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Ah, a thread to indulge my Twin Peaks obsession…
The TP tapes do seem to be unavailable, but eBay has them with some regularity – just type the show’s title into the search box and you should find stuff. Often they have various merchandise bits as well, which are surprisingly worthwhile if you’re a fan (Cooper’s ‘biography’, for example, tells you how he got his ring, which in itself becomes a plot element in the show).
If you want to see a hint of what might have happened ‘next’ in TP, it’s worth hunting down the script for ‘Fire Walk With Me’ online or elsewhere, as it contains a few scenes which were set AFTER the final TV episode, which gives you an idea of where Lynch and Engels (the FWWM co-writer) saw the story going…
I thought Wild Palms was okay, but the Oliver Stone involvement was woefully overplayed for my tastes; he didn’t even direct any of it, he was just an ‘executive producer’. WP was originally a comic strip in Details magazine in the states, and it’s interesting that the creator, Bruce Wagner (I think I’ve got that right) wrote the TV show when it was made, and IIRC maintained quite a lot of control over it. Probably more involved than Oliver Stone was, I suspect… there was a volume of the comic strips published. It was okay, not that groundbreaking.
And Adamswish, I think you’re right about Stone’s cameo. I think William Gibson also popped up saying something like ‘I came up with the term ‘virtual reality’, and now they won’t let me forget it’. Both in episode one, directed by Peter Hewitt, I think.
Only real similarities between the two shows as far as I can see is that they both have a name which is formed Adjective-PluralNoun, and that David Warner was in both shows married to someone called Josie.
TP, for my money (which isn’t much, but whatever), is one of the best TV shows of all time (tied with The Singing Detective in my affections).
DBC
PS – Apologies for long post. My fondness shows itself through logorrhoea…
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