Cast of Characters (In order of Appearance)
Episodes 1 & 2
- The narrator: the voice that seems to comment on all actions, that seems to analyze everything, and tries unsuccessfully to cloak himself from the trepidations of this world.
- Don Conti: a radio personality who recites inspirational poetry.
- The Lone Iroquois Warrior: a brave of the Seneca nation, a projection of the warrior's spirit upon the narrator.
Episode 3: In My Father's House
- The bus driver, the Scandinavian lady and person on the bus: debate the worthiness of capitalism
- Two local teenage girls: street savvy young scullions harass the narrator as he is lost in the city.
- The hotel clerk: an old man eking out a living in the lowest of places.
- Chit the maid: takes the narrator in. Senses his spirituality and introduces him to her society.
- Derek,Derek’s friend and Derek’s cousin: patrons of the hotel, apparently there for a party.
- Robin and Gail: friends of Derek
- Larry Brown: kid that nobody liked in grade school
- Bulby: An old curmudgeon dispatcher at the public works
- The diner patrons: rejects and cast outs from the everyday world trying to get a hot meal.
- The criminals: unsavory characters carousing the night.
- The inhabitants of Hell town: nightmarish creatures of a recurring dream
- The Caribbean: a coworker with an oversize libido
- The Gunman: a deranged young man
- Dr. O’Rourke: a professor of humanities from the state college
- Fry: the narrator's neighbor killed in Viet Nam
- Joyce: Chit's friend and close compadre in the society
- Ronnie, Sherri, Pat: Twin Circle store employees
- Madame Edith: leader of the society
Episodes 4 & 5: Innocence, Deferred
- Tim: the narrator's boyhood friend at college
- Tim’s roommate: self explanatory
- Road trip: The couple in the old Chevy,
The maniac in the Pontiac, My cousin with Wesley in his customized Buick, The guy in the late model Buick, The hippie girl and guy, The boys in the van
- My close friend Bill (not mentioned by name): gives the narrator a ride home