Fractured Flickers fan

I’m 46 now and remember watching fractured flickers, it was a must see for me at the time….Is there any of these shows on Video…I’d love to see them again…this show was one of my all time favorite…Ive always been a big fan of all of all the above mentioned on your site….thanks

Mike Marglaski

Mike:

Since Hans Conried was the host of that show, I went to IMDB

After that, I noticed, on the left margin, that it had an option called “Titles for Sale”. I clicked on that. It brought up quite a few videos and DVDs, which included work that he had done (in movies or TV shows), but none, at all, for Fractured Flickers.

Next I noticed, under “User Comments” that there were a few folks who had emailed in their opinions about Fractured Flickers—–including one person who was saying that he wished that these were available for release to the general public. That person had emailed in those remarks, back in Feb. 1999. Perhaps by now he has found Fractured Flickers that he could buy. Maybe you could email him (there is a way to email him, when you read his comment).

You may have to register with this IMDb website, before you can email him, but it is FREE to register. I have registered and I have not had to pay a single red cent.

I am 41, so I guess I was just a bit too young for those Fractured Flickers when they first came out. It says, on the site where I found this show, that it ran in 1963 and for only one season. I was only 3-4 years old, back in 1963.

I never, never, NEVER saw this show, ever, in re-runs, like most of Jay Wards shows. Perhaps it was not as popular as some of his other shows and that’s why……….Perhaps the re-runs have been seen more on cable TV.

Anyway, I have always been really curious about this show. Bill Scott told me, when he wrote to me in early 1974 (Bill was the co-producer of Jay Ward Productions) that they made 26 episodes of Fractured Flickers.

I read in Keith Scott’s book, The Moose That Roared, that Joan Crawford was REALLY upset about the premise of this show. She thought that it was an AWFUL idea, because she had done 29 silent movies between the years 1923-1929. The whole idea behind Fractured Flickers was to dub in dialogue, in old silent films. This was as upsetting to her as colorizing old black and white movies is upsetting to some actors today (I remember seeing Woody Allen and Ginger Rogers, on Capitol Hill, trying to fight against colorizing B & W movies).

Brian

When I registered on the site you recomended, I gave them all the info but an error came up when I tried to comment….about fractured flickers….I’ll try again and see what happens…It may have been because I used the same pass word…thanks again

Mike

I’d really like to see some of the old shows….next time I get a chance to go to the Museum of Broadcast ….I’ll see what they say about Fractured Flickers

Mike