The Folklorist (2012) - Video Detective

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The Folklorist is a half-hour television series produced by NewTV, a community access television station located in Newton, Massachusetts. The series explores some of the unique and lesser-known stories throughout history. Each half-hour episode of the show contains three or four featured segments that go into the backstory and lasting effects of a particular topic of folklore or hidden history.

Original Release

03/23/2012

US Release

03/23/2012

Cast

Name

Character

John Horrigan

Host / Self - Host

Andrew Eldridge

British Soldier / Springheeled Jack / Ted Hensel / Electric Chair Person / Red Hammond / Extra / Lighthouse Inspector / Juror / Ned Brinkman / Control Room Technician 01 / Police Officer / POW / Radio Listener / Redcoat / Station Manager / Viking / Parishioner / Bystander

Steve Russo

Coroner / Control Room Technician 02 / French Soldier / Helicopter Pilot / John W. Bennett / Major Richard Heyser / Media Person / Prime Minister / Redcoat

Sam Melnick

Crowd Extra / Farmer / Government Agent / Male Patron / Martin Fritzy / Bystander / Pirate Extra / Will Tainter

Angel Connell

Andrew Dickson White / Citizen / British Soldier / French Commander / Israel Putnam / Man With Barometer / Town Selectman / Quaker

Jan Waldman

Anne Ingstad / Eva Starrett / Quaker / Farmer / Mrs. Story / Mrs. Worrall / Restaurant Patron

Herbert A. Fuchs

Robert Macnamara / Banker / Quaker / Daniel Hirsch / Man / Reverend / Juror

Angela Harrer

Actress / Extra / Jackie Cochran / Mining Extras / Parishioner / Bystander / UCLA Student / Concerned Citizen 04

Gerry Marrocco

Military Officer / Lawyer / Redcoat / Frank Worsley / Crowd Extra

Paul Sears

Colonial Man Civilian 02 / Militia Man / Parishioner 1 / Paul Travers / William Bentley

(see additional cast & crew)

#	Title	Air Date
1	Boston Molasses Flood, Boston Massacre, New England's Dark Day, the Christmas Truce	Friday, 23 March 2012
2	Cuban Missile Crisis, American Army of Two, the Grasshopper & the Ant, Amelia Earhart	Tuesday, 01 January 2013
3	The Lady in Black, the Prince of Pirates, the Los Angeles Nuclear Meltdown, Porky's Prank	Tuesday, 01 October 2013
4	The Hoosac Tunnel, the Great Moon Hoax, We Broadcast This Interruption, the Battle of LA	Tuesday, 15 October 2013
5	The Lost City of Norumbega, the Legend of DB Cooper, the Poe Toaster, the Night the Stars Fell	Tuesday, 29 October 2013
6	The Hurricane of 1938, Tesla, Kilroy Was Here, the Grape Island Alarm	Tuesday, 12 November 2013
7	Robinson Crusoes of Wake Island, Washington D.C. Tornado, Springheeled Jack	Tuesday, 26 November 2013
8	Ponzi Scheme, the Dover Demon, the Children's Blizzard, George Washington and the Poison Peas	Tuesday, 10 December 2013
9	Cottingley Fairies, Ernest Shackleton, Gloucester Sea Serpent	Friday, 31 October 2014
10	The New England Lighthouse Storm, Elizabeth Jennings, Cardiff Giant	Thursday, 13 November 2014
11	Angels of Mons, Year Without Summer, the Wooden Horse	Thursday, 27 November 2014
12	The Legend of Hugh Glass/Deborah Sampson/Gasparilla	Thursday, 11 December 2014
13	Princess Caraboo, Powder Alarm, Ape Canyon	Thursday, 15 October 2015
14	The Great Brant Rock Fire, Robert Smalls, and Ichabod Paddock	Thursday, 01 September 2016

Directors

Andrew Eldridge, Angela Harrer, Jesse Kreitzer

Writers

John Horrigan, Angela Harrer, Andrew Eldridge, Shelby Levinson, Trevor Frederick, Jim Pruy, Melissa Moriarty, Katie Rubino, Steve Russo, Scott Trumbo, Travis Bourassa, Anastasia Bogomolov