Movie: My Mother the Mainframe--A young adopted man's search for his parents turns bizarre when he discovers that he is really a holographic image generated by a rogue mainframe computer located in the basement of U.C.L.A. Hilarity ensues as he discovers that he has amazing powers over women.

Route 66 Megahertz--Adventures on the Information Superhighway. Two young studs cruise through cyberspace with their 66 mhz PowerPC based computers.

Home Computer Improvement--A situation comedy about the family of a TV computer do-it-yourself show host and the crazy situations that arise. This week: upgrading a 1985 Macintosh 128K to use a 601 PowerPC chip.

Cupertino 95014--Follow the trials and tribulations of two bumbling young computer nerds who accidentally discover a secret computer network while tapping into a cable TV line in order to get the Playboy channel for free.

America's Funniest home computers--This hour-long comedy examines some of the computer industry's most hilarious offerings. A special look this week at the IBM PCjr and the Coleco Adam.

60 Nanoseconds--A hard-hitting investigative report on the seamier side of the computer industry. Suggested first story: Game addicts, with a special focus on the devastating effects of excessive use of cheat keys.

To Be Announced--A weekly rundown of the current state of vaporware. This week we will look at Apple's new PowerBook running using the PC Chip.

National Computer Graphics Special--From the aboriginal computer hackers of New Guinea to the computer using penguins of Antarctica, there's no end to the possibilities for this series of specials.

Aisle of LUCEE--Situation comedy about the misadventures of a wacky early computer language and her family of programs, RICKEE, FRED, and ETHL, as they go through life in the computer systems of the 1950's.

Soap Operas--One Life to Boot, All My Computers, The Young and the Hackers, and General Computer Hospital.

Jacques Cousteau and the PC reefs--Jacques and the crew of the Calypso examine the catastrophic effects on sea-life from large dumpings of obsolete computers, plus a special look at aquarium screen savers.

Movie: Puttin' On the MIPS--Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers star as Ace Apple, a former hip cat from the wrong side of the tracks turned businessman, and Ada IBM, a cold, heartless heiress. A torrid romance ensues as they dance their way into an uneasy partnership.

C*A*C*H*E--Weekly series. Comedy/drama based in the almost forgotten Asian memory chip trade war of the late 80's. Laugh and cry with a group of computer technicians doing "meatball repairs" with makeshift parts in an obscure mid-American computer store.

Dr. Dobz, Computer Medicine Woman--Weekly series. The computing frontier is made more livable by this woman's diagnostic talents. The first episode features the winsome Dr. Dobz fighting the evil Michelangelo virus as it paralyzes the entire west in fear.

The Keyboard Master & Keyboard Master II--Movies. These two movies are plagued with poor special effects, overacting and lousy screenplays, but Mark Singer keeps them alive with the same enthusiasm he showed in Beastmaster and Beastmaster II. The cute ferrets are replaced with animated mice.

Flaw & Order--Weekly docudrama about the computer manufacturing industry in America and abroad.

The XYZ Files--Weekly series depicting strange cybernetic phenomena ordinarily dismissed as "computer bugs." This week: Muldar and Sculley investigate a strange cult of user groups who attempt to channel the spirit of Grace Hopper.

Live Special--Harold O. probes the mysteries of Al Capone's hard disk.

Special News Report--An inside view of how the computer at O.J. Simpson's trial was used to show the guilty person as the one who was filming a 3-D version of the murder site. He dropped his glove and ran for a band-aid when his finger was pinched in the camera's tripod and began bleeding profusely.

(the above humor was reprinted from the December 95 issue of the Apple Slicer, the newsletter of the Sheridan Macintosh Apple Corps)