<div dir="ltr">The discrepancy between casts is due to there being two shows with this title!<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.joefrank.com/shop/dreamland-a-compilation/">https://www.joefrank.com/shop/dreamland-a-compilation/</a><br></div><div>Was aired in "The Other SIde" series and features David Franks - the insane phone preacher and tarot card reader, and a homeless guy.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.joefrank.com/shop/dreamland/">https://www.joefrank.com/shop/dreamland/</a><br></div><div>From Work In Progress 1986 is the show Russell describes here.</div><div><br></div><div>When I heard Joe checking his bank balance back in the day I played with my touch-tone phone and determined that his password was "true"</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 10:40 AM <<a href="mailto:russellbell@gmail.com">russellbell@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> Joe announces what's coming on tonight's show: global leaders<br>
rigged up as marionettes, the Red Army Chorus, Bruno of Vienna, Bog<br>
Man (a 100,000 year old corpse preserved in a peat bog), the Yaco<br>
(sp?) people of Guam who have bred with teak trees, thus becoming very<br>
hard...<br>
<br>
3:40: Somebody tells about the Kapts, a people in ancient<br>
Turkey who kidnapped others. Because no one else lived there they<br>
kidnapped inanimate objects, then each other.<br>
<br>
6:20: Joe tells about his favorite wrestler, Mr Capital, a<br>
predatory capitalist who perpetrates all the common crimes of<br>
Capitalists. He bought all the organic farms on Long Island,<br>
converting them to a theme park, Dreamland. He has a sequence of<br>
surreal experiences, including throwing a little girl who floats into<br>
space.<br>
<br>
18:20: Joe calls his bank's automated telephone service, finds<br>
his balance is $1.62.<br>
<br>
19:30: Joe talks about kidnapping.<br>
<br>
24:50: Joe tells of Dr Ostrowksy (sp?) and his wife. He has a<br>
sequence of surreal experiences, visits Dreamland, which has fallen<br>
into disrepair.<br>
<br>
36:40: Joe tells of a punk band's recording session that ends<br>
up with such a severe anthrax outbreak that authorities detonate a<br>
small nuclear weapon, killing 200,000, to stop the spread of.<br>
<br>
45:20: People (3? including 1 woman) tell how much ransom was<br>
paid for them when they were held hostage.<br>
<br>
52:00: Joe calls the White House switchboard, can't talk to<br>
the president.<br>
<br>
53:00: Joe talks to a Yaco person: he's hard.<br>
<br>
54:20: Joe eats the sweetmeat recovered from Bog Man.<br>
<br>
Cast: David Franks, William Reinert, Grace Zabriskie, Stanley, and Joe<br>
Frank (according to 1 source)<br>
<br>
or: Arthur Miller, Paul Mantell, Avery Hart, Lester Nafzger, and Joe<br>
Frank (according to another)<br>
<br>
What do you think?<br>
<br>
Joe uses the music 'Rock hammer' (a cut from the score of<br>
'Shawshank redemption') in 'Dreamland'; his character uses a rock<br>
hammer in 'Escape from paradise'.<br>
<br>
russell bell<br>
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