Director of Photography John McPherson
Written by Karen Harris/Jill Sherman; Produced by Nicholas Corea
Directed by Sigmund Neufeld Jnr.
After taking a job as a bartender at the 'Pandemonium' Disco, David notices that one of the regulars is a girl he looked after for a while when she was little. She doesn't recognise him now but what he does notice is that she has a drinking problem, and some interconnected complexes arising either because of that or to cause it. Alerting the local health authority about the fact that she needs help David inadvertently brings some trouble to the disco for serving alcohol to underage people, and soon of course he is attracting unwanted attention to himself.
Once again the series makes the brave move of addressing something which was little spoken about back in 1978, that of teenage alcoholism. The scene that takes place at an alcoholics group is touching and Bixby himself looks visibly moved. The disco dancing/DJ sequences, whilst obviously capitalising on the craze of the time, are unavoidably dated now and will probably have today's Tiktok-obsessed gen-zs reaching for the stop button, if their attention deficit disorders have even allowed them that far. The groovy title refers to the story that David used to read the girl when she was young, and which she still refers to for inspiration (the 'Lewis Carroll' tale of course).
Written by Karen Harris/Jill Sherman; Produced by Nicholas Corea
Directed by Sigmund Neufeld Jnr.
After taking a job as a bartender at the 'Pandemonium' Disco, David notices that one of the regulars is a girl he looked after for a while when she was little. She doesn't recognise him now but what he does notice is that she has a drinking problem, and some interconnected complexes arising either because of that or to cause it. Alerting the local health authority about the fact that she needs help David inadvertently brings some trouble to the disco for serving alcohol to underage people, and soon of course he is attracting unwanted attention to himself.
Once again the series makes the brave move of addressing something which was little spoken about back in 1978, that of teenage alcoholism. The scene that takes place at an alcoholics group is touching and Bixby himself looks visibly moved. The disco dancing/DJ sequences, whilst obviously capitalising on the craze of the time, are unavoidably dated now and will probably have today's Tiktok-obsessed gen-zs reaching for the stop button, if their attention deficit disorders have even allowed them that far. The groovy title refers to the story that David used to read the girl when she was young, and which she still refers to for inspiration (the 'Lewis Carroll' tale of course).
Number of Fists: **
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