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The Ah-Ha! Phenomena
Jack Flanders returns, disguised as a dervish, and tiptoes through invisible planes in search of the ancient archives that hold all the great past, present, and future Ah-Ha!s. Jack encounters trolls, wizards, demons, and mythological beasts on his quest for the wonderful Ah-Ha!s.
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First published January 1, 1977
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November 27, 2012
After finally listening to the 12-hour Moon Over Morocco in its entirety, I dipped back into this one-hour Jack Flanders adventure from ZBS productions, which I first listened to almost 20 years ago.
The Ah-Ha Phenomenon was originally broadcast in 1977 as one episode of the sci-fi radio anthology program Stars and Stuff (which also featured the first appearance of ZBS's other most famous creation; Ruby, the Intergalactic Gumshoe).
In The Ah-Ha Phenomenon, Jack Flanders is summoned to "The Institute" by his uncle, Sir Seymour Jowls. Sir Seymour explains to Jack the coincidence of identical major scientific discoveries being made in two separate locations on the planet at the same time. This is known as the "Ah-Ha!" phenomenon. Sir Seymour's theory is that there is some outside power that allows humanity to make great leaps forward, and all he wants Jack to do is to travel to the forbidden City of Ah-Ha and steal one of the ah-has. Which one? Oh, only the grand unified field theory of matter and energy.
Equipped with a dervish robe, Jack Flanders travels to the mountains of New Mexico like Carlos Castaneda in search of Don Juan, and with the help of the "Indian" mystic Chief Wampum (the joke is that he's really an Indian from India, not an American Indian), Jack travels to another dimension.
The Ah-Ha Phenomenon doesn't contain the gorgeous, recorded-on-location soundscapes of Moon Over Morocco, and it's not as wild and all-over-the-place as The Fourth Tower of Inverness, but it's a lot of fun, and a great place to start if you'd like to discover the magic of the Jack Flanders adventures and only want to spend an hour.
The Ah-Ha Phenomenon was originally broadcast in 1977 as one episode of the sci-fi radio anthology program Stars and Stuff (which also featured the first appearance of ZBS's other most famous creation; Ruby, the Intergalactic Gumshoe).
In The Ah-Ha Phenomenon, Jack Flanders is summoned to "The Institute" by his uncle, Sir Seymour Jowls. Sir Seymour explains to Jack the coincidence of identical major scientific discoveries being made in two separate locations on the planet at the same time. This is known as the "Ah-Ha!" phenomenon. Sir Seymour's theory is that there is some outside power that allows humanity to make great leaps forward, and all he wants Jack to do is to travel to the forbidden City of Ah-Ha and steal one of the ah-has. Which one? Oh, only the grand unified field theory of matter and energy.
Equipped with a dervish robe, Jack Flanders travels to the mountains of New Mexico like Carlos Castaneda in search of Don Juan, and with the help of the "Indian" mystic Chief Wampum (the joke is that he's really an Indian from India, not an American Indian), Jack travels to another dimension.
The Ah-Ha Phenomenon doesn't contain the gorgeous, recorded-on-location soundscapes of Moon Over Morocco, and it's not as wild and all-over-the-place as The Fourth Tower of Inverness, but it's a lot of fun, and a great place to start if you'd like to discover the magic of the Jack Flanders adventures and only want to spend an hour.
August 3, 2013
Jack gets a cool dervish robe with a map sewn into the patchwork. (That idea alone is worth the price of admission.) Jack goes to collect the Grand Unified Theory, the most prized of human Ah-Has. He end up on a giant conveyor belt. I was disappointed that this episode was so short, with no characterization or resolution. I wasn't really sure it was over.
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