SCTV Channel

📊 Series Specifications

Network Cinemax, Movie Central
Episode Runtime ~45 min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 19
Original Language EN

SCTV Channel (1983)

⭐ 3.9 / 5 (8 votes) 🎬 1 Seasons 📼 19 Episodes 🏷️ Comedy 📡 Ended
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Series Status:

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Synopsis

This show was spun off from "SCTV Network 90" which was cancelled after two seasons on NBC. The same cast from 1982-83, with the exception of John Candy, appears on this 45-minute sketch comedy series. It all starts when "SCTV" mastermind Guy Cabellaro announces that he's turning his station into a pay cable channel. The results are amusing, as the same manic humor and wacky characters that made the old SCTV Network so great continued to thrive. Unfortunately, the show was too expensive to produce for Cinemax's tastes and it was cancelled after one year.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 Soren-Weiss Report / The Happy Wanderers / Melonville Calendar / Maudlin O' the Night

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. "Melonville Calendar" honors a firefighter. Finally, "The Sammy Maudlin Show" is overhauled to appeal to a younger audience.

E2 Hollywood Dirt Tonight / Mel McElroy Film Festival / Gimme Jackie: Lie Detector
E3 SCTV Special Presentation: It's A Wonderful Film

The whole episode is a parody of ""It's A Wonderful Life.""

E4 The Date Debate / Scary Previews

Count Floyd introduces some film previews, including ""Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde,"" ""Cujo II,"" and ""The Mysterious Disappearance of Dr. Tongue.""

E5 You're On, Parts 1-3 / SCTV Foreign Film Festival: Das Boobs
E6 Half Wits: Semi-Finals / Happy Hour: Six Gun Justice / Stars in One
E7 Spy Wrap / The Great Escape
E8 Stars in One: Libby Wolfson / Happy Hour: Six Gun Justice / PSA: Stop Julio Iglesias
E9 Just For Fun / Black Like Vic
E10 Youth, Do They Give a Damn or What? / Happy Hour
E11 Allenscam / Mel's Rock Pile
E12 Oliver Grimley

A parody of ""Oliver Twist"" with Ed Grimley (Short) in the lead role and Tommy Lasorda (Hemphill) as ""The Artful Dodger.""

E13 2009 Jupiter and Beyond

Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, and Ernest Borgnine crash-land on Saturn in a spoof of ""2001: A Space Odyssey."" Also, a behind-the-scenes look at the movie finds co-producers Idella Voudry and Woody Tobias Jr. fighting for creative control.

E14 Halfwits / Save The World Parade
E15 Jackie Rogers Jr. For President / Happy Hour
E16 Celebrity Fairie Tales / Canadian Gaffes
E17 You're On / Happy Hour
E18 Pledge Week

In a desperate effort to save the station, Guy and Edith start a pledge drive. Lola Heatherton returns to SCTV to sing on behalf of the station, but her performance is marred by thinly-veiled personal problems.

E19 The Best of SCTV

Guy and Edith plead to the FCC to keep SCTV on the airwaves while clips from the show's heyday are interspersed.