Rhode Island in the Limelight: Television. Which city was described as a pit? Where did Agent Mulder's family spend their summers? Up until the last few years, television has had very little use for Rhode Island. Now, every other show seems to be set in the Ocean State. Is it because of the Providence Renaissance? The natural beauty of our coastline? Our lovable accents? Below we've tried our best to list every television show with a Rhode Island connection, however tenuous. If you know of one we've missed, drop us a line at stuffie@quahog. Guardian of the Grail (Immortal Blood Book 1) - Kindle edition by Elena Bryce. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features. IMDb editors highlight the stories, faces, and trending stars that had us buzzing this week. What caught your eye? Check out our picks from the week. For further information on television production in Rhode Island, see the Rhode Island Film and Television Office website. Warning: Here there be spoilers! Rhode Island is often the punch line of jokes, perhaps for no better reason than its own improbable existence, as in this Warner Brothers cartoon starring the Three Bears: Junyer Bear: I will fill your favorite pipe for you, dear old dad, Pa. G- U- N- P- O- W- D- E- R, duh, . The newspaper's exterior in the series is actually Los Angeles City Hall, completed in 1.
Although the structures share a similar style, they were designed by separate teams of architects. The Munsters (CBS, 1. Another joke at Rhode Island's expense comes from this show's first season in an episode entitled . We'll make millions, and I'll make them bigger! I could even make the world's biggest Mickey Rooney! Another Newport location was the Black Pearl Restaurant on Bannister's Wharf, which in the series was called the Blue Whale. The connection between these real- life and fictional places was highlighted in a 1. Dark Shadows on Location. George of the Jungle was brought to us by the same twisted minds that created Rocky and Bullwinkle, and like that Cold- War classic, it included segments starring supporting players. One of these was Super Chicken, which chronicled the adventures of the titular character and his sidekick, a lion named Fred. In the premiere episode, . The episode is riddled with Rhode Island jabs and jibes, beginning with a scene in which an airliner comes in for a landing in Providence: Pilot: Ladies and gentlemen, fasten your seatbelts, we are about to land at Providence, Rhode Island. Co- pilot: Chauncy, are you sure that's Providence? Pilot: What's it look like? Co- pilot: Looks to me like there's nothing there. Pilot: That's Providence all right. Set 'er down, Edgar. Wacky Races (CBS, 1. Based on the 1. 96. The Great Race, this cartoon series follows eleven sets of odd characters as they vie to win races with their equally bizarre vehicles. The villain of the piece is Dick Dastardly who, along with his sometimes faithful dog Muttley, takes every opportunity to cheat. Many of the episode titles are a play on words of place names, and it was the title . Still, the endlessly repeating background scenery is vaguely reminiscent of New England, with stone walls, split- rail fences, farm houses, fields, steepled churches, and covered bridges rolling by. About half- way through the episode the racers roar into Big Town, population 5. There, Dastardly directs one racer into a subway, then detours everyone else onto the girders of a partially built skyscraper. It's ultimately pointless to try to discuss the correlations between a cartoon and the real world (after all, this is a medium where an anvil dropped on someone's head merely raises a very tall bump), but we can at least agree that the writers of this episode were completely unfamiliar with Little Rhody. Rhode Island Monthly dutifully reported in its June 1. Chuck Tyler and his wife, Donna, are leaving the fictional town of Pine Valley for.. Rhode Island, where Dr. Tyler is assuming the post of chief of medicine at none other than Rhode Island Hospital. Albert Most, seemed to take the news of his replacement in stride. The trade might satisfy both of us. The host of the show is a Dracula knock- off played by Guy Marks who spends most of his time between commercials in a coffin. After one commercial break during a movie called, . And then he says, ! Over by Rhode Island way? A friend of ours who pointed this episode out to us noted, ? This one apparently did, and even managed a complete run of 1. Rhode Island made an appearance in one of the episodes—probably having to do with the Jazz Age—with scenes shot at the Breakers in Newport. Narrated and co- written by Alistair Cooke, this series still occasionally shows up on PBS. The controversial reputation of the show stemmed from the inter- religious, inter- class marriage of the main characters, working class Jew Bernie and rich Catholic Bridget (Meredith Baxter Birney). Rhode Island historically has been a haven for persons with minority beliefs. Random pick? Or was Rhode Island chosen for the usual reason, because of its utility as a punch line? From the March 2. Linda Richman (Mike Meyers): Talk amongst yourselves. I'll give you a topic: Rhode Island, neither a road nor an island. Discuss. From the November 1. Seth Meyers: Voters in Rhode Island rejected a proposition last week to change the state's official name from The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations to just Rhode Island, but I think people are just going to keep calling it . Which explains Rhode Island's official state motto, . Julie Morris, director of horticulture, shows off the rose garden, the bamboo grove, the display garden, and the rock garden. In S2. 7E1. 1, the grounds manager at Green Animals in Portsmouth explains how you can make your own topiary& $8. It's revealed in this episode that the big teddy bear that serves as a popular photo op started out as a kangaroo. Apparently a visitor commented one day that it looked more like a bear, which prompted then- head gardener George Mendonca to walk over and cut off its tail. It's been a teddy bear ever since. Recent renovations at the Elms are the subject of S2. E1. 8. Director of Property Curt Jenga shows off the revitalized gardens. A large part of the complicated logistics involved in shooting this thirteen- part series included taping in various locations around Rhode Island. Newport's Marble House stood in for the court of Louis XVI at Versailles, for instance, and other Newport mansions were used for scenes that took place in England, France, Holland, and Saint Petersburg. Providence streets passed for Boston streets, and a farmhouse in Foster represented one in Braintree, Massachusetts. Providence's John Brown House also got some screen time, and according to Kim Klyberg (whose father, Al, was director of the Rhode Island Historical Society at the time), . Magazine (1. 97. 6- 1. Evening Magazine is the granddaddy of infotainment, predating everything from Entertainment Tonight to the E! The pilot for the series, initially called Evening: The MTWTF Show, was shot on 1. Channel 1. 0. The concept was picked up by Group W Productions, which ran the show on its own stations under the name Evening Magazine. It was also syndicated nationally as P. M. Magazine. One of the unique features of Evening/P. M. Magazine was that, unlike other syndicated shows, it included local content. All stations that aired it were required to produce segments for a national pool of stories, and each station had its own local hosts. This enabled small local stations to air a well- produced show with local flavor at minimal cost. Matt Lauer, currently co- anchor of NBC's Today show, had one of his first on- air gigs as host of Evening Magazine. Rick Smith, former director of the Film and Television Office of the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation, was the host of P. M. Magazine on channel 1. Rick Smith fills us in on a little more detail: Group W, also known as Westinghouse, developed Evening Magazine out of San Francisco, where it had three co- hosts for a while. The distinguishing features of the show were radical for its time. It was not shot on a set, but in . Also breaking with reporter tradition, instead of staying neutral and uninvolved as passive eyewitnesses, these hosts got involved in whatever was going on. In this way, they became the viewers' surrogates, by which the viewer could experience the event through the emotions of the hosts. All this was made possible because the magazine format, invented by this show and today dominating the industry, exploited a brand new technology: ENG, or electronic news gathering, that is, tape and portable cameras. Today we all take it for granted, but . It was in fact a revolution. The other key feature of the format was the . Unlike most shows that had national hosts who remained unknown and distant, PM continued its focus on being local and intimate by having local hosts and local stories, but with a national support system. This meant that every week, several national stories were fed by satellite to the local stations. Again new technology made this possible. But these stories were presented or . All of it had to tie in to the locations picked by the hosts who could then go into the community and mingle with people. For instance, a Providence host might go to Roger Williams Park Zoo and stand in front of the seal enclosure to introduce a San Francisco- produced segment on the seals of San Francisco Bay. At the close of the segment, the host might then interview one of the Zoo's employees, or visiting children, about seals. Some would say that the birth of the Evening Magazine format was the death knell for real journalism on television; that network news divisions that were once considered sacrosanct bastions of integrity, untouched by the lure of filthy lucre, must now dance for their dollar just like everyone else. The point is debatable. Myron Cohen was a popular nightclub comedian in the 1. IMDB says this show, which we assume documents his stage act, was filmed in Warwick. Our first thought was that it might have been filmed at the Warwick Musical Theater, but a check of bonoff. Cohen in 1. 97. 7 or '7. Anna Rowe posted in her blog that the venue was a ? Drop us a line at stuffie@quahog. Wake of '3. 8 (PBS, 1. Blade (1. 99. 8) - IMDb. Soundtracks. Playing With Lightning. Written by Chylow Parker, Fredro Starr (as Fredro Scruggs), Sticky Fingaz (as Kirk Jones). Sonee Seeza (as Tyrone Taylor), George Rodriguez and James Bernard. Performed by Expansion Union. Courtesy of Wax Trax! Records. 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