A funny satire on TV and its passion for ratings, starring a 19-year-old Kurt Russell as a messenger boy whose girlfriend's talented chimpanzee has an unfailing fascination with programmes that turn out to be enormous hits. A lot of fun is had from this situation at the expense of plank-thick TV executives, with Russell and Harry Morgan (as the company president) in fine form and an auspicious film debut from John Ritter as Roger. No one, of course, manages to upstage Raffles the chimp.

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