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0:00 INTRO

2:00 WHAT IS TWIN PEAKS?

4:52 WHO IS AGENT COOPER?

6:16 WHO IS LAURA PALMER?

8:30 THE FEEL OF THE PILOT

10:44 DAVID LYNCH'S BACKGROUND

15:38 MARK FROST'S BACKGROUND

17:40 EARLY LYNCH/FROST PROJECTS (Goddess, One Saliva Bubble, The Lumerians)

21:18 ORIGINS OF TWIN PEAKS (Peyton Place, town vs. dead girl, Hazel Drew mystery, death of Frost family friend, writer's strike)

27:07 PRE-PRODUCTION (casting, location, Sheryl Lee)

33:00 PRODUCTION (Laura home movie, alternate ending)

35:28 PROMOTION (director's screening, season 1 greenlit, media coverage)

My Journey Through Twin Peaks video essay series is on YouTube (in 36 chapters as of now)https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIHlB-wesGPVETlNFLsGCKL-SFjW8wrJf & Vimeo (in 5 parts as of now) https://vimeo.com/showcase/7281266

EPISODE LINKS

Laura on Twin Peaks Cinema podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/laura-whats-in-a-name-1/id1587597259?i=1000538443766

PODCAST: Twin Peaks Pilot (1990) / Ron Garcia, ASC, Episode #60 (w/ the director of photography of the pilot & Fire Walk With Me - contains SPOILERS for the film) https://ascmag.com/podcasts/twin-peaks-pilot-1990-ron-garcia-asc

David Lynch Meets George Lucas (video, uploaded by Hudson Union Society) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJQ4vCu-S0U

screenplay for One Saliva Bubble http://www.lynchnet.com/osbscript.html

PODCAST: Mark Frost (Twin Peaks Creator and Author) - The Deer Meadow Radio interrogation https://www.mixcloud.com/deermeadowradio-atwinpeakspodc/mark-frost-twin-peaks-creator-and-author-the-deer-meadow-radio-interrogation/ (the girl Frost knew was in fact murdered, and he discusses the incident further in David Bushman's book Conversations with Mark Frost which came out after this clip was recorded - I recently interviewed Bushman on YouTube about that book and other material, including his research into the Hazel Drew mystery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nzasdy3TOio)

MY OTHER DIRECTOR/WRITERS PODCASTS (may contain Twin Peaks spoilers):

Storyville (written by Frost) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mark-frosts-storyville-creator-prologue-2/id1587597259?i=1000536661723

written & by David Lynch: Blue Velvet https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/blue-velvet/id1521758273?i=1000516140442 & Introducing Eraserhead & Inland Empirehttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/introducing-eraserhead-inland-empire/id1521758273?i=1000533973650 & 10 Connections between Eraserhead & Inland Empire https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/10-connections-between-eraserhead-inland-empire/id1521758273?i=1000534779822

MY OTHER DIRECTOR/WRITERS VIDEO ESSAYS:

clips from Lynch's other work in David Lynch & Mary Sweeney: Dream Souls https://vimeo.com/430539967 (+ Journey Through Twin Peaks chapter 27 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAG5FHHT9OY) & clips/quotes from Frost's other work in Journey Through Twin Peaks chapter 35 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN-qUgESVGs

ALL MY COVERAGE OF OTHER DAVID LYNCH WORK https://www.lostinthemovies.com/p/twin-peaks-david-lynch.html

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