Series

On the Air

1992 · 1 season · 3 episodes · Canceled · ABC

Comedy, Drama

TMDB 6.2 · 18 votes

In the 1950s, a group of television performers attempt to put together a live variety program and often find disastrous results.

The year is 1957. The cast and crew of the Lester Guy Show are extremely apprehensive about their upcoming live television broadcast on the Zoblotnick Broadcasting Co. network. Lester Guy despises fellow cast member Betty Hudson for unknowingly becoming more popular than him and schemes to destroy her career. Only two of the seven episodes were written by David Lynch.

Episodes

S01E01The Lester Guy Show1992-06-2030m
1957, and The Lester Guy Show is about to premiere live, with a dramatic kitchen scene planned as the show's climactic moment. A mishap with the sound effects board and a comical head injury reduces the kitchen scene to farce, redeemed by starlet Betty Hudson's tender rendition of a song "The Bird in the Tree".
S01E02Episode 31992-06-2730m
Because of Betty's incredible popularity from the debut show, Lester convinces Professor Answer to compete against Betty and her seventh grade teacher in a rigged quiz show.
S01E03Episode 51992-07-0430m
Sylvia Hudson, a class A bitch & Betty's sister, appears on the show and insults Mr. Peanuts the network's children show star. Betty gets the crew and the viewing public to bring Mr. Peanut's spirits up.

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