Hey Austinites! 1990s ACTV question........

[Gato Moteado]

Hey Austinites

What was the name of the show and the host of the show on ACTV (community cable) in the mid 90s where the host sat at a desk with the beatles album cover (with all the plastic baby dolls) displayed. He was a self proclaimed reverend who looked a bit like a child molester. He would talk about abortion and how the liberals are evil and the republican party was great. He loved the beatles music that came out before rubber soul and revolver because after that he said they became drug freaks or something. He would sometimes have his little daughter come out and she would play bass and he would play guitar and they would do beatles' covers.

Anyone remember this show? I think it was called "Babies to Beatles" or something like that but I can't find anything in google searches.

[HarveyDarkey]

1. Might want to try this in the Texas forum

[NoPasaran]

2. I remember the show, maybe the name will come to me

I remember the host sometimes wore a toilet seat around his neck, never quite figured out why.

You might try contacting Channel Austin (successor to ACTV) to see if anyone remembers it.

[Gato Moteado]

4. Yes, that was the show......

....after more googling I turned up the name of the show ---- "sex and beetlemania".

on youtube, I found short snippets of the show in videos showing funny prank calls to the various actv shows of the 90s.

[NoPasaran]

5. Ah, the golden age of access television!

[Gato Moteado]

6. After viewing more ACTV compilations on youtube.....

....looks like he sometimes called the show "the open door". And I still remember it sometimes being called "babies to beatles" or something like that.

[NoPasaran]

7. "The Open Door" rings a bell

The name may have changed from time to time.

[Gato Moteado]

8. here's a compilation of prank calls from ACTV shows.......

you'll see our guy 25 seconds into the video:

[NoPasaran]

10. That really brought back the memories

Wonder what ever became of Kirk-O-Matic. Haven't seen him in ages.

[Gato Moteado]

11. remember "the show with no name"?

nt

[NoPasaran]

12. Yeah, but my best-remembered show was Hi Density TV

Probably because it was my show.

I kind of miss strangers coming up to me in HEB and saying "Hey! You're that crazy guy on TV!"

[Gato Moteado]

13. wow....i don't remember you having a show........

...what years were you on?

[NoPasaran]

15. My own personal reign of tv terror

Ran from about 1989 to 1995. We did an hour-long show once a month called Alive and Dangerous. That started out as basically an excuse to just run amuck on TV because no one could stop us. Later we became a bit more focused on doing parodies of other access shows, as well as having recurring comedic segments. We would edit the live show down into a half hour called Hi Density TV and that got a fair bit of airplay.

People came and went, eventually we began to run out of gas as folks decided raising families was more important that being access TV stars. That's how dreams die and people like Alex Jones take over the channels.

[Gato Moteado]

16. sounds cool.....

....i'm sure I must have seen it. I was an ACTV addict for a while.....I moved to Austin in 1994.

[Gato Moteado]

14. remember catharsis?

and what was the one with the ditzy guy that would start out each show with "what's up? what's up? what's up?"? he was a delivery guy at mr. gatti's pizza and he delivered a pizza to my apartment a few times.

[Texasgal]

3. The only thing I seem to remember

was that crazy lady with all the make-up and caftans that screamed bible passages. It made good late night TV when nothing else was on! LOL!

I'll ask around, I don't remember the show.

[Gato Moteado]

9. here is another video snippet of him.....

fast forward to 7:00 into this video: