Pray TV

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This article is about the 1980 motion picture comedy. For the 1982 made-for-television drama, see Pray TV (1982 film).

Pray TV
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Directed by	Rick Friedberg
Produced by	Rick Friedberg Tina Stern
Written by	Nick Castle Dick Chudnow Rick Friedberg
Starring	Dabney Coleman Paul Cooper
Music by	George S. Clinton
Release date(s)	1980
Country	United States
Language	English
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Pray TV is a 1980 comedy film spoofing televangelism. The film stars Dabney Coleman, Paul Cooper, Rosemary Alexander, and Lewis Arquette. It was directed by Rick Friedberg. The band Devo appears and plays as "Dove", a Christian rock band.

A failing UHF TV station is "reborn" as Christian television station KGOD. The new format is a big success but attracts an incompatible mix of fringe ministries and broadcasters wanting time on the station. A series of humorous vignettes show the different religious shows the station broadcasts: a faith healer, a radical black nationalist preacher, a preacher with a drive-in church, a Christian game show, etc.

The film is very similar in both plot and style to the film UHF which came out several years later.