Between Time and Timbuktu

Between Time and Timbuktu

90 mins | Comedy, Science Fiction, TV Movie | March 13, 1972

A poet-astronaut is shot through an area of space called the Chronosynclastic Infundibulum. He is duplicated into infinite copies of himself, each of whom finds himself in a bizarre situations on a different world. (These scenarios are all derived from the novels and short stories of 'Kurt Vonnegut Jr.', including Cat's Cradle, Welcome to the Monkey House, 'Harrison Bergeron', and 'Happy Birthday, Wanda June'

Between Time and Timbuktu

90 mins | Comedy, Science Fiction, TV Movie | March 13, 1972

Between Time and Timbuktu
A poet-astronaut is shot through an area of space called the Chronosynclastic Infundibulum. He is duplicated into infinite copies of himself, each of whom finds himself in a bizarre situations on a different world. (These scenarios are all derived from the novels and short stories of 'Kurt Vonnegut Jr.', including Cat's Cradle, Welcome to the Monkey House, 'Harrison Bergeron', and 'Happy Birthday, Wanda June'
IMDb rating 7.1
Producers WGBH Boston, National Educational Television Network
Original title Between Time and Timbuktu
Directors Fred Barzyk
Writers David R. Loxton, Fred Barzyk, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., David Odell

Cast

Bruce Morrow

as Contest announcer

Dortha Duckworth

as Mrs. Stevenson

William Hickey

as Stony Stevenson

Ray Goulding

as Walter Gesundheit

Bob Elliott

as Bud Williams, Jr.

Franklin Cover

as Col. Donald 'Tex' Pirandello

Russell Morash

as Sandy Abernathy

John Devlin

as Dr. Bobby Denton

Jay Garner

as President Rosewater

Kevin McCarthy

as Bokonon

Edie Lynch

as Island Girl

Jerry Gershman

as Sergeant

James Sloyan

as Dr. Paul Proteus