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The VQTV Store:
Don't Just Watch Quality TV! Buy It!

If you want to effect change for better television, it takes more than just commitment, hard work and strongly worded letters to TV executives. It also takes money. Or -- more specifically -- your money.

VQTV has been fighting for your right to watch good television for a decade now. Our group has grown from a one-man operation running off a Mac SE in Ed McLinn's spare bedroom into a sprawling, 84-person organization that takes up the entire floor of a Fontana, California office park. And just as our organization has grown, so have our expenditures. Those form letters we send out don't come cheaply, you know.

After losing our tax-exempt status to the Ferret Fanciers Association of Greater Rialto in a poker game last year, VQTV needs your dollars like never before. And thanks to a generous offer from our new benefactor, Jeff Bezos, we've found a way for you to give generously to VQTV while getting something back in return. Best of all, unlike 1999's ill-advised VQTV chain letter promotion, our latest venture is perfectly legal!

It's the Viewers for Quality TeeVee Store: Where quality is more than just slogan -- it's also in our name.

With one click, you can use your credit card to buy VQTV merchandise that reflects the quality you look for in television and television-related products. Need a gift for the TV lover in your life? For an extra $10 per item, we'll wrap your selection and include a personalized card. And remember -- at the VQTV Store, shipping is extra.

We can't fight the good fight alone. But with your help, and credit card purchases, we can continue to fund important programs that encourage people to spend more time in front of their TV sets. And you get a lovely coffee mug.

Thanks for shopping VQTV!

-- Skip "Skipper" McLinn
VQTV Director of Sales


VQTV Bumper Stickers

Let the world know that you brake… for VQTV!

"Practice Random Acts of Channel Surfing"
$5.95

"TV Viewers Do It Between 8 and 11 p.m. With Frequent Commercial Interruptions"
$5.95

"Mean People Who Don't Watch TV Suck"
$5.95

"Fewer Laws… More "Law & Order"
$5.95

"If Only Criminals Have TV, They'd Be Very Happy Criminals"
$5.95

"I (Heart) (CBS Eye)"
$5.95

"I'm a TV Viewer and I Vote, Provided 'Buffy's' a Rerun That Week"
$5.95

"Kill Your Radio"
$5.96

"My Other Car is a Television"
$5.96

"You Can Take Remote When You Pry it From My Cold Dead Fingers"
$5.95

Or Buy All 10 for $102!



VQTV T-shirts

Nothing says "Quality" like a white cotton T-shirt with a silk-screen logo!

"My Mom and Dad Watch a Lot of TV… And All They Got Me Was This T-Shirt"
$19.95

"Make Quality TV, Not Love"
$24.95

"Dukakis in '88"
(Only 5 remaining in stock!)
$2.99

VQTV Coffee Mugs

Start each day with a spill-proof cup of Joe* and a little quality television!

* Note: VQTV assumes no liability for cups that actually spill

"World's Greatest TV Watcher"
$10.25

"The Only Drugs I Need Are Caffeine and TV"
$10.25

"Webster"
(Special Burger King commemorative mug)
$23.95

"Luke 'N Laura 4 Ever"
$10.25



VQTV Books

Remember: Don't read books… unless they're books about TV!

"Alf: A Misunderstood Show Too Much Ahead of its Time"
by Larry S. Jackson
$19.95 $10.00

"Diff'rent Strokes to Rule the World: Conrad Bain's Guide to a Better Planet"
by Conrad Bain with Robert Novak
$24.95 $11.95

"From Manimal to M.A.N.T.I.S.: TV Shows Beginning with the Letter M"
by Jan Gimblestock, et. Al
$15.95 $8.25

"Fyvush Finkel -- An Appreciation"
by Matthew Linder (Foreward by Patrick Buchanan)
$17.99
$1.50

"Shasta McNasty: Complete Episode Guide"
by Jeff Eastin
$12.99 $12.25

"MTV's 'The Real World' Pop-Up Book"
by Brian Gradden
$50.95 $8.00

"The Real Darren Stevens"
by Dick Sargeant (Foreward by Dick York)
$17.99 $4.99

"Love -- Exciting and Rash-Inducing: 'The Love Boat' and the Sexual Revolution"
by Larry S. Jackson
$23.99 Free with the purchase of 2 coffee mugs



Special Items

All VQTV merchandise is great; some are more great than others!

The Bea Arthur Phone
As a free-thinking woman of the 1970s, Maude didn't stand for any back-talk. Now she will -- as your very own telephone. Molded into a polyethylene cast of Bea Arthur's skull, this phone is the perfect conversation piece for anyone who loves quality TV. When the phone rings, it plays the theme from "Maude" or "Golden Girls" -- your choice! ("Amanda's Place" phone no longer in stock)
$46.99

"Homicide: Life on the Street"-brand Sausage and Pork Links
It'd be a crime to not order these succulent sausages enjoyed by the cast and crew of the critically lauded crime drama. "These links made me what I am today," raves Daniel Baldwin. (WARNING: VQTV will not ship "Homicide" sausages to addresses more than day's drive from VQTV headquarters.)
$17.99
(For "Oz"-brand cheese log, add $5)

"CSI" Li'l Coroner's Edible Snack Kit
Just because your wee ones are trying to solve a crime doesn't mean there isn't time for snacks. With this snack kit, the only thing your kids will be hungry for is justice! The fingerprint powder is pixie dust; the tape measure is a fruit-roll-up; and the severed fingers of your crime victims is actually a nutritious sampling of vegetables. Here's a meal even Gil Grissom could sink his teeth into!
$23.99


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