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The Ray Bradbury Theater: Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms In Your Cellar!
A father is concerned that his son's mushroom garden could possibly be taking over the entire neighbourhood.
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Episode Info
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Episode number: 4x12 Airdate: Friday November 17th, 1989 |
Co-Guest Stars
Recap
At the Fortnum household, teenage son Tom is reading through a catalog with hundreds of things to buy. An ad about raising giant mushrooms in the cellar catches his attention and he asks his mom and dad if he can order seeds. He's soon mowing for the money and his dad Hugh comes out to tell him he has tickets to the ball game. Tom passes and it's clear he's waiting for something. Their neighbor Mrs. Goodbody interrupts her spraying for parasites and weeds to come over and complain about invaders from outer space. She insists she's the first line of defense. The mailman comes over and Tom runs to sign for a special delivery package. Hugh asks to see it and checks out the package, which announces it contains Abyssians Amazon Mushrooms, shipped from New Orleans. Tom takes the package and runs inside, while Mrs. Goodbody continues to spray...Read the full recap
Episode Notes
Based on the Ray Bradbury short story "Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms In Your Cellar!" also known as "Come Into My Cellar". This story was first published in Galaxy Science Fiction (October 1962).
Episode Quotes
Host: This is my copy of the Johnson-Smith Racine, Wisconsin Catalog. Every boy in America at one time had one. You sent away for jokes, surprises, funny faces, whoopee cushions, and illusions. I sent away for my first Johnson-Smith catalog when I was 10, because I heard you could buy things, strange things, that you dunked in water or planted in your window box, that grew, and grew, and grew.
Roger Willis: What's intuition?
Hugh Fortnum: Uh, the stuff you know that you don't know you know?
Roger Willis: That's it. Over a period of time, things gather. Surprises. Your hands get dirty but you don't remember how they got that way. Dust falls on you every day but you don't feel it. But when you get enough dust collected up, there it is. You see it. You name it. And now I feel the weather changing every minute with the skin prickling on the backs of my hands.
Hugh Fortnum: Well...
Roger Willis: Now, don't laugh. I'm full up on dust and strange weather.
Hugh Fortnum: Uh, the stuff you know that you don't know you know?
Roger Willis: That's it. Over a period of time, things gather. Surprises. Your hands get dirty but you don't remember how they got that way. Dust falls on you every day but you don't feel it. But when you get enough dust collected up, there it is. You see it. You name it. And now I feel the weather changing every minute with the skin prickling on the backs of my hands.
Hugh Fortnum: Well...
Roger Willis: Now, don't laugh. I'm full up on dust and strange weather.
Hugh Fortnum: Well, what do we do about it?
Roger Willis: I don't know. Watch everything. Maybe it's in the way the wind blows those weeds. Or the way the sun burns on the telephone wires. Or the crickets screeching in the grass.
Hugh Fortnum: That's not much to go on.
Roger Willis: Then we're sunk and lost.
Roger Willis: I don't know. Watch everything. Maybe it's in the way the wind blows those weeds. Or the way the sun burns on the telephone wires. Or the crickets screeching in the grass.
Hugh Fortnum: That's not much to go on.
Roger Willis: Then we're sunk and lost.
Other Episode Crew
| • Creator | Ray Bradbury |
| • Executive Producer | Ray Bradbury | Larry Wilcox | Peter Sussman |
| • Supervising Producer | Seaton McLean | Tom Cotter (1) |
| • Producer | Arvi Liimatainen | Jonathan Goodwill |
| • Production Designer | John Blackie |
| • Editor | Christopher Tate |
| • Casting | Mary Ann Barton | Susan Forrest | Bette Chadwick |
| • First Assistant Director | David Webb (3) |
| • Second Assistant Director | Cynthia Gillespie |
| • Music | George Blondheim |
| • Costume Designer | Jill Blackie |
| • Make-up | Gail Kennedy |
| • Grip | Geoff Yates | Christopher Tate |
| • Set Decorator | Louise Middleton |
| • Location Manager | Greg Coyes |
| • Transportation Coordinator | Mark Boyko |
| • Property Master | Caroline George |
| • Construction Coordinator | Bill Rayment |
| • Script Supervisor | Mimi Wolch |
| • Gaffer | Bruno Bittner |
| • Director of Photography | Tobias Schliesller |
| • Production Secretary | Brenda Hennig |
| • Art Director | Scott Dobbie |
| • Post Production Coordinator | John Harcourt |
| • Production Management | Michael Sulyma |
| • Sound Mixer | George Tarrant |
| • Third Assistant Director | Tracy Long |
| • Boom Operator | Kelly Zomber |
| • Production Accountant | Linda Chapman |
| • Set Dresser | Doug Blackie |
| • Wardrobe Assistant | Kathleen Mulder |
| • First Assistant Editor | Eric Hill (1) |
| • Assistant To The Producer | Spyro Egarhos |
| • Graphic Artist | Kathy McCoy |
| • Hair | Rosemary Diekmann |
| • Best Boy Grip | Randy Swanson |
| • Still Photographer | Douglas Curran |
| • Second Camera Assistant | Dale Jahraus |
| • Legal Advisor | Lon J. Hall |
| • 1st Camera Assistant | Jon Joffin |
| • Best Boy Electrician | Martin Wilde |
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