Pray TV
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| Directed by | Rick Friedberg |
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| Music by | George S. Clinton |
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| Distributed by | Filmways Pictures |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Pray TV (also known as KGOD) is a 1980 comedy film spoofing televangelism.
Failing UHF TV station KRUD, Channel 17, is "reborn" as Christian television station KGOD. The new format is a big success but attracts an incompatible mix of fringe ministries and broadcasters wanting time on the station. A series of humorous vignettes show the different religious shows the station broadcasts: a faith healer, a radical black nationalist preacher, a preacher with a drive-in church, a Christian game show, etc.
The film is very similar in both plot and style to the film UHF which was released in 1989.
Pray TV stars Dabney Coleman, Paul Cooper, Rosemary Alexander, and Lewis Arquette, with cameos by Paul Reubens and the band Devo (who play a Christian rock band named "Dove"). It was directed by Rick Friedberg.
Pray TV was picked up by Filmways Pictures in 1980 (under its original name, KGOD). The film premiered on television instead of theatrically, and aired on Showtime in 1983 under its present title.
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