Does anyone remember an episode that quoted from Thomas Wolfe's "You Can't Go Home Again"? If I remember correctly, Orson Welles was reading the quotes. Which episode was this (if it even WAS Name of the Game)?
I remember this show very fondly from childhood and would love to see it on DVD.
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That was titled "The Enemy Before Us." It was a Tony Franciosa episode from the third and final season. Orson Welles did read from Thomas Wolfe's book in a story that involved Franciosa's character returning home to find someone (a brother or nephew or something) addicted to drugs.
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Does anyone remember the exact Wolfe quotes?
I believe the quotes were from _You Can't Go Home Again_ as well as _Look Homeward Angel_.
I saw this show when I was 13 and it inspired me to a life of crime (oops, I mean I became a writer.)
The score was magnificent as well.
Whenever I fly home, I'm always reminded of the image of Tony Franciosca looking out the window of the plane in the opening scene.
I only saw it once, but it became part of my adult DNA.
The quotes were numerous. They acted as a kind of Greek chorus to the episode. So Welles read several passages throughout.
Richard Conte and Martin Balsalm also guest-starred. I cannot remember the name of the character actress who played Jeff Dillon's mother. Or Richard Conte's daughter or the kid drug addict . Jeff accidentally takes some of the pills he later learns his brother is selling in his candy store. There is a lengthy freakout scene after Jeff is drugged taking place at an Italian community parade, not unlike the one in Godfather II, but he rescues the addict from suicide. While the episode is really over the top in many ways there are some gripping scenes. This and the two part I Love You, Billy Baker were the only episodes featuring Franciosa in the third season.
I remember the opening shot of Franciosa looking out the plane window as well, and the way it dissolves into a flashback scene with Susan Saint James. That scene begins as a kind of "reflection" in the window and then dissolves. Pretty cool.
I can't believe I remember this so well but it may be because I was fourteen at the time. For years I had many episodes of this series on cassette tape. I may still have a few lying around. I'm sure some episodes wouldn't hold up (I Love You, Billy Baker is rather silly in retrospect) but the show is cited as one of the few good things on tv at that time by Harlan Ellison in his scathing tv critique, The Glass Teat.