Laughed more in a half hour than at any recent SNL’s.

@mage189

Жыл бұрын

Or any SNL's from then too.

@janelliot5643

Жыл бұрын

So sad about SNL!

@janelliot5643

Жыл бұрын

@@mage189 I know it's hard to believe if you're young, but that show actually used to be very funny

@QuadMochaMatti

Жыл бұрын

@@janelliot5643 I was too young in the mid-late '70s to even know that SNL existed, though I do remember that during my Junior High and High School years of the mid-late '80s, it achieved a high-water mark... but has seldom reached one similar to that in the decades since. Meanwhile, SCTV, a program that I was far less familiar with in comparison, is the one that I keep going back to now, thanks to so many segments and episodes being uploaded to KZread for all of us to enjoy and appreciate. They truly had the consistently superior cast, and the sketches showed considerably more wit or willingness to experiment.

@mage189

11 ай бұрын

​@@janelliot5643No, that's the lie of SNL. It's never been funny. They manage like 2 good sketches a season and they get a pass for the rest of the year. It's always done that. My opinion of course.

Thanks for posting those SCTV shows. They have been a "Holy Grail" of mine for many years because I first watched the show on Channel 5 after SNL, then those half-hours disappeared after the NBC 90-minute show started. When they resurfaced years later, they had been re-edited with the show openings and bumpers changed to ones from later in the 1980s, and often skits edited or missing. Regarding the "Maurice Green" / "Harold Ramis" difference: This episode was an early one in the first season, when the show was only on in Canada before it got picked up in the U.S. the following year. The character of Moe Green existed from the beginning but only later became the station manager. The "Harold Ramis" version was as originally shown in Canada. By the time the episode aired in the U.S., the character was well established as the station manager so they edited out the beginning where he introduces himself and superimposed Maurice Green's name. The first 13 shows aired in Canada before they had a deal in the U.S. The U.S. shows were two minutes shorter. By the "second half" of Season 1 (1977-78) they were producing both a Canada and U.S. version of the show, but apparently, to some extent the first 13 had to be reconstructed from the ground up, so some episodes don't exactly correspond to a specific Canadian show. There were a few sketches that found their way into the U.S. shows which didn't air in Canada and haven't been seen since, because the later (1984 and after) reruns were adapted from the Canadian shows. "Al Pro Dog Food" is not one of these, but nonetheless is a very rare sketch because it was pulled for content reasons. Now, I have heard things suggesting that the U.S. versions of these shows might not have been archived and are now "lost," but I don't know if that's true or not. But aside from the reconfigured reruns (based on the Canadian versions) they haven't been seen in 40 years, and out of 78 episodes in the first three seasons, only 15 (mostly from Season 3) were released on DVD.

@wmbrown6

3 жыл бұрын

As I was saying, these same shows, when first syndicated, aired over WOR Channel 9 in NYC, which, in taped live studio-originated product, was of similar no-budget quality (but with more of a sheen of professionalism). But come the 1979-80 season, they moved to WNBC Channel 4 where, like at WMAQ, they aired second- and first-season episodes in their original US syndicated incarnation after "SNL." In the early months of "SCTV Network 90," WNBC still aired the third-season syndicated shows (including the since-buried episode with an overdubbed "Cisco Kid" episode) until the end of the 1980-81 season. As for Moe Green's full first name "Maurice," I suppose it would have been pronounced "Morris" _au_ Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees?

Two days later, in April 11, 1978, in Chile, color television began transmissions through Televisión Nacional de Chile, UCV Televisión, Channel 13 of Catholic University and Channel 9 of University of Chile.

Miss those local stations. I loved Bozo, Ray Rayner, Dirty Dragon show. I lived in La grange and Hinsdale in the 1970s.

@salty6pence672

3 жыл бұрын

New zoo review and The Magic door too.

@Mark.G475

3 жыл бұрын

@@salty6pence672 forgot about Zoo review! Never saw magic door. Where did you grow up?

@salty6pence672

3 жыл бұрын

@@Mark.G475 Chicago Heights, Park Forest Back in the 70's.

@Mark.G475

3 жыл бұрын

@@salty6pence6721970s good days! My blue Schwinn typhoon bike, 2 cent candy, Ray Rayner in the morning, Bozo at lunch, Spiderman and Speed Racer cartoon after school, skateboarding, Walt Disney in color on Sundays and Family classics movies. Saturday morning cartoons....

@salty6pence672

3 жыл бұрын

They were good times.

LOVED THIS. Complete with the original credits and the Rhodes slide. Good times at midnight Saturday nights after SNL on WMAQ!

The boy in "Shock Theatre" is John Candy's nephew, Donald Cowper. He was in quite a few segments in the first year of "SCTV".

@royalsfan

3 жыл бұрын

Lil' Donnie is all over the other episode the museum uploaded. Plus his sister/Candy's niece.

@tonybensley6246

3 жыл бұрын

I always wondered who he was. I probably haven't seen this hilarious Shock Theatre segment in over 40 years! Your station would have been how my late sister-in-law got acquainted with the SCTV gang! Thanks for the upload, and for some precious memories!! CHEERS!

@canaisyoung3601

3 жыл бұрын

Was he on the "Kids Can Play on the Wagon" PSA, or was that someone else?

@OofusTwillip

7 ай бұрын

​@@canaisyoung3601 That was him.

This is that hard to find intro I've been looking for that says, "...& Dave Thomas as The Beaver."

@kengeorgejones6855

3 жыл бұрын

I had no idea just how many different opening credits sequences this show had.

@tonybensley6246

3 жыл бұрын

OH, YES!!!! The sight of that Second City Television Test Pattern logo that I remember from my preadolescence lured me right in, LOL!!

sctv is a true treasure

In his book about SCTV, Dave Thomas said he was almost seriously injured at 7:17 in the Godfather Italian restaurant parody. In these early episodes, they had no safety protocols, and Joe Flaherty just fired the gun directly at Dave's head from close range. Even with blanks, that's extremely dangerous.

Man I loved this show.

SCTV was a lot faster-paced in the first couple of seasons, with more commercial spoofs, which appealed to me a lot at the time. In the later seasons, skits could drag out through an entire program.

WKQX in 1978 was album rock at the time, by 1979 it became adult contemporary and then in 1992 it became modern rock.

@ericjonmagnuson2728

3 жыл бұрын

And, the station was still co-owned with Channel 5. Off-hand, this might've been the station's first format with the WKQX calls--and the first after the failure of NBC's national News and Information Service. Also, competitor WLUP (which also had an ad here) apparently launched its Rock format after WKQX did.

Use to watch sctv when it was new, the memories

Thanks so much for sharing this rare treat with us. SCTV - best sketch show ever. I will say that I can see why that ugly Alpro sketch was apparently taken out of repeats. It doesn't feel like SCTV at all.

@tubesocksbrigade3031

3 жыл бұрын

Understandable about that Alpro skit. Never saw that on the reruns as this was the first time i saw it...and it was cringe-worthy

"That dog eats meat. He ain't no British cigarette, and neither am I." LOLWUT?

@royalsfan

3 жыл бұрын

Some of this hasn't aged well. Good god, Dave Thomas really dipped into the yellowface a lot.

@canaisyoung3601

3 жыл бұрын

That sketch was, for obvious reasons, cut in syndication. At first, I thought they banned "The Wacky World of Poverty" because someone complained that it was degrading to poor people. I was wrong.

In NYC, as I mentioned in other comments sections of other clips put up, "SCTV's" first home was WOR Channel 9.

@freebird0147

3 жыл бұрын

No it wasn't. Canada was

@wmbrown6

3 жыл бұрын

@@freebird0147 - I said WOR was NYC's first home for "SCTV." We all know the show started in Canada . . .

If only there was a time machine

Love it!!

Theme song was an excerpt of "Dance of the Hours" by Spike Jones.

SCTV was great , a faster pace than SNL , I remember when I was a Chippendale about the same time as John Candy and Rob Skiba .

The 30 min version of sctv are classics the network versions were ok these were funnier

A thin John Candy!

I just realized something...the music playing in the background promoting the WMAQ Feeling Fine Health Care '78 fair, is The Hollyridge Strings version of the Simon and Garfunkel song...also Harper's Bizarre hit...The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy.) It sounded familiar since I own a used copy of the album. Those Beautiful Music albums were always used for these local ads. Here's the song... kzread.info/dash/bejne/nZaXm8Zyf9qpqKg.html

15:39 looks like a young Alan Partridge !!!

The Scary Story was a killer🤣

9:22 There's Tony Rosato!

I loved this show as a kid/teenager . I wish more of the 1970s - Harold Ramis era shows had been re-released. 14:52 The Alpo skit , shows how much things have changed in forty years. Can you imagine beating a woman, even if it is fake, or uttering “fag”. Or at 17:56 a white guy in obvious makeup as a Chinese scientist. The cancel police would be out in force if these skits even dared to be aired on 2021 tv.

@wmbrown6

3 жыл бұрын

The Ramis shows in particular are a minefield, not necessarily exclusively due to content (i.e. "Alpro"), but connected with the particular use of music, i.e. copyrighted and "out there." As they were put in without attaining the necessary clearances, it could be argued that "SCTV" was an early example of what is known today as "street art." That's why so little, if at all, was ever put out on DVD.

25:20 is the drunk guy john heard

This would never be allowed on the TV today.

@canaisyoung3601

3 жыл бұрын

For once, I agree with the moral guardians, even if it was funny in a sick way.

@RideAcrossTheRiver

Ай бұрын

@@canaisyoung3601 Ok grannie

It looks you have a unique version of this episode. The ending credits with Earl Camembert's coughing fit was actually from The Taxidermist episode of SCTV. The actual ending credits should have had Andrea Martin as a ballet dancer.

@wmbrown6

3 жыл бұрын

A snippet of which (the ballet dancer, when Ms. Martin was introduced) was shown in the opening credits. Wonder if it was the syndicator or WMAQ which pulled this switcheroo of the final segment. I remember seeing part of the ending of the "Ben Hur" sketch cut out when that episode was first run in 1977-78 on WOR Channel 9 in NYC. But I saw a few other futzings, now that you mention it. "The Texas Chainsaw Massacres" promo was from the "Madame Blitzman" episode where we first saw Count Floyd.

@stephenzamarin3193

3 жыл бұрын

@@wmbrown6 It looks like it was the syndicator Rhodes Productions that changed the ending for whatever the reason. They probably did it to other episodes as well.

My dog needs Alpro!

I don't see a mention of the Marshall Brodien sketch.

@FuzzyMemoriesTV

3 жыл бұрын

Oops. I knew I forgot something.

WMAQ have trouble selling ad time during the midnight hour I guess. so many PSAs during this.

@tubesocksbrigade3031

3 жыл бұрын

Wasnt the case later that year. If you see the other SCTV uploads Fuzzymemories posted here, in later 1978 episodes the ads on there were records, shampoo, razors, "Just Pants", and some movies that were playing around that time (including "Animal House")

@wmbrown6

3 жыл бұрын

@@tubesocksbrigade3031 - At WOR-TV, the ads would have included Mount Airy Lodge (and sister Pocono Gardens Lodge), the latest auto or boat show at the New York Coliseum, the Circle Line, the Collingwood and Seville Hotels, Hudson River Day Line, and Phil Rizzuto for The Money Store. No PSA's there. And followed by "Fright Night."

John Heard 25:30

OMG, was watching this and googled the show and it said Flaherty died yesterday. RIP.

Read the label.

Sweet fancy Moe-ses

Was that a relative of Earl Camembert or Rockin' Mel Slirrup promoting that Datsun 280Z contest before the actual content? Thankfully, the "Dining with LaRue" segment didn't become an all-inclusive *"Dying* with LaRue" one, instead. Mangia!

Is "The Wacky World of Poverty" a parody of "Let's Make a Deal"?

@tubesocksbrigade3031

3 жыл бұрын

A combination spoof of both "Let's Make a Deal" and Chuck Barris shows (hence the host's name "Chuck Barrett")

@canaisyoung3601

3 жыл бұрын

@@tubesocksbrigade3031 Chuck Barris shows, like the 1.98 Beauty Pageant and The Gong Show?

@tubesocksbrigade3031

3 жыл бұрын

@@canaisyoung3601 let me rephrase that. It's more of a spoof of the style of Barris' shows as opposed to a single Barris show that they were making fun of

@leighmcmillan6282

Жыл бұрын

There were shows in the '70's like "Queen for a Day," giving poor women prizes. It also foretells the "reality" shows where people humiliate themselves for prizes.

2:57 how far did YOU get into this PSA before you realized it wasn't a sketch?

@mikedavis979

3 жыл бұрын

I had to watch it a couple times, to make sure.

Was that Tony Rosato sitting in the audience on The Wacky World Of Poverty?

@wmbrown6

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, he was. So was Robin Duke.

S01E08

Canada SNL!

A lot of the humor from that time hasn't aged very well.

@tubesocksbrigade3031

3 жыл бұрын

But still...enjoyable to watch

@salty6pence672

3 жыл бұрын

They meant no harm, Standards have changed as they naturally would in 40+ years.

@jtdavis62

3 жыл бұрын

@@salty6pence672 I'm a huge SCTV fan who owns several DVDs, but still, Lin Yee Tang is cringworthy AF!!!!!

@metall1983

3 жыл бұрын

Back than anything goes wish it stayed that way everybody is offended by everything knowadays bunch of pussies

@brianvail9212

3 жыл бұрын

By far the most disturbing version of Texas Chainsaw Massacre ever shown 👀

That Alpro sketch is a perfect example of why so called "cancel culture" and "woke ness" were created in the first place. The hell is so funny about a guy beating his wife? As someone who as a little kid saw their dad being physically abusive towards their mom I'd like to know. There's a big difference between edgy and politically incorrect humor and demented and mean spirited humor.

@Legend813a

3 жыл бұрын

The intro was a warning. Todays theme is violence.

@markyurkiw8841

3 жыл бұрын

That skit (Al Pro Dog Food) was not included when the SCTV shows were chopped up, thrown up in the air and reassembled into new half-hours in the 1980s. It was even replaced in the Canadian reruns, which were much less butchered than in the U.S.

@wmbrown6

3 жыл бұрын

@@markyurkiw8841 - They also took out the original executive producers' credits and which production entities were involved.

@leighmcmillan6282

Жыл бұрын

It's spoofing the "shaming the wife" commercials of the '70's where the wife buys the wrong brand of inferior quality and spoofing the dog food ads where "cereal" is an ingredient

@jimmymelendez1836

Жыл бұрын

Google the term woke.

I would have rather this video not have a watermark its really hard to watch for me

@FuzzyMemoriesTV

3 жыл бұрын

You’ll get used to it. By the way, did you drove or did you flew?

I didn't find the skit at 14:44 funny at all!!!

@chasspeed

Жыл бұрын

The sketch was removed from syndication reruns and is pretty rare.

the ads are almost as funny as the show!! that was Kevin "home alone" Mcallister's dad as the drunk driver!

@tubesocksbrigade3031

3 жыл бұрын

And of course, Kevin's mom is on the show

@jaewok5G

3 жыл бұрын

@@tubesocksbrigade3031 of course

@BigSCTVfan

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, he gained a lot of weight. Like I did!

@wmbrown6

3 жыл бұрын

@@tubesocksbrigade3031 - Now there's irony for ya!

@jimmymelendez1836

Жыл бұрын

*Kevin Mcallister's dad from Home Alone