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Where Are They?

Television · 24 min · dir. Emily Alyn Lind

Synopsis

A psychological thriller set in 2006 – the golden age of children’s television. Inside a cult-like compound built for child stars, the race for a coveted sitcom role takes a dark turn when the leading candidate disappears. Every child is a suspect. Based on a true story.

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Director
Emily Alyn Lind
Running time
24 minutes

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Reviews on the Internet Archive

★★★★ · Where Are They? - OSB · I_h8_screen_names · 2013-11-26

This is a good episode. The actors underplay their roles rather than get all melodramatic. I have read a lot of articles on this phenomenon. Very strange to say the least. Interesting trivia... 90% of the people on this episode were later in various episodes of "Perry Mason". "Perry Mason" was one of those tv series that had a large guest cast from week to week and so it is interesting when I watch one of these shows from the early 1950's to see how many of the cast went on to be on a "Perry Mason" episode. Like "Murder SHe Wrote", Law & Order", "NCIS", and the various "CSI" shows that used…

★★★ · Good acting done in by beyond believable plots · 1StepBeyond · 2010-05-15

The eerie music for this series sets exactly the right mood for the injection of strange and unbelievable ideas in the reasoning brains of ordinary people. Today's audiences are of a less imaginative nature and may not be able to appreciate what those in the 1950s and 1960s could watch and enjoy and speculate.