Category Sports; Song Pennies From Heaven; Artist Billie Holiday; Album 6 Pack Of Hits; Licensed to YouTube by SME (on behalf of Glory Days Music). Mar 16, 2018 HBO has announced that their Brooklyn Dodgers Documentary film Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush, will premiere July 11 at 8 p.m. The documentary spans.
Flatbush | |
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Created by | David Epstein |
Directed by | William Asher Mel Feber Harvey S. Laidman Tony Mordente |
Starring | Joseph Cali Adrian Zmed Vincent Bufano Randy Stumpf Sandy Helberg |
Opening theme | 'Stabilize' |
Composer(s) | Dennis Lambert Brian Potter Mark Snow |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of episodes | 6 (3 unaired) |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Philip Capice Gary Adelson |
Producer(s) | Norman S. Powell |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Production company(s) | Lorimar Productions |
Release | |
Original network | CBS |
Original release | February 26 – March 12, 1979 |
Flatbush is an American sitcom that aired on CBS for three weeks from February 26, 1979 to March 12, 1979. The original working title was 'The Flatbush Fungoes'.[1]
Plot[edit]
The series followed five recent high school graduates living in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn: Presto, a cab driver; Socks, who worked in a clothing store; Figgy, a supermarket deliveryman; Joey, a plumber; and Turtle, who worked in his family's restaurant. Together they called themselves 'The Fungos' as they roamed their neighborhood in search of innocent fun and excitement.
Cast[edit]
- Joseph Cali as Presto Prestopopolos
- Adrian Zmed as Socks Palermo
- Vincent Bufano as Turtle Romero
- Randy Stumpf as Joey Dee
- Sandy Helberg as Figgy Figueroa
- Antony Pinzini as Esposito
- Helen Verbit as Mrs. Fortunato
Episodes[edit]
A total of six episodes were produced, with three remaining unaired – 'The Littlest Fungo', 'The Wedding' and 'Vooo Dooo' – because the ethnic stereotypes in the series so offended the real-life Brooklyn Borough President Howard Golden that he publicly demanded to CBS that it be canceled; it was taken off the air after only three telecasts.[2]
Nº | Episode title | Directed by | Written by | Airdate | |
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1 | 'Kar Kannibals' | TBA | Dennis Palumbo | February 26, 1979 | |
The Fungos are involved in a wild car chase when their cherished auto, the Fungomobile, is stolen by a gang of car thieves. | |||||
2 | 'Moving Out' | William Asher | Dennis Palumbo | March 5, 1979 | |
The Fungos' hearts go out to cantankerous old Mrs. Fortunato when they discover that she is being priced out of her apartment. | |||||
3 | 'The Heist' | TBA | David Epstein | March 12, 1979 | |
Presto becomes the innocent dupe of a hoodlum named Clean Otto who uses his taxi as the getaway car in a bank robbery. | |||||
4 | 'The Littlest Fungo' | TBA | TBA | Unaired | |
5 | 'The Wedding' | TBA | TBA | Unaired | |
6 | 'Vooo Dooo' | TBA | TBA | Unaired |
References[edit]
- ^The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946–Present. Ballantine Books. 2003. p. 417. ISBN0-345-45542-8.
- ^Clyde Haberman Albin Krebs, 'Notes on People', The New York Times, March 3, 1979
External links[edit]
- Flatbush on IMDb
- Flatbush at TV.com
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Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush | |
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Produced by | Ross Greenburg (executive) Rick Bernstein (executive) Ezra Edelman Amani Martin Brian Hyland (coordinating) |
Written by | Aaron Cohen Charles Olivier |
Narrated by | Liev Schreiber |
Music by | Gary Lionelli |
Cinematography | Samuel Painter |
Edited by | Charles Olivier Jason Schmidt |
Distributed by | HBO |
July 11, 2007 | |
Running time | 120 min. |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Brooklyn Dodgers: Ghosts of Flatbush is a 2007 documentary film produced by HBO Sports chronicling the last ten years of the Brooklyn Dodgers' tenure in the borough of churches. The film documents how in 1947 Jackie Robinson broke the baseball racial barrier in previously segregated major league, the struggles to win what seemed an unreachable World Series title in 1955, and the issues and community feelings involved in the team's sudden departure to Los Angeles after the 1957 campaign.
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The documentary focuses on the Brooklyn community's identification with the ball club, and with the perennial 'wait until next year' attitude of both players and fans associated with the Dodgers' repeated inability to defeat the 'upper class' New York Yankees for the World Series title, despite winning several pennants. The Brooklyn players, many of whom lived within and held off-season jobs in the community, were identified with the working-class people. The film portrays the countless agonies, defeats, prayers and tension leading finally to the World Series title in 1955.
President and general manager Branch Rickey is attributed with the development of the club through his baseball acumen and experience, and several of his innovations, such as the farm system, pitching machines, batting cages, and his decision to integrate the team. Rickey manages some Brooklyn players' resistance to integration and prepares Jackie Robinson for the portrayed shocking reactions from other teams and fans. Jackie's wife Rachel Robinson also discusses these trying times from the Robinsons' point of view. Robinson must pass through a period of isolation prior to being accepted.
Walter O'Malley gains majority ownership of the team and then, following Rickey's departure, total control. With the mass movement of paying fans to the suburbs, inadequate parking and the outdated and dilapidated Ebbets Field leads to O'Malley's failed attempts to convince the power brokerRobert Moses, New York City Construction Coordinator, to condemn an O'Malley's chosen Brooklyn property, nearer to transportation infrastructure, for the purpose of building a new geodesic domed stadium. Moses planned to build a stadium at an alternative location in Queens, that eventually came to fruition in the form of Shea Stadium. The failure to reach an agreement, and offers from the municipality of Los Angeles, leads to New York's loss not only of the Dodgers. O'Malley convinces majority owner, Horace Stoneham of their perennial rival New York Giants, to also move to the west coast. The film records several of Brooklyn's old fans demonizing O'Malley, whose decision to move the team gains him a free grant of 350 acres within the city of Los Angeles, where he finally builds his dream stadium & prospers.
Former players, front office personnel and Brooklyn residents (including Larry King and Louis Gossett Jr.) provide commentary on the times and what it was like to be alive in the borough during New York's 'Golden Age' of baseball. The film was dedicated to former Dodgers pitcher Clem Labine, who died shortly after production of the film was completed.
Individuals who appeared during the documentary[edit]
Former Dodgers: Carl Erskine, Duke Snider, Johnny Podres, Clem Labine, Ralph Branca, Buzzie Bavasi (General Manager), Peter O'Malley (former president and son of Walter O'Malley), Joan Hodges (widow of Gil Hodges), Rachel Robinson (widow of Jackie Robinson).
External links[edit]
- Brooklyn Dodgers: Ghosts of Flatbush on IMDb.
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