Problems (30 min)

Joe’s father works in a condom company, condom testing on animals and people. A testing lab made up like a hotel. His father escapes from an unhappy life in a dirigible, catches seagulls and fish. He meets the pope; we’re given a list of topics they discuss. His father returns, works in prosthetics, then disappears to avoid patient lawsuits. A man talks about his gun, uses it to shoot a barking dog. His wife is furious. Sound of thunder in the background. The man and wife fight over the weather, over a squash dish, her housework. Monologue: Joe delivers monologue praising an idealized mother in a poor, rural household. Excusing her drunken outbursts, attempts to run away, repeated hospitalization, setting the house on fire, affairs with a doctor. The fighting couple – he refuses to tell her where he’s been in order to prevent her from being captured and tortured for information.

• Series: In the Dark

• Show Type: Drama

• Cast: Joe Frank

• Air Date: 1/9/1994

• Digital Audio Bit Rate: 128kbps