Good Day - Camping

DateJune 20 1984

Can DescriptionsMaster

AbstractCamping; Tim White takes Good Day to Hopkinton Reservoir, Massachusetts, for a camping trip; first, he divides the guests into two teams to set up tents; they go fly fishing for lunch; he successfully catches a rainbow trout; lessons on building a campfire site, and starting a fire; cleaning fish, cooking corn and potatoes; there is a conversation about the kinds of mistakes people make when going into the wilderness the first time like comfortable shoes, water, loose-fitting clothing, map and compass, a raincoat; how to debone fish, with the corn which is ready, but the potatoes needing more time; there is advice about travel food to include nuts and dried fruit; instructions on how to extinguish the camp fire.

OtherCredits: Good Day Goes Camping Produced by: Deborah Lathrop; Directed by: Donna Hennessey Smith; Produced by: Peggy Allen; Coordinating Producer: Leslie Moraes; Associate Producers: Deborah Cohen, Nancy J. Swartz, Alan Silberberg; Assistants to the Producer: Mary Ellen Hayes, Curtis Poole; Assistant Director: J. Isaac Laughinghouse; Stage Managers: Bruce Goldman, Al Giglio; Switcher: Keith Jardine; Audio: Zip Bradwell; Audio Assistant: Brian Edgerdon; Videotape: Rob Roy, Emeric Feldmar; Cameras: Dick Erickson, Richie O’Neill, Roger Rice; Lighting Director: Wayne Smith; Graphics: Glenn Robbins; Weather Computer Graphics: Bob Copeland; Set Designers: Ted Talanian, Mike Field; Interns: Suzanne Dillion, Denise Fitzpatrick, Tali Flam, Mark Prisco, Lee Rosoff; Program Manager: J. Clifford Curley; Camping Gear Courtesy of: Eastern Mountain Sports and Herman’s World of Sporting Goods; Tim’s Wardrobe Provided by: W.D. & Company of Boston & Marblehead