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The Shady Hill Kidnapping: Directed by Paul Bogart. With Garrett Hanf, George Grizzard, Polly Holliday, David Marshall Grant. John Cheever's comedy of a supposedly kidnapped 5-year-old boy. At first the police aren't interested until a ransom note is discovered.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Paul Bogart
- 1982-01-12
A boy's mysterious disappearance from the suburb of Shady Hill sets the pace for this contempory comedy of errors about the incongruities of daily life in small-town America. The teleplay, complete with parody commericals, pokes fun at television reporting and the complacent lifestyles of this...
- Paul Bogart
- George Grizzard
"American Playhouse" The Shady Hill Kidnapping (TV Episode 1982) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Cast & crew. IMDbPro. All topics. Plot. The Shady Hill Kidnapping. American Playhouse. Summaries. John Cheever's comedy of a supposedly kidnapped 5-year-old boy. At first the police aren't interested until a ransom note is discovered. Then the town goes into action to support the finding of Toby. Synopsis.
It premiered on January 12, 1982, with The Shady Hill Kidnapping, written and narrated by John Cheever and directed by Paul Bogart. Its final broadcast, In the Wings: Angels in America on Broadway, a rerun of a behind-the-scenes look at Tony Kushner 's award-winning play in two parts, aired on January 1, 1994.
Jan 10, 1982 · ''The Shady Hill Kidnapping'' is a satire on the contortions that residents of the archetypical Cheever suburb go through when a child is presumed kidnapped.
John Cheever's The Shady Hill Kidnapping revolves around the alleged abduction of young Toby Wooster; an event that jolts the complacent and well-fed suburb of Shady Hill into...
