Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer

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Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer/Hustler
Genre	guide
Starring	Jack Horkheimer (Host)
Country of origin	USA
Production
Running time	0:05 (per episode)
Broadcast
Original channel	WPBT

Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer is a 5 minute astronomy show on public television hosted by Jack Horkheimer which began its run in 1976. The show was named Star Hustler up until 1997, when it was renamed Star Gazer. The name change was due to the fact that when viewers attempted to navigate to the TV show's website via a search engine, instead of getting website results of the TV program, they received pornographic results from the search, due to the more popular Hustler Magazine. In response to this, the publishers of Hustler lodged a complaint with the producers of the show. The producers acted quickly and changed the name of the program.

This 5-minute program, which features key constellations and stars to look for each week, was first seen only on Florida PBS stations. The show went national in 1985 and was aired in foreign markets by 1989. Star Gazer is generally seen on many PBS stations before sign-off. However, due to more PBS stations broadcasting 24/7 and no time to fit the five minute program, WPBT began to offer a one minute capsule version of Star Gazer.

As of September 6, 2006, there have been 1,500 episodes. The theme song of the show is Isao Tomita's electronic keyboard rendition of Claude Debussy's Arabesque No. 1.