and VTRs in the studio's control room. Although The Lone Shark used three video cameras in-studio, all three cameras were usually unmanned and locked in pre-set positions for the duration of each program (until Haffner joined the production staff). The Lone Shark had no production budget whatsoever, so the opening and closing credits of the program were actually made by Jim Sharky himself at home. Sharky would use a combination of a Microsoft Windows 3.11 screen saver and simple images that he created with Windows Paintbrush on his personal computer at home to create an animated graphic for the credits. Sharky would then use an S-VHS camcorder to videotape this animated graphic on his computer's monitor. This method was also used by Sharky (and later, by Haffner) to create The Lone Shark's "backdrop" which appeared behind Sharky as he hosted the program, using the chromakey (or "bluescreen") technique. Using this technique allowed for a complete change to the look of each segment of The Lone Shark, as the background could be changed to a graphic suitable to the specific subject being covered in each segment. This eliminated the need for "practical" sets in-studio, instead replacing them with "digital" sets which cost nothing more than the price of a VHS video cassette, which could then be recorded over for the next week's program. Taped episodes (1991–1993) In the first month of production, one of the earliest episodes of The Lone Shark featured the disembodied heads of Jim Sharky and Lou Segal as they co-hosted the program from the inside of a refrigerator filled with fake body parts (using the chromakey effect). This episode – ″The Jeffrey Dahmer Children's Show″ – prompted the first print-media attention for The Lone Shark when a Connecticut Post writer mentioned the episode in his weekly column. That same episode prompted Sean Haffner to contact Jim Sharky and offer his assistance to the production of The Lone Shark. Haffner (an acquaintance of Sharky's since they were children) was supposed to have begun working on the production staff of Outta Control! in 1990, but production of that program was permanently suspended before Haffner could join the production. He first joined The Lone Shark as an audience member (under a rubber alien mask) during the taping of the ″Leonard Nimoy Disco Dance Party″ episode. Haffner finally joined The Lone Shark’s production staff in July 1991 as a cameraman and