Paula McClure began her broadcast career at KDFW-TV, first working as an anchor and weather reporter and then hosting her own talk show, Tuning in with Paula McClure. After a stint with WFAA-TV in the late 1980s, she relocated to Los Angeles, working as a celebrity correspondent for Entertainment Tonight and a fashion correspondent for The Home Show. McClure returned to Dallas in 1966 to co-host WFAA’s Good Morning Texas, where she won an Emma Award for an interview with Barbara Walters. McClure died of brain cancer in 2002 at the age of 40.
McClure goes to the Video Software Dealers Convention in Las Vegas, where she visits with Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Miller, June Allyson, Peter Fonda, Shari Lewis, and Randy Savage
Posing with Freddy Kreuger
Preview of the hottest new releases to home video, including Moonstruck (1987), Empire of the Sun (1987), and Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach (1988)
Possible “sleepers”—films that fell short at the box office but find new audiences with home video
Sorry, Paula, those eyebrows belong to Peter Gallagher, not Kevin Spacey
Eric Burns speaks with actress and native Texan Ann Miller about the resurgence of classic Hollywood cinema through home viewing
Actor Lorenzo Lamas tries his hand at home video by producing a workout tape
Home video options for science fiction fans, including The Thing (1982), Blade Runner (1982), Hellraiser (1987), and Light Years (1987), also known as Gandahar
Promotional spots
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The Video Store, later known as Inside Video Today, was a weekly local television program broadcast on WFAA-TV in Dallas. Created by executive producer Allan Lord in response to the rising home video industry, the series highlighted the best and latest movie titles viewers could rent or buy from their neighborhood video store. In this 1988 episode, the first weekly installment, anchors Paula McClure and Bill Evans preview new video releases, offer potential “sleepers,” and suggest genre favorites. McClure also recounts her visit to the Video Software Dealers Convention in Las Vegas. Throughout, the program marvels at the benefits of home viewing and the newfound practice of film collecting.
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