The Sex O'clock News (1983)
This is a weak attempt by director and co-writer Romano Vanderbes to satirize middle America's standard news broadcasts with as many jokes about sex as possible. The featured station is KSEX and Doug Ballard and Lydia Mahan play the anchors in a broadcast where blue does not mean melancholy. Aside from parodies of overplayed TV commercials and stereotyped co-anchor dialogue, Vanderbes has also excerpted segments from newsreels and other real footage that take on unintended meanings when seen out of context. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Doug Ballard, Lydia Mahan, (more)
- Director(s):
- Romano Vanderbes
Synopsis of The Sex O'clock News
This is a weak attempt by director and co-writer Romano Vanderbes to satirize middle America's standard news broadcasts with as many jokes about sex as possible. The featured station is KSEX and Doug Ballard and Lydia Mahan play the anchors in a broadcast where blue does not mean melancholy. Aside from parodies of overplayed TV commercials and stereotyped co-anchor dialogue, Vanderbes has also excerpted segments from newsreels and other real footage that take on unintended meanings when seen out of context. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
Complete Cast of The Sex O'clock News
- Doug Ballard - Bill McFarland
- Wayne Knight - Bill Wright
- Rob Bartlett - Marty Cohen
- Jerry Winsett - Harve Gibbons
- Judith Drake - Mary Ferrdip
- Peter Newland
- Sandy Marshall
- Shanton Granger - Policeman
- Shelley Carroll
- Leigh Burgess - Blonde
- Robert Sapoff - Doctor
- Mike Paskil - Announcer
- Sherry Cloth - TV Producer
- Karin Brown
- Harry Spillman - Spokesman
- Lydia Mahan - Maggie Neil
- Kate Weiman - Wanda Barrett
- Joy Bond - Shelley Coates
- Philip McKinley - Stormy Knight
- Jim Hunter
- Megan Mitchell - Daughter
- Earl Hammond
- Teri Gair - Hostess
- Captain Sticky - Superman
- Joan Sheppard
- Anthony Picciano - Barney Ferrdip
- Don Pardo - Announcer
- Hetty Galen - Rose Bancry
- Gary Alexander
- Robert Trebor - Mr. Rajah
- Director(s):
- Romano Vanderbes
- Writer(s):
- Paul Laikin, Romano Vanderbes, Victor Zimet
- Producer(s):
- Romano Vanderbes
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