Times are strange at this generic college-it's the late sixties and the students are restless. Machine-gun emplacements ring the campus while jack-booted security guards patrol the quads. Much of this is due to Prez Camber's (Larry Hagman) just–right–of–wrong political provocations. When young bard Colin (Wes Stern) loses his scholarship because a computer nixes his poetry, well–versed in vengeance he sets out to scandalize Camber by seducing the women in his life: daughter Tracy, a whiny coed who wonders how anyone could like her ("I'm plastic"); his wife Pat (Joan Collins), a ditsy New Ager searching for an astral orgasm; and Harlene, his black mistress, paralyzed by the sexual expectations of white guys. Led by Hagman's rollicking redneck, Up in the Cellar is best when it's swatting the extremes. That's where the Ultimate Revolution comes in, a campus cabal of Silent Majority look–alikes just waiting for a power vacuum.