Stay Tuned (1992)

Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

88 min    -    Rating: 6.2

John Ritter, Pam Dawber, Jeffrey Jones…

The Knables are having marriage problems: Roy is a lousy plumbing supplies salesman by day and couch potato by night, and his wife Helen is a successful senior product manager for a vitamin company. Roy watches too much TV every night and Helen just cannot stand it. One night she suggests a romantic getaway without phones, their kids, or--especially--TV, but when Roy's hooked on the big screen, there's no calling him back. Frustrated and angry, Helen decides to smash the family console with one of Roy's trophies as a wake-up call to reality. Disoriented but heartbroken, Roy then hears the doorbell and opens the door to a mysterious salesman named Spike who offers him the "ultimate getaway" from all the hate, frustration, and failures: a new remote controller and a new state-of-the-art satellite TV. Roy accepts the new TV by signing a free-trial contract not knowing that he just sold his soul to the devil himself. When Helen finds out, she is both unimpressed and steamed; as they fight outside, the "dish" activates. Roy and Helen try their hardest to escape, but it's too late: the force of gravity from the dish sucks them into the "Cable