Episode Info
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Episode number: 4x2 Airdate: Friday July 14th, 1989 |
Recap
Two drifters, Robert and William, are driving across the desert in their battered pickup truck. Ned Bantlin is chasing them on a motorcycle and they try to outrun him, and then pull off behind an old sign. They spot a man on a motorcycle behind them and try to outrun him. Ned drives by and misses them. Robert explains that Ned is always following them, picking up on whatever harvests they happen to find. Robert and William continue on William wonders if their luck is changing. Robert says it is, and pulls off. He admits he doesn't know why he pulled off and there doesn't seem to be anything there. Robert looks out and sees a mighty city in the distance. He explains that it's a mirage, reflecting a city from hundreds of miles away, and it's a gift they shouldn't examine too carefully. William looks at it and sees something different, and Robert figures each person who views it sees what they want...Read the full recap
Episode Notes
Based on the short story "A Miracle of Rare Device" by Ray Bradbury. This story was first published in Playboy (January 1962).
Episode Quotes
Host: When I was a boy, my dad was looking for work. He took my mom, my brother Skip and myself, and headed west. Along the way, in the middle of nowhere whatsoever at all, on a hot summer desert noon, with the wind still and heat rising from the sand dunes, we were witness to a miracle. Years later, I remembered the miracle. This is that remembrance.
Robert: Oh, Willie, Willie, never ask Nature. There's things about radio waves and rainbows and northern lights, we're never gonna know.
William: Are we the pure at heart?
Robert: Nah. Not like the kids who came through today, who saw anything they wanted to see. Not like the big folks with them, born in wheat fields and by God's grace wandering the world. Nah, we're not the big children, not the little children. Willie, I'm glad to be alive. You know the morning air, early, on the road. Maybe we take it easy, don't think, relax.
Robert: Nah. Not like the kids who came through today, who saw anything they wanted to see. Not like the big folks with them, born in wheat fields and by God's grace wandering the world. Nah, we're not the big children, not the little children. Willie, I'm glad to be alive. You know the morning air, early, on the road. Maybe we take it easy, don't think, relax.
Other Episode Crew
| • Creator | Ray Bradbury |
| • Executive Producer | Ray Bradbury | Larry Wilcox | Peter Sussman |
| • Supervising Producer | Seaton McLean | Tom Cotter (1) |
| • Producer | Grahame McLean | Jonathan Goodwill |
| • Editor | John McWilliam |
| • Casting | Frances Walsh | Susan Forrest | Mary Ann Barton |
| • Line Producer | Narelle Barsby |
| • First Assistant Director | Brian Wickstead |
| • Second Assistant Director | Charlie Haskell |
| • Music | Clive Cockburn |
| • Make-up | Trish Cohen |
| • Key Grip | Dennis Thompson |
| • Location Manager | Jonathan Tapley |
| • Property Master | Viv Kernick |
| • Production Coordinator | Nicky Saggers |
| • Gaffer | Neil Taylor | Brendan Shadbolt |
| • Director of Photography | Stuart Dryburgh |
| • Production Secretary | Lesley Turner |
| • Art Director | Rick Kofoed |
| • Post Production Coordinator | John Harcourt | Johannes Konigstorfer |
| • Production Management | Maria Saunders |
| • Sound Editor | Rex Potter |
| • Dubbing Mixer | Chris Verburg | Mike Hedges |
| • Sound Recordist | Ken Saville |
| • Boom Operator | Kim Shaw-Williams |
| • Production Accountant | George Wilson (2) | Anne Marie Cormier |
| • Sound Supervisor | Kit Rollings | John Neill |
| • Assistant Film Editor | Morgan Reid |
| • Continuity | Pat Robins |
| • Construction Manager | Robbo Outterside |
| • Wardrobe Supervisor | Nancy Seaton |
| • Assistant Grip | Deane Cronin |
| • Scenic Artist | Patrick Jelly |
| • Costume Assistant | Jane Woodhill |
| • Legal Advisor | Lon J. Hall |
| • 1st Camera Assistant | Cameron McLean |
| • Assistant Script Editor | Penelope Sinclair |
| • Model Maker | Rob Uivel |
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