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The Wave is a 1981 young adult novel by Todd Strasser under the pen name Morton Rhue (though it has been reprinted under Todd Strasser's real name). It is a novelization of a teleplay by Johnny Dawkins for the movie The Wave, a fictionalized account of the "Third Wave" teaching experiment by Ron Jones that took place in an Ellwood P. Cubberley High School history class in Palo Alto, California.
Todd Strasser (born May 5, 1950) [1] is an American writer [2] of more than 140 young-adult and middle grade novels and many short stories and works of non-fiction, some written under the pen names Morton Rhue [3] and T.S. Rue.
The Wave is a made-for-TV movie directed by Alex Grasshoff, based on The Third Wave experiment put on by teacher Ron Jones to explain to his students how the German populace could accept the actions of the Nazi regime. [1] It debuted October 4, 1981, and aired again almost two years later as an ABC Afterschool Special.
The Wave (German: Die Welle) is a 2008 German socio-political thriller film directed by Dennis Gansel and starring Jürgen Vogel, Frederick Lau, Jennifer Ulrich and Max Riemelt in the leads. It is based on Ron Jones' social experiment The Third Wave and Todd Strasser's novel The Wave. The film was produced by Christian Becker for Rat Pack ...
We Are the Wave (German 'Wir sind die Welle') is a German coming-of-age drama television series that is loosely based on the 1981 novel The Wave by Todd Strasser. [1] The series premiered on Netflix on 1 November 2019.
"The Pride of Lakewood", a 2010 episode of children's animated series Arthur, was loosely based on the Third Wave experiment. In it, students who form a community pride group become fascistic. In 2010, Jones staged a musical called The Wave, written with some of the students in the class. [12]
The series, which aired its final episode on Thursday, May 16, ended on a cliffhanger, with the first-time introduction of Merritt Folding (Joe Pantoliano), the law firm’s founding partner.
Nightmare Inn is a series of young adult horror novels by Todd Strasser, who penned the books using the pseudonym T. S. Rue. [1] It is a brief series that contains only four installments, all of them published in 1993: Nightmare Inn, [2] Room 13, [3] The Pool, [4] and The Attic. [5]