Family Theater: Rip Van Winkle

Family Theater presents Frank Faye. From Hollywood, the Mutual Network in cooperation with Family Theater Incorporated brings you the familiar American classic Rip Van Winkle, starring Frank Faye. It happened about 200 years ago in the little Dutch village of Spookendorf at the foot of the Catskills.

Those ancient mountains shrouded in mist and mystery. On the ragged edge of Scukendorf lived the Van Winkle family, Rip Van Winkle, Dame Van Winkle, and their two children, Judy and Rip Jr. The house was run down, the barn was run down, and the farm was run down.

The only thing that would never run down was Dame Winkle's tongue and Rip Van Winkle's rocking chair. Hey, is it good for nothing get up out of that squeaky old rocking chair off the porch?

Go out and cut the hay! No, don't hurt me, my dear. I've been thinking about cutting that hay for a long time. I've been studying the best way to do it. I've been looking for that scythe two years now.

Well, of course you can't find a scythe. You wouldn't have the energy. Too much trouble. No, you just dropped it down on the ground somewhere and let it lie there. I guess I did. Yes.

The laziest man in the village they call you. Rip Van Winkle, the townloper. Oh, why did I ever have to marry you? Because my dear, I am a charming man, a gentle person. Family Theatre presents Frank Faye!

Hollywood, the mutual network in cooperation with Family Theatre Incorporated brings you the familiar American classic, Ripped Van Winkle, starring Frank Faye! It happened about 200 years ago in the little Dutch village of Spookandor, At the foot of the Catskills, those ancient mountains shrouded in mist and mystery.

We thank you, God, for everything beneath the stars and sun, and promise we will always strive to help your will be done. And now, who reminds you, is we do each week that the family that prays together stays together.

More things are brought by prayer in this world we need to help. Family Theater has presented Frank Faye in Rip Van Winkle with Lorraine Tuttle, Jeffrey Silver, Ken Christie, Junius Matthews and Walter Burke. Howard McNair was heard as the father in our closing poet.

This adaptation of our American Classic was written by Harry Lawrence with music composed and conducted by Harry Zimmerman and was directed for Family Theater by Jaime DelVy. Our Family Theater broadcasts are made possible by the thousands of you who felt the need for this type of program by the mutual network which has