Videostars (BBC 1983)one off play by Howard Schuman, writer of the popular "Rock Follies" show. Music by Andy Mackay of Roxy Music, and starring Benedict Taylor, Tim Curry, Nicholas Ball, Caroline Quentin, Patrick Malahide, Al Matthews, Ram John Holder, Tim Potter, and Roger Lloyd Pack.
The story of Channel D, a new local London cable access TV station set up by ex-hippy entrepreneur Bob Surge (Nicholas Ball). having gained his own TV channel he takes a chance on Max Loom (Benedict Taylor) an employee in his video megastore to run the station. Surge's oily personal assistant Walter Fall (Daniel Webb) is against the move, saying it's risky and just a nostalgic buzz for Surge.
But Loom assembles his team of misfits, including the wacko link man Teddy Whazz (Tim Curry), director Fritzie Lang (Caroline Quentin), designer Joseph K (Garry Cooper) and engineer John Stemp (John Bett), and they produce crazed late night television, with (for the times) risque and morally outrageous programming...
Enter Cable Concern, a local watchdog, run by lawyer Steve Rideaux (Patrick Malahide) and Cedric Shade (John Bird) a famous TV producer. They represent the moral majority but they also have some very shady motives of their own.
Can Channel D stay on the air? Who is Eric Dancer? What kind of skeletons are hiding in Cable Concern's closet? All will be revealed in this recently unearthed lost gem of '80s TV.