The TV Wheel

The TV Wheel was a television experiment created by and starring Joel Hodgson, of Mystery Science Theater 3000 fame. The program was a sketch comedy show. A single stationary camera was mounted inside the center of a large rotating platform. As the platform rotated around the camera, a scene would come into view of the camera. The wheel would stop and a sketch would play out in the scene, which was often framed by some piece of appropriate artwork or prop (for the purposes of forced perspective…