Orchids and Moonbeams
Encyclopedia
Orchids and Moonbeams is a radio drama
, produced by the ZBS Foundation
. It is the seventeenth of the Jack Flanders
adventure series and the first of the The Fantastic Voyages of Captain Jack Flanders sub-series. It combines elements of Old-time radio
with psychic
phenomena, supernatural
beings and energies.
Jack: "She bought it."
Sam: "I thought she was in Montreal."
Jack: "I don't know where she is."
Sam: "That figures. The Montreal she's from people don't even know about and that includes the people who live in Montreal!"
Recorded at Froggy Acres Studios, Fort Miller, NY
encountering mysterious and other-worldly incidents.
Radio drama
Radio drama is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance, broadcast on radio or published on audio media, such as tape or CD. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the characters and story...
, produced by the ZBS Foundation
ZBS Foundation
ZBS Foundation, a small non-profit audio production company, was founded by Thomas Lopez in 1970 with a grant from Robert E. Durand as a working commune based on a donated farm in Upstate New York...
. It is the seventeenth of the Jack Flanders
Jack Flanders
Jack Flanders is the protagonist of a series of audio dramas produced by the ZBS Foundation. He is the creation of writer and sound artist Thomas Lopez and is played by actor Robert Lorick....
adventure series and the first of the The Fantastic Voyages of Captain Jack Flanders sub-series. It combines elements of Old-time radio
Old-time radio
Old-Time Radio and the Golden Age of Radio refer to a period of radio programming in the United States lasting from the proliferation of radio broadcasting in the early 1920s until television's replacement of radio as the primary home entertainment medium in the 1950s...
with psychic
Psychic
A psychic is a person who professes an ability to perceive information hidden from the normal senses through extrasensory perception , or is said by others to have such abilities. It is also used to describe theatrical performers who use techniques such as prestidigitation, cold reading, and hot...
phenomena, supernatural
Supernatural
The supernatural or is that which is not subject to the laws of nature, or more figuratively, that which is said to exist above and beyond nature...
beings and energies.
Plot
Construction of a new beach resort threatens a jungle valley thought to be sacred by the local people who believe that it is the domain of a powerful spirit of nature - a jungle goddess no less. It's not long before the spirit is fighting back and soon the jungle is threatening to take over the beach. Snakes and lizards are becoming the regulars at Maria's Cafe and it's up to Jack, Mojo and Claudine to try and restore balance.Quotes
Sam: "Why does Claudine have a boat down here?"Jack: "She bought it."
Sam: "I thought she was in Montreal."
Jack: "I don't know where she is."
Sam: "That figures. The Montreal she's from people don't even know about and that includes the people who live in Montreal!"
Credits
- Jack FlandersJack FlandersJack Flanders is the protagonist of a series of audio dramas produced by the ZBS Foundation. He is the creation of writer and sound artist Thomas Lopez and is played by actor Robert Lorick....
- Robert LorickRobert LorickRobert Lorick is an actor and lyricist, best known as a Broadway lyricist and for his work portraying Jack Flanders, a character in an ongoing series of ZBS Foundation audio adventures. In 1972, he made his debut as a lyricist with the Off-Broadway musical Hark! at the Mercer-O'Casey Theatre... - Mojo Sam - Dave Adams
- Claudine - Pascale Poirier
- Pat Patterson - Patrick Donovan
- Bunny - Camille Goodhart Hebert
- Amber - Laura Roth
- Producer/Director/Engineer - Tom LopezThomas LopezThomas Lopez, aka Meatball Fulton, is one of the founders and president of the ZBS Foundation. He writes and produces the ZBS Foundation's audio drama productions. Some of these aired in 1984-85 as part of ZBS' stereo radio series The Cabinet of Dr. Fritz.His output includes the entire Jack...
- Writer - Meatball FultonThomas LopezThomas Lopez, aka Meatball Fulton, is one of the founders and president of the ZBS Foundation. He writes and produces the ZBS Foundation's audio drama productions. Some of these aired in 1984-85 as part of ZBS' stereo radio series The Cabinet of Dr. Fritz.His output includes the entire Jack...
- Music - Tim Clark
- Illustration/Graphics - Jaye Oliver
Recorded at Froggy Acres Studios, Fort Miller, NY
The Fantastic Voyages of Captain Jack Flanders
Jack, Mojo and Claudine sail around the TropicsTropics
The tropics is a region of the Earth surrounding the Equator. It is limited in latitude by the Tropic of Cancer in the northern hemisphere at approximately N and the Tropic of Capricorn in the southern hemisphere at S; these latitudes correspond to the axial tilt of the Earth...
encountering mysterious and other-worldly incidents.
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