Episode 58: Playing With Fire featuring Michael Darling

Michael Darling is back and he’s brought in a barnburner: Playing With Fire (1985).  This, frankly wild, made-for-TV message film stars Gary Coleman as a young, troubled arsonist.  Mr. Coleman burns down a number of things, Cicely Tyson chews through a therapist’s office, Yaphet Kotto doesn’t need warrants, because he’s the fire chief and then Ron O’Neal eventually becomes something similar to sympathetic.  Once forgotten (or perhaps buried) this film was mysteriously uploaded to YouTube and now it lives in our brains rent free.  But I do hear sirens, so maybe tune in…