A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Premiere:
May 16, 1981
# of Seasons: 5
# of Episodes: 40
Finale:
March 18, 1983
Original Title:
SCTV Network 90
Alternate Titles:
SCTV Network
Genres:
Comedy
Production Companies:
Old Firehall Productions
Countries:
CA
After a successful Canadian run as Second City TV on Global and SCTV on CBC, the cast packed up and moved to America (theoretically) when NBC offered them a timeslot under the title SCTV Network 90. With them, they brought their unique, quirky characters, their personalities, and the shows they had appeared on. Dick Blasucci had begun writing for the cast in their second series, SCTV, and joined them here, serving as a recurring straight man for the characters. Tony Rosato and Robin Duke wrote scripts at the beginning of the show as they had before, until quickly leaving to write and perform for Saturday Night Live. The appeal of SCTV Network 90, however, doesn't only come from the writing, but from the sheer wit of its legendary stars.
Executive Producer:
Jack E. Rhodes
Doug Holtby
Andrew Alexander
Len Stuart
Producer:
Nicolas Wry
Patrick Whitley
Nancy Geller
Don Novello
Barry Sand
Writer:
Michael Short
Brian McConnachie
Dick Blasucci
Paul Flaherty
John McAndrew
John Candy
Mary Charlotte Wilcox
Jeffrey Barron
Andrea Martin
Martin Short
John Hemphill
Chris Cluess
Bob Dolman
Doug Steckler
Tom Couch
Joe Flaherty
Catherine O'Hara
Eugene Levy
Eddie Gorodetsky
Stuart Kreisman
Rick Moranis
Mert Rich
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Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.