Roy Knable (John Ritter) is a struggling Seattle plumbing salesman, former fencing athlete, and couch potato who lives with his neglected wife Helen (Pam Dawber), a vitamin product senior manager. After a fight (which involved Helen smashing the family television screen with one of Roy’s fencing trophies as a wake-up call to reality), Mr. Spike (Jeffrey Jones) appears at the couples’ door, offering them a new high-tech satellite dish system filled with Number of the Beast channels of programs one cannot view on the four big networks (CBS, NBC, American Broadcasting Company, and Fox Broadcasting Company). What Roy does not know is that Spike (later referred to as
