The Blue Angel

February 2, 2002
48 min
Season 8 - Episode 14: The Blue Angel

Season 8 - Episode 14: The Blue Angel

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Overview

From being televised at the 1939 World's Fair, to finishing out his days as the director of a community acess station in South Bend, Indiana; Max Blandish has run the spectrum of television's growth. Once he had ideals and dreams, now all he jas is a lump of bitterness and emphysema. His failure to make the right choices has brought him to the bottom of the entertainment barrel, his cigarettes have brought him to the end of his days. Now, he tries to hide his ailment, while filling the airwaves with: singing cowboys, Elvis impersonators, chicken farmers, and the pinnacle of bad taste ""the Blue Angel"". Gloria arrives with a respirator, as a representative of ""Life Support"". Max has a fit and insists that he ordered no such thing, his longtime friend and cameraman, Elmer, admits that he did. Max storms off, and Monica appears to tell Gloria all about him. When she first met Max, he made the right choice to put a young Japanese girl on the air, and was fired for it. That was the

Episode Information

TV Show

Touched by an Angel

Season

Season 8

Episode Number

14

Air Date

February 2, 2002

Runtime

48 minutes

Guest Stars

Matthew Glave

Matthew Glave

Young Max

T

Tom Gibis

Young Elmer

Tom Bosley

Tom Bosley

Elmer

Ernest Borgnine

Ernest Borgnine

Max Blandish

G

Gavin Sheehan

Fairgoer / Global Elvis / Cameraman

Crew

Larry Peerce

Larry Peerce

Director