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The stunt 
Season 1 – episode 2 Screenplay 
Version:1Date:January, 2009Author:PapaGuru(myhelloworldblog@gmail.com)All rights reserved
 
PROLOGUEActors: John, Stephan, SallyFADE IN:1INT. STUDIO – DAYANGLE ON: Desk, high point of view, from the left.JOHN is standing in frame on the righthandside, looking to someone out-of-frame on the right. Lighting is not completely on yet.JOHN"You're making him do WHAT?"STEPHAN"[a few soft, unrecognizible mutterings]".(slightly louder)"I hope it kills him, and this show too!"JOHN"Sheesh! Even I have never even attempted..."STEPHAN"Oh, stuff it. We'll go out with a bang, andI'll be rid of Elvis. And you, too, for thatmatter."JOHN"It's always nice to be appreciated. I am theonlyone here ..."STEPHAN(interrupts)"Get ready, Gramps! On air in three... two..."OPENING CREDITS appear, TUNE starts, all studio lights go on one by one.SALLY(voiceover, prerecorded)"Please welcome your host, former stuntlegend... John Wonder!"A few people in the audience clap, JOHN walks to his chair.JOHN(muttering under his breath)"Bah! Back in MY day this never would'vehappened.""The Stunt" – Series 1, episode 2 – ScreenplayAll rights reserved, 2009– 2 / 10 –
 
JOHN sits down and takes a sip from the mug on his desk.OPENINGActors: John, Joe, Stephan2INT. STUDIO – DAYANGLE ON: JOHN, straight in the face.TUNE and OPENING CREDITS end.JOHN(cheerful)"Hi. Welcome back to another episode of 'TheStunt'. Today, we've got Joe, ourstuntengineer, here to explain tonight'sstunt."JOE walks on the set, sits down.ANGLE ON: JOE, straight in the face.JOE looks in the camera, then to JOHN, then back to the camera.Short pause.ANGLE ON: JOHN and JOE. Medium wide.JOHN"Well?"JOE"Well what?"JOHN"What could you tell us about tonight's stunt?"JOE"Oh."(fast)"Well, I'm sending Elvis out to reach avelocity of exactly 129.066 feet/second, thenup a slope that ends with an inclanation of 62°(I'd tell you the formula for the curve of theslope, but you wouldn't understand), whichshould give him a negative rotation of 0.575radians per second while hurling through theair following an arc which I again won't bother"The Stunt" – Series 1, episode 2 – ScreenplayAll rights reserved, 2009– 3 / 10 –
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