SCTV Network 90

After a successful Canadian run as Second City TV on Global and SCTV on CBC, the cast packed up and moved to America (theoretically) when NBC offered them a timeslot under the title SCTV Network 90. With them, they brought their unique, quirky characters, their personalities, and the shows they had appeared on. Dick Blasucci had begun writing for the cast in their second series, SCTV, and joined them here, serving as a recurring straight man for the characters. Tony Rosato and Robin Duke wrote scripts at the beginning of the show as they had before, until quickly leaving to write and perform for Saturday Night Live. The appeal of SCTV Network 90, however, doesn't only come from the writing, but from the sheer wit of its legendary stars.

Type: tv

Season: 1

Episode: 1

Duration: 1h 30m

Release: 1981

Rating: 7.2

Season 1 - SCTV Network 90
1981-05-15
"1. Message from Guy: Catch Our Stars\n\n2. High Q\n\n3. The Merv Griffin Show: Arafat, Liberace, Ferigno\n\n4. English for Beginners\n\n5. Dr. Benson Credit Psychiatrist\n\n6. Message from Prickley: The New Season\n\n7. Leave It to Beaver 25th Anniversary Party\n\n8. Great White North: The Best Groups and Doug's Imitations\n\n9. Dan Money\n\n10. One On the Town: Levon Helm\n\n11. Message from Hal Waxberg: Behind the Scenes\n\n12. The $Millionaire\n\n13. 20 Depressing Hits by Connie Franklin\n\n14. Message from Guy: Consultant\n\n15. Commercial: Half Legs\n\n16. Masterpiece Theatre: All the Long-Leggedy Beasties\n\n17. Spray-On Socks\n\n18. Play It Again, Bob"
1981-05-22
"1. 5 Neat Guys: Neatest Hits\n\n2. Tim Ishimuni Show\n\n3. Kwallada\n\n4. Message from Prickley: Polynesiantown\n\n5. SCTV Movie Of the Week: Polynesiantown\n\n6. Larry Siegel Talk Show\n\n7. Indira, live at the Ackron Arena\n\n8. Great White North: Traveling and Salaries\n\n9. Brenda Vaccaro for Bren's Genfem Protecteze Pons\n\n10. Sammy Maudlin Show: Drugs and Hollywood\n\n11. The Rosemans\n\n12. Yuri: Getting to Know You\n\n13. Will: The Movie\n\n14. SCTV British Film Festival: Look Back in a Bloody Rage\n\n15. Gerry Todd Show\n\n16. Crazy Hy's: TVs\n\n17. Incredible Cash Contest\n\n18. Crazy Hy's: Satellite Dishes"
1981-05-29
"1. Sunrise Semester: Conversational New Yorkese with Norman Gorman\n\n2. Lola Heatherton In Concert\n\n3. Yellowbelly\n\n4. Speaking of Talk with Lou Jaffe\n\n5. Message from Guy: Illegal Aliens\n\n6. Melvin and Howard\n\n7. Sneak Previews: Empires are a Girl's Best Friend\n\n8. The Point Shave and Haircut from Shickette\n\n9. Dick Cavett\n\n10. The Fracases: Southside Fracas\n\n11. Only for Women: Divorce\n\n12. Great White North: Making Doug Go\n\n13. The Babe Ruth Story\n\n14. Sid Dithers Private Eye\n\n15. Monster Chiller Horror Theatre: Whispers of the Wolf"
1981-06-19
"1. Comment with David Brinkley: Quality Smoke\n\n2. Cooking with Prickley\n\n3. Tex and Edna Boil's Organ Emporium: Rhythm Ace\n\n4. Career Home Study\n\n5. Mr. Science: Coffee\n\n6. Sammy Maudlin Show: Bob Hope in China\n\n7. Taxi Driver with Woody Allen\n\n8. Transmission Difficulty \/ Program Change\n\n9. What's My Shoesize?\n\n10. Great White North: Parking at Donut Places\n\n11. Taxi Driver with Gregory Peck\n\n12. Lee A. Iacocca's Rock Concert\n\n13. Extreme Close-Up with Dave Thomas\n\n14. The Man Who Would Be King of the Popes\n\n15. Taxi Driver with Sid Dithers\n\n16. The Love Boat: Deerhunter Special\n\n17. Chet Vet, the Dead Pet Remover\n\n18. My Fair Lady\n\n19. Harlett Romances\n\n20. Mel's Rock Pile: Richard Harris\n\n21. Shock Theatre: Early to Bed"
1981-07-03
"1. Tomorrow, Tonight, Today\n\n2. Fillips Milk of Amnesia\n\n3. LaRue Wrap\n\n4. Sunrise Semester: Man's Ability to Imitate with Mr. Wilcox\n\n5. My Life \u2013 One More Time\n\n6. SCTV Special Report: The Space Shuttle\n\n7. Phil\u2019s Nails\n\n8. Great White North: Backbacon and Snow Chains\n\n9. Bad Acting in Hollywood with Tom Boslee\n\n10. Biller Hi-Lite\n\n11. Long Distance\n\n12. Lunch Time Street Beef\n\n13. SCTV Movie of the Week: The Grapes of Mud\n\n14. Words to Live By: Rabbi Karlov\n\n15. Sunrise Semester: Faking Orgasms with Dr. Cheryl Kinsey"
1981-07-10
"1. Sunrise Semester: Post Natal Exercises\n\n2. Poochare Dog Food\n\n3. Sunbright\n\n4. Message from Guy: Sponsors\n\n5. Moral Majority Wrap\n\n6. The Merv Griffin Show: Return to Mayberry\n\n7. Critics Corner with Bill Needle: The Moral Majority\n\n8. Mrs. Falbo's Tiny Town: Counting to 10\n\n9. National Midnight Star\n\n10. The Brooke Shields Show\n\n11. Doorway to Hell: The Man Who Lived in a Box\n\n12. Monster Chiller Horror Theatre: Dr. Tongue's 3D House of Stewardesses\n\n13. Great White North: Stuff that Bugs Us\n\n14. Message from Guy: Pressure Groups\n\n15. Harry's Discount Sex Shop\n\n16. Floyd Robertson for Rolling Hills\n\n17. SCTV News: Floyd's Rehab\n\n18. The Gerry Todd Show\n\n19. Crazy Hy\u2019s: Home Studio\n\n20. Carpets Galore"
1981-07-17
"1. Pledge Week\n\n2. Dr. Shekter\n\n3. Farm Film Report\n\n4. Kovak Expert\n\n5. Studio Tour\n\n6. Mel\u2019s Rock Pile: 20th Anniversary Special with Roy Orbison\n\n7. Tracking the Unknown with Edith Prickley\n\n8. Critic's Corner with Bill Needle: RCA Editorial\n\n9. Roy Orbison: Workin' for the Man\n\n10. Fireside Chat: Gun Control\n\n11. Pit Stop Deodorant\n\n12. Great White North: Calculators\n\n13. Hugh Betcha's Short Story Playhouse: The Private Booth\n\n14. O'Henry's Life: The Private Booth"
1981-07-24
"1. Gene Shalit Critic\u2019s Special\n\n2. Wrong Side of the Bed with Bill Needle\n\n3. John McEnroe for Coffee\n\n4. Lola Wrap\n\n5. Jake Lamotta\u2019s Raging Bull-B-Q\n\n6. The Fishin\u2019 Musician: The Tubes\n\n7. K-Tel Product Crusher\n\n8. SCTV News: Lola Obituary\n\n9. You: Dr. Saul Reuben\n\n10. Bouncin\u2019 Back to You\n\n11. SCTV Movie Of the Week: The Nobel"
1981-07-31
"1. Max Lax Coffee Laxative\n\n2. Bob and Doug Wrap\n\n3. Harry Filth\n\n4. Money Talks with Brian Johns: William Douglas\n\n5. The Johnny La Rue Exercise Show\n\n6. Shakespeare in the Park\n\n7. The Heys of Our Lives\n\n8. SCTV Afternoon Movie: Fantasy Island\n\n9. Anne Murray Super Special\n\n10. PSA: Mental Illness\n\n11. David Susskind Show\n\n12. LaRue Tachi Portable Quadraphonic System\n\n13. Great White North: Ian Thomas\n\n14. Signoff: The National Anthem"
1981-10-16
"SCTV's regular programming is interrupted by a Soviet satellite."
1981-10-23
"Libby Wolfson prepares for her new play."
1981-10-30
"The SCTV cast and crew falls victim to alien mind control."
1981-11-20
"Guy runs out of ideas and takes suggestions from the crew."
1981-12-11
"A war erupts between the Five Networks when \"Don Caballero\" refuses to back a pay TV channel."
1981-12-18
"Johnny is forced to tape \"Street Beef\" outside on Christmas Eve."
1982-02-12
"Ricardo Montalban is featured in a \"To Sir, With Love\" parody."
1982-02-19
"Gerry Todd hosts a concert special consisting entirely of videos."
1982-04-16
"Everyone is jealous of the attention Guy is paying to Bob and Doug--including giving them their own special."
1982-04-23
"The kids of Pre-Teen World hold a telethon after their funding is cut."
1982-05-01
"When SCTV wins a suspicious number of awards, Bob Hope notifies the FBI."
1982-05-14
"Count Floyd takes us behind the scenes of the latest Coppola and Dr. Tongue production."
1982-05-21
"Hollywood stars reveal what bugs them; Stan and Yosh Schmenge welcome back a former Happy Wanderer."
1982-06-05
"Hall and Oates star in Bobby Bittman's latest film."
1982-07-16
"Carl Sagan's team takes on William F. Buckley's."
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