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Second City Television - Wikipedia. SCTV (Second City Television) is a Canadian television sketch comedy show offshoot from Toronto's Second City troupe that ran between 1. Premise. The location of Melonville was left unspecified; the very earliest episodes implied it was somewhere in Canada, though most later episodes placed it in the US. A typical episode of SCTV presented a compendium of programming seen on the station throughout its broadcast day. A given episode could contain everything from SCTV news broadcasts to sitcoms, dramas, movies, talk shows, kid shows, parodic commercials for non- existent products, and/or game shows. Many other SCTV shows were seen only once, such as game shows like . Episodes would also feature a range of SCTV- produced promos (for imaginary future shows) and commercials, such as spots for .
These often featured Guy Caballero (Joe Flaherty), the cheap, tyrannical owner and president of SCTV, who, despite being perfectly ambulatory, was seated in a wheelchair to earn . Also seen regularly were weaselly, sweating station manager Maurice . Edith Prickley (Andrea Martin); vain variety star Johnny La. Rue (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 Mc. Kenzie (Moranis and Thomas), and many others.
The small cast, typically six to eight members at any given time, played a wide variety of other station roles ranging from program hosts to commercial spokespersons. They also impersonated numerous popular celebrities appearing on the station's programming. SCTV was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 2. History. The show itself bears no .
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 vets Harold Ramis, Sheldon Patinkin, and Del Close, along with business partner Bernard Sahlins. According to Dave Thomas' account in SCTV: Behind The Scenes, various ideas were batted around, then. 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 producers Alexander and Sahlins. Alexander remained as producer/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 & 2: 1. For the first six episodes, new episodes were seen once a month. For the next seven episodes (beginning in February 1. In September 1. 97. Global ordered 1.
September through December. These irregularly scheduled 2. All of the original cast (except Harold Ramis) were from the Toronto branch of The Second City theatre improv troupe, and many had previously worked together on The David Steinberg Show.
Ramis was a Second City vet, 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 earliest 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).
For the second season (1. After episode 3 of the second season, Ramis was no longer in the cast but continued to receive credit as the show's head writer until towards the end of the season.
Season 3: 1. 98. 0- 8. Added to the cast (and writing room) were Tony Rosato, Robin Duke, and Rick Moranis.
Moranis, a friend of Dave Thomas and primarily known as a radio personality in Canada, would be the only cast member not to have come from the ranks of Second City. This season of the show was seen in Canada on the CBC, and in scattered markets in the US in syndication.
Seasons 4 & 5: 1. Less than two months after Season 3 ended, SCTV was back on the air for Season 4, airing first as SCTV Network 9. SCTV Network, late Friday nights.
For this iteration, Rosato and Duke dropped out (ending up as cast members of Saturday Night Live during its rebuilding years following Jean Doumanian's disastrous stint as showrunner), and Candy and O'Hara returned. Because of the rush to generate material for this new 9.
Season 4 episodes were partially or even entirely made up of repeats of previously broadcast sketches from Seasons 1 to 3. Rosato, Duke and Ramis are often featured in these repeat sketches, uncredited. Season 4 (2. 5 episodes) ran on an irregular basis from May 1. July 1. 98. 2. Beginning in January 1.
Toronto, where it would stay for the remainder of its run. Writer/performer Martin Short was added to the cast at the end of Season 4, filming three episodes before O'Hara, Thomas and Moranis left. One of those episodes was aired as the Season 4 finale in July 1.
Season 5 (1. 4 episodes), which began in October 1. For the remaining 1. Season 5, the cast of Candy, Flaherty, Levy, Martin, and Short were augmented by supporting players John Hemphill and Mary- Charlotte Wilcox, neither of whom were official cast members.
Also, in Season 5, Ramis and O'Hara each returned for one episode apiece as guest stars. The last new SCTV episode for NBC was seen in March 1. For both Seasons 4 and 5, the show continued to air on the CBC in Canada as a full hour, edited down from the NBC shows. Season 6: 1. 98. 3- 8. SCTV was offered a slot on early Sunday evenings by NBC, but because they would have had to alter the show's content to appeal to . The running time was now 4. November 1. 98. 3 to July 1.
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. The Best of SCTV 1.
In the special Joe Flaherty and Andrea Martin returned as Guy and Edith, respectively. The two did a look back at SCTV (using flashbacks) as they tried to convince the FCC to renew their license. A slightly different version was aired in Canada, wherein Guy and Edith were making 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 amidst the 1. Writers Guild of America strike. Repackaging into 3. Minute Episodes. After production of the show had ceased, in order to facilitate syndication sales, episodes from the show were repackaged into 3.
SCTV Network title. They appeared on a variety of U. S. For its very first episode, Margaret Daly of the Toronto Star claimed that . No, I haven't forgotten NBC's Saturday Night.
SCTV won a 1. 98. Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety or Music Program. During Joe Flaherty's acceptance speech, award presenter Milton Berle repeatedly interrupted with sarcastic retorts of . Flaherty then turned to Berle and said, . Berle could only reply with, . However, especially after expanding to a ninety- minute format, SCTV quickly pushed the envelope on television sketch comedy.
While showing some influence from Monty Python's Flying Circus and Saturday Night Live, SCTV eschewed both the live television format and even filming before a live studio audience. This was mostly to save money, but it also allowed more attention and care to be taken in building a premise and supporting it. Having a moderately low budget and limited resources, SCTV got a reputation for making the most out of what it had, reusing sets and particularly taking advantage of expert makeup and hairstyling. With the luxury of being able to take long periods of time in the makeup chair, elaborate characters could be built. Not being bound by expensive and elaborate prosthetics, cast members and makeup artists worked together to create their characters, referring to the process in interviews as . One technique they used was to build premises into . Another was to take longer pieces that failed and cut them into promos or trailers.
These short elements wound up being the equivalent of . However, the internal logic of the series. SCTV's techniques helped inform and influence later shows, with clear influence on The State, the Upright Citizen's Brigade, The Kids in the Hall and Tim And Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Later shows built a tight theme, sometimes acting as a metaparody. Parodies of Canadian television ensued, such as Hinterland Who's Who, Front Page Challenge, and It's a Fact, as well as promos for Monday Night Curling, hosted by two orange- jacketed sportscasters who were both named Gord, and Magnum, P.
E. I., with John Candy as a private detective chasing his quarry through the scenic potato patches of Prince Edward Island. The feature film for the night was Garth and Gord and Fiona and Alice, a parody of Goin' Down the Road about two men from the Maritimes looking for . Meanwhile, in behind- the- scenes labour negotiations, Eugene Levy's Sid Dithers played the union president, barely able to see over the conference table as he detailed the progress of the strike- talks (? Ye can't even blow on your shoop! TV critic James Wolcott once referred to SCTV as . In the DVD commentary for .
The Eighteenth Amendment. Matt Groening goes on to say that he was specifically inspired by the town of Melonville, its own little universe with many recurring characters, and that that was the type of universe he wanted for The Simpsons. Both Dave Thomas and Andrea Martin have guest starred on The Simpsons.
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