anyone remember it?
If so, what episodes stick out in your mind?
also, what about that little Christian white cartoon ball with hands & feet called JOT! ?
and the Lutheran equivalent of INSIGHT- THIS IS THE LIFE
and the Lutheran holiday cartoons around Benjy & his dog Waldo
but we don’t need to discuss Davey & Goliath
I really have no idea what you’re talking about. However, I do remember “Jot”. He was way creepy. We got Jot cartoons on the “Popeye and Pals” show in New Orleans. It was very odd to get five cartoons where problems are solved by Popeye beating the crap out of somebody, then one about Jot being a good christian, then five more of Popeye beating the crap out of someone. What’s even more odd is that I watched this show at all, considering I hated Popeye.
I kind of remember being shown “Insight” movies in Catholic grade school and maybe high school in the 70s. I have a vague memory of one with Martin Sheen as an allegorical Jesus/Clown, but that could just be a weird dream I had. No, I don’t usually have religious dreams about Martin Sheen.
I don’t recall him as a Jesus/Clown figure but I wouldn’t be surprised- he was also God in one where He restores a blind artists sight so that he can paint His portrait. I think Martin was in three.
Chris Sarandon was also in several- one as a hippie-turned-Jesus Person who comes home to a disapproving father (Ed Asner) who sees this as one more trip his nutty son is on
Another Chris Sarandon one was as the Son, to William Windom’s Father & a black lady (“Mistress Grace”) Holy Spirit in which they watched Old Testament history unfold on a TV screen while planning how the Son will redeem humanity- it was titled JESUS BC
Ask me about the one where a mentally handicapped man in a Superman shirt dies after sealing himself in a refrigerator.
Uhhh, okay.
What about the one where the mentally handicapped guy in a Superman shirt dies after sealing himself in a refrigerator, Friar Ted?
Uh–this sounds weird enough to be interesting. Got any idea how I might find any of these anywhere?
this was the first episode of INSIGHT I recall. I was in elementary school, definitely under 10 yrs old & did not really understand it till I saw it repeated when I was in my teens. Tho my parents let me watch classic horror films, I am surprised they let me watch this.
It starts with an Apt Bldg landlady & cops in a basement apartment
looking at this man in a Superman shirt huddled in a fetal position inside a fridge & wondering what caused him to seal himself in. I think they are talking to a Yuppie wife about it & she realizes she
provoked it & her story follows-
she & her up&coming businessman husband move into the Apt Bldg where the Superman guy is the handiman. He’s mildly retarded & wears the Superman shirt to show he’s always ready to help & is indeed talented in repairing things. She befriends him & he gets a harmless crush on her.
Meanwhile, she finds she is pregnant, but her husband wants her to abort it as he doesn’t feel they are yet financially or emotionally secure enough to start a family. Her girlfriends all agree & she finally gets an abortion, against her own preferences & beliefs.
She is guilt-ridden & depressed. Superman Guy doesn’t know anything except his Pretty Lady friend is sad and sooooooo…
he finds a baby doll & gives it to her to cheer her up. She goes off on him & rants about how stupid & thoughtless he is & so he decides
that she’ll be happier if he just isn’t around anymore.
And now she bears the guilt of two lives ending.
WHOOOOAAAA!!!
Paulist Productions does have them available on video. The addy is …
well, it WAS www.paulistproductions.org ,but I can’t get the site up at the moment. HOPEFULLY, it’s a temporary problem
Roscoe Lee Browne plays an angelic figure who plays a trumpet, who has come down to earth to “save” a person (don’t remember that actor) who has given up on life (maybe even is in the process of committing suicide).
It wasn’t a very convincing character (Browne’), though. He has always played very articulate, educated characters–and it was kinda strange watching him play a “hip” jazz musican (albeit an angelic one). Browne’s saying “Man, I dig you.”
Another one was sorta like TZ’s “Five Characters in Search of an Exit,” with Roger C. Carmel and Ann (Sothern or Blyth) and others that I don’t recall. They were all at a bus stop or train station ready to “escape reality,” IIRC.
And where I live, Mr. Knozit used to show “Jot.”
For almost 40 years, my entire knowledge of Fort Worth, TX was that that was where you could write to the people who produced “Jot.”
the Rocoe Lee Brown one (which I don’t recall) reminds me on another one- a black spaceman with a message of peace arrives to Earth on a flying saucer, is captured & interrogated by a Pilate-like President,
while a crowd of protestors stand around with signs either supporting or opposing the spaceman till the last day the President has to decide to free or kill the spaceman while the protestors numbers dwindle. It ends with the Prez looking at the one protestor left holding a sign that says "Free the Spaceman.