Centered around a television station which features a 1950s-style sci-fi movie interspersed with a series of wild commercials, wacky shorts and weird specials, this lampoon of contemporary life and pop culture skewers some of the silliest spectacles ever created in the name of entertainment.
Directed by
Joe Dante, Carl Gottlieb, Robert K. Weiss, Peter Horton, John Landis
Written by
Michael Barrie, Jim Mulholland
Bryan Cranston
Paramedic #1 (segment "Roast Your Loved One") (uncredited)
Michelle Pfeiffer
Brenda (segment "Hospital")
Joe Pantoliano
Sy Swerdlow (segment "Hairlooming")
Rosanna Arquette
Karen (segment "Two I.D.'s")
Griffin Dunne
Doctor (segment "Hospital")
Carrie Fisher
Mary Brown (segment "Reckless Youth")
Howard Hesseman
Rupert King (segment "Titan Man")
David Alan Grier
Don Simmons (segment "Blacks Without Soul") / Don Simmons (segment "Don 'No Soul' Simmons")
Kelly Preston
Violet (segment "Titan Man")
Robert Loggia
Gen. McCormick (segment "The Unknown Soldier") (uncredited)
Wallace Langham
Private Anson W. Pucket (segment "The Unknown Soldier") (uncredited)
Ralph Bellamy
Mr. Gower (segment "Titan Man")
Monique Gabrielle
Taryn Steele (segment "Pethouse Video")
Sybil Danning
Queen Lara (segment "Amazon Women on the Moon")
Steve Guttenberg
Jerry (segment "Two I.D.'s")
Robert Picardo
Rick Raddnitz (segment "Roast Your Loved One")
Arsenio Hall
Apartment Victim (segment "Mondo Condo")
Larry Hankin
Man in Pub (segment "Son of the Invisible Man")
Ed Begley Jr.
Griffin (segment "Son of the Invisible Man")
Phil Hartman
Baseball Announcer (segment "Murray in Videoland")
Huey Lewis
Huey Lewis (segment "Murray in Videoland") (uncredited)
Steve Forrest
Captain Nelson (segment "Amazon Women on the Moon")
Rip Taylor
Rip Taylor (segment "Roast Your Loved One")
John Ingle
Felix Van Dam (segment "Art Sale")
Corey Burton
Anchorman (segment "Murray in Videoland") / TV Announcer (segment "Amazon Women on the Moon")