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Between Time and Timbuktu is a film of genre Science fiction released in USA on 1 january 1972 with Ray Goulding
Between Time and Timbuktu (1972)
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Add to a movie listBetween Time and Timbuktu is a television film directed by Fred Barzyk and based on a number of works by Kurt Vonnegut. Produced by National Educational Television and WGBH-TV in Boston, Massachusetts, it was telecast March 13, 1972 as a NET Playhouse special. The television script was also published in 1972, illustrated with photographs by Jill Krementz and stills from the television production.
The script was primarily written by David Odell, with contributions from Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding, and the film's director. Vonnegut himself served as an "advisor and contributor to the script."
Actors
Ray Goulding
(Walter Gesundheit)
William Hickey
(Stony Stevenson)
Bob Elliott
(Bud Williams, Jr.)
Franklin Cover
(Col. Donald 'Tex' Pirandello)
Kevin McCarthy
(Bokonon)
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