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The Ray Bradbury Theater: And So Died Riabouchinska
The police investigate a murder committed in a theater. The detective uncovers a missing ballerina, long concealed love, and blackmail. Their only reliable witness is... a ventriloquist's dummy.
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Episode Info
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Episode number: 3x12 Airdate: Saturday May 28th, 1988 |
Recap
In Paris, the police accompany an ambulance to the Champs Elysses to a theater where John Fabian performs his ventriloquism act. Lt. Krovitch examines the corpse and then turns to Fabian, but a woman's voice emerges from a nearby trunk. Fabian tells the dummy, Riabouchinska, to be quiet and takes offense when Krovitch calls it a dummy. Krovitch turns to Fabian's wife Alyce and his promoter, Howard Douglas, and asks if they knew the dead man, Robert Henry Ockham. They deny it but Krovitch notes that Ockham knew at least one of them and had come in through the stage door many times. When he points out that one of them is lying, Riabouchinska agrees with him and Krovitch tells John to stop the act. The dummy warns that she'll never work with John again...Read the full recap
Episode Notes
Based on the short story "And So Died Riabouchinska" by Ray Bradbury. The story was first published in The Saint Detective Magazine (June-July 1953).
Bradbury's story was previously adapted as an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
Music
| Artist | Song Title | Played When |
| Frederic Chopin | Sylphides | Illyana performing ballet |
Episode Quotes
Lieutenant Krovitch: What are you up to?
John Fabian: I am helpless. Oh, I know what you think. You think that she's here in my throat. But no she's not. She's somewhere else. Maybe here. (points to head) Certainly here. (points to heart)
Lieutenant Krovitch: She is not there.
John Fabian: No. She hides herself so easily. She waits and watches me. She tells me what to do. I do it. She speaks when I cannot, she's good when I am evil. She is open when I'm closed. She's all around and all about. Sometimes she builds a wall and hides herself and doesn't say a word to me. But sometimes, like tonight, she speaks.
John Fabian: I am helpless. Oh, I know what you think. You think that she's here in my throat. But no she's not. She's somewhere else. Maybe here. (points to head) Certainly here. (points to heart)
Lieutenant Krovitch: She is not there.
John Fabian: No. She hides herself so easily. She waits and watches me. She tells me what to do. I do it. She speaks when I cannot, she's good when I am evil. She is open when I'm closed. She's all around and all about. Sometimes she builds a wall and hides herself and doesn't say a word to me. But sometimes, like tonight, she speaks.
Analysis
Changes from the short story:
* In the story, Riamanova is Fabian's assistant. In the episode, she is a ballerina who works at the same theater.
* In the story, Riamanova is Fabian's assistant. In the episode, she is a ballerina who works at the same theater.
Other Episode Crew
| • Creator | Ray Bradbury |
| • Executive Producer | Ray Bradbury | Larry Wilcox | Peter Sussman |
| • Co-Executive Producer | Stephane Sperry | Pierre Bertrand-Jaume | Bill Allan |
| • Supervising Producer | Seaton McLean |
| • Producer | Hubert Niogret |
| • Editor | Sophie Cornu |
| • First Assistant Director | François Crozade |
| • Second Assistant Director | Stephane Gluck |
| • Music | Eric Demarsan |
| • Key Grip | Emile Laisne |
| • Location Manager | Veronique Forgeau |
| • Property Master | Olivier Crespin |
| • Production Assistant | Patricia Voisin |
| • Assistant Editor | Anne Saint-macary |
| • Re-Recording Mixer | Jacques Thomas-Gerard |
| • Gaffer | Christophe Offensteine |
| • Director of Photography | Gilberto Azevedo |
| • Art Director | Etienne Mery |
| • Production Management | Raphael Caussimon |
| • Sound Mixer | François Waledisch |
| • Accountant | Isabelle Duley |
| • Boom Operator | Henri Maikoff |
| • Foley | Jacques Tassel |
| • Wardrobe | Rose-Marie Melka |
| • Second Camera | Denis Rouden | Patrick Jan |
| • Dialoge Coach | Peggy Giunta |
| • Continuity | Dominique Piat |
| • Still Photographer | Jacques Prayer |
| • Assistant Location Manager | Gael Collon | Philippe Rouquier |
| • 1st Camera Assistant | Jerome Peyrebrune |
| • Assistant Set Decorator | Eric Berger |
| • Model Maker | Didier Soubeyran |
| • Ventriloquist Advisor | Franck Fevrier |
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