Fractured Flickers

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Fractured Flickers
GenreComedy
Created byChris Hayward
Written byAllan Burns
Chris Hayward
Lloyd Turner
George Atkins
Jim Critchfield
Bill Scott
Presented byHans Conried
Voices ofPaul Frees
June Foray
Bill Scott
Opening themeDennis Farnon
ComposersDennis Farnon
Fred Steiner
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes26
Production
Executive producersPonsonby Britt, O.B.E.
ProducersJay Ward
Bill Scott
EditorsSkip Craig
Roger Donley
Running time30 minutes
Production companyJay Ward Productions
Original release
NetworkSyndication
Release1 January 1963 (1963-01-01) –
1 January 1964 (1964-01-01)

Fractured Flickers is a live-action

Desilu Productions
and played for several years on local stations.

Content

Host Hans Conried introduced short "flickers" pieced together from silent film footage and from other older films, overdubbed with newly written comic dialogue, music, and sound effects. The voices for these were provided by fellow Ward mainstays Paul Frees, June Foray, and Bill Scott.

The earliest episodes have careful

dubbing, with the actors and writers taking pains to synchronize the new dialogue with the actors' lip movements. Once the series had deadlines to face, however, the time-consuming dubbing was abandoned, and the later episodes do not bother with exact synchronization. The concept anticipated Woody Allen's comic overdubbed film debut
a few years later.

True to the Jay Ward brand of humor, the dialogue was loaded with

bees!" Regular features were the "Minute Mysteries", featuring Stan Laurel as master detective Sherman Oaks (his scenes "fractured" from his 1925 short comedy, Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde
), and the weekly "tributes" to some American city.

Each episode also featured a celebrity guest whom Conried would interview. Most were popular TV or film personalities of the 1960s such as

tongue in cheek
.

Many prominent figures of the 1960s were lampooned, including TV icons such as "Uncle Walt" Disney. A segment based on the Kennedy family (and produced long before airtime) was excised from all copies of the series when John F. Kennedy was assassinated so that it was never shown. This segment remains lost to this day.

Guest stars

The following were guest stars:

  1. Rose Marie 8-1-63
  2. Fabian 8-8-63
  3. Gypsy Rose Lee 8-15-63
  4. Allan Sherman 8-22-63
  5. Annette Funicello 8-29-63
  6. Edward Everett Horton9-5-63
  7. Paula Prentiss 9-12-63
  8. Sebastian Cabot 9-19-63
  9. Roddy McDowall 9-26-63
  10. Vivienne Della Chiesa
    10-3-63
  11. Connie Stevens 10-10-63
  12. Rod Serling 10-17-63
  13. Connie Hines 10-24-63
  14. Cesar Romero 10-31-63
  15. Diana Dors 11-7-63
  16. Bullwinkle J. Moose 11-14-63
  17. Deborah Walley 11-21-63
  18. Paul Lynde 11-28-63
  19. Anna Maria Alberghetti12-5-63
  20. Ruta Lee 12-12-63
  21. Barbara Eden 12-19-63
  22. Bob Denver 12-26-63
  23. Pat Carroll 1-2-64
  24. Bob Newhart 1-9-64
  25. Ursula Andress 1-16-64
  26. Zsa Zsa Gabor 1-23-64

An interview with Johnny Weissmuller was filmed but not used; the interview with the Bullwinkle puppet may have been filmed as its replacement. Co-producer Bill Scott (Bullwinkle's voice) appears briefly in two episodes, one as a delivery man and one as a stuntman.

Home media

The complete series was released on DVD by VCI Entertainment in 2004.[1]

As of 2022, reruns of the show aired on Movies! channel every Saturday morning.[citation needed]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Fractured Flickers:". DVD Talk. Retrieved 30 April 2023.

External links

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