MARK RUSSELL'S '87 (TV)

Summary

One in this series of comedy/musical specials featuring political satirist Mark Russell. In this program, culled from segments of the "Mark Russell Comedy Special" which aired in 1987, Russell entertains an audience-in-the-round at the Katharine Cornell Theatre in Buffalo, NY with irreverent song parodies and barbed monologues inspired by current events. Topics of satire include the following: crazed televangelist Oral Roberts; President Ronald Reagan's involvement in the Iran/Contra affair; the federal government's trillion dollar budget; Congress's vote against a raise in its salary; presidential candidates; vulgar language on television; preachers on television; Iran/Contra secretary Fawn Hall; diminutive Democratic presidential hopeful Michael S. Dukakis; subway vigilante Bernhard Goetz; disgraced presidential aspirant Gary Hart; the Iran/Contra hearings; corrupt televangelists Jim and Tammy Bakker; high pontiff Pope John Paul II; the Persian Gulf Crisis; Iran/Contra criminal Oliver North; the stock market; the Rev. Jesse Jackson; the delayed apology from the United States being issued to Japanese-Americans who were placed in internment camps; and a meeting between Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and President Ronald Reagan.

Cataloging of this program was made possible by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Details

• NETWORK: PBS WNED-TV
• DATE: December 31, 1987
• RUNNING TIME: 0:27:56
• COLOR/B&W: Color
• CATALOG ID: T:34262
• GENRE: Comedy; Music
• SUBJECT HEADING: Parody; Political satire
• SERIES RUN: PBS - TV series, 1975-
• COMMERCIALS: N/A

CREDITS

• Anthony Buttino … Executive Producer
• Wiley F. Hance … Producer
• Gary V. Reinbolt … Director
• Mark Russell … Performer
• Jim Bakker
• Tammy Faye Bakker
• Michael S. Dukakis
• Bernhard Goetz
• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Fawn Hall
• Hart, Gary (Gary Hartpence)
• Jesse Jackson
• John Paul II, Pope (Karol Wojtyla)
• Oliver North
• Ronald Reagan
• Oral Roberts