Nightride

Nightride[1]

Series
Work In Progress
Original Broadcast Date
1986
Cast
Tim Jerome, Mark Hammer, Joseph Palmieri, Alan Hunter, Lester Nafzger, Annalee Jefferies, F. Murray Abraham, Arthur Miller, Joe Frank
Format
Scripted Actors, Sound Effects, 1 hour
Preceded by:	Let Me Not Dream
Followed by:	No Show

"That is the electric plant over there."

"Nightride" is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series Work In Progress. It was originally broadcast in 1986.

Synopsis

Rhythmic humming. Tour of the city: electric plant lit by candles. A power plant worker is interrogated about a bombing, his job, his life, his childhood. Something is missing dialog. Religious counselor type asks his subject to guess at the solution to resolving the tension between the physical and the spiritual. The five things which are important in life. Confession. The prison psychologist recording: don't trust angels and the save my ass daily declaration. A woman talks about what she likes. Life as a series of forgetting. A disappearing girlfriend. A man in the street talks about a final exam nightmare, the life and death box. Rhythmic humming and nonsense verse.

Interesting Facts

Shares material with Black Hole and A Tour Of The City. Leaves out references to Voltgen and city scenes. Also shares brief material with Reprise.

Music

• "Flowered Knife Shadows" - Harold Budd (from Lovely Thunder, 1986) | YouTube

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