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The Ray Bradbury Theater: Skeleton
When a hypochondriac becomes obsessed with his skeleton, he finds a most unusual specialist who offers him an extraordinary cure.
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Episode Info
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Episode number: 3x2 Airdate: Saturday February 06th, 1988 |
Co-Guest Stars
Recap
Professor Bert Harris, a hypochondriac, is at the library reading about bone ailments. He then goes to see Dr. Burleigh and stares at the other patients. Burleigh finally ushers him in so he won't upset the others. Burleigh notes that Bert has been in the office repeatedly to complain about various ailments. He explains that Bert is causing his illness by focusing on minor ills, currently bone problems, and tells him to get out. ..Read the full recap
Episode Notes
Based on the short story "Skeleton" by Ray Bradbury. The story was first published in Weird Tales (September, 1943).
Episode Quotes
Bert Harris: You know what else I've discovered today, doctor? Your office doesn't look at all like a doctor's office.
Dr. Burleigh: What do you want? Pictures of germs on the office walls?
Dr. Burleigh: What do you want? Pictures of germs on the office walls?
Bert Harris: I'm having a problem...
Munigant: With your skeleton.
Bert Harris: Well, not, not the whole thing.
Munigant: Why not? It's all one architecture. The knee bone connected to the thigh bone. The thigh bone connected to the hip bone. You know, that old song.
Munigant: With your skeleton.
Bert Harris: Well, not, not the whole thing.
Munigant: Why not? It's all one architecture. The knee bone connected to the thigh bone. The thigh bone connected to the hip bone. You know, that old song.
Munigant: But now you. Do your clothes fit wrong on your flesh? Does your flesh fit wrong on your bones?
Bert Harris: I never thought about it...
Munigant: Think. Perhaps you came into this world with the wrong-sized skin. So, your skeleton is being smothered by your ill-fitting flesh.
Bert Harris: I never thought about it...
Munigant: Think. Perhaps you came into this world with the wrong-sized skin. So, your skeleton is being smothered by your ill-fitting flesh.
Clarisse: Good God, who is that?
Bert Harris: Me.
Clarisse: No resemblance.
Bert Harris: The other me.
Clarisse: Other? There's only one of you.
Bert Harris: Two. I never thought, i just discovered today. Most people don't consider, think, imagine what's inside them. Inside of everyone of us, that terrible representative of death. A skeleton.
Bert Harris: Me.
Clarisse: No resemblance.
Bert Harris: The other me.
Clarisse: Other? There's only one of you.
Bert Harris: Two. I never thought, i just discovered today. Most people don't consider, think, imagine what's inside them. Inside of everyone of us, that terrible representative of death. A skeleton.
Other Episode Crew
| • Creator | Ray Bradbury |
| • Executive Producer | Ray Bradbury | Larry Wilcox | Peter Sussman |
| • Co-Executive Producer | Stephane Sperry | Pierre Bertrand-Jaume | Bill Allan |
| • Producer | Seaton McLean |
| • Editor | Allan Lee |
| • Line Producer | Jonathan Goodwill |
| • First Assistant Director | Neil Huhta |
| • Second Assistant Director | Walter Gasparovic |
| • Music | Fred Mollin |
| • Hairstylist | Divyo Putney |
| • Make-up | Judy Murdock (2) |
| • Grip | Rob Cochrane | Bob O'Connor (2) |
| • Key Grip | Stretch Pamplin |
| • Set Decorator | Bill Lee (6) |
| • Location Manager | Ed Moody |
| • Transportation Coordinator | G. Kris Hawthorne |
| • Property Master | Robert Bartman |
| • Script Supervisor | Nancy Eagles |
| • Production Coordinator | Therese Paquette |
| • Assistant Editor | Susan Maggi |
| • Re-Recording Mixer | Jack Herren |
| • Gaffer | Ira Cohen |
| • Director of Photography | Brian R. R. Hebb |
| • Production Secretary | Heather Ross |
| • Art Director | Tony Hall (4) |
| • Post Production Coordinator | Susan Gerofsky | John Harcourt |
| • Production Manager | Len D'agostino |
| • Sound Editor | Michael Rea | Jane Tattersall |
| • Sound Mixer | Stuart French |
| • Third Assistant Director | Stephen Janisch |
| • Boom Operator | Moshe Saadon |
| • Production Accountant | Jim Sternberg |
| • Extras Casting | Rose Lewis |
| • Best Boy | Ed Mikolic |
| • Second Assistant Editor | Brett C. Sullivan |
| • Assistant Art Director | James Oswald | Terry Wareham |
| • Wardrobe Mistress | Nada Healey |
| • Still Photographer | Patrick Harbron |
| • Second Camera Assistant | Terry Gallie |
| • 1st Camera Assistant | John Hobson |
| • Assistant Set Decorator | Sheryl Thompson | Susan Worts |
| • Wardrobe Designer | Maya Mani |
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