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Fractured Flickers

Fractured Flickers

Fractured Flickers

VCI (1963)
DVD
NR (Not Rated)
089859837425
TV Series | Comedy
USA | English | Color | 11:16

From the minds of Jay Ward and Bill Scott comes Fractured Flickers, an irreverent tribute to silent pictures. It used movie clips from the silent film era featuring old-time stars like Stan Laurel, Douglas Fairbanks, Harry Houdini, Harry Langdon, Ben Turpin and Lon Chaney and mixed in old newsreel footage with goofy plot lines. Then, using talented voice actors, the films ere edited and dubbed to create new, hilarious segments.


Episodes View details

1 Rose Marie 25 min | Aug 01, 1963

Our host explains what a "fractured flicker" is, introduces several wacky segments and interviews a coy Rose Marie.

2 Fabian 25 min | Aug 08, 1963

Take old movies, throw away the soundtrack, add your own voices and sound effects and BAM! You've got a comedy masterpiece. Each episode is a ridiculous conglomeration of jokes and mayhem.

3 Gypsy Rose Lee 25 min | Aug 15, 1963

Take old movies, throw away the soundtrack, add your own voices and sound effects and BAM! You've got a comedy masterpiece. Each episode is a ridiculous conglomeration of jokes and mayhem.

4 Allan Sherman 30 min | Aug 22, 1963

Take old movies, throw away the soundtrack, add your own voices and sound effects and BAM! You've got a comedy masterpiece. Each episode is a ridiculous conglomeration of jokes and mayhem.

5 Annette Funicello 25 min | Aug 29, 1963

Guest Annette Funicello confesses to Hans that she never watches the show. Recordings reveal how silent movie director Frederick Fig achieved his unforgettable results in "The Cut Away." A simple country dermatologist cures a man's dry skin in "Hands Across the Fee." Lon Cheney stars as Quasimodo in his first film comedy, "Dinky Dunstan, Boy Cheerleader." A preview of next week's episode of the "Adventures of Harry and Ozziet."

6 Edward Everett Horton 25 min | Sep 05, 1963

Segments include Buster Keaton running a moving company and a salute to Pasedena, California, and its Rose Bowl parade. Horton discusses his favorite movie, 1926's "Young April." That flicker is re-cut as "The Prince and the Poppa" with the king sending his dopey son in search of a rich baseball-playing heiress to marry.

7 Paula Prentiss 25 min | Sep 12, 1963

Take old movies, throw away the soundtrack, add your own voices and sound effects and BAM! You've got a comedy masterpiece. Each episode is a ridiculous conglomeration of jokes and mayhem.

8 Sebastian Cabot 21 min | Sep 19, 1963

Take old movies, throw away the soundtrack, add your own voices and sound effects and BAM! You've got a comedy masterpiece. Each episode is a ridiculous conglomeration of jokes and mayhem.

9 Roddy McDowall 25 min | Sep 26, 1963

Take old movies, throw away the soundtrack, add your own voices and sound effects and BAM! You've got a comedy masterpiece. Each episode is a ridiculous conglomeration of jokes and mayhem.

10 Vivienne Della Chiesa 25 min | Oct 03, 1963

Take old movies, throw away the soundtrack, add your own voices and sound effects and BAM! You've got a comedy masterpiece. Each episode is a ridiculous conglomeration of jokes and mayhem.

11 Connie Stevens 25 min | Oct 10, 1963

Take old movies, throw away the soundtrack, add your own voices and sound effects and BAM! You've got a comedy masterpiece. Each episode is a ridiculous conglomeration of jokes and mayhem.

12 Rod Serling 25 min | Oct 17, 1963

Take old movies, throw away the soundtrack, add your own voices and sound effects and BAM! You've got a comedy masterpiece. Each episode is a ridiculous conglomeration of jokes and mayhem.

13 Connie Hines 25 min | Oct 24, 1963

Take old movies, throw away the soundtrack, add your own voices and sound effects and BAM! You've got a comedy masterpiece. Each episode is a ridiculous conglomeration of jokes and mayhem.

14 Cesar Romero 25 min | Oct 31, 1963

Take old movies, throw away the soundtrack, add your own voices and sound effects and BAM! You've got a comedy masterpiece. Each episode is a ridiculous conglomeration of jokes and mayhem.

15 Diana Dors 25 min | Nov 07, 1963

Take old movies, throw away the soundtrack, add your own voices and sound effects and BAM! You've got a comedy masterpiece. Each episode is a ridiculous conglomeration of jokes and mayhem.

16 Bullwinkle J. Moose 25 min | Nov 14, 1963

Our host escapes a mob of "fans" to introduce wacky segments and interview Bullwinkle J. Moose.

17 Deborah Walley 25 min | Nov 21, 1963

Take old movies, throw away the soundtrack, add your own voices and sound effects and BAM! You've got a comedy masterpiece. Each episode is a ridiculous conglomeration of jokes and mayhem.

18 Paul Lynde 25 min | Nov 28, 1963

Take old movies, throw away the soundtrack, add your own voices and sound effects and BAM! You've got a comedy masterpiece. Each episode is a ridiculous conglomeration of jokes and mayhem.

19 Anna Maria Alberghetti 25 min | Dec 05, 1963

Our host introduces "Jay Ward Prevues" and other wacky clips; and he hands over his entire paycheck to Anna Marie Alberghetti.

20 Ruta Lee 25 min | Dec 12, 1963

Take old movies, throw away the soundtrack, add your own voices and sound effects and BAM! You've got a comedy masterpiece. Each episode is a ridiculous conglomeration of jokes and mayhem.

21 Barbara Eden 25 min | Dec 19, 1963

Take old movies, throw away the soundtrack, add your own voices and sound effects and BAM! You've got a comedy masterpiece. Each episode is a ridiculous conglomeration of jokes and mayhem.

22 Bob Denver 25 min | Dec 26, 1963

Take old movies, throw away the soundtrack, add your own voices and sound effects and BAM! You've got a comedy masterpiece. Each episode is a ridiculous conglomeration of jokes and mayhem.

23 Pat Carroll 25 min | Jan 02, 1964

"The Big Prize" contest promises prizes viewers never knew they wanted. A commercial advertises a school for "Lady Cops." Guest Pat Carroll joins Hans Conried to take calls from the show's strange viewers. The rules of "Fractured Flickers" scouting are detailed. The "Hollywood Low-Down" chronicles shenanigans on the set of Kentucky Feldman's newest movie. On "Saturday Night at the Sundae," hundreds of jerks compete in the soda jerking contest.

24 Bob Newhart 25 min | Jan 09, 1964

Segments include a profile of the typical "Fractured Flickers" viewer, a piece on 1920s bootlegging gangsters, and a Flicker's auction of merchandise they stole being held in Skid Row, California. Bob Newhart pickets on behalf of dead comedians who aren't being paid when the show uses clips of their films.

25 Ursula Andress 25 min | Jan 16, 1964

Two women claim to be the real Anne Marie Lesser on "To Yell the Truth." Consumers Bureau Report evaluates office furniture, hammers, eggs, split pea soup, and a Bullwinkle Moose costume. The "Fractured Flickers Guide To Income Tax Fun" assures viewers that the IRS staff is a sweet bunch. Conried and Ursula Andress talk to silent film star Theda Bara with a Ouija board. An idiot get his client in the papers, all right, by setting him up with a floozy in "Day of Destiny." Soused detective Reginald Tower of London reviews a famous case. Flicker's All-Pro football team of oddball gets profiled.

26 Zsa Zsa Gabor 25 min | Jan 23, 1964

Take old movies, throw away the soundtrack, add your own voices and sound effects and BAM! You've got a comedy masterpiece. Each episode is a ridiculous conglomeration of jokes and mayhem.

Cast View all

Hans Conried Self - Host
Paul Frees Various
June Foray Jane
Stan Laurel Sherman Oaks
Bill Scott Sandwich Delivery Man
Rose Marie Self
Harry Langdon Lachs Dungelfinger
Roddy McDowall Self
Bob Newhart Self
Adolf Hitler Self
Pat Carroll Self
Ursula Andress Self - Guest
Sebastian Cabot Self
Cesar Romero Self
Buster Keaton
Edward Everett Horton Self
Zsa Zsa Gabor Self
Paul Lynde Self
Ruta Lee Self
Rod Serling Self
Connie Stevens Self
Barbara Eden Self
Paula Prentiss Self
Fabian Self
Diana Dors Self

Edition details

Packaging Keep Case
Nr Discs 3
Screen Ratios Fullscreen (4:3)
Audio Tracks Dolby Digital Stereo [English]
Stereo [English]
Layers Single side, Dual layer
Edition Release Date Aug 31, 2004
Regions Region 1