For most of the following programs, Jay Allison worked as a one-person crew, reporter/ producer/ cameraman/ soundman, using an inexpensive department store Hi-8 camera and, later, a DV cam. It is notable that network TV can be made in this way, with cheap gear, especially for the potential democratizing effect on the media.

For more info, read Jay's Assorted Solo-Crew Video Shooting Tips.

Castellucci Stone: A Family Business
(7/4/97) The Castellucci brothers are used to being out where where the stone is quarried and cut, but now they find themselves in buildings made from their stone trying, desperately, to save the business inherited from their father and grandfather.

Marie At Fifteen
(3/6/96) By the age of 13, Marie had carried guns and run with gangs; she had been a pregnant teen and addicted to crack cocaine before she was put in a rehab center by the state. We follow her progress for one year, as she leaves treatment and makes her way through the social services system.

Safe Haven: The Women of Emerson House
(4/14/95) A 45-minute Nightline Special. The piece chronicles the lives of four women at Emerson House, a residential alcohol and drug treatment facility housed in a Victorian mansion on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Castaways: The Boys of Penikese Island
(8/18/94 & 8/19/94) These are two half-hour specials chronicling six months in the lives of three juvenile offenders who were sent to the Penikese Island School off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Carmen's Story: Home and Homeless
A year before this Nightline special was made, Carmen was homeless in Washington, DC. She revisits the streets she lived on and reflects on the importance of home and what it means to live without it.

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