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The Return of Hickey

Item number (ISN):

86922

Series title:

American Playhouse

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1987

Item number (ISN):

86922

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

WNPE-WNPI: OFF-AIR

Accession:

1988-0121

Media:

Video

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1987

Release date:

1988-02-03

Production company:

Ronald J. Kahn Productions
Scholastic Productions Inc.

Production credit:

director, Allan A. Goldstein; producer, Ronald J. Kahn; Martin Harbury; executive producer, Jane Startz; Kathryn Wallack; script, Jan Jaffe Kahn; music, Hagood Hardy

Cast credit:

Zach Galligan, Edward Herrmann, Nicholas Rowe, Robert Joy, Keith Knight, Stephen Baldwin, Josh Hamilton, Tony Van Bridge, Albert Schultz, Hans Engel, David Foley

Description:

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This drama is the sequel to 1987's "The Prodigious Hickey". It takes place at a turn-of-the-century prep school where student shenanigans continue to be the main subject of interest. It's the spring of 1906 at New Jersey's Lawrenceville School (where the program was partially filmed), and the institution's most notorious prankster, William "Hickey" Hicks, returns after having been suspended for a term. Although Hickey tries to convince the headmaster that he's "a changed man", his mischievous ways soon resurface after he meets a rival prankster, a new student whom he dubs "The Tennessee Shad". The Shad is master of ingenious pranks, indeed, including a ruse aimed at Hickey's former adversary, housemaster Tapping. However, Hickey is determined to regain supremacy, and he sees a perfect opportunity when a new housemaster, the naive "Brotherly Love" Baldwin decides to organize a campus election. The story is based on "The Lawrenceville Stories" by Owen Johnson, which were first published in the Saturday Evening Post between 1905 and 1909. <60mn>.

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Third item on the videocassette original.~2. Recorded at 4-hour speed.~3. Recorded off-air from WNPE-WNPI from 9 - 10 p.m.~4. The description is taken from TV Guide, January 30 - February 5, 1988, p. P-59.~5. This program was produced in association with Siren Pictures Corporation, Bar Harbour Films Inc. and the Global Television Network.

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Vault ISN:

490957

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

WM88-0094

Number of items:

1

Duration:

90:00

Made from:

OFF-AIR

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Restrictions on consultation:

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of PBS and WNPE-WNPI

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