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Stephen Kingcast

Episode Fifty Two-Mick Garris' The Stand, Part One

Stephen Kingcast

Constant Reader

Books, Arts:books, Arts, Tv & Film

4.7680 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2015

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In 1994, Mick Garris had the unenviable task of bringing one of King's most beloved novels to life on ABC.  People tuned in to watch it, and it certainly remained faithful to the text, but does that make for a good adaptation?  Find out this week in The Stephen Kingcast!Please note that this is the first part of a two part review.

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0:00.0

baby can you dig your man he's a righteous man tell me baby can you did your man can you get that sweetie

0:14.4

hi hello everyone and welcome to the stephen king cast one man's musings on the works of stephen king

0:20.8

each week i'll review one entry in the bibliography of stephen king in the everyone and welcome to the Stephen King cast, One Man's Musings on the Works of Stephen King.

0:26.5

Each week I'll review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King in the chronological order of publication.

0:34.0

If you've been listening to the last few weeks of reviews, you'll know that I've been analyzing what many point to as Stephen King's masterpiece,

0:39.9

his epic tale of good versus evil, order versus chaos set across the backdrop of the fall of America, The Stand.

0:43.3

This week, I'm going to be kicking off my review of the 1994 ABC television miniseries adaptation

0:50.3

of The Stand.

0:52.3

Now, here's my relationship with the miniseries.

0:55.6

I had read the novel, the previous summer, I believed, so I was pumped, poised, and ready

1:01.9

for this miniseries when it came out.

1:04.5

For me at that age, it was the equivalent of how I feel now every time there's an upcoming

1:09.5

Marvel movie, maybe even more.

1:12.2

This was me in my Prime King fandom. This movie was designed specifically for me. I remember

1:18.7

getting that TV guide issue with Rob Lowe and Laura San Jacomo on the cover and I couldn't

1:23.9

wait. The movie came out and I soaked up every episode,

1:28.1

taping each one on VHS.

1:30.1

Now, kids, before we had DVRs

1:32.4

and you could record whatever you wanted to

1:34.3

and hold on to it for as long as you wanted to

1:37.0

before it was available on Blu-ray or Netflix,

1:40.2

Amazon Prime, iTunes, or Hulu,

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