From 1982 to 1990, Jill Petzall produced, directed, wrote, and edited 33 short feature-segments for the production run of KETC's cultural arts weekly video-magazine. Subjects included novelist Stanley Elkin, musician Paul Demarinis, painter Joan Levinson, composer Anthony Davis, Synchronia, the Saint Louis Art Museum's Caribbean Festival Exhibition, and the Mid America Dance Company.

From 1982 to 1984 Petzall also produced all studio interviews for the series. The series ended in 1990.

St. Louis Skyline was the recipent of as an Iris award, as well as numerous regional Emmy awards.

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List of St. Louis Skyline Productions

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1990

"Handwork by Heart" - the 5 minute story shows the unusual work of a woman who takes turn-of-the-century women's handworks, quilts, photos, letters, and creates collages that tell stories about what women feel. The artist Betsy Nimock, offers her insights throughout the creative process. KETC — May 21, 1990

"Off the Record" - the 5 minute segment on the African-American jazz trumpeter, Eddie Randall, who, in early rock and roll days, when the recording industry was a white man's world, devoted as much energy in promoting other talented black musicians as he did to his own trumpet style. Legendary trumpeter Miles Davis was one of those young musicians whom he assisted. KETC, May, 1990

"Eye-Witness Artists" - the 6-minute feature about 2 courtroom-sketch artists, a computer-graphics specialist and a portrait-painter. Here, the artists talk about the hard work and objectivity that is required behind the scenes of a courtroom artist. April, 1990 - KETC

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1989

"Not.Even.Applicable." - a 5 minute feature about the public controversy over sexually explicit photographs by the late Robert Mappelthorpe in relation to what is and isn't art. October, 1989 - KETC

Peter Bernhardt - Botanist Peter Bernhardt is featured in this 6-minute segment with his bees and flowers as he discloses secret rituals of pollination, the 'real' stories of the birds and bees. September, 1989 - KETC

Anthony Davis —This 7-minute segment follows pianist Anthony Davis into rehearsals and classrooms. Davis is as well known for his operatic compositions as he is for his jazz ensemble 'Episteme'. The story concerns his consistent message which is to redefine the meaning of American classical music and add improvisation to its sound. May 26, 1989 - KETC

"Fine Tuning" - This 6-minute feature story looks under the lid of a grand piano — with piano-tuner Liz Baker — and eavesdrops on the curious notes and noises that fine-tune the strings for much of the beautiful piano music made around St. Louis. April, 1989, KETC

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1988

"Tadjah" — a 5:00 minute feature story about a glittering ritual monument, the 'tadjah', a cardboard tomb specially reconstructed for the Caribbean Festival Arts Exhibit at the Saint Louis Art Museum. The story includes interviews with artisans who were invited up from Trinidad as they explain how their traditions of artistry and religion impact upon their everyday lives. — KETC-TV, December 2, 1988

"Glass Carnival" — a 3:35 minute video-essay of the evening lights from a small-town autumn carnival, set to the music of Phillip Glass. — KETC-TV, November 23, 1988

"Private Stories" - 6:34 minute feature about the controversial and humorous paintings of Joan Levinson. Through playful editing, the video segment presents the artist's quirky attitudes about her work in combination with her canvases. — KETC-TV, September 16, 1988

"Archie's Still Around" - a 5:00 minute story about the lingering youth of Archie and his comic-strip gang. The feature shows how contemporary social issues such as AIDS are handled in a fictional community where nothing seems to change. — KETC-TV, May 22, 1988

"Bobby" - 7:00 minute feature profiling a man of many talents: Bobby Norfolk - singer, dancer, mime, stand-up comic, black-belt karate, actor, and story-teller. He talks about how, as a black man, he has developed a career starting from radical, political protest, evolving to serious, multi-ethnic theater and finally, (the essence for him), story-telling for children. — KETC-TV, February 22, 1988

"Synchronia" - 6:30 minute feature segment about the very contemporary music presented by 'Synchronia'. They are a sextet of classically trained musicians who also discuss their insights about the importance of the difficult 'new' music they perform. — KETC-TV, January 26, 1988

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1987

"Half a Loaf" - 8:35 minute feature story about an anarchist-nun, a halfway house for women (which she founded), and the drama she wrote about it all. Art imitates life in Maryanne McGivern's stage-play about the world of the Karen House, while the video tells how the real-life drama affected the author's own reality. — KETC-TV, December 7, 1987

"Paris in Japan" - the 6:30 minute feature-essay showing an exhibit of paintings by Japanese artists, created between 1890-1940. Many of these canvases have never before been seen in the West. Highlighting the impact of French Impressionism on the artists just after their emergence from political isolation, the feature-storyoffers an important perspective on cross-cultural adaptations that began to exist between the West and Japan. — KETC-TV, November 1, 1987

"The Woman with the Horn" -a 6:25 minute story about a St. Louis jazz trumpet player, Sue beshears, who is also an award-winning equestrian. What makes her acheivements most unusual is that she has been blind since birth. - KETC-TV, October 5, 1987

"Dance Notes" -an 8:20 minute documentary following the collaboration between the emminent late novelist, Stanley Elkin, and the late choreographer, Ross Winter. Together they cross a new boundary in modern dance: a dance designed around an original short-story using the author's reading as the only sound track to the dance. Performed by the Mid America Dance Company, the undertaking is particularly poignant because Elkin, the author, was crippled by muscular-dystrophy — KETC-TV, June 1, 1987

"The Hand of the Mentor" — a 7:20 minute personality-profile of Jane Allen, an international concert-pianist-turned-teacher. As she performs, she discusses her choice to devote seven days each week to teaching young piano prodigies in St. Louis — KETC-TV, May 18, 1987

"Brain Work" —the 7:20 minute feature profile on Dr. Robert Collins, a neurologist and erstwhile sculptor who constructs sophisticated, satirical, high-tech-folk-art out of obsolete medical equipment, "neuro-trash" which he gleans from med-school dumpsters. - KETC-TV, March 30, 1987

"Tenor Man" — a 7:15 minute feature story about jazz saxophone musician, Paul DeMarinis, highlighting a concert as he speaks about his views on jazz theory and the satisfactions from composing musical ideas on the spot — KETC-TV, February 23, 1987 1986

"Stream" —the 6:30 minute feature account of a collaborative public mural project sponsored by an urban non-profit gallery. The story tells how children, parents, and professional artists joined forces to apply a tiled-mural (instead of anarchic graffiti) to a vacant community wall. — KETC-TV, October 6, 1986

"Peter Marcus" — this is a 5:10 minute story and conversation with artist Peter Marcus. Both a painter and a printmaker, he breaks many taboos about combining media as he abstracts from scenes from his Rhode Island summer house and during the rest of the year in St. Louis. — KETC-TV, June 4, 1986

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1985

"Delay Tactics" — this 7:20 minute feature about the electronic music of a composer-recording artist, Carl Weingarten and his 3-man-band, "Delay Tactics" as they record in their make-shift basement studio. An added facet of his music is the way it has been used by his recording company and by dancers throughout the Midwest; special video effects serve to amplify the intriguing transformations of electronic signals from sound into sight. -KETC-TV, November 20, 1985