Great Northern Radio Theatre

Modern audio theater, produced in Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Science Fiction, Fantasy and Silliness mostly - but not entirely.
Available to radio stations, and to interested listeners, on cassette or Compact Disc.

Duplicating Duluth

1999 - Silly cyberpunk by Jerry Stearns and Brian Price.
Action and high-buck treachery inside the network as the Coopertino family starts buying up all the virtual real estate. Nina Fractals and her friends, the network cartographers, decide they have to do something before the whole cyber-world is taken over by multiple useless virtual shopping malls. A fierce battle ensues. Performed live at Minicon 34, April, 1999. (30 minutes.)

Sci-Five Live!

1999 - Five short, spirited and silly science fiction and fantasy stories.
Plays written by Jerry Stearns, Brian Price, and special guest Meatball Fulton, of ZBS. Featuring the voice talents of David Ossman, Philip Proctor and Melinda Peterson, and Jane Yolen, among others. High Moon, Rocket Pierre and the Stainless Tin Rat, The Collapse of the 20^th Century Was So Gradual, The Last Shuttle, and Wizard Jack. All written for and performed at Minicons 32 and 33, 1997-1998. See the Sci-Five Live! web site for more details. (60 minutes)

Permafrost, MN

1998 - by Brian Price and Jerry Stearns.
Thirteen 3-minute episodes (total 39 minutes) on CD only.
Permafrost is a small, unincorporated town surrounded by a strange stuck-in-perpetual-winter micro-climate. Narrator, Finch Shelmerdine, is stuck with the unusual folks in her home town: the Ten-Thousand and First Official Lake Committee, displaced Texan Bux Hootkins, Bertie Two Shoes, Petey Pie and the rest. Sure there's a lot of folks with a lot of lakes in Minnesota, but as town historian, Les Decksia, likes to say, "Our lake may have been frozen since 1887, but it's in fine shape."
Available in the ZBS or LodesTone catalogs, or E-mail me at jstearns@mtn.org. (Jerry Stearns - 612-722-2907.)

Tumbleweed Roundup

1995 - by Jerry Stearns and Brian Price.
Mack Brown is looking for some B-movie westerns he remembers seeing as a kid. He finds the films are lost now, but he also finds that a lot of other people remember them, too. Listed in the Mark Time SF Audio Hall of Fame.
(30 minutes.) Available free to public and community radio stations.

Solid State University

1993 - by Jerry Stearns.
A 'mockumentary' about the first computerized university administration, where the University President and all the Vice Presidents exist only on the computer system. Hear about the Dept. of Admissions and Denials, and the Dept. of Obstructions.
Winner of the NFCB Golden Reel Award for Best Radio Drama of 1993.
Features the voices of Dan Coffey (Dr. Science), and Dave Moore, of WCCO-TV in Minneapolis.
(30 minutes) Still available free to public and community stations.

Star of Vengeance

1991 - Ten episode silly sci-fi serial, written by Andre Guirard.
Each episode is 10-12 minutes. George and Suey are on a quest given them by a vending machine in a lost city in the jungles of Canada. (How's that for a beginning?) It get's stranger from there. (Total about 2 hours.)

SHOCKWAVE

1979-1993 - For fourteen years DavE Romm and I hosted SHOCKWAVE, a science fiction comedy show on KFAI. We also performed before a live audience at the Minnesota Regional Science Fiction Convention (Minicon) each year. We have tapes of many of our productions during this time. Some that I produced and am glad to make available include:

Amongst the Best of Shockwave Live!, Vol. 3 - many of our favorite short bits from Minicons 15-24. Recorded at Minicon 25, 1990. (60 minutes)
Vince Washburn, New Age Detective -
- "Penalty for Early Death," a comic play about an Age of Aquarius Personal Investigator on a murder case at a house on Wyndom Hill. Performed live at Minicon 23. Script won the script contest of the 1988 Midwest Radio Theater Workshop. The MRTW production is available on the "Best of MRTW" tapes in the The LodesTone Catalog. ) (25 minutes)
- "If You've Got the Time" - Vince takes the case of a woman lost in time. Script won third place in the 1995 MRTW script contest. Performed live at Minicon 32. (27 minutes)
Cable Video in the St. Paul Spaceport - an impromptu discussion of new video technology available at the Spaceport (the site of much of Shockwave's future history), and we'll watch a few TV shows on the radio, too. (30 Minutes)
The Repast of the Jello - Kara Dalkey wrote this script, the third (or sixth?) of the Food Wars movies, done entirely in food puns. Performed live at Minicon 24. Minor flaws in the recording. (30 minutes)
Coming To A Galaxy Near You - A sort of "This Is Your Life" show for guest George Tirebiter, with scenes from some of his old radio shows and films, including a new Mark Time episode, one episode from "U.S. Mean Time", the sequel to David Ossman's "How Time Flys" album, a new Vince Washburn program (see "If You've Got The Time", above), and a scene from Tirebiter's 1955 film, "Nomads From Neptune." A very strange program all around. Live from Minicon 31. (60 minutes).

You can get more Shockwave material from DavE. See his web page at http://www.romm.org/.

"Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear."
(I just always wanted to say that.)

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Last updated April 8, 2000.