(In 1986 one could find Dex Lavin living in Worcester, driving an ambulance by day and working at the public access tv station WCCA at night and on the weekends, learning the craft he would wield in the future with such Capra-esque brilliance as in the tragicomedy, “I Have No Couth and I Must Diem,” the documentary “What’s Up with all these Nuns Getting Electroshock Treatments?” (an expose that led to the resignation of the Bishop of Worcester) and of course, his beloved “Homeless Bob; The Children’s Friend” which was compared at the time to “And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks.”
The following post is a visual record of the shooting script for one of Lavin’s many projects at that time devoted to Worcester boosting. Almost One Night Only is a story of Charles Dickens and his visit to Worcester in 1868. At one point a man will be murdered and his head will be set on fire while another man will r…