Native Tulsan here. Thanks for coming out and seeing the town. I have some people I worked with and schoolmates in the film (Spatula City sprint and Stanley's Clubhouse audience). I pass a few of the locations weekly and point out to my kids a movie was filmed there. I usually get the typical teenage "Oh...".
UHF was my first feature film I was ever in and as an extra. It was filmed during the summer of 1988 and released in 89. I have a lot of behind the scenes pictures on my time on set. I started in Television when I was 17 still in high school but UHF was my first taste into Feature films. Now to 2024 I have been in dozens of TV shows and Feature films and hundreds of TV commercials as a principal actor. I was living by the Galleria Mall it was called at the time at 71st and Lewis and several of the sets were built in the vacant store shops inside the mall. The television station UHF was a façade front built at the radio station KRAV's transmitter site. The facade front only consisted of the fake walls held up in the back by supports. The cinder block walls was only Masonite board made to look like cinder blocks. The satellite dish and air conditioning units that you see on the roof was only sitting scaffolding behind the walls. The stairs, sidewalk and patio area was plywood covered with a skim layer of concrete. The vines were plastic and stapled to the wall. The power meter box was also fake. The lighting for the night time telethon scenes was done with Huge lights high up in a sky crane. During the fireworks at the end of the movie, that was done with multi colored lights on tree stands flashing on all us extras. I have some of the fake money and stocks used at the end of the movie during the telethon. KRAV's transmitter tower is the one used as the UHF tv tower in the film. Later I became friends with Gray Fredrickson who was the executive producer of UHF, The Godfather, 1941, Bulletproof and many others. He was the film instructor at the Oklahoma City Community college until he sadly passed away of cancer in 2022. It was a great movie and a lot of fun to be apart of. Thank You for your video and research finding all the filming locations and for bringing back so many fond memories from years ago.
Wow thank you for sharing all of this. That’s awesome you still have some of the items from the movie. Btw can you see yourself fairly clearly in the film? If so what should I look for? I’ll definitely look for you next time I watch UHF.
SO AWESOME, KURT!! Glad you were able to get this done. Was awesome discussing this with you and Adam The Woo at The Roosevelt! Never seen the beginning matched up, great stuff man. Sad to hear you hadn't tried the Twinkie Weiner Sandwich way back when... I ate a few of them before AL shows ahahaha. EXCELLENT WORK AGAIN!!! We got it ALLL on 80'S LIFE!!!!!
Love the videos, Kurt! I grew up with this movie and now that I live in LA it’s awesome to see someone make the drive back to my home state. Keep it up!
Excellent video! They also filmed The Outsiders movie in Tulsa as well. The house they live in is still there, it is now a museum. You can walk through it and see props from the movie.
Hey brother ! Got a idea for a video. Have you ever thought about doing a video on Hamburger the motion picture from 1986 ?? It's totally the 80s . I always thought it got shoved under the rug and you never see anything about it. @@80sLife
Great video! Proud to say, I discovered Al on an old radio show called Mad Trax when aired Sunday mornings back in 1983 on Chattanooga's Rock 105 fm. They played his latest hit, "Stop Draggin' My Car Around." That was the first song I heard by the great Mr. Yankovic. He gained a new life long fan that Sunday morning. I got his first cassette tape and collected each album as they were released after that. When UHF came out, oh yes, I wasn't going to just watch it. I bought it! It was love at first watch. This is the first filming locations video I have seen for this movie. You guys did an awesome job in finding these locations, but also acting the scenes out. Thank you for taking us with you on your journey. 😀
UHF is a national treasure dang it! 😂 Saw it a few times back in 89' as all I did the whole summer was sneak into different movies all day to keep out of trouble and the Texas heat. I love the fact that you can share the nostalgia with your family. Bout to watch it later today with my son. 🤔 I coulda sworn he seen it already but he hasn't. I'm so stoopid!!!!😂
Best shirt you have ever worn Kurt. Greatest horror film of all time. Great video again. Gonna try the hot dog thing. Hope you do filming for the tar man next.
Ha! Trip down memory lane! I grew up in Tulsa and was an extra in UHF. I have yet to spot myself in the movie, but I was part of the Spatula City commercial and in the audience for Stanley's Clubhouse. Also walked through the sets for Wheel of Fish and a few others. A lot of the interior sets, including the Clubhouse and Wheel of Fish were filmed at the Kensington Galleria Mall, which is now an office complex. Right on the corner of 71st and Wheeling in Tulsa.
18:28 Never realized Raul is Frog from Colors ('88). This was his final film, dedicated in his memory; passing from a traffic collision by an impaired driver in Whittier.
I still live in Tulsa and I can remember one day driving around in my car listening to the local rock station on the radio when they were filming UHF in the area. The DJ called out for anyone with a 4 wheel drive truck who wanted to be in a movie and said they just needed to show up at an address that night so they could film a scene. I had a car at the time so didn't go. 🤷♂
I’m not sure if they are joking but the audio commentary on the DVD with Al and the writer mention specific addresses of shooting locations. Didn’t sounded a joke but maybe that was the joke.
Hello. I'm a fan from Germany and I really like your channel. :) I wanted to ask you if you could maybe do the film locations from: State of Grace with: Sean Penn and Gary Oldman??!!... Keep it up and Happy New Year!! :)
The homeless guy was played by Vance Colvig Jr. He is the son of Vance Colvig Sr, known as Pinto Colvig, who provided the voice of Goofy and many other Disney characters.
Hi there.❤ A very nice video on the filming locations.❤ I am.from.Imdia, a great fan of your channel, I watched all your videos of San Fernando Valley. A great series. I wanted to ask you were you born in 1978? As I was too. Do let me know.
Hahaha... I had forgotten about the Twinkie hotdog and so after seeing you try it with your Son I am now curious and am going to try it. Why? Because I can. 😂👍
i didn't learn until recently that licorice pizza is an old record store. when that movie came out a couple years ago and there were so many ads, i thought they were taunting me for ordering cases of black licorice from american licorice co and pizza whatever. well maybe they were. but forget that, licorice pizza is a famous record store and the 80's life bought a weird al cassette there back in the day!
I hope you checked out The Outsiders House Museum too! We have had a lot of films filmed here lol. What a fun story and connection you have with your Son! ❤
Love this movie! Great Job and love seeing your son mouth your intro from the back seat lol!
Never seen the film but really enjoyed the video!
Rest in heavenly paradise Trinidad Silva ❤ We miss you 🙏
Enjoyed his work on Hills Street Blues and Colors, too!
@@janickgoudeau6126 Amen.
He played “Frog” in the movie Colors.
@@josetrujillo9906 2-1 homes! ✌️👆
@@josetrujillo9906 2-1 homes! ✌️👆
I love this movie!!!
Thank you for making this.
Great work as usual.
Great job as usual kurt! One of my fav 80s movies
This channel just knows how to get me all nostalgic
This is really well done! Great job matching the shots
Nice vid and I'm starting to crave a twinkie hot dog with cheese
80s Life is the best YT channel!
Great video! Lots of memories watching UHF w/ my cousins which contributed to all of us becoming goofballs. Weird Al will always be the man!
Native Tulsan here. Thanks for coming out and seeing the town. I have some people I worked with and schoolmates in the film (Spatula City sprint and Stanley's Clubhouse audience). I pass a few of the locations weekly and point out to my kids a movie was filmed there. I usually get the typical teenage "Oh...".
More impeccable work from the best to do it. Thanks as always, Kurt and family Crucial.
This was so good - thanks Kurt! Great job!
UHF was my first feature film I was ever in and as an extra. It was filmed during the summer of 1988 and released in 89. I have a lot of behind the scenes pictures on my time on set. I started in Television when I was 17 still in high school but UHF was my first taste into Feature films. Now to 2024 I have been in dozens of TV shows and Feature films and hundreds of TV commercials as a principal actor. I was living by the Galleria Mall it was called at the time at 71st and Lewis and several of the sets were built in the vacant store shops inside the mall. The television station UHF was a façade front built at the radio station KRAV's transmitter site. The facade front only consisted of the fake walls held up in the back by supports. The cinder block walls was only Masonite board made to look like cinder blocks. The satellite dish and air conditioning units that you see on the roof was only sitting scaffolding behind the walls. The stairs, sidewalk and patio area was plywood covered with a skim layer of concrete. The vines were plastic and stapled to the wall. The power meter box was also fake. The lighting for the night time telethon scenes was done with Huge lights high up in a sky crane. During the fireworks at the end of the movie, that was done with multi colored lights on tree stands flashing on all us extras. I have some of the fake money and stocks used at the end of the movie during the telethon. KRAV's transmitter tower is the one used as the UHF tv tower in the film. Later I became friends with Gray Fredrickson who was the executive producer of UHF, The Godfather, 1941, Bulletproof and many others. He was the film instructor at the Oklahoma City Community college until he sadly passed away of cancer in 2022. It was a great movie and a lot of fun to be apart of. Thank You for your video and research finding all the filming locations and for bringing back so many fond memories from years ago.
Wow thank you for sharing all of this. That’s awesome you still have some of the items from the movie.
Btw can you see yourself fairly clearly in the film? If so what should I look for? I’ll definitely look for you next time I watch UHF.
This is incredible! I’ve always wondered if it was a real building! Thank you for sharing this with us!
Well I once shared an elevator with Weird Al in Century City, so there.
Has to be on my top 3 favorite 80's movies. Thanks so much for putting this together!
I haven't seen the film in decades. I'm super impressed with the cast and cameos.
SO AWESOME, KURT!! Glad you were able to get this done. Was awesome discussing this with you and Adam The Woo at The Roosevelt! Never seen the beginning matched up, great stuff man. Sad to hear you hadn't tried the Twinkie Weiner Sandwich way back when... I ate a few of them before AL shows ahahaha. EXCELLENT WORK AGAIN!!! We got it ALLL on 80'S LIFE!!!!!
Good video man
Such a great movie & Weird Al is the funniest!
Thanks for the video, Kurt & Family!
Awesome job Kurt and fam! Love UHF!
Great review of a favorite movie and amazing effort to go out and get it!
Yes! Love this movie! We quote it all the time! Spatula city! Just watched it recently
Great job! Love this movie! Only wish weird Al would’ve made more movies. This is definitely a cult classic!!
Nice video! UHF is a fun 80's movie!
Amazing video, as always. I love those side to side comparisons.
Love the videos, Kurt! I grew up with this movie and now that I live in LA it’s awesome to see someone make the drive back to my home state. Keep it up!
Looks like your son was raised right. Always impressed to see he enjoys a love of the same classics his dad does.
Great family vid. Loved it.
Awesome as always!!!! This movie is epic.
Excellent video! They also filmed The Outsiders movie in Tulsa as well. The house they live in is still there, it is now a museum. You can walk through it and see props from the movie.
He already made a video about The Outsiders museum and movie filming locations.
You love what I love which makes me love this channel.
Thank you
Hey brother ! Got a idea for a video. Have you ever thought about doing a video on Hamburger the motion picture from 1986 ?? It's totally the 80s . I always thought it got shoved under the rug and you never see anything about it. @@80sLife
Best location video ever! ❤
...gotta luv❤them 80's - Alright!!!💯💫✌👍!
Fantastic content! I've always loved UHF (and most other stuff from the 80's)! This was a blast to watch - Thank You!
Greetings from Sweden!
Great video! Proud to say, I discovered Al on an old radio show called Mad Trax when aired Sunday mornings back in 1983 on Chattanooga's Rock 105 fm. They played his latest hit, "Stop Draggin' My Car Around." That was the first song I heard by the great Mr. Yankovic. He gained a new life long fan that Sunday morning. I got his first cassette tape and collected each album as they were released after that. When UHF came out, oh yes, I wasn't going to just watch it. I bought it! It was love at first watch. This is the first filming locations video I have seen for this movie. You guys did an awesome job in finding these locations, but also acting the scenes out. Thank you for taking us with you on your journey. 😀
Thank you so much for the share!!!! Love how you edited the video together!!! 🎉
One of my favorite movies from my teens! This is a great homage to a brilliant movie!
FINALLY!!! Weird Al is such an icon, and this movie is underrated gem.
Yeahhhhh love this!
The greatest movie of all time. Still can't believe it didn't win any academy awards. Shows what they know.
Great job!
Awesome!
Really fun video
UHF is a national treasure dang it! 😂 Saw it a few times back in 89' as all I did the whole summer was sneak into different movies all day to keep out of trouble and the Texas heat. I love the fact that you can share the nostalgia with your family. Bout to watch it later today with my son. 🤔 I coulda sworn he seen it already but he hasn't. I'm so stoopid!!!!😂
Best shirt you have ever worn Kurt. Greatest horror film of all time. Great video again. Gonna try the hot dog thing. Hope you do filming for the tar man next.
Thank you for all your work bro, love your channel
Lost it at the dead silence, followed by the ‘there’s a lot going on’ after the first bite 😂
Great stuff!!!!
Ha! Trip down memory lane! I grew up in Tulsa and was an extra in UHF. I have yet to spot myself in the movie, but I was part of the Spatula City commercial and in the audience for Stanley's Clubhouse. Also walked through the sets for Wheel of Fish and a few others. A lot of the interior sets, including the Clubhouse and Wheel of Fish were filmed at the Kensington Galleria Mall, which is now an office complex. Right on the corner of 71st and Wheeling in Tulsa.
What a strange coincidence. I was just buying a new spatula when your video popped up!!
Awesome as always!!!!
Never seen this movie but I appreciate all of your videos 👍🏽
YES!!!!
Loved Crazy Ernie!
We got it all!!! on UHF. Spin the wheel of fish!!!!
This was one of my favorite movies of the late 80’s. People thought I was crazy.
Don’t get it.
Wait… I am a little crazy 😅😊
I had no clue the Kipper Kids were in UHF...So cool
Thanks for doing a video on UHF! It's such an underrated gem from the '80s! Can you do a video on The Wizard??
Yes ! One of my all time favs. I saw this at the theater when it came out. I was 13 the time.
“Supplies!!!”
I have to watch this movie again. It is so hilarious
Love that rad Gecko hat!!
UHF is the straight up gospel 😇
Really cool to see this video since I live 20 minutes from Tulsa and I know exactly where all these spots are.
18:28 Never realized Raul is Frog from Colors ('88). This was his final film, dedicated in his memory; passing from a traffic collision by an impaired driver in Whittier.
Kurt son in the back clowning haha. I bet Kurt has met a lot of movie and music icons.
I love this movie, Kramer is hilarious
I still live in Tulsa and I can remember one day driving around in my car listening to the local rock station on the radio when they were filming UHF in the area. The DJ called out for anyone with a 4 wheel drive truck who wanted to be in a movie and said they just needed to show up at an address that night so they could film a scene. I had a car at the time so didn't go. 🤷♂
I love the movie and I am obviously a big fan of weird Al. This was very well done and I appreciate all the attention to detail.
“There’s a lot going on.” What a statement.
I’m not sure if they are joking but the audio commentary on the DVD with Al and the writer mention specific addresses of shooting locations. Didn’t sounded a joke but maybe that was the joke.
What an interesting matrix… I just watched Dirty Rotten Scoundrels yesterday 😂
The Sweetwater movie ranch is right across the street from where my in-laws lived until about a year ago.
I saw that movie 4 years after it came out believe it or not. I really enjoyed it.
Who’s going to rewatch this again in 2025?
Hello. I'm a fan from Germany and I really like your channel. :)
I wanted to ask you if you could maybe do the film locations from: State of Grace with: Sean Penn and Gary Oldman??!!...
Keep it up and Happy New Year!! :)
The homeless guy was played by Vance Colvig Jr. He is the son of Vance Colvig Sr, known as Pinto Colvig, who provided the voice of Goofy and many other Disney characters.
Vance was the first Bozo the clown.
Okay that “ Channel Eight “ building was definitely giving off Stranger Things vibes.
Hi there.❤
A very nice video on the filming locations.❤
I am.from.Imdia, a great fan of your channel, I watched all your videos of San Fernando Valley. A great series.
I wanted to ask you were you born in 1978? As I was too. Do let me know.
good movie.
ROAD MAPS!
Hahaha... I had forgotten about the Twinkie hotdog and so after seeing you try it with your Son I am now curious and am going to try it. Why? Because I can. 😂👍
i didn't learn until recently that licorice pizza is an old record store. when that movie came out a couple years ago and there were so many ads, i thought they were taunting me for ordering cases of black licorice from american licorice co and pizza whatever. well maybe they were. but forget that, licorice pizza is a famous record store and the 80's life bought a weird al cassette there back in the day!
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Pretty much peed my pants in the movie theater when I first saw that Rambo scene. Such a classic silly movie.
I hope you checked out The Outsiders House Museum too! We have had a lot of films filmed here lol. What a fun story and connection you have with your Son! ❤
He did. Check his channel!
I'm an idiot. Lol I've watched that one and commented on it. Thank you for reminding me!
To this day almost no one gets it when I say "Nothing! Absolutely nothing! STUPID! YOU'RE SO STUPID?" that Gedde said on Wheel of Fish. 😂😂😂😂
UHF? I thought you were warning us about something like. Fraternity Vacation, or something from USA Up All Night.
Gross a veggie 🌭 hotdog. Cool video
Who came first Jim Varney or weird AL Yankovic one was definitely the inspiration to the other they both have the same comedy style
Has anyone done a filming location video for the 1981 slasher spoof Student Bodies?
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you missed the Planet Zarkon location..
Not sure if I ever saw the movie, it’s that old....so am I.
wait.... rose bowl, the sign still says bowl .....what is it?
My mop!!!!!
I think there's a new weird AL move coming out
Stephany Locks
Nice mocking you from your son in the intro 🥳😁😆
9399 Bechtelar Prairie
Stanley spadowlski tho