Season 6, Episode 5: Al’s Video (1996)

Title: Al’s Video

Season, Episode: Season 6, Episode 6

Broadcast date: Oct 15, 1996

Starring: Tim Allen, Patricia Richardson, Richard Karn, Earl Hindman, Zachery Ty Bryan, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Taran Noah Smith, and Debbe Dunning

Guest Starring: Sherry Hursey, Blake Clark, Vasili Bogazianos, Al Fann

Directed by: Andrew Tsao

Written by: Ruth Bennett

This podcast episode was originally released: Dec 30, 2020

Episode Synopsis:
When Al gets the opportunity to produce and star in an instructional video about tools, he asks Tim to direct it in hopes of capturing some of the magic of Tool Time. But Tim turns out to be a perfectionist on set, wasting an entire day of shooting as he tries to emulate the style of his favorite tool video director, Herb Hitchcock. Behind schedule and over budget, Al is forced to fire Tim, leading to copious bad vibes and a sticky confrontation on the set of Tool Time. But after a chat with Wilson, Tim comes to realize that he needs to defer to Al's creative vision for his video, and the two rejoin forces to finish the film on schedule.

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