Lovers TV Show
Lovers was a public access television program, created and hosted by Mary Calder, that featured inspirational topics and guests and frequently touched on the topic of love and how to bring more of it into your life. The show was videotaped weekly in front of a live studio audience from a television production studio (street view) (aerial view) operated by American Cablevision in Ferguson, Missouri. The show aired from 1983 to 1985. After taping, copies of each episode would be distributed (“bicycled”) to the other cable operators in the St. Louis area, making the show available to virtually all cable subscribers across the St. Louis metro area.
Episodes
Many of the episodes of Lovers on this site were digitally captured from 35 year old VHS or U-Matic videoapes. The quality of the picture and/or sound will vary by episode. The audio is extremely low for some episodes. Audio levels will be adjusted in the near future.
Episode Title: Beautiful People
Taping date: May 1, 1985
Guests: Ruth Guerri, Jim Cuba
Episode Title: Chemical Dependency
Taping date: 1985
Guests: John Fowler (Program Director, St. Josephs Hospital Chemical Dependency Division), Bridget Lange, Kathy Svoboda, Hyatt Bangert
Episode Title: Gary Wayne, Chicago Psychic
Taping date: unknown
Guests: Gary Wayne
Episode Title: Dirty Jokes
Taping date: 1983
Guests: Dr. Helen Friedman, Clinical Psychologist
Episode Title: Dogs
Taping date: unknown
Guests: Bob Mohrmon (Director, Pet Nutrition Research, Ralston Purina)
Episode Title: Dolls
Taping date: 1984
Guests: Dr. Jackie Holler, Director, Institute of Transactional Analysis
Episode: Dream Factory
Taping date: September 25, 1985
Guest: Jack Sollberger (Chairman), Peggy Sollberger (Treasurer), Dream Factory St. Louis Chapter
Episode: Eckankar
Taping date: 1985
Guests: Walt Wrzesniewsky & Carol Marshall
Episode: Folklore
Taping date: May 15, 1985
Guest: John Oldani, Professor of Folklore, Southern Illinois University
Episode: Freelance Vandals
Taping date: October 16, 1985
Guests: Freelance Vandals (Al Admire, Bruce Jones, Nancy Crocker, Mark Terry)
Episode: Fun with Parenting
Taping date: October 23, 1985
Guests: Dr. Ruth Jenkins, Assistant Professor, UMSL School of Nursing
Episode: Gamblers Anonymous
Taping date: November 12, 1985
Guests: Rev. Harold Hendrick, Pastor, Parker Road Baptist Church, Florissant MO
Episode: Goodies, Galore & More (Sex Parties)
Taping date: 1983
Guests: Maril Sirota & Jayne Marion (co-founders, Goodies, Galore & More)
Episode: Grady Jim Robinson
Taping date: June 12, 1985
Guests: Grady Jim Robinson (newspaper columnist)
Episode: Handing Suicide
Taping date: February 27, 1985
Guests: Dr. J. Pennington (psychologist)
Episode: Hospice
Taping date: 1985
Guests: Thurman Cole, Morton Levy M.D., Judy Mange, Geri Moore M.D.
Episode: John-Roger
Taping date: October 18, 1983
Guests: John-Roger (founder, Insight Seminars / Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness)
(Alternate copy can be found on YouTube here.)
Episode: Loving Wildlife
Taping date: August 28, 1985
Guest: Suzie Sutton (founder/director, Missouri Wildlife Rescue Center)
Episode: Assertiveness in Intimate Relationships
Taping date: November 6, 1985
Guest: Simone Lipschitz (psychotherapist)
Episode: Red Cross
Taping date: unknown
Guest: Lawrence Sherman M.D.
Episode: Rocky Sickmann
Taping date: August 7, 1985
Guest: Rocky Sickmann
Episode: Phobias
Taping date: 1985
Guest: Dr. Yitzchok Abramson
Episode: Sai Baba
Taping date: 1984
Guest: Dr. William Harvey
Episode: Starting Your Own Business
Taping date: October 9, 1985
Guest: Noreen Flaherty
Episode: Women’s Rights
Taping date: November 20, 1985
Guest: Fr. William Barnaby Faherty, S.J.
Episode: What’s Up Pussycat?
Taping date: November 28, 1984
Guest: Cat Photographer Bob Bishop
Episode: YWCA Latchkey Program
Taping date: October 29, 1985
Guest: Phyllis Hopkins & Libby Feliciano
Print Media Coverage
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 | St. Louis Post-Dispatch – February 20, 1984 |
 | Webster-Kirkwood Times (cover) – February 1984 |
 | Webster-Kirkwood Times (article) – February 1984 |
 | Press clipping. Ron Elz, St. Louis Globe-Democrat. 1985. |