That movie scared the crap out of me when I was a kid and saw it on some HBO like service for areas that didn't have cable called Showbiz. I've tried watching it again a couple of times, but the intro sequence still creeps me out.

Those and during election years, both parties' national conventions. IIRC, all three networks and PBS would run it for three hours a night. We had two independent stations, but one was hard to get without a good antenna (and usually showed the 700 Club) and the other would run some 5 night counterprogramming, like…

I saw her walk by at a convention about a decade ago and she was towering over everyone. I looked down to see what kind of shoes she had on and they were slippers with no heels.

I know they used a couple of Asian actors to play the kids, but they also had Jodie Foster playing one of them.

Back in the late 90s, Cartoon Network would run this, the Super Globetrotters, and the Gary Coleman show around midnight on Friday nights. I can see unintentional humor of the other two shows, but the Devlin episodes were kind of sad and downbeat for a kid's cartoon, not sure what kind of viewers they were shooting…

Great article, would have problem added a few different songs, but that is a good list. One thing - "They wrote all but two tracks on the album (Headquarters)" - isn't correct, there were six songs on that weren't written by any member of the band: Early Morning Blues and Greens, Shades of Gray, I'll Spend My Life…