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“What a weird place!”
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Apologies RE: video quality this TV film has never been released on home video
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And now our feature presentation: “Between Time and Timbuktu” (1971) directed by Fred Barzyk (youtu.be/HnltZeOvZsw?...) for the National Educational Television and PBS series “NET Playhouse”.
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The screenplay for “Between Time and Timbuktu” combined with production images from the TV film were released as a 1972 novelization. You can read that for free here (archive.org/details/betw...).
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“Between Time and Timbuktu” (1971) is based on the writing and philosophy of Kurt Vonnegut Jr. The screenplay was written by David Odell of “The Muppet Show” fame with contributions from comedy duo Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding and Vonnegut himself.
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Is he talking to the cat or to god? (a trick question really)
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Nowadays there are washing machines with more computing power than that entire control room 🤯
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“Wings” fans may remember the actor playing Stony Stevenson as the eccentric old man Carlton Blanchard who pops up on a few episodes
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