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Second City Television (1976)

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Second City Television is a Canadian television sketch comedy show offshoot from Toronto's Second City troupe that ran between 1976 and 1984.

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  • Eugene LevyEugene Levyรับบท Self - Various Characters
  • Andrea MartinAndrea Martinรับบท Self - Various Characters
  • Joe FlahertyJoe Flahertyรับบท Self - Various Characters
  • Dave ThomasDave Thomasรับบท Self - Various Characters
  • John CandyJohn Candyรับบท Self - Various Characters
  • Catherine O'HaraCatherine O'Haraรับบท Self - Various Characters
  • Rick MoranisRick Moranisรับบท Self - Various Characters
  • Martin ShortMartin Shortรับบท Self - Various Characters
  • John HemphillJohn Hemphillรับบท Self - Various Characters
  • Mary Charlotte WilcoxMary Charlotte Wilcoxรับบท Self - Various Characters
  • Harold RamisHarold Ramisรับบท Self - Various Characters
  • Robin DukeRobin Dukeรับบท Self - Various Characters

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Second City Television, commonly shortened to SCTV and later known as SCTV Network 90 (the NBC version) and SCTV Channel (the Cinemax version), is a Canadian television sketch comedy show that ran intermittently between 1976 and 1984 about a fictional television station. It was created as an offshoot of Toronto's Second City troupe. It moved to American television, where it aired on NBC from 1981 to 1983.

Premise

The show's premise is the broadcast day of a fictitious TV station (later network) in the town of Melonville. Melonville's location is left unspecified; the earliest episodes imply it is in Canada, but most later episodes place it in the U.S.

A typical episode of SCTV presents a compendium of programming seen on the station throughout its broadcast day. A given episode could contain SCTV news broadcasts, sitcoms, dramas, movies, talk shows, children's shows, advertising send-ups hawking fictitious products, and game shows. Several "shows" are seen regularly on SCTV, including SCTV News; soap opera The Days of the Week; late-night movie features Monster Chiller Horror Theater and Dialing For Dollars; and Great White North (a public access show centered around two Canadian 'hosers'), among others. Many other SCTV shows are seen only once, such as the game show Shoot at the Stars, in which celebrities are literally shot at like shooting gallery targets, or full-blown movie spoofs such as Play It Again, Bob, in which Woody Allen (Rick Moranis) tries to get Bob Hope (Dave Thomas) to star in his next film. Episodes also feature a range of SCTV-produced promotions (for imaginary future shows) and commercials, such as spots for "Al Peck's Used Fruit" or "Shower in a Briefcase", or a public service announcement that helpfully describes "Seven Signs You May Already Be Dead".

Also seen fairly frequently, particularly in later episodes, are behind-the-scenes plots focusing on life at the station/network. These often feature Guy Caballero (Joe Flaherty), SCTV's cheap, tyrannical owner and president who, despite being perfectly ambulatory, uses a wheelchair to earn "respect" (i.e., sympathy) from employees and viewers. Also seen regularly are weaselly, sweating station manager Maurice "Moe" Green (Harold Ramis), succeeded in the position by flamboyant, leopard-skin clad, foul-mouthed Edith Prickley (Andrea Martin); vain variety star Johnny LaRue (John Candy); washed-up entertainers such as singer Lola Heatherton (Catherine O'Hara) and comedian Bobby Bittman (Eugene Levy); news anchors Floyd Robertson (Flaherty) and Earl Camembert (Levy), talk-show host Sammy Maudlin (Flaherty), cult-stardom-destined and beer-addled brothers Bob and Doug McKenzie (Moranis and Thomas), and many others.

The small cast, typically six to eight members at any given time, play a wide variety of other station roles ranging from program hosts to commercial spokespersons. They also impersonate numerous popular celebrities appearing on the station's programming.

Cast

* Only starred in and was credited for the final episode.

** Only starred in and was credited for the first two episodes.

Main

These are the show's main cast and recurring characters they played:

John Candy as Johnny LaRue/Dr. Tongue/William B. Williams/Billy Sol Hurok/TommyShanks/Gil Fisher/Yosh Shmenge/Harry/Steve Roman/Mr. Messenger/Mr. Mambo/Doctor Braino/Boris Burgess/Paul Fistinyourface/Dan Ellsmire/Stephan Seely/Dr. William Wainwright/Orson Welles/Luciano Pavarotti/Divine/Curly Howard/Richard Burton/Julia Child/Darryl Sittler/Tip O'Neil/Herve Villechaize/Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder/Darren Peel (seasons 1–2, 4–5, guest season 5)

Joe Flaherty as Floyd Robertson aka Count Floyd/Guy Caballero/Sammy Maudlin/Big Jim McBob/Vic Hedges/Alki Stereopolis/Norman Gorman/Hugh Betcha/Duard Weese/Arthur Andrew-Leggett/Phillip Marks/Dick Bedlow/Rocco/Slade Cantrell/Gregory Peck/Peter O'Toole/Kirk Douglas/Charlton Heston/Bing Crosby/William F. Buckley/Geraldo Rivera/Charles Bronson/Alan Alda/Gene Siskel/Richard Nixon/Jack Klugman/Slim Whitman/Larry Fine/Salvador Dalí

Eugene Levy as Earl Camembert/Gus Gustofferson/Bobby Bittman/Woody Tobias Jr./Mel Slirrup/Sid Dithers/Brian Johns/Stan Shmenge/Joel Weiss/Al Peck/Alex Trebel/Dr. Rawl Withers/Raoul Wilson/Lou Jaffe/Murray Shulman/Max Lansky/Phil the Garment King/Stan Kanter/Crazy Hy/Paul Rey/Don Mills/Dougall Currie/Dr. Elliot Sabian/Henry Kissinger/Ricardo Montalban/Floyd the Barber/Jack Carter/Milton Berle/Gene Shalit/Howard Cosell/Ralph Young

Andrea Martin as Edith Prickely/Perini Scleroso/Edna Boil/Dr. Cheryl Kinsey/Libby Wolfson/Yolanda Devillbis/Mrs. Falbo/Dutch Leonard/Big Momma/Melba the Disco Queen/Cassie Mackerel/Kathy Tudor/Tawny Beaver/Blanche Ray Kellogg/Sondra Wicks/Remy Martin/Maggie Butterfield/Mojo/May Madlock/Barbra Streisand/Lorna Minelli/Indira Gandhi/Mother Theresa/Joyce Dewitt/Arlene Francis/Sophia Loren/Ethel Merman/Marsha Mason/Charo

Catherine O'Hara as Lola Heatherton/Maureen Wallace/Sue Bopper Simpson/Dusty Towne/Trish Nutly/Nikki/Phyllis Gumble/Sister Mary Innocent/Katherine Timber/Alexis Shannon/Sue Ellen/Violet McKay/Betty Wilson/Katharine Hepburn/Elizabth Taylor/Brooke Shields/Morgan Fairchild/Rona Barrett (season 1–2, 4–5, recurring season 6)

Harold Ramis as Moe Green/Swami Banananda (season 1, recurring season 2, guest season 5)

Dave Thomas as Doug McKenzie/Bill Needle/Angus Crock/Lin Ye Tang/Tex Boil/Harvey K-Tel/Fred Scutz/Tim Ishimuni/Keith Hampshire/Ernest Kirsch/Mel McElroy/Ted Gordon/Bob Wilson/William Morris/Captain Combat/Zach Harrington/Bob Hope/Walter Cronkite/Richard Harris/DeForest Kelly/G. Gordon Liddy/Liberace/Michael Caine/Gerry Brown/Roger Ebert/Neil Simon/John Ritter/Colonel Sanders (seasons 1–4, first two episodes of season 5, recurring season 6)

Robin Duke as Molly Earle/Shelley Winters (season 3)

Rick Moranis Bob McKenzie/Gerry Todd/Skip Bittman/Carl Scutz/Rabbi Karlov/Mr. Wilcox/Larry Siegel/Tom Monroe/Linsk Minyk/Clay Collins/David Brinkley/Woody Allen/Merv Griffin/George Carlin/Dick Cavett/Al Waxman/Michael McDonald/Brent Musburger/Teri Shields (seasons 3–4, first two episodes of season 5)

Tony Rosato as Marcello Sebastiano/Chick Monk/Lou Costello/Tony Orlando/Ella Fitzgerald (season 3)

Martin Short as Ed Grimley/Jackie Rogers Jr./Brock Linehan/Irving Cohen/Bradley P. Allen/Troy Soren/Jackie Rogers Sr./Rusty Van Reddick/Lawrence Orbach/Lional Napier-Humphries/Billy McKay/Cheaplaffs Johnson/Jerry Lewis/Pierre Trudeau/David Steinberg/The Kid from Deliverance/Dustin Hoffman/Montgomery Clift/Tony Sandler/Howie Soozloff/Fred Rogers (featuring last episode of season 4, main cast seasons 5–6)

Recurring

John Stocker as Announcer [V.O.] (seasons 2–6)

Donald Cowper as Various (season 1)

Jayne Eastwood as Various (seasons 1, 5–6)

Jeff Lumby as Various (seasons 2–3)

Ron James as Various (seasons 2–6)

Paul Flaherty as Wally Hung/Various (seasons 3–6)

Dick Blasucci as Various (seasons 3–5)

Juul Haalmeyer as Various (seasons 4–5)

Mary Charlotte Wilcox as Idella Voudry/Janet Halsey/Various (seasons 5–6)

Mike Short as Mike the Bartender/Various (seasons 5–6)

John Hemphill as Happy Marsden/Wesley Wilks/Various (season 6)

John McAndrew as Various (season 6)

Show creation

There is much dispute as to who actually created the SCTV series. The show itself bears no "created by" credit, although it gives "developed by" credits to Bernard Sahlins and Andrew Alexander.

In 1974, Andrew Alexander bought the Canadian rights to The Second City for one dollar, and in 1976, he was the producer of Toronto's stage show, and was looking to expand his company into TV. He called together the current cast of the stage show (including Candy, Flaherty, Thomas, and Levy) to discuss a format for a Second City TV series. Also in attendance at the meeting were Second City veterans Harold Ramis, Sheldon Patinkin, and Del Close, along with business partner Bernard Sahlins.

According to Dave Thomas's account in SCTV: Behind The Scenes, various ideas were batted around, then — and here is where meeting attendees remember things differently — either Close or Patinkin came up with the idea of presenting programming from the world's smallest TV station. The cast immediately jumped on the idea as a workable model for presenting a virtually unlimited range of characters, sketches, and ideas, while still having a central premise that tied everything together. From there, the actual content of the show (the characters, the situations, the Melonville setting, etc.) was all the work of the cast, with contributions from Alexander and Sahlins.

Alexander remained as producer and executive producer throughout SCTV's run. Sahlins stayed for the first two seasons as a producer. Patinkin was a first-season writer and de facto editor and post-production supervisor. Close had no further involvement with the series.

Seasons 1 and 2: 1976–79

SCTV began production in 1976 at the Toronto-based studios of the Global Television Network, a small regional channel simulcasting through southern Ontario. For the first six episodes, new episodes were seen once a month. The next seven new episodes (beginning in February 1977, and continuing through the spring) aired biweekly. In September, Global ordered 13 more episodes, which aired weekly from September through December.

These irregularly scheduled 26 episodes (produced over 15 months) were later considered one "season" for syndication purposes. Except for Harold Ramis, all of the original cast was from the Toronto branch of The Second City theatre improvisation troupe; Ramis was a Second City veteran, but with the Chicago troupe.

The original SCTV cast consisted of John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Catherine O'Hara, Harold Ramis, and Dave Thomas. All also served as writers on the show, although Martin and O'Hara did not receive writing credits on the first four episodes. Ramis served as SCTV's original head writer, but only appeared on-screen as a regular during the first season (spread out over two years) and in a few select episodes in the second season before his main character, station manager Moe Greene, was written out. Ramis and Flaherty also served as associate producers. Sahlins produced the show; Global staffer Milad Bessada produced and directed the first 13 episodes. George Bloomfield became director as of episode 14.

Concurrently with the first year of SCTV, every cast member except Ramis also worked as a regular performer on another Canadian TV show. Several (Flaherty, Candy, Thomas, and Martin) worked together as regulars on The David Steinberg Show, which premiered on the CTV Television Network and in American syndication the same week as SCTV. The David Steinberg Show—which also featured future SCTV cast member Martin Short, but did not use any of the SCTV cast as writers—folded after a single season. Martin, Flaherty, and Levy were also cast members of the short-lived comedy/variety series The Sunshine Hour, which finished its run less than a month before SCTV premiered (and while the first SCTV episode was being filmed).

During the first season, Levy was also doing double duty; in addition to his work on SCTV, he was also a cast member of the CBC sketch comedy series Stay Tuned, which aired weekly from October 1976 through January 1977. At the same time SCTV debuted, Candy and O'Hara became regular cast members of the CBC comedy series Coming Up Rosie. This gave Candy the distinction of appearing as a regular on three TV series simultaneously, on three different Canadian networks.

For the second season (1978–79), SCTV became a weekly series on Global, and was seen in syndication throughout Canada and parts of the United States. After episode three of the second season, Ramis was no longer in the cast, but continued to receive credit as the show's head writer for most of the season.

Season 3: 1980–81

In 1980, one year after the Toronto Global television station dropped SCTV due to high production costs, show producer Andrew Alexander negotiated a deal to produce SCTV at CITV facilities, with Edmonton, Alberta broadcaster Charles Allard, owner of the independent station CITV-TV and the Allarcom studios.

Candy, O'Hara, and Ramis dropped out at this point, and Dave Thomas was promoted to head writer. Added to the cast (and writing room) were Tony Rosato, Robin Duke, and Rick Moranis. Moranis, a friend of Dave Thomas, then known as a radio personality in Canada, was the only cast member not to have come from the ranks of The Second City. John Blanchard became the series director.

This season of the show was seen in Canada on the CBC, and in scattered American markets in syndication.

Seasons 4 and 5: 1981–83

In May 1981, NBC picked up SCTV in a 90-minute format as a presumably inexpensive replacement for the canceled weekly Friday late-night musical variety show The Midnight Special, enabling the Canadian sketch comedy show to air nationally in the United States. This occurred mainly because NBC had practically no time to prepare and develop a new American-produced program in the light of Midnight Special producer Dick Ebersol's emergency return to Saturday Night Live, which he had co-created with Lorne Michaels in 1975 and was now returning to in an effort to save it from cancellation. SCTV functioned as a solution to a scheduling bind for NBC, but was a temporary two-year fix.

Less than two months after season three ended, SCTV was back on the air for season four, airing on NBC first as SCTV Network 90, then simply as SCTV Network, late Friday nights (early Saturday mornings) at 12:30 a.m./11:30 p.m. Central. For this iteration, Rosato and Duke dropped out (ending up as cast members of SNL during its rebuilding years following Jean Doumanian's stint as producer [see above]), and Candy and O'Hara returned. Because of the rush to generate material for the 90-minute format, several early season-four episodes consisted partially or entirely of sketches broadcast during seasons one to three. Ramis, Duke, and Rosato appeared in many of these sketches, uncredited and usually as extras or bit players (sketches in which they played a focal character were not featured in these repeats).

Season four (25 episodes) was broadcast irregularly from May 1981 to July 1982. Beginning in January 1982, ending the year-and-a-half stay in Edmonton, production of the series returned to Toronto where it would stay for the remainder of its run.

Writer/performer Martin Short joined the cast at the end of season four, taping three episodes before O'Hara, Thomas, and Moranis left; one of those episodes was aired as the season-four finale in July 1982; the other two were held for the start of season five (14 episodes), which began in October 1982. For the remaining 12 episodes of season five, the cast of Candy, Flaherty, Levy, Martin, and Short was augmented by supporting players John Hemphill, Ron James and Mary Charlotte Wilcox, none of whom became an official cast member. Also, during season five, Ramis and O'Hara returned for one episode each as guest stars.

The last original SCTV episode for NBC was broadcast in March 1983, with reruns continuing through June. For both seasons four and five, the show continued to air on the CBC in Canada as only an hour in length, edited down from the 90-minute NBC broadcasts.

The 90-minute NBC episodes were released in a series of DVD sets in 2004 and 2005, and selected sketches are also available in 90-minute collections.

Season 6: 1983–84

In the fall of 1983, NBC wanted the late Friday-night time slot for the new Friday Night Videos; SCTV, despite its unexpected popularity among younger American audiences, was not a high priority with the network and essentially acted as a placeholder for two years while NBC reevaluated its late-night programming strategies. SCTV was offered a slot on early Sunday evenings by NBC (presumably 7 p.m./6 Central), but because the producers would have had to alter the show's content to appeal to "family" audiences (per a 1975 amendment to the Prime Time Access Rule), as well as face CBS's dominant 60 Minutes (against which several NBC shows had failed since the 1981 cancellation of The Wonderful World of Disney), they declined.

Instead, for its final season, the show moved to the premium cable channels Superchannel in Canada and Cinemax in the United States, changing the name slightly to SCTV Channel. The running time was now 45 minutes, and new episodes (18 in total) were seen on alternating weeks from November 1983 to July 1984. For this final season, the cast consisted solely of Flaherty, Levy, Martin, and Short, although Candy, Thomas, and O'Hara all made guest appearances. Writer/performers Hemphill and Wilcox once again appeared semi-regularly.

After the show went out of production, several SCTV characters continued to make appearances on Cinemax, with Flaherty reprising his roles as Count Floyd and Guy Caballero during free preview weekends in 1987 and 1988, and Bobby Bittman appearing in a standalone special chronicling his life and career under the Cinemax Comedy Experiment banner. Short, meanwhile, carried the Ed Grimley persona over to Saturday Night Live for its 11th season and later incorporated it into an animated series, The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley, which also included Count Floyd.

The Best of SCTV 1988

On September 21, 1988, ABC aired a one-time special called The Best of SCTV. In the special, Flaherty and Martin returned as Caballero and Prickley. The two presented a look back at SCTV (using flashbacks) as they tried to convince the FCC to renew their license. A slightly different version aired in Canada, wherein the pair make their arguments to the CRTC; this necessitated a few changes to certain lines of dialogue and on-screen text, but the show content was otherwise identical. This special was ordered during the 1988 Writers Guild of America strike and was not repeated.

Packaging into different lengths

The earliest three seasons, in Canada, were 30 minutes. NBC broadcast two seasons of 90-minute programs, including at the beginning material from the Canadian seasons. Some of these 90-minute shows were abbreviated to 60 minutes for the Canadian market. After the end of the NBC seasons, the material was repackaged into 30-minute shows.

Reception

SCTV received mostly positive reviews. Following the first episode, Margaret Daly of the Toronto Star wrote, "Global TV may have just pulled off the comedy coup of this season ... the concept is as clever as the loony company members." During its first season, Dennis Braithwaite of the Star wrote that SCTV was "delightfully funny and inventive" and "the best satire seen regularly on North American television. No, I haven't forgotten NBC's Saturday Night." After it premiered on network TV in the US, Newsday's Marvin Kitman wrote, "The premiere episode was quite simply the most superb half hour comedy…in a long time." "SCTV is witty, grown-up, inventive and uproariously funny," Gary Deeb wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times.

SCTV is far from perfect—there are too many meandering remarks addressed directly to the camera, and the musical interludes tend to turn mossy—but it's the only entertainment show on TV that matters, that goes beyond comedy to create a loopily affectionate world of its own.

—James Wolcott, January 10, 1983

Awards

During its network run on NBC, the show garnered 15 Emmy nominations (often with multiple episodes competing against each other).

In 1982, the episode "Moral Majority" won an Emmy Award for Writing for a Variety or Music Program. During Joe Flaherty's acceptance speech, award presenter Milton Berle repeatedly interrupted with sarcastic retorts of "That's funny". Flaherty then turned to Berle and said, "Sorry, Uncle Miltie...go to sleep" (a parody of Berle's famous closing line to children at the end of his Texaco Star Theater programs, "Listen to your Uncle Miltie and go to bed"). A flustered Berle simply replied, "What?" The incident became comedy fodder for SCTV, as the next season contained a bit where Flaherty beats up a Berle lookalike while shouting, "You'll never ruin another acceptance speech, Uncle Miltie!"

In 1983, the episode "Sweeps Week" won the award again.

In 2002, SCTV was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.

Features

SCTV parody shows include a parody of the Western drama The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, retitled Grizzly Abrams, which depicts Adams as the owner of a wild tortoise that takes weeks to lead police to the skeletal remains of its master, trapped beneath a fallen log.

Battle of the PBS Stars is a parody of ABC television's Battle of the Network Stars athletic competitions that pitted performers against each other in running and swimming events. SCTV's version features a team of public television stars captained by William F. Buckley Jr. (played by Flaherty) vs. a team led by Carl Sagan (played by Thomas), with confrontations that include Fred Rogers of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood fame (played by Short) in a boxing match with chef Julia Child (played by Candy).

The People's Global Golden Choice Awards sends up award shows in which the industry honours itself. Presenters include Elizabeth Taylor (played by O'Hara) and Jack Klugman (Flaherty) reading off the nominees in each category, with SCTV chief Guy Caballero secretly having conspired to guarantee that every award goes to his own network's stars.

SCTV's sketches also involve parodies of low-budget late-night advertisements, such as "Al Peck's Used Fruit" (enticing viewers to visit by offering free tickets to Circus Lupus, the Circus of the Wolves; mocked-up photos depict wolves forming a pyramid and jumping through flaming hoops). They also created faux-inept ads for local businesses such as "Phil's Nails", "Chet Vet the Dead Pet Remover", and "Tex and Edna Boil's Prairie Warehouse and Curio Emporium."

The laugh track used in early episodes was recorded using audience reactions during live performances in the Second City theatre.

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