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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780738926742
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0738926744
Label: Shout Factory
Manufacturer: Shout Factory
Number Of Items: 5
Publisher: Shout Factory
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 08, 2004
Running Time: 780 minutes
Sales Rank: 6960
Studio: Shout Factory
Theatrical Release Date: May 15, 1981
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At long last, SCTV is on the air... or at least on DVD! While it never reached the ratings heights or pop culture cachet of Saturday Night Live, SCTV did garner critical buzz and a devoted cult following. As with the Python boys, the ensemble members, and the characters they created to populate the fictional Melonville TV network, are revered in hipper comedy circles. In this respect, SCTV is Letterman to SNL's Leno. This essential five-disc set collects the first nine episodes of the series' Network 90 incarnation, which brightened NBC's Friday late-night lineup in 1981. While original cast member Harold Ramis had since left the show, and Martin Short would join the following year, John Candy, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Rick Moranis, Catherine O'Hara, and Dave Thomas were SCTV's definitive ensemble (SNL-bound Robin Duke and Tony Rosato, we hardly knew ye). These inaugural episodes are comprised mostly of 'the golden classics' (so dubbed by Flahrety's wheelchair-bound station manager Guy Caballero) linked by some new material. Included are such series benchmarks as 'The Great White North' segments, featuring Moranis and Thomas as the stereotypically Canadian, parka-wearing, beer-swilling McKenzie brothers; 'Play It Again, Bob,' starring Moranis as Woody Allen and Thomas as Bob Hope; the ill-fated made-for-SCTV 'Polynesiantown' starring Candy's Johnny LaRue; 'The Sammy Maudlin Show,' starring Joe Flahrety as the most sincerely insincere talk show host, with O'Hara as Lola 'I want to bear your children' Heatherton, and 'Indira,' with Andrea Martin in her signature Evita spoof.
And that's just on disc 1! SCTV could parody Leave It to Beaver and Fantasy Island with the best of them, but anticipating the future Ben Stiller Show, its genius lay in its show business savvy to subvert television and movie convention. When Levy's comedian Bobby Bittman arrives on a talk show, he brings 'bloopers' from his congressional testimony. And you don't need to have seen The Oscar to appreciate The Nobel, but it certainly helps. The price is steep, but don't be a hoser. This is the comedy release of the year. And it blows up real good. --Donald Liebenson
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Still Funny After All These Years
To me the SCTV cast had a better collection of talent that the SNL of the same time. This DVD of Season 1 of the NBC version has some great moments, although, like most sketch shows, not every sketch is a gem. I loved the premise of SCTV--low budget network in drab Melonville featuring crass management and a mostly wannabe collection of personalities. It was great to see the actors and old characters again- Andrea Martin as Station Manager Edith Prickly, Eugene Levy as hapless newsman Earl Camembert, Rick Moranis as VJ Jerry Todd (the schmaltzy video version of Turning Japanese is a scream), John Candy as Orson Welles-wannabe Johnny LaRue, and the gang from The Sammy Maudlin Show--Joe Flaherty as Sammy, Candy as sidekick William B. Williams, Levy as funnyman (and a comic in all seriousness) Bobby Bittman, and Catherine O'Hara as "I wanna bear your children" songstress Lola Heatherton.
Highlights from Disc 1 include the Maudlin show (featuring Andrea Martin as a very bemused Mother Theresa), Rick Moranis as Woody Allen trying to make a movie with Dave Thomas as Bob Hope in "Play It Again, Bob", Thomas as Japanese talk show host Tim Ishimuni interviewing the Godzilla-like monster Grogan, and the made-for-SCTV movie "Polynesian Town", featuring John Candy as clueless filmmaker and star Johnny LaRue. I look forward to seeing other favorites like Count Floyd and Dr. Tongue of Monster Chiller Horror Theatre, and Dave Thomas as the host of 3CP Russian television.
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Rating: - SCTV Rocks!!!!
It is just this simple, if you like SCTV at all, you'll want this. There are a few minor changes on some of the episodes ( for full details visit: SCTVGuide.ca ), but for the most part, these classic pieces of comedy are just how you ( probably barely, twenty five years down the road ) remember them. This is sketch/satirical comedy at it's best. Have there been comedy shows that are its equal? Of course there are other great comedy shows but nothing exceeds it. Not by a long shot! If you're interested; perhaps you've enjoyedd the work of John Candy or Eugene Levy and you're curious about their early careers--buy this! If you already know what time it is - What are you waitnig for? SCTV is now on the DVD!
Rating: - SCTV Volume 1
If you dig spoofing satire, this is your show. Second City comedy group "invented" the whacky satire that this DVD set embodies and enshrines. The characters are as memorable as they are hilarious. It is a standing tribute to the fine comic acting of the late great John Candy. John is at his whackiest in this series. It's truly good clean fund for all ages. Any innuendos are deftly hidden. So yes, 99% of the viewers will enjoy this insane spin on a network TV station that could never function in the real world. But there will always be that small, turned-up-nose minority who will disrespect this historic work of comedic art as to benign for our cancerous mentality of today. If you don't laugh at "Jerry Todd" you are one humorless pup!
Rating: - Wonderful, intelligent comedy skits! We love it!
I'm a Kids in the Hall fan, but *my* kids can't watch those shows just yet. I read the reviews of SCTV and decided it was worth buying. We enjoyed all the shows in Volume 1, and we don't get tired of rewatching them. Andrea Martin in the EVITA spoof, and Rick Moranis in the easy-listening remakes of "Turning Japanese" and the Police's "Da Doo Doo Doo, Da Da Da Da" are hilarious. And John Candy as Yuri, the Soviet weightlifter who gets his own talk show! The humor is still completely on target. It does not have the frenetic pace of most shows today, so some people might not like that.
Rating: - hilarious
These are some of the best episodes of them all, the leave it to beaver 25th anniversery is worth the set alone. great John Candy work. I highly recommend this set, and all of them.
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