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Brewster seems to be an almost too perfect example of idyllic small-town America, with everyone living in peace and harmony. So when newcomer Whiley Pritcher starts up his own local cable TV show with the question "what's wrong with Brewster?", there surely can't be any deep dark secrets in the town that are just waiting to come to the surface - or can there? And when the question becomes "who's wrong with Brewster?" things start getting seriously nasty.

A deep dive into one of America’s most radical media experiments, this documentary uncovers how New York’s underground public access television turned everyday people into boundary-pushing creators. Using rare archival footage, it reveals a chaotic free-speech arena where rules were shattered, censors challenged, and anyone could seize the screen. Long before influencers existed, public access channels like Manhattan Cable Television gave New Yorkers total creative freedom — spawning interactive oddities, anarchic art shows, and pioneering LGBTQ+ programming. As sexually explicit content pushed limits and ignited public outrage, major First Amendment battles ensued. The result is an unfiltered look at a transformative moment in media history that anticipated today’s creator-driven digital world, warning viewers to “brace yourself” for the wildness that defined it.

An alien duo arrive on earth and begin to enslave humans, using a local Public Access Children's show as a front. Things get out of hand when a human is forcibly turned into one of them and joins a resistance to overthrow the aliens.

A compilation of some of the wilder clips from Jeff Krulik's tenure as a director for Metrovision public-access television; a gig that sent him down a five year path that nearly gave him a nervous breakdown.

PUBLIC ACCESS HOLLYWOOD goes behind the scenes of public access television in Los Angeles to follow some of its most prominent stars.

After the success of their Christmas special, The 6 Doods have fallen into a crack bender. Desperate to honor their contract with Warner Brothers, they ask the Content God for help. What follows is one of the greatest pieces of art ever produced in any medium.

Psychonaut, Dr. Garry Mullinex has created a psychic energy oscillator that traps psychic particles and saves them into a physical form. He has isolated the life and times of a man named Charles David Wachowski.

Total television chaos from the Public Access archives of Threee Geniuses co-creator, Dan Kapelovitz. Featuring strange bodybuilders, religious freakouts, the bizarro puppetry of David Liebe Hart (Tim & Eric Awesome Show!), a young Ariel Pink, Don Bolles (Germs) tinkering with far out sounds, endearing go-go dancing, Giddle Partridge, out-of-control visuals and so much more! “The Threee Geniuses (co-created by Dan Kapelovitz, Jon Shere and Tim Wilson) was rightfully dubbed “The most intentionally psychedelic television show on cable TV.” (LA Weekly) It utilizes no pre-production, no post-production—just pure, unadulterated production. The show is conceived, written, acted, shot, sound-mixed and edited live, in “real-time,” so that in less than 30 minutes, another complete, fully realized, mind-blowing video masterpiece of Total Television Freak-Out is spontaneously generated.”

A self-help advocate struggles to put his dysfunctional family in its place.

This video documents the first cablecast of Austin Community Television (ACTV) in which George Stoney and a group of University of Texas students assembled playback equipment on a hilltop at the cable system's head-end.

The tranquility of Uncle No Rules's home is disturbed when a mysterious variety-show equipped with a studio audience and charismatic host (Marky Ramone) descends upon the household.

Experience the untold story of the greatest train wreck in local access TV history.

A cameraman for an absurdist public access television show gets an unexpected call from his estranged brother.

A student's increasingly intimate line of questioning causes his interview with a local horror host to take a vulnerable turn.

A televisual stream of consciousness assembled from archival footage set in the Black media explosion of the 1980s. A frenetic remix of public access television, video diaries, commercial mass media, and citizen journalism sequenced as short vignettes featuring musical and poetic performance, documentation of state violence, political theater, and expressions of Black love.