Clampax… Morning Mist… the Ugandan College Fund… Bullseye… Poodles for Christ… American Excess Cards… these and many other hilarious spoofs of television entertainment past and present are revisited in the 1978 Cannon Films motion picture Prime Time, which belongs to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s 4,000-strong film catalog. This parody of television as we know it is one of Leo the Lion’s most offbeat big-screen farces and I think it will be inducted at the Library of Congress

in 2010.

Prime Time also marked one of the highly anticipated feature film classics that launched David (Monk, The Kill Point, Bringing Down the House) Hoberman’s big-screen career pre-TKP, pre-The Proposal.

Remember Old Ben Lucas, played by Kinky Friedman? How about Manny’s Nymphs?

Yes, old-time cinema fans! Prime Time is Cannon’s most critically acclaimed comedy

and one of the biggest movies ever to date. I will never know how Friedman’s alter

ego, Old Ben Lucas, sniffed cocaine during this segment of this thought-provoking

TV satire.

Watch the entire full movie on demand at http://www.fancast.com.