Welcome to The Sunshine Place
E1: The Kidsnatchers
E2: The Miracle on the Beach
E3: The Trip
E4: The Punk Squad
E5: The Breeders
E6: Changing Partners
E7: The Holy War
E8: The First Day of the Rest of Your Life
SERIES SUMMARY
Once called “the miracle on the beach,” Synanon began in the 1960s as an experimental rehab facility in Santa Monica, California with a radical claim: It could cure heroin addiction. Before long, it would make an even bolder claim: It could cure any of your problems. All you had to do was move in. What started in a house on the beach, soon spread to compounds across the country. The man who made the miracle happen, Charles E. Dederich, aka “Chuck,” would be the one to destroy it all, along with the lives of many of his followers and millions of dollars in assets. The Sunshine Place tells the mind-blowing, true-story of Synanon - one of America’s most cutting edge social experiments, turned into one of its most dangerous and violent cults - as it’s never been told before: by the people who lived it. Executive Produced by Robert Downey Jr., Susan Downey, and Emily Barclay Ford for Team Downey and C13Originals, together with Josh McLaughlin for Wink Pictures and written, produced, and directed by Peabody-nominated C13Originals, a Cadence13 Studio.
NARRATOR: Sari Crawford
The Sunshine Place is narrated by Sari Crawford, whose father Bill Crawford was a former leader in the group who came to Synanon as an addict in 1959, was one of the first 12 people to move in, and then was put on a hit list once he managed to get out. Sari’s mother was part of Synanon as well. Sari was born after her parents got out, but was raised in a community with many former members.
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C13Originals is the division of Cadence13 focused on original storytelling and developing a slate of IP through a new premium level in-house production studio, and creators of top podcast series Root of Evil: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia and the white-collar crime docuseries Gangster Capitalism.
Credits
Executive Producers - Robert Downey Jr., Susan Downey, and Emily Barclay Ford for Team Downey, Chris Corcoran and Zak Levitt of Cadence13, and Josh McLaughlin.
Writer and Directer - Perry Crowell of C13Originals
Editors - Alistair Shurman and Perry Crowell
Production and Editing Assistance - Chris Basil and Ian Mandt
Mix and Mastered - Bill Schultz
Narrator - Sari Crawford
Marketing, PR, Production Coordination, Sales and Operations - Moira Curran, Josefina Francis, Curt Courtenay, Hillary Schupf, Lauren Viera, Lucas Sandtroen, Sean Cherry, Lizzy Roberti and Danny Kutrick of Cadence13
Original music by Joel Goodman
About C13Originals
C13Originals is the division of Cadence13 focused on original storytelling and developing a slate of IP through a new premium level in-house production studio, and creators of top podcast series Root of Evil: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia and the white-collar crime docuseries Gangster Capitalism.
Credits
Executive Producers - Robert Downey Jr., Susan Downey, and Emily Barclay Ford for Team Downey, Chris Corcoran and Zak Levitt of Cadence13, and Josh McLaughlin.
Writer and Directer - Perry Crowell of C13Originals
Editors - Alistair Shurman and Perry Crowell
Production and Editing Assistance - Chris Basil and Ian Mandt
Mix and Mastered - Bill Schultz
Narrator - Sari Crawford
Marketing, PR, Production Coordination, Sales and Operations - Moira Curran, Josefina Francis, Curt Courtenay, Hillary Schupf, Lauren Viera, Lucas Sandtroen, Sean Cherry, Lizzy Roberti and Danny Kutrick of Cadence13
Original music by Joel Goodman