, 8 C SljePallatfJHormttoJftUtf Friday, July 2, 1982 TELEVISION Christian Network loosens up schedule with ‘Uncle Floyd’ ED BARK crazed plaid jacket and a madcap pork pie hat, 'New Jersey's Floyd Vivino is the .star of The Uncle Floyd Show, now being broadcast Fridays at 11:30 . p.m. on KXTX-TV (Channel 39), the station owned and operated by Christians. First it was World Class Championship Wrestling and now it's the daffy, slightly naughty Un cle Floyd. Has Sodom met Gcmcr- ’ 'rah on a station owned and oper ated by the Christian Broadcasting .Network? Naw, the station is just loosen ing up and having a little harmless fun on weekends. Just to be on the safe side, though, the syndicators of Uncle Floyd are cleaning the show up a bit before sending each week’s cassette tapes to Dallas. “They’re editing it for us,” said Roger Baerwolf, Channel 39’s gen eral manager. "They’re mindful of our family policy. We don’t really want to get too blue or anything of that nature. The show is crazy, but it’s not objectionable, I don’t be lieve.” The Uncle Floyd Show started as a kiddie program in 1974, but quickly was transformed into a sort of low-rent Saturday Night Live. In Jersey, Uncle Floyd is big stuff. He has a fan club and a following that has gone beyond the cult stage. Now he’s taking the Lig step into syndication along with his pal, Oogie the puppet, and regular cast members Scott Gordon, Mugsy, Netto, “Looney” Skip Rooney and Charlie Stoddard. Floyd Vivino, 30, looks a lot like Roger Miller and seems a lot like the comedian Gallagher. He plays the piano, throws food around and satirizes celebs such as Julia Child (“Julia Step-Child”) and Larry King (“Larry Bling”). Off-camera, stage hands and cast members laugh raucously — and somewhat irritatingly — at Floyd’s every an tic. It’s a bargain basement laugh track that needs a muffler. Still, Floyd is kinda cute, judging from a demonstration tape seen at Chan nel 39. In “A Day in the Life of a Food,” a piece of French bread screamed while Floyd sliced it. The bologna seemed happy to meet yon dough, but the poor tomato shrieked when it went under the knife. Then, when Floyd bit in, the foods r screamed in chorus. What would [ ice cream do? I While parodying Julia Child, [ Floyd created a “corn dog.” He used four toothpicks for legs, a corn cob for the body and the head of a Snoopy plush toy. Meanwhile, a piggy bank baked in the oven. On the “Phone-In Radio Show” segment, "Larry Bling” took calls from a variety of head cases, in cluding a bogus Dallasite who had a joke: “Guy says to me, ‘Hey, you ever seen the Catskill Mountains?’ And I says, ‘No, but I seen cats kill mice’. ’’ In New Jersey, Floyd pulls this stuff five nights a week at a half- hour a crack. On Channel 39, the best (?) of Floyd fills an hour on Friday nights this summer. “Most stations have agreed to a 13-week run on a kind of off-the- wall new product like this,” Baerwolf said. “Nobody wants to get into a 52-week agreement. It could hit big or it could be the big gest bomb that ever came down the pike.” If the Lord is willing and the Nielsen numbers are high enough, Channel 39 will keep Uncle Floyd on in the fall. So how about giving the loon a look? He’s another new look for Channel 39, a Christian sta tion that knows how to party. KANGAROO JUMPS: Bob Keeshan’s Captain Kangaroo show is being sent to weekends next Oc tober. The good captain, an early morning fixture on CBS for 26 years, has been told to make room for yet another half hour of net work news. With Kangaroo out of the way, the network will add an extra half hour to its CBS Morning News. On Monday, July 5, ABC and NBC both are adding news blocs leading into Good Morning America and Today. Keeshan reportedly is content to go to weekends, where he will be scheduled at 6 a.m. Saturdays and 7 a.m. Sundays. Zany Floyd Vivino stars on The Uncle Floyd Snow Fridays at 11:30 p.m. on KXTX-TV (Channel 39). S3.#L-3 » : €* *4 ' * ' yrg&S&Gtm ^ ? AV -Sfc C - * * j BLINDS TO GO I 8 NOW WITH A I j wand 1 Ih ^ - jj Example: 35 x 72 | a " “ SALE $ 38 20 sizes & colors I Subject to prior sale B IIt’ll | ring I your bell. I 21) r Gallas Ranting JTrttrs I CALL 745-8383 1 * , W \Lamp Rewiring