About this season
Almost Live! was a local sketch comedy television show in Seattle, Washington, USA, produced and broadcast by NBC affiliate KING-TV from 1984 to 1999. A re-packaged version of the show also aired on Comedy Central from 1992 to 1993, and episodes aired on WGRZ-TV in the late 1990s. The show was broadcast on Saturday nights at 11:30, pushing Saturday Night Live back to midnight. The show is now aired in reruns by the Seattle NBC affiliate following Saturday Night Live.
Episodes (26)
1. Sitizens To Save Selig
Aired 23 September 1989 • 30 min
Expresso Letter Express; Shame of Seattle; Neptune’s Moon Triton with JPL; College Tips; Needles in Seattle Parks.
2. Mind Your Manners with Billy Quan
Aired 30 September 1989 • 30 min
Ordering Pizza at Halftime; Artsy Fartsy Commercial; Bill Nye the Science Guy; This Here Place Home Improvement.
3. Chainsaw C.P.A.
Aired 7 October 1989 • 30 min
Boeing Strike; Chainsaw C.P.A.; Centennial Celebration: Bigfoot; Mariners Locker Room; The Urban Sportsman; The Lame List.
4. How To Choose a Video Rental
Aired 14 October 1989 • 30 min
Truant Officer; Cross-Training With Bill Nye; Office Salt Lick; Channelers Convention in Yelm; The Finger Olympics.
5. Tips on Inexpensive Fun
Aired 21 October 1989 • 30 min
DJ Cop; Non-competitive Competing; Re-enactment News Network; Tips on Inexpensive Fun; Seasons In the Sun.
6. High Five’N White Guys
Aired 28 October 1989 • 30 min
Best of List; High Five’N White Guys; Defeating Monsters; Chamber of Horrors; Seattle Halloween Costumes; Surprisingly Pleasant Vietnam Vet.
7. Speedwalker saves Kingdome
Aired 4 November 1989 • 30 min
Speedwalker; Boeing contract negotiations; Uncle Buzz; The Lame List.
8. Celebrating Washington state's 100th birthday
Aired 11 November 1989 • 30 min
Cold open on mayor rice being elected, mind your manners, easy listening news, quick shopping and Washington celebrates 100th anniversary.
9. Bill Nye the Science Guy solves an age-old question
Aired 18 November 1989 • 30 min
High Five’n White Guys, Bill Nye the Science Guy, Great Minds Address the Issues, Channel U, I Married a Channeler
10. A Thanksgiving special from the booth
Aired 2 December 1989 • 30 min
Smoothing things out in Tacoma, minding your manners, the Speed Walker and more.
11. Getting to the bottom of viewer questions
Aired 9 December 1989 • 30 min
Seahawks locker room, The Men from Sprouts, Scopin Movies, and more.
12. Refrigerator Magnet Theater
Aired 13 January 1990 • 30 min
Seahawks Santa cold open, Loser magazine, KJR music, holiday gift rules, This here place, Refrigerator Magnet Theater.
13. Looking back at 1989 with 'We Didn't Start the Fire' PNW rendition
Aired 20 January 1990 • 30 min
Your Matters, The Lame List, PNW "We Didn’t Start the Fire" and more.
14. Lighting things on fire with Bill Nye
Aired 27 January 1990 • 30 min
Ideas for the M’s, New athletic shoes, Chewing tobacco or nose things, Bill Nye science experiment, French wine or hockey player, Really hard copy.
15. Andy Kaufmann and his giant frogs
Aired 3 February 1990 • 30 min
Superbowl pre-pre-pre-game show, Andy Kaufmann and his giant frogs and more.
16. Activism Training 10
Aired 10 February 1990 • 30 min
Pullman cold open; DJ Priest; Activism Training 101; Retrospective of 80s music; DonnyBrook; and more.
17. Pres. H. W. Bush press conference cold open, special guest Jay Leno
Aired 17 February 1990 • 30 min
Presidential press conference cold open, High Five’n White Guys, Atitude News, America’s Wackiest Home Videos, Refrigerator Magnet Theater
18. Healing Zeppelin syndrome
Aired 24 February 1990 • 30 min
Nordstroms cold open, Stolen Nova, Ed’s Express, Zeppelin syndrome, The Answer is Ball, Almost Live kit, 90s Action series.
19. Bill Nye the Science Guy, Ineffectual Middle Management Suck-ups
Aired 3 March 1990 • 30 min
Mind Your Manners, Bill Nye the Science Guy, The Ineffectual Middle Management Suck-ups, and Flyin’ Low.
20. Get the real theater experience with Movie Mates
Aired 14 April 1990 • 30 min
Movie Mates, The Flying Karamazov Brothers; Kenneth Moss; The John report; Five Clerks.
21. Earth Day cold open, The John Report
Aired 21 April 1990 • 30 min
Recycled tape Earth Day cold open, DJ/MD, Project Environment, The Pump by Reebok, The John Report, and more.
22. A low-speed chase to Bremerton
Aired 28 April 1990 • 30 min
Speed walker, Comic Diane Ford, Spaceman Doug, The John Report; Psycho Sushi.
23. High Five'N White Guys Day Off
Aired 5 May 1990 • 30 min
High Five’N White Guys day off, The Ineffectual Middle Management Suck-ups, The John Report and more.
24. The Last Northwesterner
Aired 12 May 1990 • 30 min
Meet John’s mom, trade agreement with California, The Last Northwesterner, Bill Nye, Folk songs of the M’s, The John Report, Flyin’ Low.
25. Kingdog apology, The Hunter-Gatherer Report
Aired 19 May 1990 • 30 min
Kingdog cold open, Mind Your Manners, The Hunter Gather Report, This Here Place, The John Report and more.
26. Random Personality PSA
Aired 26 May 1990 • 30 min
Random Personality PSA; Money Can and Can't; Almost Live Training Film No. 32 - How Guys Barbeque; RoboSlug; The John Report; Comedian Peter Gaulke; Flyin' Low - Nothin' But Blue Sky