Fractured Flickers announcer extolling the virtues of the item being advertised, accompanied by darkly humorous clips. A fly-by-night real estate development, for example, was illustrated with clips of buildings being destroyed by a cyclone (from "Steamboat Bill, Jr." with Buster Keaton). And "This moment of softness (explosions, wild parties, etc.) has been brought to you by Bee. Bee, the only tissue woven in mid-air by bees!" Regular features were the "Minute Mysteries", featuring Stan Laurel as master detective Sherman Oaks (his scenes "fractured" from his 1925 short comedy, "Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde"), and the weekly "tributes" to some American city. Each
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1968 film) Toronto.Palance was injured while filming a stunt. The budget was approximately $900,000. ABC paid for approximately half this. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1968 film) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 1968 Canadian-American TV film based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was directed by Charles Jarrott, produced by Dan Curtis and written by Ian McLellan Hunter. It was one of a series of adaptations of famous novels done by ABC. Dan Curtis decided to make a film of "Jekyll and Hyde". Rod Serling wrote a draft of the