by G. Jack
Urso
Originally published January 24, 2024, on www.Aeolus13Umbra.com, with updates Nov. 11, 2024.
Broadcast Date: Jan. 19, 1980.
Interviews:
LeVar Burton, Michael Learned, McLean Stevenson, and Stockard Channing, in
conversation with Dr. Tom Cottle.
Musical
Guest: Rex Smith and The Hot Hero Band.
Themes: Favorite
teachers, school dances, first crushes, dating, interracial dating, being
popular.
Note: The links below go to the corresponding video clips hosted on Hot Hero Sandwich Central!
Scenes
10.1. Interview Segment:
Stockard Channing and McLean Stevenson talk about how they viewed themselves as
kids, in conversation with Dr. Tom Cottle.
10.2. Nightmare High Segment: Class Clown Pageant. Andrew Duncan in character as the host of the Nightmare High Class
Clown Pageant. The contestants include: Joel “Frogface” Feinstein (Paul O'Keefe), Elizabeth Ann “Swifty” LaCava (Denny Dillon), and Larry “Goober Nuts” Wachowski (Matt McCoy).
10.3. Interview Segment:
LeVar Burton discusses a recurring dream, in conversation with Dr. Tom Cottle.
10.4: Animation Segment: “Have You Seen the Stars Tonite.” (Paul
Kantner)
10.5. Interview Segment:
LeVar Burton, Michael Learned, and McLean Stevenson talk about their favorite
teachers, in conversation with Dr. Tom Cottle.
10.6. Nightmare High Segment: The coach (Frankie Faison) gives a
locker room pep talk for the guys attending the school dance. Also with L.
Michael Craig, Matt McCoy, Paul O’Keefe, and Jarrett Smithwrick.
10.7. Interview Segment: McLean Stevenson and Michael Learned talk
about school dances and first dates, in conversation with Dr. Tom Cottle.
10. 8. Music Performance: Rex Smith and the Hot Hero Band, "Tonight."
10.9. Sketch: Nightmare High Excuse of the Week. Nan-Lynn Nelson couldn’t type up
her English paper because her neighbor thinks she was tap dancing.
10.10. What's In, What's Out Segment:
Teens answer the question what’s the in thing to do in 1979.
10.11. Interview Segment: McLean Stevenson, Stockard
Channing, Michael Learned, and LeVar Burton discuss what they liked to do as
kids, in conversation with Dr. Tom Cottle.
10.12. What's In, What's Out Segment: Teens give
the latest slang words for “when someone’s out of it.”
10.13. Interview Segment: Stockard Channing discusses her
fantasies as a child, in conversation with Dr. Tom Cottle.
10.14. Sketch: Stanley Dipstyck finally encounters the Puberty Fairy.
10.15. Interview Segment: Michael Learned discusses whether she
felt “lovable” as a young teen,” in conversation with Dr. Tom Cottle.
10.16. Animation Segment: Kid Dream! A boy dreams of being led onto airplane, flying across
Atlantic Ocean to New York, meeting his parents (Uncle Sam and Lady Liberty), and
having flashbacks of life in the Netherlands, but his real parents bring back
down to Earth with the truth.
10.17. Interview Segment: LeVar Burton talks about moving to
Germany as a child and not having seen his father since the sixth grade, in
conversation with Dr. Tom Cottle.
10.18. Interview Segment:
LeVar Burton talks about growing up and having doubts about meeting someone
special, Michael Learned talks about dating, in conversation with Dr. Tom
Cottle.
10.19. Ted’s Café Segment (Part 1 of 3): Denny Dillon’s
character seeks help for the refreshment committee for the Victory Party.
Nan-Lynn Nelson’s and L. Michael Craig’s characters feud over where to get the
burgers and how to cook — but is something more simmering between these two?
10.20. Interview Segment:
LeVar Burton discusses whether he was ever afraid of girls growing up, in
conversation with Dr. Tom Cottle.
10.21. Short Film: A montage of Black girls and women set to Stevie Wonder's “Ebony
Eyes,” plus a woman doing snippets of the poem "Phenomenal Woman,"
plus another poem, “I’m gonna draw me a
Black Madonna.”
10.22. Ted’s Café Segment (Part 2 of 3): Nan-Lynn Nelson’s
and L. Michael Craig’s characters apologize after their fight, which leads to
flirting, and then they agree to go on date to the Victory Dance.
10.23. Interview Segment: McLean Stevenson discusses one of his first loves as a teenager,
who was from a different religion than his, in conversation with Dr. Tom
Cottle.
10.24. Interview
Segment: LeVar Burton talks about whether there was any opposition from his
family to him dating a white girl, in conversation with Dr. Tom Cottle.
10.25. Ted’s Café Segment (Part 3 of 3): Nan-Lynn Nelson’s
and L. Michael Craig’s characters realize they don’t have anything besides
cooking in common and decide not to go to the party together, but remain
friends. Also, with Vicky Dawson, Denny Dillon, Matt McCoy, and Jarrett
Smithwrick.
10.26. Interview Segment: Stockard Channing talks about the importance of teenagers pursing
their passions and interests, Michael Learned discusses the pressure to be a
“nice” girl as a teenager, in conversation with Dr. Tom Cottle.
10.27. Music Performance: Rex Smith performs “Sooner or Later,” a song about a teen having to
wait for romance, from his hit 1979 TV movie of the same name produced by Hot Hero Sandwich’s Bruce and Carole Hart.
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| Hot Hero Sandwich series writer Sherry Coben’s personal archival copy of Episode 10. Sadly, we will likely never see a DVD release of the series. |
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