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LIVE ON TAPE EPISODE LOGS

- Here it is once again! The story-line that just won’t die. This is the fourth episode to use Live on Tape’s patented “someone’s crossed their transmitter with ours” plot. It gives the story that extra added bonus of dejá vu.

- All the footage with Buster and Pete was shot at my apartment in Moline. (A reoccurring location used in the show) The actor (Robert K. Humphrey) who played Buster could not remember his lines. Great guy, FUNNY guy--- just don’t give him lines to memorize. It took us over six hours to shoot Buster and Pete’s scenes. I even went so far as to tape pages of the script to the front of the camera and in other strategic locations, but that didn’t help. It ended up being one of the longest shoots that we ever had in the history of the program.

- This was the last episode of “Live on Tape” to be paired with a feature film. All shows following this one aired as their own thirty-minute program at 10pm on Saturdays. The reason for the change came from Gary Brandt, KLJB’s general manager, he felt that the program was getting strong enough so that it could support it’s own half hour. He also felt that the program would grow and improve if it was not restricted to being cut-in with a movie. The fun was about to begin... except now we were going to have to sorta’ start over to figure out what the show was as its own half-hour--- so it wasn’t “fun” that was about to being, it was the second set of growing pains.

CREDITS

Costumes Provided By: Circa 21 & The Showbusiness

Producer - Thomas Hart

Directors - Thomas Hart, Denise Hollmer

Writers - Thomas Hart

PLAYERS

Don Bargmann Jr.

Barb Engstrom

Dave Goodrich

Thomas Hart

John Horvath

Rob Humphrey

Merlin Nelson Jr.

Tim Olson

James Peterson

Studio Camera Operators - Greg Baldwin, Don Bargmann Jr.

Audio - Anthony Buck

Good night...

Live on Tape (Show #12)

“BUSTER AND PETE”

Airdate: September 26th 1987

(24:58)

MOVIE - “The Dark”

SYNOPSIS - Arnie has decided to take the night off and go out on a date with new gal Val BroadchesterMcivy. Arnie figures that for once Guy can run the show on his own. Being the classy dude that he is, Arnie takes his date to “Freddie’s Tropical House of Pizza”. But their quiet dinner is quickly interrupted by Guy, who shows up with a camera crew, ready to host the show on location. This destroys Arnie’s evening and his date storms off in a huff.

As soon as the show gets underway things go all screwy. Buster and Pete, a couple of local yahoos, have trouble with their television reception of a football game, and after an attempt to “wiggle the dish” Pete gets zapped and becomes a human TV transmitter. This causes all sorts of interference with Guy and Arnie’s show.

Feeling bad, Guy calls Val and convinces her to come back and give Arnie a second chance. She agrees, on the condition that she’ll get to sing on the show. Meanwhile, the intrusive waiter (Julio) gets the show-biz bug and decides this is his big chance- he makes a run for the spotlight, dancing and telling jokes. During all this Buster and Pete keep cutting in and are tired of all the Live on Tape antics. They finally come up with a solution to use Pete’s newfound broadcast power to overload everything and uncross the TV transmissions.

“You got crackers down my cleavage!”

-Arnie Upshoe

The Thing That Came Up With Lunch (2nd showing)

Weirdness abounds when one unsuspecting guy learns that his roommate suffers from EVS-- Explosive Vomit Syndrome... but it’s only after the “spew” that the nightmare really begins.

Ah, nothing like watching a belly beast make another appearance---

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