Marvin Zindler is a legendary broadcaster who spent over 30 years as a reporter and anchor for Channel 13 News in Houston, Texas. His unique fashion sense and over-the-top personality captivated home audiences and helped cement his legacy as a muckraker, consumer advocate and larger-than-life performer with a fearless approach to investigative journalism. Marvin also used his prominent status to bring awareness to rare diseases and deformities in children around the world, often showcasing those stories on the evening news. A polarizing figure, Zindler was an enigma - a self-promoting ego maniac with a heart of gold. Although he passed away in 2007, Marvin Zindler still commands great respect within the Houston area and his accomplishments still resonate to this day around the city.

Our documentary covers the entirety of Zindler’s life, from his early days growing up in the Bellaire neighborhood to a prominent family with a successful retail store franchise, through his initial attempts at on-camera news until a boss called him “too ugly for television.” We see the many jobs he cycled through - boxing, radio reporting, photography - until Marvin eventually became a lawman for the Harris County Sheriff and established a Consumer Fraud Division at the District Attorney's Office. This leads to 1974, of course, when Zindler began working at KTRK and transitioned into the character that defined him. Through interviews with family, work colleagues, prominent members of the Houston community and those whose lives he effected, we will be presenting the definitive history of the life of Marvin Zindler.