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Second City Television, commonly shortened to SCTV and later known as SCTV Network and SCTV Channel, is a Canadian television sketch comedy show that ran intermittently between 1976 and 1984. It was created as an offshoot from Toronto's Second City troupe.
- Sketch Comedy
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SCTV Network: Created by Andrew Alexander. With John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin. Comedy parody about TV.
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- 1981-05-15
- Comedy
- 90
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- SCTV HAD FIVE DIFFERENT OFFICIAL TITLES, NONE OF WHICH WERE SCTV. For the first two seasons, the half hour show was Second City Television. For season three it became SCTV Television Network.
- THE TOTAL BUDGET FOR THE FIRST SEVEN EPISODES WAS $35,000. Working with the then-regional Canadian network Global, the show only had $5,000 to produce each of the first 30-minute episodes, which were aired one month at a time.
- NOT EVERYBODY ON THE SHOW WAS CANADIAN. Even though all but one member of the original cast came from the Second City improvisational group in Toronto, there were some comedians from the States.
- ONE SEASON WAS TAPED IN EDMONTON, AND EUGENE LEVY WASN’T HAPPY ABOUT IT. After two seasons of shooting in Toronto, SCTV was off the air for one year and struggled to find funding or a willing network to keep it going.
The following is a list of episodes for the television series Second City Television (SCTV).
No. In SeriesNo. In SeasonTitleOriginal Air Date11BackstageSeptember 21, 197622Murder at SCTVOctober 21, 197633Ethnic HumourNovember 18, 197644CrosswordsDecember 16, 1976May 11, 2021 · Forty years ago this month in May of 1981, NBC launched the re-branded SCTV Network 90. Though it wasn’t as popular as SNL , SCTV still became a hip, cult favorite. Established characters like Bob and Doug McKenzie became well-known in the States, and the show got positive reviews.
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