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Kurt Vonnegut's Monkey House
Presented byKurt Vonnegut
ComposerDoug Macaskill
Country of originCanada
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes7
Production
Executive producersMichael MacMillan
Harold Lee Tichenor
Production locationsBritish Columbia, Canada (1991)
Auckland, New Zealand (1992)
Running time30 minutes
Production companyAlliance Atlantis
Original release
NetworkShowtime
ReleaseMay 12, 1991 (1991-05-12) –
April 4, 1993 (1993-04-04)

Kurt Vonnegut's Monkey House is a Canadian television anthology series which aired on the Showtime network from 1991 to 1993. Author Kurt Vonnegut hosted the series himself, presenting dramatizations of several of his short stories from the collection Welcome to the Monkey House.[1]

Episodes

Each Monkey House adaptation was 30 minutes long.

The first three stories were produced as a television pilot in British Columbia, Canada, and broadcast together from 9:00–10:30pm on May 12, 1991:[2]

  • Next Door
  • The Euphio Question
  • All The King's Horses

The four subsequent episodes were filmed and produced in New Zealand in 1992, as a co-production with South Pacific Pictures:[3]

  • Fortitude (aired December 21, 1992)
  • More Stately Mansions (aired January 3, 1993)
  • Epicac (aired February 21, 1993)
  • The Foster Portfolio (aired April 4, 1993)

References

  1. ^ Goudas, John N. (February 21, 1993). "A Look Inside Vonnegut's 'Monkey House'". Los Angeles Times. USA. Retrieved February 7, 2014.
  2. ^ Variety Television Reviews 1991–1992. New York: Taylor & Francis. 1994. ISBN 0824037960.
  3. ^ Official Co-Productions 1988–2013, New Zealand Film Commission.