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...studio, where Zappa can fleetingly be seen leading the London Philharmonic Orchestra in a performance of his composition 200 Motels, which is made up of equal parts of Spike Jones, John Cage and Buddy Holly. There are episodes involving lust-crazed groupies, a sleazy impresario named Ranee Muhammitz (Theodore Bikel) and a character called Larry the Dwarf, who is played by Ringo Starr made up to look exactly like Frank Zappa. There is even an animated cartoon ostensibly about the "dental-hygiene dilemma," which is set inside the mouth of none other than Donald Duck. Zappa and Co-Director Tony...
...talk about going over to the fake bar to get a fake beer. The Mothers live perpetually in fake motel rooms, where they have long moral battles about whether or not to steal the fake bath towels. The town seems to be run by Rance Muhammitz (played by Theodore Bikel, a real actor), who is either a TV quiz show moderator or a Nazi officer or the devil. It's hard to tell which...
...obviously to the intelligent preteenager interested in natural history. Sam (Teddy Eccles) is a Canadian youth who decides that four walls and two parents are too confining. With his pet raccoon Gus, he runs off to the Laurentian Mountains, befriends a falcon, a librarian and a folk singer (Theodore Bikel). The singer teaches Sam a fundamental truth: no boy is an island, entire of itself-and prepares him for the long hike home...
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). An army commander (Theodore Bikel) plots to overthrow his country by imprisoning an influential cardinal. The Impossible Missions Force takes it from there...
...might have been construed as an attempt to steal the show from Humphrey. Moreover, he himself realized that the delegates, on the night of the filmed tribute to Robert Kennedy, might be less than receptive. As it was, the memorial movie stopped the convention cold. With Broadway Star Theodore Bikel leading the way, and Actress Shirley MacLaine weeping freely, delegates sang chorus after chorus of the Battle Hymn of the Republic while the chairman futilely gaveled for silence...