SCTV: Season 1 - The Syndicated Series

SCTV: Season 1 [Syndicated Series] SCTV now begins its programming day. Yes, it's SCTV, beaming its two cents worth across the nation. Starring Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin and Martin Short. Television as you've never seen it before. This is SCTV! Narrator - staff announcer Welcome to the SCTV on Blu-ray and DVD Campaign. Your help is needed if a complete release of SCTV on DVD and Blu-ray is ever going to happen. Also, if you have not done so already, head over to change.org and sign the Shout! Factory: Please release SCTV on DVD and Blu-ray Petition. There has been a good start, but there is a long way to go. Your support is appreciated. As fans of the Legendary Comedy series SCTV, we would like to see the entire series released on Blu-ray and DVD complete and uncut (as much as possible). We are concerned that SCTV will be forgotten and the series will disappear. SCTV is a Comedy Classic that needs to be preserved. At this time, only seasons 4 and 5 and a best-of set for seasons 1 to 3 are available . Season 6 also is not available. We need your signatures to get the rest of the series released. Please take part in this campaign. Please contact Shout! Factory and ask kindly for them to release all six season of SCTV on Blu-ray and DVD. Please be a part of this important campaign for a Canadian Comedy Classic! 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. It is an example of a Canadian show that moved successfully to American TV, where it aired for three years on two different networks. 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 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. 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 Mrs. 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.

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