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On the Air
1992 · TV series · 30 min episodes · 1 season
Created by Mark Frost, David Lynch
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.
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As a life long fan of Lynch, I took the trip last year to go through his entire back catalog of content, from his student films, shorts, commercials, TV shows including On The Air, behind-the-scenes clips and of course main movies. Such a great journey, everything he crafted carried something more than what you saw and heard, there's always a thread or the power to make it feel like there was a thread beyond the frame.
Outside of all the typical Lynch stuff, one thing I always suggest people watch is The Straight Story. It's such a wonderful movie, one I hoped at release would find a much bigger audience as it really deserves to be seen and shows that Lynch wasn't a guy who just made weird things, he made great things.
David Lynch also made a little known TV series called On the Air.[1]
At its best it was full of black humor and characteristic Lynchian weirdness.
Here are a couple of my favorite episodes: [2], [3]
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Air_%28TV_series%29
[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtCMq1IKYTs
[3] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueL4ebNq6mU