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Title: Fine Tuning (10 Nov 1985)
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| Matthew Labyorteaux | ... | Andy (as Matthew Laborteaux) | |
| Gary Riley | ... | Jimmy | |
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Jim Gatherum | ... | George (as Jimmy Gatherum) |
| Milton Berle | ... | Self | |
| Debbie Lee Carrington | ... | Alien (as Debbie Carrington) | |
| Daniel Frishman | ... | Alien | |
| Patty Maloney | ... | Alien | |
| Kevin Thompson | ... | Alien | |
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Vance Colvig Jr. | ... | Vaudevillian #1 (as Vance Colvig) |
| Paul 'Mousie' Garner | ... | Vaudevillian #2 (as Mousie Gardner) | |
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Don Davis | ... | Vaudevillian #3 |
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Happy Hall | ... | Vaudevillian #4 |
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Jack Spoons | ... | Vaudevillian #5 |
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Whitey Roberts | ... | Vaudevillian #6 |
| Angelo Rossitto | ... | Vaudevillian #7 (as Angelo Rossito) | |
Three junior-high pals build a TV super antenna that can even pull in outer-space channels. The aliens seem to be huge fans of 1950s American television, especially comedy, since they've made their own versions of classic TV shows and sitcoms from the era. The kids also catch an alien newscast about the aliens' plans to sand a team of their astronauts to land in Hollywood in 1985 and meet their favorite stars and maybe even take them back to their home planet. The kids decide to find the aliens and help them achieve this dream. Written by Anonymous
A really poorly executed version of E.T. and Close Encounters. High school kids soup up a TV antennae and find aliens obsessed with 1950's TV comedy shows. That's it. The aliens harmlessly come to Earth and the high school boys show them around Hollywood. Fifteen minutes of goofiness while the aliens seek out Milton Berle, etc. It's done the way that Spielberg has of trying to push your buttons, this time with cuteness and warmth. Sometimes in his career he does it, but wow, this one is such a blunder. Dunderheaded, chortling oh-so-cute aliens (dwarfs in costumes like ET- potatoes with rubber-nose-mustache-glasses on). I guess that's how Spielberg made his career, by using the main tropes of science fiction and freshening them up a bit, but sometimes, like here, it seems he thinks that all he has to do is just use them and the magic will work. I did love the old Vaudevillians. They're great. You get about two minutes of those guys around the twenty minute mark. Otherwise it is super bad. Sloppy.