SCTV Channel
SCTV (for Second City TeleVision) was a comedy show from Canada that featured short skits and parodies. It is perhaps known best for its role in John Candy's early comedy career and for creating the popular Bob and Doug MacKenzie characters.
- 1983-1984
- 1 season
- Blair Entertainment
- Comedy
SCTV (for Second City TeleVision) was a comedy show from Canada that featured short skits and parodies. It is perhaps known best for its role in John Candy's early comedy career and for creating the popular Bob and Doug MacKenzie characters.
Season 1 Episode Guide
18 Episodes 1983 - 1984
Episode 1
Maudlin O' the Night
Guy Caballero launches the new SCTV cable channel. The Schmenge Brothers try new wave music. Edith Prickly and Edna Boil go double-dating in the film spoof "Prickly Business". Steve Roman makes his own made-for-TV movie about JFK. "Melonville Calendar" honors a firefighter. Finally, "The Sammy Maudlin Show" is overhauled to appeal to a younger audience.
Episode 2
Gimme Jackie/Australia
45 mins
Sid Dithers finds love in "An Officer and a Gentile". Perini Scleroso gets her own sitcom. "The National Midnight Star" is rechristened "Hollywood Dirt Tonight". Australian actor Mel McElroy hosts his own film festival. A chaotic Jackie Rogers Jr. concert is the subject of the documentary "Gimme Jackie". Finally, a spoof of F. Lee Bailey's Lie Detector.
Episode 3
It's a Wonderful Film
Producer, Martin Simmons is making a Christmas movie by classic film director Frank Bailey but decides that profit is more important than a making a quality movie so fires Bailey and hires a teen sex comedy director in his place.
Episode 4
Date Debate, The/Scary Previews
Episode 5
You're On/Das Boobs
Episode 6
Stars in One: Bob Hope/Happy Hour
"Happy Hour" was a mock children's show, by bar patron, Happy Marsden, and the bartender, Mike. A mock western filmed in black and white, "Six Gun Justice", with was shown on each episode.
Episode 7
Stalag SCTV
Episode 8
Diary of a Female Person/Happy Hour
Episode 9
Just for Fun/Black Like Vic
Tue, Mar 13, 1984
Rusty Van Reddick does a PSA for nursery schools; tonight on "Just for Fun," Stan Kanter launches a discussion on nuclear proliferation; in a 1962 episode of "Vic Arpeggio," our hero pretends to be a black man in segregation-era Georgia.
Episode 10
Youth, Do They Give a Damn or What?/Happy Hour
Episode 11
Allenscam
Episode 12
Oliver Grimley
Episode 13
2009, Jupiter and Beyond
Tue, May 8, 1984
Episode 14
Half Wits/Save the World Parade
Melonville's parade to promote world peace might not go as the announcers wish. Meanwhile, Alex Trebel is eager for someone, anyone to score on his game show "Half Wits."
Episode 15
Jackie Rogers Jr for President/Happy Hour
Episode 16
Celebrity Fairie Tayles/Canadian Gaffes and Practical Amusements
Episode 17
You're On/Happy Hour
Episode 18
Pledge Week/The Steve Bashekis Story
Various SCTV characters host a pledge drive for the network as it goes bankrupt.