Stay Tuned (film)

Stay Tuned is a 1992 American adventure comedy film directed by Peter Hyams. It starred John Ritter, Pam Dawber, Jeffrey Jones, and Eugene Levy. Tim Burton was originally chosen to be the director due to his art and style but left to direct Batman Returns.

The dish eventually sucks Roy and Helen into this warped world. They are pursued by Spike, who enters some shows along with the Knables in order to halt their advance. Roy and Spike continue to fight throughout several shows, even in a cloakanddagger scenario where Roy displays his longburied talent as a fencer. Through tenacity and sheer luck, the Knables keep surviving, and their young son Darryl David Tom recognizes his parents fighting for their lives on the TV set. He and his older sister Diane Heather McComb are able to provide important assistance from the real world. This infuriates Spike to the point that he makes good on Roys contract, releasing him but not Helen as she was not in the system under contract.Roy reenters the system to save Helen, bringing his own remote control with him, allowing them to control their journey. After being pursued by Spike through several more channels, Roy finally confronts his enemy in a SaltNPepa music video, manages to get a hold of Spikes remote and uses it to save Helen from being run over by a train in a western movie. By pressing the off button on the remote, they are evicted from the TV set moments before it sucks their neighbors abusive Rottweiler into the TV and it destroys itself. In the end, Spike gets eliminated by the Rottweiler on the command of Crowley Eugene Levy, a vengeful employee he banished to the system earlier and is then succeeded in his executive position by Pierce Erik King, a younger upstart employee. Roy, who has learned a valuable lesson after his adventure, has dramatically cut back on his TV viewing, quit his job as a plumbing salesman, and opened his own fencing school and advised one of his students that watching too much TV can get you into trouble. ........

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