David Young

Writing

David Young

Born July 17, 1946 (age 80)

David Young (b. July 17, 1946) is a Canadian playwright and screenwriter. During the 1980s, he wrote eleven episodes of Fraggle Rock (one of which he adapted as the storybook Marooned in Fraggle Rock) and The Song of the Cloud Forest segment of The Jim Henson Hour.

Known For

Fraggle Rock: Live by the Rule of the RockFraggle Rock: Live by the Rule of the Rock · 1983
Fraggle Rock: Live by the Rule of the Rock
1983
MovieFamilyComedy
Gobo has not received his usual postcard from his Uncle Traveling Matt. He eventually comes to realize that he must venture out into Outer Space to look for him. Meanwhile, Red and Wembley discover a creature who is whatever you believe it is. The trouble starts when Ma Gorg believes it into being a monster in the basement of the castle. And Cotterpin Doozer decides she’d rather be a Fraggle like Red, than spend the rest of her life building with the Doozers.
The Song of the Cloud ForestThe Song of the Cloud Forest · 1989
The Song of the Cloud Forest
10.01989
MovieFamilyTV Movie
Milton, a lonely golden toad whose species are on the verge of extinction, finds himself in two minds when he realizes that his only potential mate is in the captivity of a group of human beings.
T-Rex: Back to the CretaceousT-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous · 1998
T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous
4.61998
MovieFamilyAdventure
Dinosaurs are very much alive -- at least in the mind of teenager Ally Hayden who shares her father's passion for paleontology. When a museum accident transports Ally on a surreal adventure back in time, she encounters people and makes discoveries that might help her solve the mystery of her father's newest fossil... and even comes face to face with the most dangerous apex predator on earth.
Fraggle RockFraggle Rock · 1983
Fraggle Rock
7.31983
SeriesKidsFamily
The Fraggles are a fun-loving community of creatures who live in a subterranean fantasy land where they love to play, sing and dance their cares away, sharing their world with the tiny Doozers and the giant Gorgs. The series teaches empathy and tolerance and encourages children to understand people different from themselves.
Jake and The KidJake and The Kid · 1995
Jake and The Kid
8.01995
SeriesDramaFamily
Life in Crocus as seen through the eyes of a young lad, Ben, and his friend Jake. Jake and the Kid is a Canadian television drama series, which aired on the CanWest Global system of stations in the 1990s. The second (1995) television adaptation of W. O. Mitchell's 1961 short story collection Jake and the Kid the series is set in the small town of Crocus, Saskatchewan, and centres on the friendship between Ben "the Kid" Osborne (Ben Campbell), a young boy growing up on a farm with his widowed mother Julia (Patricia Harras), and Jake Trumper (Shaun Johnston), a farmhand who becomes Ben's surrogate father figure.
The Atwood StoriesThe Atwood Stories · 2003
The Atwood Stories
10.02003
SeriesDrama
The Atwood Stories was a Canadian television drama series, which aired on W in 2003. A short-run dramatic anthology series produced by Shaftesbury Films, the series dramatized six short stories by Margaret Atwood.

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