Stay Tuned (1992) is an American film directed by Peter Hyams. It starred John Ritter, Pam Dawber, Jeffrey Jones, and Eugene Levy. Despite its lackluster release, it became a cult film in the following years.
John Ritter (of Three's Company fame) plays Roy Knable, a couch potato and struggling Seattle plumbing salesman, and Pam Dawber (of Mork & Mindy fame) plays his neglected wife Helen, a senior Vitamin product manager. After a fight (which inv...
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Stay Tuned (1992) is an American film directed by Peter Hyams. It starred John Ritter, Pam Dawber, Jeffrey Jones, and Eugene Levy. Despite its lackluster release, it became a cult film in the following years.
John Ritter (of Three's Company fame) plays Roy Knable, a couch potato and struggling Seattle plumbing salesman, and Pam Dawber (of Mork & Mindy fame) plays his neglected wife Helen, a senior Vitamin product manager. After a fight (which involved Helen throwing one of Roy's fencing trophies into the family television, smashing the screen and matrix as a wake-up call to reality), Mr. Spike (Jeffrey Jones) appears at the couples' door, offering him a high tech new satellite dish system filled with 666 channels of every program you can't get on the four big networks (CBS, NBC, ABC, and Fox).
The dish soon sucks Roy and Helen into a hellish television world, full of satirical shows and movies. In some shows, the Knables are transformed into various roles and forms that fit the plot...
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