Trying to identify a sci-fi TV anthology - Fish catches man
Early 80's to early 90's TV episodes, short science fiction stories in the style of 'Ray Bradbury Theatre' and 'Amazing Stories'.
I remember a fat guy fishing by a pond who catches a bluegill. Then, out of nowhere a red apple rolls close to him. As he bites into it, a huge hook pulls him into the water. End of short.
story-identification
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Early 80's to early 90's TV episodes, short science fiction stories in the style of 'Ray Bradbury Theatre' and 'Amazing Stories'.
I remember a fat guy fishing by a pond who catches a bluegill. Then, out of nowhere a red apple rolls close to him. As he bites into it, a huge hook pulls him into the water. End of short.
story-identification
edited Sep 26 '14 at 0:06
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Early 80's to early 90's TV episodes, short science fiction stories in the style of 'Ray Bradbury Theatre' and 'Amazing Stories'.
I remember a fat guy fishing by a pond who catches a bluegill. Then, out of nowhere a red apple rolls close to him. As he bites into it, a huge hook pulls him into the water. End of short.
story-identification
edited Sep 26 '14 at 0:06
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asked Sep 25 '14 at 22:03
user33157user33157
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Early 80's to early 90's TV episodes, short science fiction stories in the style of 'Ray Bradbury Theatre' and 'Amazing Stories'.
I remember a fat guy fishing by a pond who catches a bluegill. Then, out of nowhere a red apple rolls close to him. As he bites into it, a huge hook pulls him into the water. End of short.
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I would say the answer is Vincent Price's short horror story antholoy Escapes.
In the opening segment, a teenager receives a strange tape and decides to watch it. Vincent Price appears and announces that we are going to see six horror stories. The first, “Something’s Fishy,” involves a man out fishing on a lake. He sees an apple on the shore and decides to eat it, but it turns out the mysterious fruit is not quite what it seems and the man winds up on a hook pulled into the water.
edited Sep 26 '14 at 12:32
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Damn good going, does it have a scene with a lab with an alarm going off, two scientists are running one falls and these two creatures catch them and one says( your it then they run off) ?
– user33157
Sep 25 '14 at 23:39
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The entire show is available streaming online. A youtube search for Vincent Price Escapes will let you determine if this is what you are looking for. If it is, you can select the checkmark next to the answer I provided to accept this as the answer you were looking for.
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There's a Dutch children's(!) book along the same lines, De Vis en de Jongen (The Fish and the Boy) by Dolf Verroen, with pictures by Ton Frederiks.
It's no longer for sale, but you can read it (in Dutch) on the author's website ("omslaan" means "turn the page").
It's from 1979, so there is a (however slight) possibility of it being the inspiration of the short.
answered Sep 26 '14 at 6:31
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Unlikely that they're related, but still damn interesting.
– Valorum
Sep 26 '14 at 7:36
Morbid much for a childrens story? "Mag ik het piemeltje?" vroeg de vis die de jongen gevangen had. "Want dat is het lekkerst." That is seriously creepy. I get that the author was making a strong point, but the boys piemltje? Really?
– Firebat
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There was an earlier BW short film (1960s?) about a fisherman on a beach who bites into a sandwich and is dragged into the ocean. I believe it was shot at Ocean Beach in San Francisco. It’s much better than “Sometning Fishy.” I believe I saw it at the Playhouse in Sausalito with “The Birds” when it was new.
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I would say the answer is Vincent Price's short horror story antholoy Escapes.
In the opening segment, a teenager receives a strange tape and decides to watch it. Vincent Price appears and announces that we are going to see six horror stories. The first, “Something’s Fishy,” involves a man out fishing on a lake. He sees an apple on the shore and decides to eat it, but it turns out the mysterious fruit is not quite what it seems and the man winds up on a hook pulled into the water.
edited Sep 26 '14 at 12:32
K-H-W
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answered Sep 25 '14 at 23:11
FirebatFirebat
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Damn good going, does it have a scene with a lab with an alarm going off, two scientists are running one falls and these two creatures catch them and one says( your it then they run off) ?
– user33157
Sep 25 '14 at 23:39
1
The entire show is available streaming online. A youtube search for Vincent Price Escapes will let you determine if this is what you are looking for. If it is, you can select the checkmark next to the answer I provided to accept this as the answer you were looking for.
– Firebat
Sep 26 '14 at 0:16
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I would say the answer is Vincent Price's short horror story antholoy Escapes.
In the opening segment, a teenager receives a strange tape and decides to watch it. Vincent Price appears and announces that we are going to see six horror stories. The first, “Something’s Fishy,” involves a man out fishing on a lake. He sees an apple on the shore and decides to eat it, but it turns out the mysterious fruit is not quite what it seems and the man winds up on a hook pulled into the water.
edited Sep 26 '14 at 12:32
K-H-W
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answered Sep 25 '14 at 23:11
FirebatFirebat
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Damn good going, does it have a scene with a lab with an alarm going off, two scientists are running one falls and these two creatures catch them and one says( your it then they run off) ?
– user33157
Sep 25 '14 at 23:39
1
The entire show is available streaming online. A youtube search for Vincent Price Escapes will let you determine if this is what you are looking for. If it is, you can select the checkmark next to the answer I provided to accept this as the answer you were looking for.
– Firebat
Sep 26 '14 at 0:16
add a comment |
I would say the answer is Vincent Price's short horror story antholoy Escapes.
In the opening segment, a teenager receives a strange tape and decides to watch it. Vincent Price appears and announces that we are going to see six horror stories. The first, “Something’s Fishy,” involves a man out fishing on a lake. He sees an apple on the shore and decides to eat it, but it turns out the mysterious fruit is not quite what it seems and the man winds up on a hook pulled into the water.
edited Sep 26 '14 at 12:32
K-H-W
52k7200251
answered Sep 25 '14 at 23:11
FirebatFirebat
6,15421941
I would say the answer is Vincent Price's short horror story antholoy Escapes.
In the opening segment, a teenager receives a strange tape and decides to watch it. Vincent Price appears and announces that we are going to see six horror stories. The first, “Something’s Fishy,” involves a man out fishing on a lake. He sees an apple on the shore and decides to eat it, but it turns out the mysterious fruit is not quite what it seems and the man winds up on a hook pulled into the water.
edited Sep 26 '14 at 12:32
K-H-W
52k7200251
answered Sep 25 '14 at 23:11
FirebatFirebat
6,15421941
edited Sep 26 '14 at 12:32
K-H-W
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edited Sep 26 '14 at 12:32
K-H-W
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edited Sep 26 '14 at 12:32
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52k7200251
answered Sep 25 '14 at 23:11
FirebatFirebat
6,15421941
answered Sep 25 '14 at 23:11
FirebatFirebat
6,15421941
answered Sep 25 '14 at 23:11
FirebatFirebat
6,15421941
6,15421941
Damn good going, does it have a scene with a lab with an alarm going off, two scientists are running one falls and these two creatures catch them and one says( your it then they run off) ?
– user33157
Sep 25 '14 at 23:39
1
The entire show is available streaming online. A youtube search for Vincent Price Escapes will let you determine if this is what you are looking for. If it is, you can select the checkmark next to the answer I provided to accept this as the answer you were looking for.
– Firebat
Sep 26 '14 at 0:16
add a comment |
Damn good going, does it have a scene with a lab with an alarm going off, two scientists are running one falls and these two creatures catch them and one says( your it then they run off) ?
– user33157
Sep 25 '14 at 23:39
1
The entire show is available streaming online. A youtube search for Vincent Price Escapes will let you determine if this is what you are looking for. If it is, you can select the checkmark next to the answer I provided to accept this as the answer you were looking for.
– Firebat
Sep 26 '14 at 0:16
Damn good going, does it have a scene with a lab with an alarm going off, two scientists are running one falls and these two creatures catch them and one says( your it then they run off) ?
– user33157
Sep 25 '14 at 23:39
Damn good going, does it have a scene with a lab with an alarm going off, two scientists are running one falls and these two creatures catch them and one says( your it then they run off) ?
– user33157
Sep 25 '14 at 23:39
1
1
The entire show is available streaming online. A youtube search for Vincent Price Escapes will let you determine if this is what you are looking for. If it is, you can select the checkmark next to the answer I provided to accept this as the answer you were looking for.
– Firebat
Sep 26 '14 at 0:16
The entire show is available streaming online. A youtube search for Vincent Price Escapes will let you determine if this is what you are looking for. If it is, you can select the checkmark next to the answer I provided to accept this as the answer you were looking for.
– Firebat
Sep 26 '14 at 0:16
add a comment |
There's a Dutch children's(!) book along the same lines, De Vis en de Jongen (The Fish and the Boy) by Dolf Verroen, with pictures by Ton Frederiks.
It's no longer for sale, but you can read it (in Dutch) on the author's website ("omslaan" means "turn the page").
It's from 1979, so there is a (however slight) possibility of it being the inspiration of the short.
answered Sep 26 '14 at 6:31
SQBSQB
25.5k25145243
2
Unlikely that they're related, but still damn interesting.
– Valorum
Sep 26 '14 at 7:36
Morbid much for a childrens story? "Mag ik het piemeltje?" vroeg de vis die de jongen gevangen had. "Want dat is het lekkerst." That is seriously creepy. I get that the author was making a strong point, but the boys piemltje? Really?
– Firebat
Feb 25 '15 at 14:14
add a comment |
There's a Dutch children's(!) book along the same lines, De Vis en de Jongen (The Fish and the Boy) by Dolf Verroen, with pictures by Ton Frederiks.
It's no longer for sale, but you can read it (in Dutch) on the author's website ("omslaan" means "turn the page").
It's from 1979, so there is a (however slight) possibility of it being the inspiration of the short.
answered Sep 26 '14 at 6:31
SQBSQB
25.5k25145243
2
Unlikely that they're related, but still damn interesting.
– Valorum
Sep 26 '14 at 7:36
Morbid much for a childrens story? "Mag ik het piemeltje?" vroeg de vis die de jongen gevangen had. "Want dat is het lekkerst." That is seriously creepy. I get that the author was making a strong point, but the boys piemltje? Really?
– Firebat
Feb 25 '15 at 14:14
add a comment |
There's a Dutch children's(!) book along the same lines, De Vis en de Jongen (The Fish and the Boy) by Dolf Verroen, with pictures by Ton Frederiks.
It's no longer for sale, but you can read it (in Dutch) on the author's website ("omslaan" means "turn the page").
It's from 1979, so there is a (however slight) possibility of it being the inspiration of the short.
answered Sep 26 '14 at 6:31
SQBSQB
25.5k25145243
There's a Dutch children's(!) book along the same lines, De Vis en de Jongen (The Fish and the Boy) by Dolf Verroen, with pictures by Ton Frederiks.
It's no longer for sale, but you can read it (in Dutch) on the author's website ("omslaan" means "turn the page").
It's from 1979, so there is a (however slight) possibility of it being the inspiration of the short.
answered Sep 26 '14 at 6:31
SQBSQB
25.5k25145243
edited Sep 26 '14 at 6:40
answered Sep 26 '14 at 6:31
SQBSQB
25.5k25145243
answered Sep 26 '14 at 6:31
SQBSQB
25.5k25145243
answered Sep 26 '14 at 6:31
SQBSQB
25.5k25145243
25.5k25145243
2
Unlikely that they're related, but still damn interesting.
– Valorum
Sep 26 '14 at 7:36
Morbid much for a childrens story? "Mag ik het piemeltje?" vroeg de vis die de jongen gevangen had. "Want dat is het lekkerst." That is seriously creepy. I get that the author was making a strong point, but the boys piemltje? Really?
– Firebat
Feb 25 '15 at 14:14
add a comment |
2
Unlikely that they're related, but still damn interesting.
– Valorum
Sep 26 '14 at 7:36
Morbid much for a childrens story? "Mag ik het piemeltje?" vroeg de vis die de jongen gevangen had. "Want dat is het lekkerst." That is seriously creepy. I get that the author was making a strong point, but the boys piemltje? Really?
– Firebat
Feb 25 '15 at 14:14
2
2
Unlikely that they're related, but still damn interesting.
– Valorum
Sep 26 '14 at 7:36
Unlikely that they're related, but still damn interesting.
– Valorum
Sep 26 '14 at 7:36
Morbid much for a childrens story? "Mag ik het piemeltje?" vroeg de vis die de jongen gevangen had. "Want dat is het lekkerst." That is seriously creepy. I get that the author was making a strong point, but the boys piemltje? Really?
– Firebat
Feb 25 '15 at 14:14
Morbid much for a childrens story? "Mag ik het piemeltje?" vroeg de vis die de jongen gevangen had. "Want dat is het lekkerst." That is seriously creepy. I get that the author was making a strong point, but the boys piemltje? Really?
– Firebat
Feb 25 '15 at 14:14
add a comment |
There was an earlier BW short film (1960s?) about a fisherman on a beach who bites into a sandwich and is dragged into the ocean. I believe it was shot at Ocean Beach in San Francisco. It’s much better than “Sometning Fishy.” I believe I saw it at the Playhouse in Sausalito with “The Birds” when it was new.
answered 13 mins ago
Josh CollinsJosh Collins
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There was an earlier BW short film (1960s?) about a fisherman on a beach who bites into a sandwich and is dragged into the ocean. I believe it was shot at Ocean Beach in San Francisco. It’s much better than “Sometning Fishy.” I believe I saw it at the Playhouse in Sausalito with “The Birds” when it was new.
answered 13 mins ago
Josh CollinsJosh Collins
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There was an earlier BW short film (1960s?) about a fisherman on a beach who bites into a sandwich and is dragged into the ocean. I believe it was shot at Ocean Beach in San Francisco. It’s much better than “Sometning Fishy.” I believe I saw it at the Playhouse in Sausalito with “The Birds” when it was new.
answered 13 mins ago
Josh CollinsJosh Collins
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There was an earlier BW short film (1960s?) about a fisherman on a beach who bites into a sandwich and is dragged into the ocean. I believe it was shot at Ocean Beach in San Francisco. It’s much better than “Sometning Fishy.” I believe I saw it at the Playhouse in Sausalito with “The Birds” when it was new.
answered 13 mins ago
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answered 13 mins ago
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