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.
Season 1 - SCTV Network 90
1981-05-15
1. Message from Guy: Catch Our Stars
2. High Q
3. The Merv Griffin Show: Arafat, Liberace, Ferigno
4. English for Beginners
5. Dr. Benson Credit Psychiatrist
6. Message from Prickley: The New Season
7. Leave It to Beaver 25th Anniversary Party
8. Great White North: The Best Groups and Doug's Imitations
9. Dan Money
10. One On the Town: Levon Helm
11. Message from Hal Waxberg: Behind the Scenes
12. The $Millionaire
13. 20 Depressing Hits by Connie Franklin
14. Message from Guy: Consultant
15. Commercial: Half Legs
16. Masterpiece Theatre: All the Long-Leggedy Beasties
17. Spray-On Socks
18. Play It Again, Bob
1981-05-22
1. 5 Neat Guys: Neatest Hits
2. Tim Ishimuni Show
3. Kwallada
4. Message from Prickley: Polynesiantown
5. SCTV Movie Of the Week: Polynesiantown
6. Larry Siegel Talk Show
7. Indira, live at the Ackron Arena
8. Great White North: Traveling and Salaries
9. Brenda Vaccaro for Bren's Genfem Protecteze Pons
10. Sammy Maudlin Show: Drugs and Hollywood
11. The Rosemans
12. Yuri: Getting to Know You
13. Will: The Movie
14. SCTV British Film Festival: Look Back in a Bloody Rage
15. Gerry Todd Show
16. Crazy Hy's: TVs
17. Incredible Cash Contest
18. Crazy Hy's: Satellite Dishes
1981-05-29
1. Sunrise Semester: Conversational New Yorkese with Norman Gorman
2. Lola Heatherton In Concert
3. Yellowbelly
4. Speaking of Talk with Lou Jaffe
5. Message from Guy: Illegal Aliens
6. Melvin and Howard
7. Sneak Previews: Empires are a Girl's Best Friend
8. The Point Shave and Haircut from Shickette
9. Dick Cavett
10. The Fracases: Southside Fracas
11. Only for Women: Divorce
12. Great White North: Making Doug Go
13. The Babe Ruth Story
14. Sid Dithers Private Eye
15. Monster Chiller Horror Theatre: Whispers of the Wolf
1981-06-19
1. Comment with David Brinkley: Quality Smoke
2. Cooking with Prickley
3. Tex and Edna Boil's Organ Emporium: Rhythm Ace
4. Career Home Study
5. Mr. Science: Coffee
6. Sammy Maudlin Show: Bob Hope in China
7. Taxi Driver with Woody Allen
8. Transmission Difficulty / Program Change
9. What's My Shoesize?
10. Great White North: Parking at Donut Places
11. Taxi Driver with Gregory Peck
12. Lee A. Iacocca's Rock Concert
13. Extreme Close-Up with Dave Thomas
14. The Man Who Would Be King of the Popes
15. Taxi Driver with Sid Dithers
16. The Love Boat: Deerhunter Special
17. Chet Vet, the Dead Pet Remover
18. My Fair Lady
19. Harlett Romances
20. Mel's Rock Pile: Richard Harris
21. Shock Theatre: Early to Bed
1981-07-03
1. Tomorrow, Tonight, Today
2. Fillips Milk of Amnesia
3. LaRue Wrap
4. Sunrise Semester: Man's Ability to Imitate with Mr. Wilcox
5. My Life – One More Time
6. SCTV Special Report: The Space Shuttle
7. Phil’s Nails
8. Great White North: Backbacon and Snow Chains
9. Bad Acting in Hollywood with Tom Boslee
10. Biller Hi-Lite
11. Long Distance
12. Lunch Time Street Beef
13. SCTV Movie of the Week: The Grapes of Mud
14. Words to Live By: Rabbi Karlov
15. Sunrise Semester: Faking Orgasms with Dr. Cheryl Kinsey
1981-07-10
1. Sunrise Semester: Post Natal Exercises
2. Poochare Dog Food
3. Sunbright
4. Message from Guy: Sponsors
5. Moral Majority Wrap
6. The Merv Griffin Show: Return to Mayberry
7. Critics Corner with Bill Needle: The Moral Majority
8. Mrs. Falbo's Tiny Town: Counting to 10
9. National Midnight Star
10. The Brooke Shields Show
11. Doorway to Hell: The Man Who Lived in a Box
12. Monster Chiller Horror Theatre: Dr. Tongue's 3D House of Stewardesses
13. Great White North: Stuff that Bugs Us
14. Message from Guy: Pressure Groups
15. Harry's Discount Sex Shop
16. Floyd Robertson for Rolling Hills
17. SCTV News: Floyd's Rehab
18. The Gerry Todd Show
19. Crazy Hy’s: Home Studio
20. Carpets Galore
1981-07-17
1. Pledge Week
2. Dr. Shekter
3. Farm Film Report
4. Kovak Expert
5. Studio Tour
6. Mel’s Rock Pile: 20th Anniversary Special with Roy Orbison
7. Tracking the Unknown with Edith Prickley
8. Critic's Corner with Bill Needle: RCA Editorial
9. Roy Orbison: Workin' for the Man
10. Fireside Chat: Gun Control
11. Pit Stop Deodorant
12. Great White North: Calculators
13. Hugh Betcha's Short Story Playhouse: The Private Booth
14. O'Henry's Life: The Private Booth
1981-07-24
1. Gene Shalit Critic’s Special
2. Wrong Side of the Bed with Bill Needle
3. John McEnroe for Coffee
4. Lola Wrap
5. Jake Lamotta’s Raging Bull-B-Q
6. The Fishin’ Musician: The Tubes
7. K-Tel Product Crusher
8. SCTV News: Lola Obituary
9. You: Dr. Saul Reuben
10. Bouncin’ Back to You
11. SCTV Movie Of the Week: The Nobel
1981-07-31
1. Max Lax Coffee Laxative
2. Bob and Doug Wrap
3. Harry Filth
4. Money Talks with Brian Johns: William Douglas
5. The Johnny La Rue Exercise Show
6. Shakespeare in the Park
7. The Heys of Our Lives
8. SCTV Afternoon Movie: Fantasy Island
9. Anne Murray Super Special
10. PSA: Mental Illness
11. David Susskind Show
12. LaRue Tachi Portable Quadraphonic System
13. Great White North: Ian Thomas
14. Signoff: The National Anthem
Season 2 - SCTV Network 90
1981-10-16
1. Perry Como Still Alive
2. Tammy Bakker for Mayberline Mascara
3. Benny Hill Street Blues
4. Great White North: Economics
5. Way to Go, Woman: Mother Theresa
6. Julius Caesar
7. Today is Moscow
8. Russian Wrap
9. Uposcrabblenyk
10. What Fits into Russia
11. PSA: Uzbecks
12. SCTV Movie Of the Week: The Jazz Singer with Al Jarreau
13. The Cruisin’ Gormet
14. Hey, Giorgy
15. Strelnokoff Vodka
16. Tibor’s Tractor
17. Wet Nurse
18. Eskimo Arts - Two Folon Sale
1981-10-23
1. Ricardo Montalban School of Fine Acting
2. Sunrise Semester: Ventriloquism with Mr. Wilcox
3. Night School High Q
4. Perma-Lacque Hair Spray
5. Great White North: Mouse in a Bottle
6. You: I'm Taking My Own Head...
7. Video Dinners from Videotech
8. Critic's Corner with Bill Needle: Theatre Beat
9. The Fishin' Musician: The Plasmatics
10. Send $10.00 to BOX 1980
11. Theatre Beat with Bill Needle: I'm Taking My Own Head
12. You: Dr. Bernard Coddle
13. Dusty Towne at Lucifer's Arena
14. My Bloody Hand
15. Cow Malt Liquor
16. SCTV Movie of the Week: Power Play
1981-10-30
1. PSA: American Orthodontal Group - Dental Floss
2. Mrs. Falbo's Tiny Town: G. Gordon Liddy
3. Zontar Wrap
4. Great White North: Short Cuts
5. George Carlin’s Reel Love
6. The D'Annamora Prison Choir - For Lifers Only
7. Farm Film Report: Meryl Streep
8. Don Rickles' Love Is the Greatest Gift God Gave Us....And I Mean that Sincerely
9. SCTV Evening News: Zontar
10. Ted Gordon, Overbooked Attorney
11. The Sammy Maudlin Show: Natalie Cole
12. Tex and Edna Boil's Prairie Warehouse and Curio Emporium
13. Poochare Dog Food
14. Money Talks with Brian Johns: Henna Claire Graham
15. Henry Moore for American Express
16. Dr. Schekter
1981-11-06
1. 5 Neat Guys Gold
2. Emergency Caterers
3. Walter Cronkite's Brain
4. Tylenex with Perini Scleroso
5. Monster Chiller Horror Theatre: Slinky...Toy from Hell
6. Small Town Dick
7. SCTV Movie of the Week: Gangway for Miracles
8. Great White North: Carpets
9. The Merv Griffin Show: The 60's
10. The Pepsi Challenge with Perini Scleroso
11. Pre-Teen World: Rough Trade
12. Carl's Cuts: Head Cheese
13. Slappy 2000 Home Comedy Center
14. Steeplechase
15. Shine Liquid Detergent with Perini Scleroso
16. Sunrise Semester: Screen Acting V with Dr. Tongue and Woody Tobias, Jr.
17. Videodating
1981-11-20
1. Double Love
2. Great White North: Microwave Ovens
3. SCTV After School Special: Pepi Longsocks
4. Harry's Discount Sex Shop: Harry's Library of Distinction
5. The Sammy Maudlin Show: Bobby and Skip Bittman
6. SCTV Movie of the Week: New York Rhapsody
7. Al Peck's Sanitone Drycleaning
8. Doorway to Hell
9. Hollywood Squares Home Game
10. Message from Guy: Suggestions
11. The Nana Mouskouri Story
12. Fireside Chat: Police Blotter
13. Half Legs
1981-12-11
1. Katharine Hepburn for Twillings Tea
2. The Godfather
3. Great White North: Long Underwear and Backbacon
4. SCTV Special Presentation: 3-D House of Beef
5. Birkney's Diamonds
6. SCTV Movie of the Week: The Vikings and the Beekeepers.
1981-12-18
1. Liberace's Musical Tribute to the Holidays
2. SCTV Staff Party
3. Great White North: Beer Nog
4. Fireside Chat: Christmas Message
5. The Sammy Maudlin Show: Neil Simon
6. Frank Incense
7. Neil Simon's Nutcracker Suite
8. Street Beef: Christmas
9. Dusty Towne Sexy Holiday Special
1982-02-12
1. Monster Chiller Horror Theatre: Dr. Tongue's Evil House of Pancakes
2. Give 'Em Hell, Bess
3. Farm Film Report: Brooke Shields and the Boomtown Rats
4. PSA: Video - Use It, Don't Abuse It
5. Great White North: The Great White North
6. Shoot for the Stars with Bill Needle
7. SCTV Movie of the Week: Teacher's Pet
8. SCTV Classics: Ben-Hur
9. Special Offer - Fur from Davy Crockett's Hat
10. The Lone Ranger Show
1982-02-19
1. Norman White and the White Scat Chorale
2. Comment with David Brinkley: Music Impersonators
3. Rent-A-Retort/Hire-A-Harpie
4. Sunrise Semester: Lake Monsters with Angus Crock
5. Midnight Video Special
6. All Girl Friday Night Pajama Party
7. K-I-L Ammo
8. Al’s Garage
9. One on the Town: Singles Bars
10. Fireside Chat: Special Announcement
11. Monster Chiller Horror Theatre: Blood-Sucking Monkeys
12. Great White North: The Space Arm/Snow Routes
13. SCTV Classics: Lust for Paint
14. Fish Police
15. Logos Galore
16. Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Season 3 - SCTV Network 90
1982-04-16
1. Message from Guy: Reruns
2. Indira, Live at the Ackron Arena
3. Angie Dickenson for Fancy-Free Undershields
4. Bob and Doug Wrap
5. Al Peck's Used Cars
6. The Days of the Week
7. Way to Go, Woman: Mother Theresa
8. Great White North Special
9. You: Fitness
10. Nightline Melonville: Unemployment
11. The Great White North Palace
12. Reverend Dan Ellsmire - Be My Friend
1982-04-23
1. Hands Off Remote Control Converter from Videotech
2. National Midnight Star
3. Pre-Teen World Telethon
4. Turk Gruman Police Dispatcher
5. SCTV Movie of the Week: Maudlin's Eleven
6. Prickley Heat
7. The Adventures of Shake 'n' Bake
8. Nightline Melonville: Kidnapping
9. Surgical Clinical Instruments
10. PSA: National Committee Against Noise Pollution
1982-05-01
1. People's Global Golden Choice Awards
2. Bob's Big Guy Restaurant
3. Convert-A-Toupe
4. The Merv Griffin Show: The Special Edition
5. Great White North: 15-pin Bowling
6. Tex and Edna Boil's Prairie Warehouse and Curio Emporium: Chuckie
7. The Fishin' Musician: Third World
1982-05-14
1. Message from Guy: The Days of the Week
2. Gene Shalit for Bufferil
3. House in a Box
4. The Days of the Week
5. Just for Fun: Copland, Friedan, Solzhenitzen
6. Dr. X: An Old Friend Returns
7. Tex and Edna Boil's Prairie Warehouse and Curio Emporium: Lawn Ornament Daze
8. The Making of 3D Stake from the Heart
9. Edna Boil's Prairie Warehouse and Curio Emporium: Western Clothing
10. Reverend Dan Ellsmire - Surprise Grab Bag
11. ? and Edna Boil's Prairie Warehouse and Curio Emporium: Auditions
12. The Irv Goldfarb Show
13. Bali Indonesian Cuisine Restaurant
14. The Irv Goldfarb Show
15. Edna Boil's Prairie Warehouse and Curio Emporium: Countess Boileena
16. Sunrise Semester: Conversational New Yorkese II with Norman Gorman
1982-05-21
1. Annie with The Original Cast
2. Stairways to Heaven
3. Donahue: Pornography
4. Pet Peeves of the Stars
5. The Days of the Week
6. The Happy Wanderers: Linsk Minyk
7. Shmenge Travel
8. The Happy Wanderers Looking Back on Shmenge Records
9. Second Nose Job
10. Nightline Melonville: Milk Slush Fund
11. Audiogames by Intellicoustic
12. The Fishin' Musician: Carl Perkins
13. K-I-L Ammo
14. Great White North: How to Beat the Russians
15. LaRue Fish Flakes and Frosted Fish Flakes
16. Stand Up and Be Counted with Bill Needle
1982-06-05
1. Commercial: Luciano Pavarotti for Edison Gum
2. The Sammy Maudlin Show: Chariots of Eggs
3. Johnny LaRue's Discount Deprive-O-Rama
4. SCTV News Special Report: NASA Production of Murder in the Cathedral
5. The Days of the Week
6. Ethel Merman Wake Up and Love Me
7. Great White North: Twist-off Beer Caps
8. Mr. Boom Microphone (from Ronco)
9. Mrs. Falbo's Tiny Town: Prison
10. Wheelbarrow World
11. Revenge
12. Carl's Cuts: Film Editing
13. Message from Guy: SCTV's Political Stance
1982-07-16
1. Long Distance
2. SCTV Sports: Battle of the PBS Stars
3. Wok on the Wild Side: The Case of the Stir-Fried Corpse
4. The Days of the Week
5. SCTV Movie of the Week: I Was a Teenage Communist
6. Harry's Discount Sex Shop: Businessman of the Year
7. Big Dude TV Dinner
8. Charlie's Kitchen
9. Mean Joe Greene Playhouse
10. Love Slaves of the Southwest
11. Comment with David Brinkley: Boredom
1982-10-15
1. "Mr. Know-It-All" The Life of Nostradamus - The Promo
2. Identical Bellhops
3. Money Talks with Brian Johns: Condominiums
4. Nightline Melonville: Margaret Thatcher and Tip O'Neill
5. Jerry Lewis Live on the Champs Elysees
6. Great White North: Dog Scoopers
7. The Days of the Week
8. International House of Panties
9. SCTV Foreign Film Festival: Rome, Italian Style
10. The Fishin' Musician: Jimmy Buffett
11. One-stop Lifestyle Services
12. Mouse House
13. Fireside Chat: Chipped Tooth
14. Norton Sheeff's The Making of: Dr. X
15. General Life's Insight
16. Sunrise Semester: Elementary Drawing 101 with Salvador Dali
1982-10-22
1. DiMaggio's on the Wharf
2. Street Beef Wrap
3. Norman Mailer for Tyde
4. Talking Projector Adventure Series
5. The Days of the Week episode 6: The Wedding
6. Street Beef: The Big O
7. Lipschitz & Lipschitz
8. TV Talk with Bill Needle
9. Carl's Cuts: Free Delivery
10. SCTV After School Special: How Nosy the Short-Haired Terrier Dog Got His Name
11. The Wall Street Journal
12. Finian's Rainbow Meats
Season 4 - SCTV Network 90
1982-11-05
With a garbage strike looming, Edith persuades Pierre Trudeau to let SCTV pick up the CBC feed. Meanwhile, Sammy Maudlin decides to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his show two years early.
1982-11-12
Fred Willard is involved in a scheme Guy Caballero has hatched, forcing the arrival of SCTV Chairman Alan ""Crazy Legs"" Shipman.
1982-11-19
The second election episode, as covered by SCTV News Election Central. Also features the Shmenge's tribute to John Williams and the very first Stars In One, hosted by Brock Linehan, Martin Short's superb impression of Canadian celebrity interviewer Brian Linehan.
1982-11-26
"Angel Cortez: FBI Jockey,"
Bobby Bittman PSA for the Public Library,
Gus the Security Guard makes everyone sign in,
John Houseman reads the phone book,
"Farm Film Report" with Deney Terrio,
The band America performs "Right Before Your Eyes,"
SCTV Movie of the Week: "The Bowery Boys In The Band,"
Dr. Rawl Withers introduces The National Midnight Star,
Harry the guy with a snake on his face sells descramblers.
A "reasonably faithful" spoof of Jane Eyre,
Reverend Gene Filler of the Church of Unlimited Credit,
"Monster Chiller Horror Theater" presents Dr. Tongue's 3-D House of Slave Chicks,
Curly Howard sings love themes,
Gus asks Edith Prickley out,
People's Court (joined in progress),
Rev. Gene Filler returns.
1982-12-10
The SCTV office moves into the tallest, thinnest building in Melonville, which turns into a spoof of 'The Towering Inferno' as Guy, Edith, and others are trapped in the 200-story tall building just as a fire breaks out and strands them on the uppers floors. Also, "Peter Pan" starring Divine and David Steinberg. Al Peck sells used fruit. "There's Justice For Everybody" starring Steve Roman. An ad for the Kid Sister Organization. "Monster Chiller Horror Theater." "One On the Town" looks at public transportation. When Wives Look Older Than Their Husbands: Farm Wives. "Let's Find Jerzy." Shakespeare for College Credit. The first "Melonville Calendar," and "Words to Live By" starring Mr. Mambo.
1982-12-17
Guy Caballero and Johnny LaRue come to blows over a meager Christmas bonus, resulting in a busted, drunken Johnny desperately tracking down Santa. Segments include Lola Heatherton's "Love Spirit" Christmas Special. Ed Grimley stars in "The Fella Who Couldn't Wait For Christmas." Rex and Edna Boil's Curio Emporium. Count Floyd's "Have Yourself a Scary Little Christmas." The lighting of the Melonville Christmas Tree. The Shmenge brothers explore Leutonian Christmas traditions. "Pre-Teen World Christmas Edition." Bobby Bittman and Jackie Rogers Jr. star in "Christmas - That's All." "You. with Libby Wolfson" looks at Chanukah.
Season 5 - SCTV Network 90
1983-01-28
"The Days of the Week" returns for another six-episode run with a few new characters. The debut of "Half Wits" and "Artisans and Their Art with Bradley P. Allen". A spoof of the 1976 film 'A Star is Born' starring Crystal Gayle as an up-and-coming singer named Esther Blodgett who deals with her alcoholic husband who is past his prime. Finally, Idella Voudry makes her first appearance on "Melonville Calendar."
1983-02-11
To encourage small business advertising, SCTV cuts its ad rates, resulting in a series of on-the-cheap ads for several micro-entrepreneurs. In the segment "Stars In One" profiles aging child star Rusty Van Reddick. Vic Hedges stars in "Vic Arpeggio, Private Investigator". Steve Roman plugs his Valentine's Day special. Also, a group of philosophers debate whether the animated cartoon 'The Flintstones' was a rip-off of the 1950s sitcom 'The Honeymooners'.
1983-02-18
After discovering that he's opening for Ben Vereen and not the other way around, Bobby Bittman retires from show business. Sammy Maudlin's ex-sidekick, William B. Williams, hosts his own talk show with Irving Cohen. Bernadette Peters gets blown up real good on "Farm Film Celebrity Blow-Up". Also, Episode 9 of "Days of the Week" follows our scandalous characters for more drama. "Sunrise Semester." Finally, Claire Warmel presents "Communicating With Extremities."
1983-02-25
It's Sweeps Week and SCTV is promoting specials like "Jumping for Dollars", where large busted women jump up and down while Johnny LaRue watches, and "The Dallas Cowgirls Salute Aaron Copland," which is bit more self-explanatory. We also see the preparation for the special "Night of the Prime Time Stars," which is nearly thwarted when a poltergeist haunts the station, kidnapping Ed Grimley and Gus Gustofferson among others. Also, "Days of the Week" Episode 10 continues. Finally, promos for the miniseries "The Long Hard War."
1983-03-11
William B Williams returns to the Sammy Maudlin Show, the Shmenges host a beauty pageant, and Jackie Rogers Jr plugs his upcoming special, Jackie, We Hardly Knew Ye.
1983-03-18
A set of unconnected sketches featuring many recurring characters, including a new Count Floyd vehicle, 3D Firing Line, which takes a look at Midnight Cowboy II, Ed Grimley in Whatever Happened to Baby Ed, the final episode of The Days of the Week (with cameos by Catherine O'Hara and Carol Burnett), as well as The Fishin' Musician, Stars In One, and perhaps the finest Mel's Rock Pile - the tribute to punk rock. Not a bad way to leave network television.
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