SCTV was one of the best sketch comedies, with a top-tier cast. Thanks so much for sharing this early broadcast, with commercials no less.

That Long Chevrolet commercial brought back some memories.

@johnn.2017

3 жыл бұрын

I forgot how much I hated that kid! Wasn't it "Little Timmy"?

~RIP John Candy & Harold Ramis & Joe Flaherty~

@sralyn

3 жыл бұрын

Shooting stars kzread.info/dash/bejne/eH6Itc-Focqcmag.html

@wmbrown6

3 ай бұрын

Add Joe Flaherty to the list.

Love watching theses old shows with all the Chicagoland ads included. Grew up watching all these program plus everyday before school Ray Rainer. Wish I could do it all over again back in those same years,,, Thank you,,, I will make a donation to help keep the Memories open for all.

Casey Kasem does the ending narration for the Heinz Ketchup TV commercial in the first SCTV 1978 commercial break.

These uploads are actually a piece of history, these airings are literally the first time American eyes are seeing this series, obviously the Global TV network masters from Canada are the holy grail but these are basically those versions, thank you a million times for all you do especially these SCTV uploads. Amazing

@chasspeed

Жыл бұрын

A cable network called Trio did air these episodes uncut in the late 90's.

@johndean4727

Жыл бұрын

im 50 and live in America and watched it growing up.hi q.divine peter pan .and i was a teenager.

So lucky to be a 10 year old in 1978 sitting Indian style, 2 feet away from a console television laughing out loud, until I hurt watching SCTV late night Saturday / early morning Sunday. This would never be allowed on any network today.

@johnn.2017

3 жыл бұрын

Same age but I wasn't allowed to watch it. I just had to lie in bed listening to my mom laugh her ass off in the front room, then tell us about the show at dinner the next day!

@johnn.2017

3 жыл бұрын

Just realized I'm a subscriber of yours lol Great job with the radio stuff during the riots; thank you! -Former Chicagoan observing from Florida

@wmbrown6

3 жыл бұрын

In NYC, "SCTV" aired during this period Saturdays at 11 P.M. on WOR-TV (Channel 9) - which, under RKO General ownership, was the real-life version of "SCTV": uber-cheap, everything run shoestring. I remember seeing these as they were first unveiled in the States. It would have supposedly made more sense, on paper, for WSNS to have run "SCTV" in Chicago at the outset, given that in its operation it too was like a real-life SCTV. Can you imagine Don Ferris or Linda Frost or Mal Wyman promoting "SCTV" in their particular manner?

@canaisyoung3601

3 жыл бұрын

Not without major changes like with Saturday Night Live. But the writers and actors wouldn't stand for it, so...yeah. Yet another TV show that wouldn't survive today's standards.

@bobob4477

Жыл бұрын

I don't know why this 'wouldn't be allowed on any network today', this is pretty tame, but maybe that's just American humour.

wow. harold ramis. didn't catch on to it until it had the obnoxious beginning with all the tv sets flying around. really neato stuff.

@reelincoln7747

Жыл бұрын

Ramos was on for the first season only

Whenever I see Eugene Levy I still think of National Lampoons Vacation and the Dad on American Pie.

@sralyn

3 жыл бұрын

I think of Splash: "I was right, BEHOLD THE MERMAID!"

@davidreynolds4684

3 жыл бұрын

I think Eugene was the absolute mostest bestest person to play the caring father on american pie. The only other actor i can thing that would do well is john lithgow. It takes unconditional love to calmly and rationally discuss a loved one sexually molesting an apple pie. Im gonna say in most families thats a deal breaker.

Thank you for this and all the info in the description!

@FuzzyMemoriesTV

3 жыл бұрын

Sure thing. Thanks for reading it! :-)

Thanks for all of these uploads; this is my favorite show of that first year.. such a classic and dark parody of Beaver. I can't watch the show the same again! It's also nice to see someone besides Dave Thomas as the Beaver in this intro for a change.. even if it was for a legit reason lol.

I like how in the opening credits, they appropriately credit John Candy as the Beaver.

The episode was fantastic, but Orson Welles hawking the Vivitar Pocket Camera was more than worth the price of admission.

SCTV! Excellent!!

I don't remember ever seeing Harold Ramis on SCTV. But without Rick Moranis on here, I"m guessing these are earlier than when I got to see the show here in America.

@davidreynolds4684

3 жыл бұрын

I was just thinking the same thing about Harold. He was a genius. Rip Harold.

@sralyn

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidreynolds4684

@davidreynolds4684

3 жыл бұрын

If there are any harold ramos fans out there i will say you probably loved the movie Stripes. He and Bill Murray did. I was a kid when it came out on hbo and it ran every night for years. I know ive seen it and history of the world several hundred times. Not exaggerating. Ok back to my point. If youve seen and liked stripes there will be a scene that has puzzled you for what 3 decades closer to 4? Work with me here. Murray decides to go awol. Ramis catches him. Ramis tackles murray in his long johns. The two mps catch them. They get freaky then they are back in the barracks. Next morning Drill sgt comes in and says its come to my attn that several members of this platoon left the base without proper authorization. Niw i wanna know who it was. I may have missed the exact quote but you get what he was saying. I sat there hundreds of times going wtf? No body went any where. Murray acts like hes going to fess up leans forward and ramis steps. Busted. Now to my point. Go out and find the directors cut. Pay 30 40 or 50 for it if ypu have to. You will laugh your arse off. There is a scene they cut out of the original that ties the whole damn movie together. Its got deleted scenes out takes. And a behind the scene film and dialog . They were out of control on the set. Way over budget its like caddy shack. Eccept they werent openly snorting coke like in caddy shack.i dont want to spoil it but the part where someone left the base in my opinion is the funniest scene in the entire movie. Its 20 mins long. Its wild as hell and starts out with harold wiped out on lsd that judge reinhold gave him for motion sickness. It has interviews with every body. And shows exactly how fn weird Bill murray really is. He refused to do an interview for this for a couple of years. Then agreed under a few conditions. It had to be on a certain day at 4 am in the last booth with a table at Mrs Wongs tiki bar in ban kok tialand. That Bills hang out these days. Only one camera guy And only lighting had to be a black light. It was like an opium den. And ge was out there. Or was he? Tells about how they wanted to get some real footage of hand to hand combat. So when murray and Harold are catching crap from the sgt when doing the obstacle course. They really did attack him yhrew him to the ground and in the mud. And barbed wire. Broke the sgt tooth off. He was pissed. Ok im done. Im hating my disc is in tyler texas and km in ft worth so i cant watch it again. Goid luck finding it but its well worth it.

@sralyn

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidreynolds4684 I developed a crush on him when I saw Ghostbusters in 1984...no one knew until GB2 five years later. When he died I was devastated, cos I never got to meet him...💔

@davidreynolds4684

3 жыл бұрын

@@sralyn the guy was the brains behind so many good movies. Ive hung out with Aykroyd many times since i was a kid. Dad was a blues guy. And played with cropper ,dunn ,otis etc. I spent a lit of hours in the studio while the doobie bros and michael mc were doing their first album together and 3 dog night. My teachers didnt really know how to take it when i was falling asleep in social studies and i had a strange strong herbal scented cologne on my person and id inform the teacher i hadnt slept cause i was hanging out with those guys. Turns out the snotty old b was a closet R&B lover. Chuck Berry sang my dingaling for my birthday one year at a show. He was svared to death my mom was going to kill him. I had him play it to embarass her for being an ass. I play hard.

I know Eugene Levy modelled Earl Camembert after legendary Buffalo TV news anchor Irv Weinstein; but as for Joe Flaherty's characterization of Floyd Robertson, I wonder if he, a Pittsburgh native, drew at least in part from veteran Pittsburgh anchor Bill Burns (especially since KDKA was THE news station on TV when Joe was growing up).

@sralyn

3 жыл бұрын

Briefly lived in Pittsburgh at 3 years old, summer of '79

@chasspeed

Жыл бұрын

Flaherty was from Pittsburgh and lived there for decades.

SCTV was the best!!!

20:48 the first appearance of Dr. Tongue. Thankfully he got wise and became a legendary 3D movie actor after this. Lol

Why was SCTV filmed in Canada? The Second City is Chicago, and that's where the Second City comedy troupe was founded in 1959.

@johnn.2017

3 жыл бұрын

I'm just guessing but maybe it was cheaper? Plus I think most of these folks were Canadian. Again, I may be wrong on one or both, but that's just my guess.

@chuckrawlings9518

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnn.2017 There was/is an SC troupe in Toronto

@ChristopherSobieniak

3 жыл бұрын

@@chuckrawlings9518 Not surprising if Canada consider Toronto it's "Second City" after Montreal.

@blackphoenix77

3 жыл бұрын

@@chuckrawlings9518 OK, thanks. Still would've made more sense to do a series with Chicagoan comedians ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@wmbrown6

3 жыл бұрын

@@blackphoenix77 - Harold Ramis was from Chicago. There, there's your Chicago connection. ;-) But he wasn't the only 'mur'can in the "SCTV" cast; Joe Flaherty was born in Pittsburgh, and Andrea Martin came from Portland, ME.

Dr Tongue !

This doesn’t look like “leave it to beaver”

33:56 - someone get up and adjust the tracking!

I was just whining about not finding Not Necessarily The News on the classuc chicago channel then i just caught sctv in a title as i was closing it out. I actually had two sniglets accepted. I only saw one of the shows where they announced one. My idiot friends thought i was famous after that.

Catherine o Hara always looked attractived.

S01E15

I also have to ask whether the SCTV News sketch where Earl was having his son co-anchor was a little dig at the pairing of Bill Burns with his daughter, Patti Burns, on the noon newscast at KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh. Though both were journalistic professionals and perfectionists (and Patti eventually becoming a Pittsburgh TV news legend on her own merits), I remember some critics at the outset (in 1976) were none too keen, with a few wags referring to them as "Patti and Daddy."