Mr. Capital, the Kapts, kidnapping and the swiss hostage exchange, Dr. Estrowski and Dreamland, third person version of the teeth chattering and seizure fantasy, disaster in a rock recording studio, hostage panel discussion, Joe calls the white house.

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== Music == 
{{Music-Stub}}{{Unidentified|id= need to identify intro music / and @ 24:40}}
{{Bent Cold Sidewalk (Tangerine Dream)}} [5:55]
{{Rock Hammer (Thomas Newman)}} {{Added music}}

== 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."

== Miscellanea ==
* Joe uses the music "[[:Category:Rock_Hammer_(Thomas_Newman)|Rock Hammer]]" (a cut from the score of <i>Shawshank Redemption</i>) in [[Dreamland]]; his character uses a rock hammer in [[Escape From Paradise]].

== Footnotes ==

[[Category:Absurd_Monologue]]
[[Category:Improv_Actors]]
[[Category:1986]]
[[Category: Work In Progress]]
[[Category:Unknown_air_date]][[Category:Show]]
[[Category:Show_by_date|19860012]]	{{Airdate|airdate=1986}}
{{Series|series=Work In Progress}}{{Cast|cast=[[Arthur Miller]], [[Paul Mantell]], [[Avery Hart]], [[Lester Nafzger]], Joe Frank}}