SCTV Network 90 (1981)
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.
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Episode 1 - The Great White North Palace
Release Date: 1982-04-161. 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
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Episode 2 - Pre-Teen World Telethon
Release Date: 1982-04-231. 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
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Episode 3 - The People's Global Golden Choice Awards
Release Date: 1982-05-011. 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
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Episode 4 - 3D Stake From the Heart
Release Date: 1982-05-141. 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
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Episode 5 - Pet Peeves / The Happy Wanderers
Release Date: 1982-05-211. 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
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Episode 6 - Chariots of Eggs
Release Date: 1982-06-051. 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
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Episode 7 - Battle of the PBS Stars
Release Date: 1982-07-161. 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
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Episode 8 - Rome, Italian Style
Release Date: 1982-10-151. "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
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Episode 9 - The Days of the Week / Street Beef
Release Date: 1982-10-221. 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