Ashes, Ashes Production Details

Production order:
24

Airing order in the USA:
25

Original air date:
December 2, 1988

Writers:
Teleplay by Durrell Royce Crays
Story by Roy Dotrice & Durrell Royce Crays

Director:
Gus Trikonis

Director of Photography:
Stevan Larner A.S.C.

Production Designer:
John Mansbridge

Editor:
Howard Kunin

Music:
Don Davis - main theme by Lee Holdridge
 

Cast:

* As "Kipper" in the closing credits

Literary references:

• Title comes from the nursery rhyme:

"Ring around the rosy,
pocket full of posies,
ashes, ashes,
we all fall down."

which according to a popular interpretation makes reference to the plague.

• Catherine complaining about her job:

"Dante should reserve a special circle in hell for lawyers who make unnecessary motions"

Dante Alighieri, La Divina Commedia - Inferno, 1321.

• Vincent and Dmitri on their way out of the tunnels:

D - Is difficult leaving. Is… how your English writer say?
V - Shakespeare?
D - Yeah.
V - “Parting is such sweet sorrow.”
D- Yes, is that: sweet and sad. He was little bit Russian, I think.

From Romeo and Juliet (1595), Act II, scene 2:
"Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that i shall say good night 'til it be morrow"

Musical references:

none

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Supervising Producer:Stephen Kurzfeld
Producer: George R.R. Martin
Produced by: Kenneth R. Koch

Co-Producers: Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon
Created by: Ron Koslow

Executive Producers – Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas, Ron Koslow
Associate Producer – Anthony Mazzei
Coordinating Producer – David F. Schwartz

Unit Production Manager – Tony Brown
1st Assistant Director – John Hockridge
2nd Assistant Director – Gabriela Vazquez
Set Decorator – Peg Cummings
Property Master – Allan C. Gordon
Literary Consultant – Patricia Livingston
Stunt Coordinator – John C. Meier
Special Effects Coordinator – Gary Bentley
Script Supervisor – Patience Thoreson
Beast Make-up – Margaret Beserra
Make-up Artist – Fred Blau Jr.
Hair Stylist – Josephine McCarthy
Costumers – Mary Taylor, Ron Hodge
Sound Mixers – Pat Mitchell, Rick Ash
Sound Editing – David Hankins
Music Editor - Erma Levin
Main Titles – Robert Farina, Chris Arnold
Costume Designer – Judy Evans
Casting – Joyce Robinson, Penny Ellers
Beast designed and created by Rick Baker
Matte Painting and Special Visual Effects by Illusion Arts

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