Morning Cartoon - Gahan Wilson's DINER (1992)

Illustrator Gahan Wilson's work has been featured in Playboy and the New Yorker for decades, but his gruesome  drawings have rarely made the transition to animation.  One of the only exceptions is this brief tale of a trucker whose stop at a small diner becomes more perilous by the moment.  It's directed by Graham Morris and Karen Peterson, who both served as animation directors on "Muppet Babies."

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.

Evening Entertainment: Pilot for 1992 TV series "1775" starring Ryan O'Neal, Leslie-Anne Down, Adam West, Danielle Harris and Jeffrey Tambor

Has the U.S. ever produced a successful period sitcom?  This pre-Revolution-set comedy stars Ryan O'Neal and Leslie-Anne Down as the heads of a family running an inn in Pennsylvania.  It's no "The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer," but it does feature HALLOWEEN series regular Danielle Harris, Jeffrey Tambor (who was, I believe, contractually obligated to be in at least three sitcoms a year for most of the '80s and '90s) and Adam West as George Washington.

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Watch This Thing - Rhonda Shear talks to a young Paul Rudd in between introducing NAKED WARRIORS on USA's "Up All Night" in 1992

Plenty of us have fond memories of watching the USA Network's "Up All Night" featuring Rhonda Shear.  Here's a segment from  she is talking to a pre-HALLOWEEN: THE CURSE OF MICHAEL MYERS Paul Rudd in 1992, in between talking about NAKED WARRIORS.