Open Season

Plot

Big business dealings, competition, and TV ratings wars are satirized in this biting comedy. Stuart Sain is an egotistical, over-ambitious Jewish executive. He works for Fielding, a company like Nielsen which uses small boxes to garner TV ratings statistics. Stuart is married to Cary, a psychologist. In the opening scenes, the GPN, which has been number 1 for over 10 years, is opening it's new season of drug oriented TV shows. After watching a televised special about Fielding, Sain gets mad and his promotion prospects are grim. He leaves his company and accepts a public relations position from Rachel Rowen, the pc head of PBT, the public television network. Rachel, like her commercial competitors is totally obsessed with being number 1. Her network does seem to be garnering a huge share of Fielding ratings. That may have something to do with the fact that their boxes are malfunctioning. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

Cast

• Robert Wuhl - Stuart Sain
• Rod Taylor - Billy Patrick
• Gailard Sartain - George Plunkett
• Helen Shaver - Rachel Rowen
• Maggie Han - Cary Sain

Timothy Arrington - Herbert Goodfellow; Larry King; Dina Merrill - Doris Hays-Britton; Saul Rubinek - Eric Schlockmeister; Tom Selleck

Credit

Jacques Burdette - Art Director, Ed Johnson - Casting, Karen Coch - Co-producer, Robert Wuhl - Director, Seth Flaum - Editor, Craig Kitson - Editor, Ron Shelton - Executive Producer, Marvin Hamlisch - Composer (Music Score), Michael Sanchez - Musical Direction/Supervision, Linda Burton - Production Designer, Stephen Lighthill - Cinematographer, Daniel Raskov - Producer, Daniel Roskov - Producer, Robert Wuhl - Screenwriter

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