Likely Story, A - Use Your Head--Episode 5

DateJanuary 13 1989

Can DescriptionsMaster X4861 Master A Likely Story Use Your Head

AbstractBars and tone. Slate. Black. Show begins at 01:10 Alison driving the Book Mobile. She opens the show with a story about Ants. Opening. Credited: Rosen-Shontz [Rosenshontz] and Bill Cook “Let’s Use Our Heads” Book mobile is flying. Alison asks kids to help her down. They tell jokes to the Book mobile. It laughs and she descends. It was all a dream that Alison was having. She wakes up sitting under a tree. A girl introduces book Cartoon: “Doctor De Soto” by William Steig Commercial break Alison filling balloons with helium and the kids are coloring them. “If you had 100 balloons what would you do with them?” Compilation of different kid’s answers (one in Spanish). They enter the Magic Book and come out in a field by a hot air balloon. Bill Cook is in the balloon and offers to take them anywhere. Cook tells the kids a story about a bird (“Tico and the Golden Wings” by Leo Lionni). Speaks directly to the camera. Commercial break Balloon lands at a Rosenshontz (Gary Rosen and Bill Shontz) concert in a park. They sing “The Best That I Can.” Commercial break They come back to the book mobile. Your Story: “Bully and the Penguin by Lisa Malley, Beth McDonald, and Jenny Segal. Illustrated by Talia Fisher Kids recommend books while the credits roll.

OtherCredits: Produced by Hamilton B Fisher Directed by Dan F. Smith Senior Associate Producers: Linda Adler & Curtis Poole Assistant to the Director: Gloria Ortiz Principal Writers: Alison Martin & Curtis Poole Associate Producer: Simone Bloom Photography: Howie Rouse, Chris O’Hare, Roger Rice, & Rodney Grace Sound: Doug Dike, Richard Erickson, Roger Rice, & David Buhl Floor Director: Scott Philbrick, Frank Firnschild, & Bruce Goldman Editor: Jeff Brawer Post Production Editors: Doug Devitt & George Ellard Incidental Music: Jeff Loeb & Musictracks Theme Song written and performed by: Livingston Taylor Consultant: Dr. Miriam Marecek, Ph.D. Boston U. Still Photography: Molly Lynch Production in Association with Weston Woods Studios, Morton Schindel, & Carie Best Program Administrator: Leona P. McCarthy Executive Producer: Judith Stoia VP Programming: Paul La Camera Copyright 1989