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- This show was in direct response to some of the abrasive and ridiculous phone calls that had come in regarding the show. Many of the calls that are portrayed on the show are actual comments that some Quad-citizens made, for example: “I don’t like all this play-actin’, these guys are just running around like idiots- I wanna watch the movie.” Relax everybody, it's only a local TV show with no budget.

- The reason for the different look of the show was that we were still struggling to find what we wanted to do with the program. I kept getting everyone's "two-cents" about what to do and so we gave everything a try. This is why many of these early shows vary so much in look and feel. I have since learned that while everyone has an opinion, it doesn’t mean you should follow it.

- At the end of the "Kentucky Bolas" skit, the pot-pies that Enid and J.D. start eating are real, and frozen. Merlin (J.D.) actually ate most of his, although I'm not sure why.

CREDITS

Costumes Provided By: Circa 21 & The Showbusiness

Producer - Thomas Hart

Directors - Greg Baldwin, Thomas Hart

Writers - Thomas Hart, Brandon Lovested

Photographers - Greg Baldwin, Thomas Hart

PLAYERS

Greg Baldwin

Don Bargmann Jr.

Jennifer Hanson

Thomas Hart

John Horvath

Lora Kopriva-Adams

Brandon Lovested

Merlin Nelson Jr.

Live on Tape (Show #5)

“CALL-IN SHOW WITH BODY COUNT”

Airdate: August 1st, 1987

(26:43)

MOVIE - “Ghoulies”

SYNOPSIS - Guy returns to the show with a new “relaxed” attitude, even the look of the program takes on a more casual approach. Guy and Arnie have opened a phone line so that viewers can call in and express their comments about the program. During the movie, Gareth Van Oester keeps a running tote-board that “scores” the number of people who get killed in the movie. Unfortunately what Gareth really wants to do is report the news. Throughout the show he takes any, and every, opportunity to squeeze in a news report.

As the show progresses, the viewer calls become more and more negative and even threatening. When a complaining viewer takes notice of Gareth’s tote-board he mistakenly assumes that he’s called into a telethon of some sort. Guy and Arnie take advantage of this and play it up as the “BTU Telethon” and raise as much money as they can. This infuriates Gareth’s broadcasting sensibilities and he threatens to contact the FCC. Eventually a couple of viewers, Brad and Hazel Gunn, come on the show to help answer the phones and raise money.

“Hell J.D. you missed me by a mile! Now you get down here!”

-Enid Climer

SKITS AND BITS

Sport of the Week: Kentucky Chicken Bolas

Cindy Chelbow travels down South to meet up with Enid and J.D. Climber, two brothers from Clearweed who play this traditional “hill folk” game where two chickens are tied together and then thrown like bolas.

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