My pitch of for a
Sandman Mystery Theater (live action) tv series:
Its New York city in 1940 something, (the show is a period piece)
Wesley Dodds is the son of the late wealthy investor Edward Dodds. (Not saying Colin Hanks should play him but wouldn't be against it, but just giving an idea how it could look). He inherited his family's fortune.
He is married to Dian Dodds, (formerly Dian Belmont) the daughter of the district attorney and an author. They are newly married (a year or year and a half maybe), but she knows all about his secret life. They deeply love each other and often show it, and love working together, especially on cases.
But little does anyone suspect that Wesley and Dian have actually been secretly investigating and solving crimes, and that Wesley is New York's Sandman.
Wesley and Dian work together as detectives, solving serious crimes and mysteries (some that seem unnatural). They ask questions, Dian talks to people, Wesley contacts his friend on the police force, and Wesley takes it to the streets as the masked vigilante Sandman, using only his wits, his training he received during his time in the orient, and his supply of various gasses.
The show would be like one of those hour long murder mysteries, like Masterpiece Mystery with Miss Marple or Poirot, a period piece.
Like Smallville they would stay away, for the most part from super characters and stick mostly with non powered characters and more human crimes. Although the crimes or style of the criminals can become some what eccentric, where they wear a mask or somewhat of a costume with names like "the Butcher" or Dr. Death", the "Gambler" or the "Anarchist." But sometimes they are just criminals, gangsters, robbers, killers. A guy who hired some thugs to steal his insured statue for the insurance money and in the process got three people murdered.
Wearing masks and costumes, but no powers and no super stuff
like in the comics. More subdued and down to earth
Masterpiece Mysteries, a great example of how
the Sandman Mystery Theater TV series could look:
(Just imagine putting Wesley and Dian in those mystery shows)
The stories would usually be resolved in an hour. Wesley is usually compelled by bad dreams sparking him to go solve crimes, the dreams wouldn't have the be a major part of the story however, not like he is only solving crimes until he stops having bad dreams, leaving the audience to wonder when he will finally stop having these bad dreams. The cast would include, Wesley and Dian of coarse, the friend on the police force that Wesley knows (who may know his secret identity), and various other friends and acquaintances. Maybe some rich friends, other cops or attorneys, someone who works for the newspaper, something like that. Shows would usually feature one case, and the episode would be titled after cases like Tarantula, etc. If the script called for it the show could even tackle such issues as sexism and racism.
I have all these ideas for the show, but am not sure I am getting them across appropriately. So I might add more later.
Any thoughts about a Sandman Mystery Theater show?
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