In narrative media, a wraparound (sometimes "wraparound tale") can be a narrative container that opens, links, and/or closes one or more stories. For example: •
Portmanteau films, particularly with a
story within a story that connects otherwise standalone segments. For example, The
V/H/S franchise •
Clip shows commonly employ a wraparound narrative, functioning as the episode’s flashback framing device • Small changes for localized narrative; for instance
Fraggle Rock was designed with modular human-world wraparound segments that could be re-shot with local casts, sets, and context; international versions replaced the U.S. wraparounds featuring Doc and his dog Sprocket with locally produced inserts such as a lighthouse keeper in the U.K. and a retired baker in France. Wraparound content is limited scope, in contrast to hybrid off-market splicing or recombination which fundamentally changes the narrative in important ways, as with
Power Rangers and
Robotech. == Interstitial programming ==