 SEASON 3, EPISODE 20 THE CHARNEL PIT A flurry of reports on missing young women has the police baffled. One of the missing co-eds was a student of Webster Eby (Vlasta Vrana), a charismatic professor who lectures on the writings of the Marquis de Sade (Neil Munro). When another student, Larissa (Christa Daniel), threatens to tell police that she saw Eby with the missing girl, the professor knocks her unconscious, and takes her to his home. Unbeknownst to Eby, Micki has seen him hauling Larissa's body, and, convinced she has found the murderer, she sneaks into the house and creeps upstairs. But Eby sees her, and sends her reeling into a wall on which a large 18th century pastoral painting is hanging. When blood from her wounds touches the painting, it suddenly sucks her in. When she comes to, she stares at quite a different painting- that of writhing bodies in a flaming cemetery pit, and finds herself transported to a chateau in France- in 1790. CAST & CREW MICKI FOSTER- LOUISE ROBEY JACK MARSHAK- CHRIS WIGGINS JOHNNY VENTURA- STEVEN MONARQUE MARQUIS DE SADE- NEIL MUNRO WEBSTER EBY- VLASTA VRANA STEPHANIE- CYNTHIA PRESTON LATOUR- PAUL COEUR CATHERINE- GENEVIEVE LANGLOIS GENERAL LAFAYETTE- ANDREW JACKSON HAROLD LAFONTAINE- GERARD PARKES LARISSA- CHRISTA DANIEL COUNTESSA- NANCY CSER INNKEEPER- ROBERT NICHOLSON PEASANT GIRL #1- LOUISE KIDNEY Written by- Jim Henshaw Directed by- Armand Mastroianni Created by- Larry B. Williams, Frank Mancuso Jr. Supervising Producer- Jon Andersen Executive Producer- Frank Mancuso Jr. Line Producer- J. Miles Dale Executive Story Consultant- Jim Henshaw Music Composed and Performed by- Fred Mollin Director of Photography- Rodney Charters Production Designer- Stephen Roloff Post-Production Executive- Gary L. Smith Editor- Dave Goard First Assistant Director- Myron Hoffert Second Unit Director- T.J. Scott Script Consultant- R. Scott Gemmill Casting by- Walker, Berman & Associates Extras Casting- Gabrielle Iviney 1st Assistant Camera- Patrick Stepien 2nd Assistant Camera- Trevor Haws 2nd Unit Director of Photography- Richard Wincenty Sound Recordist- Bryan Day Boom Operator- Martin Lacroix Costume Designer- Marie-Sylvie Deveau Assistant Designer- Carolyn Bahen Wardrobe Mistress- Judith England Wardrobe Assistants- Luis Sequeira, Lisa Prince Make-Up Artist- Ava Stone Hair Stylist- Diane Smith Art Director- Adam Kolodziej Assistant Art Director- Robert Ballantyne Set Decorator- Marlene Puritt Lead Set Dresser- Bruce Mailing Swing Gang- David Maltese, Rex Field Art Department Trainee- Joan Parkinson Assistant Production Manager- Norman Denver Second Assistant Director- Terry Gould Third Assistant Director- Michael Burke Trainee Assistant Director- Johanne Chene Second Unit Assistant Director- Fergus Barnes Stunt Coordinator- J.J. Makaro Location Manager- Dorigen Fode Assistant Location Manager- Joe Barzo Production Coordinator- Mary Fraser Production Secretary- Esther Behar Production Accountant- Nathalie Laporte Script Supervisor- Benu Bhandari Assistant to the Producer- Susan Perry Assistant to the Executive Producer- Ginger Reynolds Studio Manager- Aileen Bell Script Assistant- Sheri McGrath Paralegal- Pat Turner Prosthetics Designer- Francois Dagenais Special Effects by- Performance Solutions Inc. Special Effects Coordinator- Jordan Craig Visual Effects Artist- John Gajdecki Effects Assistants- John LaForet, Russ Graham Property Master- Peter Risi Lead Props- Frauke Illing Gaffer- Owen Taylor Best Boy- Kevin Murphy Electricians- Michael Auger, Nigel Draper Transportation Coordinator- Chris Radley-Walters Picture Vehicle Coordinator- Glen Avigdor Key Grip- Mark Silver Best Boy Grip- Ron Paulaskas Grips- Blake Ballantine, Tracy Shaw Construction Coordinator- Ron Lightfoot Head Carpenter- Joe Madziak Scenic Painter- Otto Fondan Post-Production Supervisor- Philip Stilman Post-Production Coordinator- Gary Mueller Assistant Editor- Mary Jane Patterson Post-Production Assistant- Ruth Pond Video Post-Production- Dome Productions Audio Post-Production- Master's Workshop Re-Recording Mixers- Tim Archer, Rick Ellis Dialogue Supervisor- Terry Gordica Dialogue Editors- Jon Archer, Steve Foster Sound Effects Editor- Steve Gorman Foley- Orest Sushko, Gary Daprato Series Music Available On- GNP Crescendo Records Executive in Charge of Production- Robert Wertheimer Executive Production Consultant- Rick Schwartz Copyright 1990 Paramount Pictures Corporation A Triumph Entertainment Corporation Production Produced in Association with Hometown Films All Rights Reserved |
     Webster: "Do anything he asks...he has all the answers we seek..." Harold: "He claimed the images were so real, you could just step into them..." Countessa: "Everyone knows the finest parties are thrown by Marquis de Sade..." Micki: "He has an aura of power that comes from his willingness to embrace evil..." Marquis: "Life, like the charnel pit, offers no escape but death..." CORONER'S REPORT 1. Peasant Girl #1 (Louise Kidney)- Found dead in river after trip through painting 2. Peasant Girl #2 (uncredited)- Found dead in river after trip through painting 3. Stephanie (Cynthia Preston)- Found dead in Marquis de Sade's basement after trip through painting 4. Latour (Paul Coeur)- Died in trip back through painting 5. Webster (Vlasta Vrana)- Knifed in chest *Plus several other women found dead over course of three months TRIVIA QUESTIONS 1. What was unique about the painting? 2. What was Webster Eby's address? 3. What date was shown on Micki's letter back in time? 4. How did Webster benefit from his 'exchange' with Marquis de Sade? 5. How did the painting work? ANSWERS 1. The painting was a two-way door to the past, activated by blood. 2. Webster's address was 500 Chester Street. 3. Micki's letter was dated February 8, 1790. 4. Webster benefitted through the writing of books about Marquis de Sade. 5. The painting exchanged a living person for a dead one. AIR DATE May 14, 1990 EPISODE RATING: 1 Life, like the charnel pit, offers no escape but death... Apparently the producers felt the same way at this point PROMO |
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