NET Playhouse; 138; Let Me Hear You Whisper
- Series
- NET Playhouse
- Episode Number
- 138
- Episode
- Let Me Hear You Whisper
- Producing Organization
- Educational Broadcasting Corporation. NET Division
- Contributing Organization
- Thirteen WNET (New York, New York)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/75-74cnpf7s
- Public Broadcasting Service Program NOLA
- NPLH 000000
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- Description
- Episode Description
- Ruth White and puppeteer Bil Baird are the featured performers in this comic play about the dehumanized aspect of scientific research, written by Paul Zindel. (Zindel is author of the long running off-Broadway hit, "The Effects of Gamma-Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds.") The Modern Jazz Quartet improvises an original score for this play. The main characters are Helen (Miss White), a friendless scrubwoman whose job is cleaning a research laboratory, and a talking dolphin about to be sacrificed in an experiment. (The life-sized dolphin puppet was created by Bil Baird, who manipulates it for the play and provides its voice.) Despite the efforts of her supervisor, Miss Moray, to indoctrinate her, Helen refuses to accept the cold, detached scientific attitudes of the laboratory. She becomes a fast friend of the dolphin who talks only to her, and resolves to save the dolphin's life. NET Playhouse #223 "Let Me Hear You Whisper" is a presentation of NET Division, Educational Broadcasting Corporation, produced by Channel 13, New York. Producer and director: Glenn Jordan. NET Playhouse executive producer: Jac Venza. FILLER INFORMATION: The filler run with "Let Me Hear You Whisper" is a black and white short, about 20 minutes in length, called "Going to Work in the Morning from Brooklyn," an amusing and pointed satire about the daily petty frustrations which beset an office worker on the way to his job in the morning. The film was produced by Phil Messina, a student at New York University Undergraduate School of film and Television. This 90-minute piece (including filler) was shot in color and aired as NET Playhouse episode 138 on May 22, 1969 and as NET Playhouse episode 223 on January 21, 1971. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Broadcast Date
- 1969-01-09
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Drama
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Credits
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Actor: Holland, Anthony
Actor: White, Ruth
Actor: Wilson, Elizabeth
Actor: Bruns, Philip
Composer: Modern Jazz Quartet
Director: Jordan, Glenn A.
Performer: Jackson, Milt
Performer: Lewis, John
Performer: Kay, Connie
Performer: Heath, Percy
Producer: Venza, Jac
Producer: Jordan, Glenn A.
Producing Organization: Educational Broadcasting Corporation. NET Division
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Thirteen - New York Public Media (WNET)
Identifier: wnet_aacip_4886 (WNET Archive)
Format: Digital Betacam
Generation: Master
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Thirteen - New York Public Media (WNET)
Identifier: wnet_aacip_7933 (WNET Archive)
Format: D2
Generation: Master
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Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive
Identifier: [request film based on title] (Indiana University)
Format: 16mm film
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- Citations
- Chicago: “NET Playhouse; 138; Let Me Hear You Whisper,” 1969-01-09, Thirteen WNET, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed June 17, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-75-74cnpf7s.
- MLA: “NET Playhouse; 138; Let Me Hear You Whisper.” 1969-01-09. Thirteen WNET, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. June 17, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-75-74cnpf7s>.
- APA: NET Playhouse; 138; Let Me Hear You Whisper. Boston, MA: Thirteen WNET, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-75-74cnpf7s