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In 1974, Andrew Alexander bought the Canadian rights to The Second City for one dollar, [2] and in 1976, he was the producer of Toronto's stage show, and was looking to expand his company into TV. He called together the current cast of the stage show (including Candy, Flaherty, Thomas, and Levy) to discuss a format for a Second City TV series ...
This episode features a few sketches with the regular cast, but most of the show consists of an episode The Cisco Kid with redubbed dialogue. This piece was actually an unsold pilot from 1978 featuring the voices of Martin Short, Steven Kampmann, Peter Torokvei and Don Dickinson, all members of the Second City Toronto cast between 1977 and 1979 ...
1981 – Ken Innes, Jerrold Karch, Deborah Kimmett, Jan Randall 1982 – Michael J. Gellman, Don Lake 1983 – Donald Adams, Bob Derkach, June Graham, Bruce Hunter , Ron James , Madelyn Keane, Debra McGrath , Lyn Okkerse, Bruce Pirrie, Jane Schoettle, Blaine Slekirk, Adrian Truss
1980–1981 I'm a Big Girl Now: Neal Stryker 14 episodes [1] 1981 Taxi: Mitch Harris Episode: "Jim Joins the Network" [1] 1981–1984 Second City Television: Various Cast member; also writer [1] 1983 Sunset Limousine: Bradley Z. Coleman Television film [1] 1984–2024 Saturday Night Live: Various Cast member (18 episodes) Host or guest ...
Second City Television, or SCTV, was a Canadian television sketch comedy show offshoot from the Toronto troupe of the Second City and ran from 1976 to 1984. Broadcaster and surgeon Charles A. "Chuck" Allard formed a partnership in 1981 that acquired the fledgling series.
Frederick Allan Moranis (/ m ə ˈ r æ n ɪ s /; born April 18, 1953) is a Canadian actor, comedian, musician, producer, songwriter and writer.. Moranis appeared in the sketch comedy series Second City Television (SCTV) in the 1980s and starred afterward in several Hollywood films, including Strange Brew (1983), Streets of Fire (1984), Ghostbusters (1984) and its sequel Ghostbusters II (1989 ...
Eddie Murphy is just one of two cast members who survived the 1980-1981 season and was the biggest star the show had seen since the original cast. Rolling Stone ranked him as the second-best cast ...
John Franklin Candy (October 31, 1950 – March 4, 1994) [1] was a Canadian actor and comedian who is best known for his work in Hollywood films. Candy first rose to national prominence in the 1970s as a member of the Toronto branch of the Second City and its SCTV sketch comedy series.