Evening Entertainment: The pilot for David Lynch's "On the Air"

ABC was hoping for the next "Twin Peaks" when they got Lynch and Mark Frost to create a new TV series for them -- what they got was "On the Air," one of the strangest sitcoms ever aired on network TV.  The story of a young, dense actress (Marla Rubinoff) who becomes the star of a new TV series featuring a cocky has-been (Ian Buchanan) features a mesh of absurdist slapstick humor that nothing has ever been close to replicating.  Only three episodes of the seven produced were aired before the series vanished (and it's never been released on DVD), though  it has developed a deserved cult rep over the years.  With Miguel Ferrer, Marvin Kaplan, David L. Lander, Tracey Walter (who isn't blind, he suffers from "Bozeman's Simplex") and Kim McGuire, CRY-BABY's Hatchet Face.