Fantasy Bedtime Hour was a public-access television

Public-access television

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 cable TV program on San Francisco

San Francisco, California

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 channel 29. It can be described by its tagline, "Two girls in bed ill equipped to handle fantasy novel concepts discuss Lord Foul's Bane

Lord Foul's Bane

Lord Foul's Bane is the first book of the first trilogy of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever fantasy series written by Stephen R. Donaldson. It is followed by The Illearth War.-Plot summary:...

", referring to the novel by Stephen R. Donaldson

Stephen R. Donaldson

Stephen Reeder Donaldson is an American fantasy, science fiction and mystery novelist, most famous for his Thomas Covenant series...

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Each of the forty episodes in the series consists of Heatherly Stankey and Julie Breithaupt in bed together, reading and discussing the text. According to a San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco Chronicle

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 reviewer, the women are supposedly, but not actually, nude beneath the covers. There is a reading with paraphrase, a quick analysis, a reenactment or "fantasy action sequence", and then a discussion with an expert - the experts being individuals who have actually finished and understood the book. Toward the end of the series, Stephen R. Donaldson himself appeared in some episodes as the "expert". A highlight of the show are the "charts" drawn during the program to illustrate some concept from the reading.

External links

• Official website
• Review in the San Francisco Chronicle
  San Francisco Chronicle
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• Analysis/annotation of each episode