On the Air (TV series)
- Ian Buchanan: Lester Guy
- Miguel Ferrer: Bud Budwaller
- Marla Jeanette Rubinoff: Betty Hudson
- Nancye Ferguson: Ruth Trueworthy
- Tracey Walter: Blinky Walters
- Marvin Kaplan: Producer McGonigle
On the Air - Full Up the Volume ( Original title: On the Air ) is an American television series from 1992, created by David Lynch and Mark Frost. You can assign the genres of comedy and slapstick. The first episode was aired on the U.S. television channel ABC on 20 June 1992, the first German dubbed version on 11 August 1995 on RTL II The series consists of seven episodes were shown out of which only three in the U.S. television. After the series was canceled.
Content
The series is based in 1957. The U.S. TV station ZBC ( Zoblotnick Broadcasting Corporation) exudes the first time The Lester Guy Show. The Premiere is totally under: The main camera falls to the ground and sends a tilted 90 degrees image, Lester Guy gets caught up in some cables and the Supporting Actress Betty Hudson suddenly becomes a main character.
Given their technical errors and mishaps content of the consignment to a surprise success, not least because of the improvising Betty Hudson. Lester is jealous and does everything in Betty's rising popularity aufzuhalten.Doch his various attempts fail miserably.
Background
After the successful television series Twin Peaks ABC entered into a new collaboration with the Creator Team Lynch / Frost. This time it should be a comedy. The script for the first episode were both written at the end of 1990. Lynch and Frost wrote the remaining alternately scripts together with Robert angel. On 20 June 1992, the first episode was broadcast on U.S. television. It was directed by David Lynch himself. The other episodes were directed by Jonathan Sanger, Lesli Linka Glatter, Jack Fisk and Betty Thomas.
Poor ratings and reviews ABC forced to sell the series after the third episode. Frost blamed for this ill-considered the broadcasting time and the " lack of sense of the American public for bizarre humor."
In Germany On the Air was - on broadcast transmitted completely full three times: twice on RTL II August-September 1995 and January 1996 to December 1997, again on Comedy Premiere in June 2001.