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183 ESQP: Thursday, January 29 4:00 PM [ Thursday 4 PM 29 January 2015 Pacific Time USA ]

Adventure

Stranger in Broken Fork

A woman rescues amnesiac Steve after a plane crash in the mountains, then asks him to save her from hostile neighbors.

Cast: Lee Majors, Richard Anderson Director(s): Chris Nyby Producer(s): Lionel E. Siegel, Joe L. Cramer Executive Producer(s): Harve Bennett

Original Air Date: Dec 13, 1974










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Written Worlds


January 22, 2014


“Stranger in Broken Fork”: Man, does this episode have a lame beginning. While Steve is up in a jet, Oscar is meeting with Dr. Carlton (Arthur Franz), who was obviously meant to be Rudy Wells, but Alan Oppenheimer must not have been available. Dr. Fake-Rudy warns Oscar that there’s a “short” in Steve’s nuclear power pack that will cause a “bionic spasm” and nerve damage to his shoulder and neck, which Dr. Fake-Rudy reports will cause amnesia — “Amnesia!” Oscar gasps in full-on soap opera mode — and then kill him. Okay, I’m really not clear on the pathogenesis here. Shoulder damage causes amnesia, so predictably that Dr. Fake-Rudy can know in advance it will happen? Anyway, Oscar gets on the phone to try to reach Steve, but of course it’s a given that Steve will develop bionic spasmnesia while he’s up in the jet, and Dr. Fake-Rudy’s dialogue telegraphs that likelihood just like it’s telegraphed the rest of the plot. Naturally the jet goes out of control, flips over, and is going down — and the clouds behind it are upside-down too! Gee! Almost like they took stock footage of a climbing jet and inverted it. Then they cut from this scene of Steve Austin crashing an aircraft to… the main titles, in which Steve Austin crashes an aircraft. Why do they keep letting him up in these things?










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Written Worlds


January 22, 2014


Anyway, the rest is Steve not remembering who he is and being disturbed by the powers he’s discovering, while occasionally confronting Horace’s goons and having to fight them off. Interestingly, during the first big fight, he’s using his bionic strength, but without slow motion being used — perhaps because he doesn’t know he’s doing it? Oh, and he’s periodically experiencing twinges of pain in his shoulder, because apparently that’s where his memory center is located. Amnesia!










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"Stranger in Broken Fork"

(Original air date 12/13/74)


While attempting to jog his memory with Angie's help, Steve begins having painful twinges in his shoulder and a sudden spasm makes him break a cup of coffee. Disturbed by this occurrence, Steve starts having qualms about his true nature and is now reluctant to go to the sheriff's office to find out who he really is.










JOURNAL ARCHIVE: posted by H.V.O.M at 8:28 PM Thursday, September 15, 2005


Then I found myself at what seemed to be my own place in the country, the grass was very high. Never seen this place before, but there seems to be something slightly familiar about it. Next image I remember is my Jeep blocking the entrace of my driveway. But the postman has driven around it and is delivering the mail. He has a lot to deliver. At one point, he walks up to the house, or the garage, but I do not talk with him. Before this, I had been walking around the property and there are a lot of other buildings with purposes I don't know but they have a lot of objects, tools and such, cluttered around. I am standing on the porch about to go in and a woman throws open a hatch on the porch and starts climbing up from under the porch. She is carrying a fishing tackle box and something else I don't recognize. She is a scientist or something. She is on some kind of expedition to go out and cause frogs, I think it was, to contract the "mumps." I don't know why she was doing it, but she said they weren't doing it themselves. I woke up at this point and I could hear some loud-mouth in another room on this floor talking loudly next to his window about how he never contracted the mumps when he was a kid even though he had actually tried to contract it by getting into bed with someone that had the mumps.

I'm not sure if this dream happened after I went back to sleep or it had occured earlier, but I was in that unfamilar house there in the country and I was trying to get ready. I was meeting some family members in town for lunch but I kept getting interrupted. At one point, the clock read 1:38 pm but I had to be there at 2pm and I had not even showered or shaved yet. I didn't know how to get in touch with them to let them know I would be late.

The other dream I had was about fighting some kind of aliens. I'm not sure if this dream happened before the one I wrote about above or if it happened later. In this dream, I am still in the Navy, but I am wearing some kind of camoflauge uniform, maybe army or marines. These aliens have invaded a subway and there are a lot of travelers around in danger. I am about to drop from exhaustion after 36 hours of fighting, we have been retreating and I am separated from the other soldiers. I am carrying two heavy packs, trying to find another unit to group up with, with passengers stream through the facility, they are even getting on the trains as some of them are still coming through. I have lost my rifle somewhere. I still have plenty of ammo, but I can't find a rifle. A woman at a coffee kisok says something to me that I don't remember, she has dried blood on her hands as she is preparing coffee. Then I am outside and I have found an armory where I get another rifle. I start heading back to the subway. A woman drives up in a car and asks me if I am who she thinks I am. But I can't remember seeing her actually in the car, all I can remember is seeing her buried in the dirt with only her talking face exposed. That is all I remember.


[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 15 September 2005 excerpt ends]










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Stranger in Broken Fork

Submitted by sock on Sun, 10/21/2012 - 19:47


When they arrive at Angie's compound, they discover ashes in the mail box.

Angie just writes it off as another intimidation tactic by the townspeople.










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"Stranger in Broken Fork"

(Original air date 12/13/74)


Driving down the road, Angie describes her work as a psychologist running an experimental convalescence home for patients who suffer from mental depression. She is testing a new method to heal the mentally ill by taking them out of a grim hospital and into the country wild. Unfortunately, she is often harassed by the locals who want to drive her and her patients off the property because they fear the boarders may be violent.











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"Stranger in Broken Fork"

(Original air date 12/13/74)


Meanwhile, the [ Air Force ] has organized a search party to locate Steve's plane. Oscar is informed of its exact position in the center of Utah and there are no sign of any survivor.



- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 4:59 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Thursday 29 January 2015