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SCTV Station Manager Edith Prickley, who favors rhinestone-studded glasses and a leopard-skin coat to match her rakish chapeau. has had several programs of her own - a cooking course, a talk show that was a literal conversation stopper and an outdoor safari documentary that never got much farther than the parking lot. None of them has done particularly well, perhaps because Mrs. Prickley has the anxious friendliness of a piece of misfired puffed wheat and a laugh like the lullaby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Messages from Melonville | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

...programmer, Mrs. Prickley has a record at least as distinguished as Fred Silverman's. Among her winners: The Sammy Maudlin Show, a Caballero-in-spired festival of show-biz glitz presided over by a rump-bussing host and a couple of regular guests, Entertainer Lola Heatherton, whose specialty is a piercing rendition of New York, New York, and Funnyman Bobby Bittman, whose jokes are as tarnished as his gold chains; and The Great White North, a public service program in which two dim-bulb brothers, Bob and Doug McKenzie, swill brew, cook back bacon and discuss such issues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Messages from Melonville | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

...Prickley barely has time with all this to book movies for Monster Chiller Horror Theater, which is hosted by Count Floyd, the dipso anchorman of the SCTV news, masquerading in vampire dress. Certainly she never has time to screen her selections. One week's entry was Dr. Tongue's 3-D House of Stewardesses, in which the actors attempted to achieve the illusion of objects flying from the screen by swaying like pendulums. This was followed by Whispers of the Wolf ("Boy, sounds really scary, eh, kids!" howled the Count), which turned out to be an essay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Messages from Melonville | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

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