This episode was broadcast live from ETC Studios on August 19, 1979. Glenn OBrien says TV Party is interesting as a TV show, but its a pretty good painting too.

This show opens with a still frame. Just when youre ready to go nuts, a voice reassures: There is nothing wrong with your television set.

And mad action begins. This episode plays with ideas of time and space, (time is money and dead air) alternating between aggressive boredom and quick wit.

The TV Party Orchestra (Walter Steding on violin, Lenny Ferrari on the New Yorker magazine, and Tim Wright on guitar) jams while host OBrien performs the sublime feat of rolling a joint blindfolded while smoking a joint.