Hot Line

Hot Line[1]

Series
In The Dark
Original Broadcast Date
1995
Cast
Davis Black
Format
Found Tape, Telephone, 28 minutes
Preceded by:	Raymond
Followed by:	In A Lonely Place

"Tell me about this big thrill."

Hot Line is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series In The Dark. It was originally broadcast in 1995.

Synopsis

• Recordings of a telephone psychic and tarot card reader.

• A woman with seemingly delusional love interests calls: a stranger on an elevator makes her happy. Looking young because of pain and suffering. Angels. A man repeatedly calls her on the phone, never says a word. While she's in the hospital, a state trooper sneaks into her house and re-arranges objects in symbolic ways which please her. Her relationship with a stranger who repeatedly drives past her house. The psychic advises her to get out more.

• The psychic talks to someone else who asks, "does he love me?"

• An insurance company representative calls with a wrong number, and he keeps her talking for several minutes.

• A man talks about missing his father. His father commandeered a street sweeper and drove into a cemetery, stripped his apartment before dying. Waking up next to it and discovering that you are its it. People avoid the lonely.

Music

• "Insomnie Nemurenai (Instrumental)" - United Future Organization (from Insomnie Nemurenai, 1992) | YouTube

Additional credits

• Produced by Joe Frank.
• Mixed by Theo Mondle.
• Music editing by Bob Carlson.
• Special thanks to Farley Ziegler, Jennifer Ferro, Shaun Levin, and Jerry Summers

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