Between Time and Timbuktu
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| Between Time and Timbuktu | |
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| Directed by | Fred Barzyk |
| Written by | David Odell Kurt Vonnegut Jr. |
Release date | March 13, 1972 |
Running time | 90 minutes |
| Language | English |
Between Time and Timbuktu is a television film based on the a number of works by Kurt Vonnegut. Produced by National Educational Television and WGBH-TV in Boston, Massachusetts, it was telecast March 13, 1972 as a NET Playhouse special.
The television script was published later that year, illustrated with photographs by Jill Krementz and stills from the television production. The book's preface includes a summary of the contributors to the production:
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was commissioned to be an advisor and contributor to the script in 1971... Many good people created funny stuff as the filming progressed, most notably Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding, and Fred Barzyk, the director. The first draft of the script, most of which survived, was by David O'Dell. Boyd Estus was the director of photography.
Cast
The televised production of the play starred William Hickey as Stony Stevenson. The rest of the cast included:
- Bruce Morrow as Contest Announcer
- Dortha Duckworth as Mrs. Stevenson (Stony's mother)
- Ray Goulding as Walter Gesundheit
- Bob Elliott as Bud Williams, Jr. (the ex-astronaut)
- Franklin Cover as Col. Donald "Tex" Pirandello
- Russell Morash as Sandy Abernethy
- John Devlin as Dr. Bobby Denton
- Kevin McCarthy as Bokonon
- Edie Lynch as Island Girl
- Jerry Gershman as Soldier
- James Sloyan as Dr. Paul Proteus
- George Serries as Prosecutor
- Ashley Westcott as Deaf Juror
- John Peters as Drunk
- Helen Stenborg as Miss Martin
- Hurd Hatfield as Dr. Hoenikker
- Dolph Sweet as General
- Hariet Hamilton as Lead Caroler
- Sam Amato as Policeman
- Benay Venuta as Diana Moon Glampers
- Carlton Power as First Stagehand
- Jean Sanocki as Larry
- Jack Shipley as News Announcer
- Alexis Hoff as Ballerina
- Avind Haerum as Harrison Bergeron
- Frank Dolan as Short Order Cook
- Susan Sullivan as Nancy
- Charles White as Lionel J. Howard
- Philip Bruns as Announcer
- Ariane Munker as Wanda June
- Page Johnson as Hitler
- MacIntyre Dixon as Cemetery Gardener