‘Freed by the Bell’

NARRATOR: New this fall to NBBC a feel-good classic returns to television with a new twist perfect for our times!  A gritty comedy that will have you laughing out of your chair as he tries to avoid the electric chair!

SCENE:  A typical American High School.   Well dressed students line the hallway outside of grey lockers chatting in muted voices. 

NARRATOR: Critics are saying it is ‘Saved by The Bell’ with a ’21 Jump Street’ twist. 

SCENE:  Focus in on scraggly transient man with full beard and shoulder length unkempt silver-streaked greasy hair in a stained jacket over a hoodie.   He looks out of place, frightening – he stares hard at a high school girl in a suggestive fashion, and then: he picks up a backpack and heads to class. 

*canned laughter*

NARRATOR:  He’s a serial killer on death row famous for strangling deaths.  They’re a regular totally normal and not at all creepy Hollywood high school with a tricky situation.

SCENE: Principal’s Office. 

“Look here, you only have one chance to escape the electric chair and it is if you help us identify the serial killer that is attending Bay High!”   

“And if I refuse?”

“We’ll send you back to Alcatraz to face your fate!  We have the big game coming up Mr. Wallace and we can’t afford anymore murdered students.  We can’t keep the missing students a secret forever!”

“Hmm.  That sounds like your problem.”  *laughter*  “But I’ll have a look around.  I can’t promise anything.”

NARRATOR:  Come along on a feel good high school adventure that is an instant classic.

SCENE:  Strangler with big tears in his eyes stares at the football team: “I love you guys.”

SCENE:  Student screams and a several people step over a dead body.  Shows students whispering and pointing at the Strangler, who for the first time knows what it is like to be blamed for a crime he did not commit.  Strangler thinking…”if they keep blaming me, I’m going to kill them … wait… I was sent here to do a job and that is to catch a serial killer… that’s what I’m going to do.”

SCENE: Day of the big exam and the Strangler is expected to pass it! “Carry the one or pass the five!” *laughter*

NARRATOR:  Wednesday night after the news on Six.  See you there.