Nick Danger: The Case of the Missing Shoe

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''Nick Danger: The Case of the Missing Shoe''
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EP by The Firesign Theatre
Released 1979
Genre Comedy
Length 12:00
Label Rhino
Producer(s) The Firesign Theatre: Philip Austin, Peter Bergman, David Ossman, Philip Proctor
Professional reviews
The Goldmine Comedy Record Price Guide [1]
1.5/4 stars
All Music Guide (linked review) [2]
3/5 stars
The Firesign Theatre chronology
Just Folks . . . A Firesign Chat
(1977)		 Nick Danger: The Case of the Missing Shoe
(1979)		 Fighting Clowns
(1980)


Nick Danger: The Case of the Missing Shoe is an EP by The Firesign Theatre. It was released in 1979 by Rhino Records.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Side one

  1. "Episode 1"
  2. "Episode 2"
  3. "Episode 3"

[edit] Side two

  1. "Episode 4"
  2. "Episode 5" [3]

[edit] Detailed track information and commentary

These five short radio episodes chronicle a new adventure of "Nick Danger: Third Eye," a character introduced on side two of the group's 1969 album, How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All. The story involves Nick Danger's attempt to find out what has happened to his missing left shoe. The plot thickens as he quickly discovers that everyone's left shoe is missing. Each episode begins with a traditional old-time radio style introduction by an announcer with an organ in the background and each show also includes a commercial parody (including commercials for "Ma Rainey's wholesome moleskin cookies" and "Gerald Ford commerative cheese flags"). Besides Nick Danger himself, some of the other regular Nick Danger characters appear including Lt. Bradshaw, Nancy, and Rocky Rococo.

[edit] Issues and reissues

This album was issued simultaneously on LP and Cassette.

  • Rhino RNEP 506 [3a]
  • Rhino RNC 506

[edit] Miscellanea

These five episodes were produced as a pilot for a projected daily "Nick Danger" radio series similar to the daily Chicken Man series which aired on WCFL in Chicago in the late 1960s.

[edit] External links

[edit] Citations

  1. ^  Smith, Ronald L. The Goldmine Comedy Record Price Guide. Iola: Krause, 1996.
  2. ^  Carruthers, Sean. "Nick Danger: The Case of the Missing Shoe > Overview." All Music Guide. 22 February 2006 <http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ghogtq5ztu47>.
  3. ^  a  Firesign Theatre. Nick Danger: The Case of the Missing Shoe. Rhino Records, 1979.
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The Firesign Theatre
Performers
Phil Austin • Peter Bergman • David Ossman • Philip Proctor
Albums
Commercial
Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him • How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All • Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers • I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus • Dear Friends • Not Insane or Anything You Want To • The Tale of the Giant Rat of Sumatra • Everything You Know Is Wrong • In the Next World, You're on Your Own • Forward into the Past • Just Folks . . . A Firesign Chat • Nick Danger: The Case of the Missing Shoe • Fighting Clowns • Lawyer's Hospital • Shakespeare's Lost Comedie • The Three Faces of Al • Eat or Be Eaten • Shoes for Industry: The Best of Firesign Theatre • Anythynge You Want To • Back from the Shadows • Pink Hotel Burns Down • Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death • Boom Dot Bust • Bride of Firesign • Radio Now Live! • Papoon For President • All Things Firesign
Non-commercial
Dear Friends - Syndicated Radio Program • A Firesign Chat with Papoon • Let’s Eat - Syndicated Radio Program • The Proctor-Bergman Report • The Cassette Chronichles
Related to Firesign Theatre
TV or not TV • How Time Flys • Roller Maidens From Outer Space • What This Country Needs • Give Us A Break • Daily Feed 1988 Newsreel - The Daily Feed • The George Tirebiter Story Chapter 1: Another Christmas Carol • George Tirebiter's Radiodaze • The George Tirebiter Story Pt.2 Mexican Overdrive / Radiodaze • A Capital Decade Daily Feed 1989 Newsreel - The Daily Feed • The George Tirebiter Story Pt.3 The Ronald Reagan Murder Case • Down Under Danger • Tales Of The Old Detective And Other Big Fat Lies • David Ossman's Time Capsules
Bibliography
The Firesign Theatre's Big Book Of Plays • The Firesign Theatre's Big Mystery Joke Book • The Apocalypse Papers, a Fiction by The Firesign Theatre • Backwards Into The Future: The Recorded History of the Firesign Theatre
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