May 26, 2003 - 750126 - The Follower

[Lagavulin]

I haven't listened to this episode yet, or if I have I don't recall. I was scrolling through the list of starring voices in each episode and found Jerry Orbach's name. He is now, of course, Detective Lenny Briscoe on "Law and Order". Being a Law and Order fan, I thought it would be fun to hear him in an earlier incarnation.
http://www.imdb.com/Name?Orbach,+Jerry

I will be posting on my web site in the next day or two some pictures of him from about the same era. I bought a condo several years ago and in the basement storage area was a box of Playboy magazines from the 70s and early 80s. Hilarious articles and advertisements (really... I just read the articles!) One of the articles was on actor Jerry Orbach clowning around with one of the bunnies.
WARNING: images should only be viewed by responsible adults.
http://k12edtech.mb.ca/jerry.html

I hope it's a good one, and look forward to the discussion about it in the week to come.

cheers
Miles

[NAtlantis]

Hi! Thanks for the post! I am listening to and enjoying [b:86aef561f2]The Follower [/b:86aef561f2]right now. Thus far a decent episode.

:idea: :roll: I am wondering if anyone else might be interested in creating a listener poll for these weekly shows. One of the strength's of this forum is it's ability to poll the members. It might be cool to survey each of us on the show with a 5 or 10 point rating system to create a living documentation of how the fans rate the episodes.

I'd love to hear what others think... Best regards!

John :D

[Charlie]

[quote:5baaa05776="NAtlantis"]I am wondering if anyone else might be interested in creating a listener poll for these weekly shows. [/quote:5baaa05776]

The way I see it, that's kind of the purpose of this Show Of The Week forum. Although, we could post the topics as a poll and have a 1 to 5 rating or something for the program.

That might be fun to do.

Charlie

[NAtlantis]

I guess my desire to quantify is symptomatic of my scientific (nerdy) nature. :ufo:

The discussions that take place during these weekly show review posts are excellent for content, detail and quality. But for a quick measure of how individual shows rate to one another a numeric poll just seemed a logical approach. :D

While this weeks show does not yet have a polling mechanism attached, I believe now that I have finished listening to it I would rate it at a 3 on a 5 point scale. Entertaining, well acted... The sound quality of my particular copy was great.

I look forward to further response on the numeric polling issue.

Best regards.

John

[Lagavulin]

meh... was o.k.

Story of a self-absorbed s.o.b who is tortured by his own deeply burried moral sense; by the time he comes to terms with it, he perishes from the cumulative effects of a life not well lived.

There seemed to be more subplots in this episode than others I have listened to recently:
- the main character's marital problems
- the main character's haunting by 'the follower'
- the wife and doctor's relationship
- the main character's past relationship

I thought the ending a bit weak. Anytime a character dies of fright, I am left unsatisfied. I'm also constantly amused with the attitude toward psychiatrists and psychology. As a psychology major many years ago, I know how hard the field has had to, and continues to fight for acceptance as a legitimate scientific field.

This episode rates
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out of a possible 10

[vgarci]

The Follower 1/26/75

Jim Beacher, a ruthless showbiz agent, is being followed by an phantom that he cannot see. The phantom stops when Jim stops and places it's feet directly in his footsteps so no trace of a follower is evident. A number of people could be interested in seeing his demise but his wife believes his problem is mental and recommends counseling. His paranoia reaches the point where it cannot be ignored but he eventually realizes that the footsteps are simply his past following him.

This story was interesting but probably not in my top 10% of all shows. I enjoyed the plot and the acting was good but nothing really stood out as great. Perhaps "The Follower" needed to be a bit more sinister or the conclusion needed more punch but I just thought this was a concept that didn't quite meet it's potential. I might wait a week or two and give this another listen to see if my opinion changes.

[vgarci]

John,
I'm not sure how to create a poll but I like your idea.

[Ethelmertz]

I am having trouble writing about this show. I found it hard to follow at times .

A man who says he is being followed at night tells his wife about it and although sympathetic, she tells him to see a psychiatrist. They argue over money. He works too hard and spends little time with his wife. She says he is doing well and doesn’t need the money because she has plenty, too. She reminds him that this is why he married her.
( Her whiney voice is enough to make you want to turn the show off. ) This argument repeats itself a time or two. His wife seems to be concerned about him and finally he agrees to see a doctor.

I don’t think the doctor is much help to him . He is finally confronted by the follower and it is like his conscience. He is really a despicable person and he did something terrible in his past. The confrontation with the Follower evidently scares him to death,

I thought this show was kind of weak overall. The woman who played his wife was irritating, One minute she is so sympathetic, calling him “Baby’ trying to help him and before you know it she wants no more to do with him and is interested in the Psychiatrist. The main character( I didn’t catch their names) is a selfish man who steps on people to have what he wants.

If I listened to it again, I might get more out of it, but I doubt it.

[Charlie]

I finally got to listen to this one today.

Well, not one of the best in my opinion. A good lesson is presented - one that we should have all learned by now.

I'm surprised to hear something controversial like abotion discussed in the program. It would have been better without introducing that.

Louise was not acted well and her presence annoyed me. I don't think she was realistic. All mad one minute then sympathetic the next.

The concept of someone following you, then turning and no one is there ... footsteps ... I like that idea. When I first heard that I thought this would be a good program.

It wasn't.

Charlie

[Charlie]

[quote:a22a9ecd79="Lagavulin"]http://k12edtech.mb.ca/jerry.html[/quote:a22a9ecd79]

Miles,

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Charlie

[hamlet2003]

:cry: I can't say I thought too much of this episode. I am a big fan of Jerry Orbach from Law and Order but radio drama doesn't appear to be his forte. His delivery in this episode seems very stilted. Was he in any other CBSRMT episodes?

[Lagavulin]

As far as I an see he does not receive any top billing for any other episode.

re: the missing web page - still haven't gotten around to hooking up the scanner and scanning that playboy article on Orbach.