Juan Carlos de Llaca	...	(Director)
Juan Carlos de Llaca, Alicia García Bergua	...	(Writer)
Damián Alcázar	...	Cmdr. Paco
Angélica Aragón	...	Teresa, la madre de Alberto
Marta Aura	...	Madre de Laura
Emilio Cortez	...	Rafael
Alberto Estrella	...	Luis
Dino García	...	Rodrigo
Claudia Gidi	...	Lorena
Daniel Giménez Cacho	...	Alberto
Alejandra González Anaya	...	Amiga de Laura 2ª
Erando González	...	Profesor
Sabrina Gómez	...	Amiga de Laura 3ª
Plutarco Haza	...	Alberto de joven
Dolores Heredia	...	Laura
Sebastián Hiriart	...	Alberto (niño)
Benny Ibarra	...	El Ilustre
Miguel Ferrer	...
David Lander	...
Tracey Walter	...

Summary: David Lynch's second TV project after his phenomenal Twin Peaks - The First Season (Special Edition) is one I really enjoy.Within the eight episodes presented here (all that was produced and only three of which,including the pilot aired on TV in my area) revolve around a television network called ZBC's (stands for Zyblocknic Broadcasting Company)attempt to put on 'The Lester Guy' show and the utterly surreal slapstick that occurs.A few people I know who saw this show,set in New York in 1957,thought that it was weird for weird's sake but....here's my take on it.'On The Air' had some of the potentially (and sadly unrealized) TV characters to come along since I Love Lucy or even something as recent as Seinfeld.First there is the character of Lester Guy,played by Ian Buchannan (who I always thought looked somewhat like a very charicatured version of The Manhattan Tranfer's Alan Paul)-Lester is the walking embodiment of the washed up movie star/Hollywood showbiz phony stereotype and,in this series it's "his" show (or rather presense in it) that always ends up in a source of embarrassment for him.Although in the weirdest episode of this I've seen Lester abruptly shows an allience to beatnicks and avante garde culture (a typically odd Lynch twist).The mastermind of all this is Buddy Budwaller,played by the always distinctive Miguel Farrar who reacts to everything far more harshly then he should.His assistant,who has a twisted crush on Lester Guy is the completely demented Nicole Thorn. David "Squiqy" Lander portrays......the directer whose name (and much of his dialog) I cannot pronounce-all of his gags come from the fact that he has no grasp of the english language and Ruth,the only sane rational one in the group and (unsuccessfully)the always helpful but frightfully anxiety prone Dwight McGarnical try to translate his words into plain english.There is also another "Thorn" in Lester's side when (as seen in the pilot) his co star Betty Hudson unwittingly steals the show.Now Betty is a young blonde,sweet and kind as they come but is completely mindless and oblivious to the world around her.Some of the characters are mainly sight gags such as The Hurry Up Twins,characters who only appear in one cameo per episode but are apparently so important it is ALWAYS verbally announced when they appear on screen.Another bigger part is engineer Blinky,who suffers from a disease where everything is repeated again and again in his eyes,surrounded by a series of bizzare hallucinations. Another character who sadly got to appear twice is the utterly extraterrestrial looking (that includes his toupe) Mr.Zybloknic himself,who turns out to share his director cousin's shoe fetish. Some of my favorite episodes include the great pilot,an episode where Betty's Joan Crawford-like sister visits and tries to upstage the show from her,a gypsy magician whose bag of tricks include being able to transform himself into a vagrant until he witnessess the "dog of transformation" (we never find out whether or not he WAS really a vagrant or not) and the final episode where,at Lester's insistance a group of Beatnicks guest on the show with subplots surrounding fetishs and voice disintegraters (including a whispered mention of the word "reefer" which I am sure prompted some areas not to show this episode). My father worked in local television as an engineer for nearly 20 years and was still while this show came on.And while this depicts big city TV fiascos I know the TV station my father worked at would probably also be able to spawn an 'On The Air' series of it's own.