The Sex O'Clock News

Director and co-writer Romano Vanderbes attempts to satirize middle America's standard news broadcasts with as many jokes about sex as possible. The featured station is KSEX and Doug Ballard and Lydia Mahan play the anchors in a broadcast where blue does not mean melancholy

Cast

Doug Ballard

as Bill McFarland

Lydia Mahan

as Maggie Nel

Wayne Knight

as Bill Wright

Kate Weiman

as Wanda Bennett

Don Pardo

as Announcer

Rob Bartlett

as Marty Cohen

Joy Bond

as Sheley Coates

Jerry Winsett

as Harve Gibbons

Hetty Galen

as Rose Bantry

Philip William McKinley

as Stormy Knight

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