The Steven Banks Show
pilot episode (01.12.91)
01 - Rock and Roll Auction (07.11.94)
02 - Sid and Ernie (07.18.94)
03 - Video Dating (07.25.94)
04 - Phonetiquette (08.01.94)
05 - Banks for the Memories (08.08.94)
06 - Faux Clip (08.22.94)
07 - Rear Closet (08.30.94)
8. Cowboy Willie - UNAIRED
9. Sunday In The Park With Stuffy - UNAIRED
10. Dust In The Win - UNAIRED
11. My name is Steven - UNAIRED
12. Miss Janie Regrets - UNAIRED
13 - The Last Show (09.05.94)
Steven Banks' Home Entertainment Center
-------This info was taken from Variety.com:
"PBS picks up 'Banks' show
By VARIETY STAFF
PBS has picked up one series from Brandon Tartikoff's Moving Target Prods. and passed on another, the service confirmed.
Tartikoff's "The Steven Banks Show," featuring the improvisational comic, will premiere for a nine-week run July 11.
However, the service has passed on "Under New Management," a sitcom that was supposed to be built around topical issues.
PBS officials said in a statement that, after developing 13 scripts, it was mutually agreed that "the program may be more suited to commercial broadcast outlets," and that Tartikoff is free to shop it elsewhere. Both shows are in conjunction with New Orleans pubcaster WYES.
Meeting in Alexandria, Va., PBS officials also gave the go-ahead to two new series: "Brainstorm," a half-hour gameshow premiering next fall, which will be exec produced by Nancy Linde of WGBH/Boston's science unit and "The Great War and the Shaping of Our Century," an eight-hour series exploring military, political and cultural aspects of World War I, produced by Blaine Baggett ("The Astronomers").
Date in print: Thurs., Mar. 17, 1994"
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"The Steven Banks Show Rock 'N' Roll Auction
((Sun. (17), 10-10:30 p.m., KCET))
Videotaped in Altadena by WYES-TV New Orleans and Easting Down Prods. Executive producers, Steven Banks, Paul Block, Susan Dietz, Brandon Tartikoff; producer, Block; director, Keith Truesdell; script, Jerry Colker, Banks, John Derevlany, David Israel, Jim O'Doherty; lighting designer, Kevin Mulvey.
Cast: Steven Banks, Teresa Parente, Michael Kostroff, Peter Tork.
By TODD EVERETT
Actor-comic Steven Banks brings his generation-specific sensibility to PBS via Brandon Tartikoff's first collaboration with the web. Closest parallel may be with Ben Stiller's late Fox vehicle, which may mean that Banks, too, is too hip for the room -- even if PBS is an even smaller room than Fox.
In addition to being the name of this eight-seg series and his earlier stage vehicle, "The Steven Banks Show" is what Banks (or his character) performs in his apartment -- it's sort of a one-man vehicle for his '60s- and '70s-rooted fantasies.
Into this world -- a"Pee-Wee's Playhouse" for adults -- come an assortment of characters, most of them played by regulars Teresa Parente and Michael Kostroff.
First episode finds Banks at a rock memorabilia auction, successfully bidding on what he believes to be John Lennon's guitar. It turns out to be something else, but Banks has a good time displaying his ability to ape all four Beatles; especially good is a bit where he relives the band's entire history with a set of vintage dolls.
Along the way are knowing (if somewhat easy) shots at Deadheads, Michael Bolton, Menudo and Yoko Ono, many of them gags that will be lost on those with a life outside pop music trivia.
Parente and Kostroff are versatile actors, and Banks himself is an appealing personality. Peter Tork of the Monkees makes an amusing cameo appearance.
Most off-putting aspect of show is a laugh track that's annoying even by conventional sitcom standards, with one shrill woman's cackle particularly grating (hope it isn't Banks' mother). Isn't PBS supposed to be above such crass effects?"