Sunday, September 29, 2024

Hot Hero Sandwich: Episode 4 Scene-by-Scene

by G. Jack Urso


Broadcast Date: Dec. 1, 1979.

Interviews: Henry Fonda, Ron Howard, Loretta Lynn, and Marlo Thomas in conversation with Dr. Tom Cottle.

Musical Guests: Stephen Stills

Themes: Dating, growing up, sex, parental expectations, and dealing with death.

SCENES



4.1. Nightmare High Segment: The gang studies sex education.

4.2. Interview Segment: Tanya Tucker and Marlo Thomas discuss what they knew about sex growing up, and Thomas reveals a secret about her father Danny, in conversation with Dr. Tom Cottle.

4.3. Music Performance: Stephen Stills performs “Love the One You’re With.” 

4.4. Sketch, “Hippie Parents”: Claudette Sutherland and Andrew Duncan play parents with a cunning plan to make sure their son (Matt McCoy) stays on the straight and narrow.


4.5. Hot Hero Café Segment: Jarrett Smithwrick’s character talks with the gang about struggling with his father’s expectations for him.

4.6. Interview Segment: Ron Howard discusses how he had to realize he would never be tall enough to fulfill his dreams of being a basketball star, in conversation with Dr. Tom Cottle.

4.7. Nightmare High Segment: Excuse of the week — Stanley Dipstyck gets out of gym class with an old joke.  

4.8. Interview Segment: Tanya Tucker and Henry Fonda discuss childhood illness and physical changes growing up, in conversation with Dr. Tom Cottle.

4.9. Nightmare High Segment: The Prêt-à-Porter Puberty Fairy. Paul O’Keefe’s character experiences a fashion crisis when he asks out Vicky Dawson’s character, but the Puberty Fairy (Andy Breckman) saves the day!


4.10. Interview Segment: Marlo Thomas discusses the awkward physical changes growing up, in conversation with Dr. Tom Cottle.

4.11. Ym and Ur Segment: Politics and Beauty Contests.

4.12. Interview Segment: Tanya Tucker discusses being so poor her mother made her clothes from feed sacks, in conversation with Dr. Tom Cottle.

4.13. Music Video/Short Film: Donovon, “I Love My Shirt.” Directed by Gail Frank, wife of one of the series' writers, Joe Bailey.


4.14. Interview Segment: Marlo Thomas discusses who she could confide in about sex while growing up, in conversation with Dr. Tom Cottle.

4.15. Phone Friends Segment Part 1: Nan-Lynn Nelson’s and Denny Dillon’s characters discuss asking guys out on a date.

4.16. Interview Segment: Ron Howard discusses how insecure and shy he was in asking out a girl he liked, even when he was already a TV star, in conversation with Dr. Tom Cottle.

4.17. Phone Friends Segment Part 2: Continuing the story, Denny Dillon’s character’s little brother, Timmy (Adam Ross) pretends to be Nan-Lynn Nelson’s character’s crush so Nan-Lynn can practice asking him out — in exchange for Denny doing whatever he says.

4.18. Interview Segment: Marlo Thomas discusses how she learned to manipulate her father (Danny Thomas) and defend her siblings and Henry Fonda discusses the embarrassment of taking his sister to a dance, in conversation with Dr. Tom Cottle.

4.19. Phone Friends Segment Part 3: Continuing the story, Nan-Lynn Nelson’s character has success in asking out her crush while Denny Dillon’s character decides she’s tired of her brother bossing her around.
 

4.20. Interview Segment: Ron Howard discusses having a younger sibling and growing up with his brother Clint, in conversation with Dr. Tom Cottle.

4.21. Animation Segment: A girl dreams has a scary dream involving her brother, buffalo, going to a hospital, and confronting the possibility of her hurt or dying.

4.22. Interview Segment: Tanya Tucker discusses dreaming of her father’s death and Henry Fonda admits he didn’t tell his son, Peter Fonda, he loved him until Peter was nearly 40 years old, in conversation with Dr. Tom Cottle.

4.23. Music Performance: Stephen Stills performs “Sugar Babe.” 
 
 


Production Note: Regarding the two Stephan Stills tracks, according to David Gross, the bassist for Stills on stage, in a posting on the Hot Hero Sandwich Facebook page, these tracks were recorded at Media Sound in NYC the night before the videotape recording in Studio 8-H. Hot Hero Band guitarist Mark Cunningham joins the band on stage. Felix Pappalardi produced the track. Ed Stasium was the recording engineer.
 
                          

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