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After a year-and-a-half, SCTV returns for season three. Returning cast members are Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, and Dave Thomas; they are joined by new cast members Robin Duke, Rick Moranis, and Tony Rosato. (John Candy and Catherine O'Hara were not in the cast this year, but would return.) Although they appear in every episode ...
Instead, in 1984, after production on the series ended, the Second City Television syndicated half-hour episodes and SCTV Network 90-minute episodes were reedited into half-hour shows by Blair Entertainment (formerly Rhodes Productions, which distributed SCTV in the U.S. during its original run) for a revised syndicated package, which consisted ...
A Martin Short character, Lawrence was awkward and child-like. Lawrence also originally appeared in the Canadian series SCTV, as a contestant in the game show parody "Half-Wits". Debuted on SNL October 6, 1984.
The basic premise of SCTV was based on a television station (later a network) in the fictional city of Melonville. Rather than broadcast the usual TV rerun fare, the business, run by the greedy Guy Caballero ( Joe Flaherty ) sitting in a wheelchair only "for respect," operates a bizarre and humorously incompetent range of cheap local programming.
097 Half-Wits Holiday (January 9) (Curly Howard's final starring role) 098 Fright Night (March 6) (Shemp Howard's first starring role) 099 Out West (April 24) 100 Hold That Lion! (July 17) (Curly Howard's final cameo role and first and only episode the four Stooges were shown.)
A fan of the sketch series SCTV, Macdonald acknowledged that his concept would be substantially the same as "Half-Wits," a recurring sketch on the short-lived The Martin Short Show (1994) in which Eugene Levy played a parody of Trebek, exasperated by the incredibly dumb contestants on the program. Macdonald called Levy and secured permission to ...
1973 – Dan Aykroyd, Andrew Alexander, Valri Bromfield, Jayne Eastwood, Gino Empry, Joe Flaherty, Fred Kaz, Brian Doyle-Murray, Gilda Radner, Bernard Sahlins, Gerry ...
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