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Second City Television

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Comedy

Second City Television is a Canadian television sketch comedy show offshoot from Toronto's Second City troupe that ran between 1976 and 1984.

Cast:
Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Martin Short
Language:
English
Country:
Canada
Network:
CBC Television, Global TV, Super Channel

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Seasons

6 available

Season 6

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E01

Episode 1

Maudlin O' the Night

1983-11-22 · 45m

(This is the start of the SCTV Channel, when SCTV moved to Cinemax. Shows are 45 minutes long). Guy Caballero launches the new SCTV cable channel. The Schmenge Brothers try new wave music. Edith Prickly and Edna Boil go double-dating in the film spoof "Prickly Business". Steve Roman makes his own made-for-TV movie about JFK.

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E02

Episode 2

Gimme Jackie / Australia

1983-12-06 · 45m

Sid Dithers finds love in "An Officer and a Gentile". Perini Scleroso gets her own sitcom. "The National Midnight Star" is rechristened "Hollywood Dirt Tonight". Australian actor Mel McElroy hosts his own film festival.

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E03

Episode 3

It's a Wonderful Film

1983-12-20 · 45m

Producer, Martin Simmons is making a Christmas movie by classic film director Frank Bailey but decides that profit is more important than a making a quality movie so fires Bailey and hires a teen sex comedy director in his place.

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E04

Episode 4

The Date Debate / Scary Previews

1984-01-03 · 45m

Count Floyd and Woody Tobias Jr co-host a new movie review show, Scary Previews

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E05

Episode 5

You're On / Das Boobs

1984-01-17 · 45m

Das Boobs puts Porky's on the deck of Das Boot. Also features a trio of commercials with Irving Cohen, and the call-in show You're On, hosted by councilman for Melonville East, Max Lansky.

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E06

Episode 6

Stars In One: Bob Hope / Happy Hour

1984-01-31 · 45m

"Happy Hour" was a mock children's show, by bar patron, Happy Marsden, and the bartender, Mike. A mock western filmed in black and white, "Six Gun Justice", with was shown on each episode.

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E07

Episode 7

Stalag SCTV

1984-02-14 · 45m

Scripts are being stolen from SCTV, and new guy Fred Winston is the likeliest suspect. Highlights include Al Peck's Dinosaur Days and Lewis Does Dylan.

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E08

Episode 8

Diary of a Female Person / Happy Hour

1984-02-28 · 45m

Happy Hour shows another episode of Six Gun Justice, and Brock Linehan features Libby Wolfson's struggles to produce her new film.

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E09

Episode 9

Just For Fun / Black Like Vic

1984-03-13 · 45m

Rusty Van Reddick does a PSA for nursery schools; tonight on "Just for Fun," Stan Kanter launches a discussion on nuclear proliferation; in a 1962 episode of "Vic Arpeggio," our hero pretends to be a black man in segregation-era Georgia.

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E10

Episode 10

Youth, Do They Give A Damn or What? / Happy Hour

1984-03-27 · 45m

Soren and Weiss try to figure out what's up with the youth of today, while Don and Cheaplaffs have further adventures on Happy Hour. Also features a trio of commercials with Sophia Loren, who keeps branching out into new businesses.

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E11

Episode 11

Allenscam

1984-04-10 · 45m

Features several wraparound elements, including an unfolding scandal involving Brad Allen, artist Willem de Kooning never quite being interviewed on three shows, and new character Rita Schubb in three separate short bits. Also includes Harvey, as done by the New York Actor's Studio, Mel's Rock Pile returns to the psychedelic sixties, while Murray Shulman savages Canadian television.

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E12

Episode 12

Oliver Grimley

1984-04-24 · 45m

Cheryl Kinsey does a live show, while Ed Grimley, does Oliver Twist

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E13

Episode 13

2009, Jupiter and Beyond

1984-05-08 · 45m

Sci-Fi movie 2009, Jupiter and Beyond

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E14

Episode 14

Half Wits / Save the World Parade

1984-05-22 · 45m

Melonville's parade to promote world peace might not go as the announcers wish. Meanwhile, Alex Trebel is eager for someone, anyone to score on his game show "Half Wits."

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E15

Episode 15

Jackie Rogers, Jr. for President / Happy Hour

1984-06-05 · 45m

The wraparound features Jackie Rogers Jr's run for president, while Six Gun Justice's penultimate episode airs on Happy Hour. Jayne Eastwood returns as moderator for Philosophers at work.

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E16

Episode 16

Celebrity Fairie Tayles / Canadian Gaffes and Practical Amusements

1984-06-19 · 45m

Celebrity Fairie Tayles features the unlikely pairing of Alan Alda and Ed Grimley, while Canadian Gaffes features the gang from Headline Challenge in another brutal parody of the CBC that often approaches the moribund tediousness of the real thing

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E17

Episode 17

You're On / Happy Hour

1984-07-03 · 45m

Happy Hour presents the exciting conclusion to Six Gun Justice, and host Happy Marsden makes a surprising confession. The show also features and another episode of the oddly-paced You're On, while over at SCTV News, Earl retires and Floyd shows up in his Count Floyd costume.

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E18

Episode 18

Pledge Week

1984-07-17 · 45m

Various SCTV characters host a pledge drive for the network as it goes bankrupt.

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Cast

Joe Flaherty

Joe Flaherty

Self - Various Characters

Eugene Levy

Eugene Levy

Self - Various Characters

Andrea Martin

Andrea Martin

Self - Various Characters

Martin Short

Martin Short

Self - Various Characters

John Hemphill

John Hemphill

Self - Various Characters

Mary Charlotte Wilcox

Mary Charlotte Wilcox

Self - Various Characters

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