The Special Treat from Margaret, Phil, Julia, and Karly, Sr.
| "The Special Treat from Margaret, Phil, Julia, and Karly, Sr." | |
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| Caprice & Ella episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 5 Episode TBA |
| Directed by | Thia Tola |
| Written by | June 25, 1925 (a/k/a Out of Time): Story by : Ira H. Klugerman, Ruth Pollak, & Patrick Prentice Teleplay by : Ava Zinn My Summer as a Girl: Story by : Bruce Harmon Teleplay by : Karly Jameson & Ava Zinn A Family Again: Story by : Camille Thomasson Teleplay by : Ava Zinn Based on the novel Ordinary People by : Judith Guest Kids Killing Kids: Story by : David J. Eagle Teleplay by : Ava Zinn |
| Production code | 427 |
| Original air date | February 2024 |
| Running time | TBD |
| Guest actors | |
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"The Special Treat from Margaret, Phil, Julia, and Karly, Sr." is a four-part 2024 episode of the American television series Caprice & Ella, which is slated to air in February 2024 yet was initially set to air on March 9, 2023. It is the first anthology show in the series' history as Caprice, Ella, Sierra, Breeanna, Rachael, Karly, and Ava remake after shcool specials that aired from the 1970's through 1990's on ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox. The episode features special guest stars consisting of long-time Minneapolis and Denver personality and father of Rachael Passalt, Julia; long-time WHOO-FTV Indianapolis news anchorwoman and mother of producer Karly Jameson, Karly Ryder; retired WTOR Fort Wayne sports director and father of Breeanna Sorensen, Phil; and the late mother of series creator and executive producer Ava Zinn, Margaret via an age-progressed hologram. The episode marks the first apperance of Ava's grandchildren, Alisan, Michael, and Leah.
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Plot[edit]
Four afterschool specials are retold and narrated by Julia Passalt, Phil Sorensen, Karly Ryder, and Margaret Zinn as Ava and Breeanna tells three bedtime stories to Ava's three grandchildren (Alisan, Michael, and Leah) with Sierra, Caprice and Ella in tow as Alisan, Michael, and Leah are spending the weekend while Tiffani's widow, Jenna and Samantha's widow, Martin, are out of town on a business trip with Donna Doogan.
The first retelling comes from Caprice and Ella from the 1985 NBC Special Treat episode "Out of Time," two farm children portrayed by Caprice and Ella are hurled back in time to get the truth about Ava's father, Willis.
The second retelling comes from Ava as this relates to her own gender transition as she tries to describe it as a grandfather to three grandchildren the best she can. That comes from the 1994 CBS Schoolbreak Special "My Summer as a Girl," as a teenage boy (Ava) desperate for a summer job, masquerades as a girl to land a chambermaid job at a swanky hotel.
The third comes from Sierra by default as she retells the 1988 ABC Afterschool Special "A Family Again". In the third retelling and recollection of Ordinary People, a family (Caprice, Ella, and Ava) must come to grips with the deaths of both of Ava's remaining child (Tiffani) after Ava's only son with Mandy Davidson, Thomas, died in a vehicular hit-and-run on November 29, 2006; daughter with Elisa Everman, Sheryl, died from stage 4 lukemia on May 24, 2009; daughter with Angie Nieves, Tabitha, died on July 17, 2018 as well as son with Kymberly Alvaraz, Kenneth "Baby Kenny" on that date; and eldest daughter with Mandy Davidson, Samantha, died on November 30, 2020.
And the fourth retelling comes from Kids Killing Kids as separate stories are dramatized showing the tragic consequences when elementary school kids use guns to solve their problems, and how they can solve the same problem without guns.
June 25, 1925[edit]
While two siblings, Briget (Caprice) and Martina (Ella) are transported back to the 1920's in Fort Wayne, they find a mother (identified as Esther Black, Ava's paternal grandmother) who had just given birth to a boy (identified as Willis Zinn, Ava's father) at what was then Saint Joseph Hospital.
My Summer as a Girl[edit]
A Family Again[edit]
Kids Killing Kids[edit]
Production and devlopment[edit]
The episode was revealed in a tweet by series creator and executive producer Ava Zinn on October 10, 2022.
Production is slated to run during the 2023 Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays.
Cultural refrences[edit]
In the opening credits, instead of the usual theme song, a sequence similar to that of the original 1985 NBC series Amazing Stories, of which stock footage was used.
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