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The script contained a third act based on a hardboiled detective Nick Danger, modeled after Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. When KMET rejected the pilot, the Firesigns expanded the script to a 28-minute mock radio play, which they recorded in January and February.
This is presented as an episode (titled "Cut 'Em Off at the Past") of a fictional 1940s radio drama, Nick Danger, Third Eye, broadcast on December 7, 1941. Nick Danger (Phil Austin) is a '40s-style hardboiled private investigator in the Raymond Chandler mold. In live performances and photographs, he wears the stereotypical fedora and trench ...
The Script; Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers. It's Just This Little Chromium Switch Here "A Life in the Day" The Script; I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus. If Bees Lived Inside Your Head; Intrat Et Exit Ut Nil Supra! The Script; Addenda, Appendix and Et Cetera Mark Time's True Chronology of The Firesign Theatre; Lt. Bradshaw's ...
This was The Firesign Theatre's first album wherein a single theme took up both sides of the album. In Phil Austin's notes to the 1987 Mobile Fidelity re-release of this album he says "Dwarf is the story of the five ages of Man and in particular, the five ages of one George Leroy Tirebiter; a man named after a dog."
The Firesign Theatre (also known as the Firesigns) [1] [2] was an American surreal comedy troupe who first appeared on November 17, 1966, in a live performance on the Los Angeles radio program Radio Free Oz on station KPFK FM.
On the 1972 live album Not Insane or Anything You Want To, the group presented a self-parody of Nick Danger. This has Austin playing the title role as a Japanese detective Young Guy, Proctor as his Japanese girlfriend Miki, Ossman as the detective's robotic Japanese butler Rotonoto, and Bergman as American police Lieutenant Brad Shaw.
This album was the only commercial album during the group's Columbia Records period that was released under the group name but not crediting all four members as writers. The script is formally credited only to Phil Austin and David Ossman, although the other two members, Peter Bergman and Philip Proctor, honed their parts further during ...
Both projects ended in development limbo, and rights to the Danger character reverted to the Firesigns. [3] In December 1978, the Firesign Theatre began writing five short (2:24) episodes of The Case of the Missing Shoe for a possible syndicated daily Nick Danger radio series (similar to Chickenman which aired in the late