![]() ![]() ![]() Released in October 1966, and published by Doubleday and Broadway Books, the release earned a spot on The New York Times' Best Seller list. Work began on the novel, after initially writing and releasing short stories in Playboy magazine and broadcasting other stories on radio productions. The book details fictionalized stories from the his childhood. ![]() The franchise is based on the 1966 American comedic novel In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash, authored by Jean Shepherd. Shepherd publicly claimed that all of his work was entirely fictional, but the names of his own friends and family are in his books. For the rest of his life, Shepherd was the first-person narrator for all productions involving the character. ![]() Ralphie Parker was loosely based upon Shepherd's childhood. Īll of the productions in the saga center around Ralphie Parker, a child in the 1930s and 1940s in suburban Indiana, and his friends and family. The stories originated on Shepherd's radio programs and in his books before being adapted into a stage play, two theatrical films, four made-for-TV films, one straight-to-home video film, one unaired pilot episode for a planned television series, one musical adaptation, one live television adaptation of that musical and one made-for-streaming movie. The Parker Family Saga (also known as the Jean Shepherd's Parker Family Saga franchise, the Ralph Parker franchise, or colloquially the A Christmas Story franchise), is a collection of American family- comedies based upon the stories of author Jean Shepherd. ![]()
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