Pray TV (1982)
1h 40m
Running Time
February 1, 1982Release Date
Pray TV (1982)
1h 40m
Running Time
February 1, 1982Release Date
Network & Production Companies
Plot.
A newly ordained minister accepts a summer job with a dynamic TV evangelist only to find deep conflicts between the latter's conventional activities servicing his community's spiritual needs and his power wielded as a TV celebrity.
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Cast & Crew.
John Ritter
Tom McPherson
Ned Beatty
Rev. Freddy Stone
Richard Kiley
Rev. Gus Keiffer
Madolyn Smith Osborne
Liz Oakes
Louise Latham
Charlotte Oakes
Jonathan Prince
Bill Oakes
Michael Currie
Artie Allman
Kenneth Tigar
Parker
Lois Hamilton
Bobbi Ellis
Jason Bernard
Everett
Frank Birney
Johnson
James Keane
Fats
Richard Kennedy
Announcer
Mel Tormé
Self
Ronald Craig
Administrator
Dana Halsted
Louise
Duncan McLeod
Guard
Herb Mitchell
Guard
Craig Richards
Man in Audience
Peter S. Greenberg
Producer
Dennis McCarthy
Original Music Composer
Donald H. Birnkrant
Director of Photography
Peter Parasheles
Editor
Tracy Bousman
Production Design
Details.
This Movie Is About.
politics
christianity
minister
faith
evangelical christianity
dying father
televangelist
Wiki.
Pray TV is a 1982 American Christian made-for-television drama film which aired on ABC starring John Ritter and Ned Beatty. The project garnered controversy when Rev. Jerry Falwell, the prominent televangelist, undertook a public campaign in an attempt to keep the TV movie from airing.