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Shoot at the Stars
SKETCH-O-VISION
A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.
The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
Host Jeff Edwards welcomes viewers to Shoot at the Stars, a daytime game show where the prize is a chance to open fire on famous guests. He introduces a panel of fading television and stage personalities, John Rutter, Chalo and crooner Robert Groulet, with backhanded compliments, then brings out schoolteacher Tom Gleason as the contestant. Tom must complete a suggestive fill-in-the-blank sentence and match a chosen celebrity's written answer; failing to match would simply pay out the cash, but after a miss with Chalo, Tom's prim answer lines up with John Rutter's card. Tom collects the money and a scoped rifle, steps behind the shooting-gallery counter and picks off all three stars as they dance in panic, while the host cheerfully thanks everyone for playing and signs off until tomorrow.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 5
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Highly quotable.
Today, some lucky contestant will get a chance to win $25,000 in cash and hold the power of life and death over a real Hollywood celebrity
Here's a gal who's been on TV so much she has horizontal lines permanently embedded on her chest.
You've killed all three Hollywood celebrities!
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.
George Bloomfield
Director
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
The SCTV Guide identifies the three celebrity guests as send-ups of John Ritter, Charo and Robert Goulet. The sketch opened the November 1978 episode in which Edith Prickley was named SCTV's new station manager.
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