SCTV - Second City Television - "Lust for Paint" - WMAQ-TV (Complete Broadcast, 8/20/1978) 📺

[@montauk6]

This was the series that aired in Detroit on PBS before the NBC picked it up in the 80s; I LOVED watching this back-to-back with Monty Python.

[@geo386]

A great upload, I miss SCTV. So many wonderful characters and witty sketches.

[@robertcringle4865]

Man, I thought the Just Pants ad was an SCTV skit.

[@torg0]

I love every single minute of this! Thank you for the upload!

[@garyagin5762]

First couple of seasons. Priceless ! Funniest stuff ever on the tube, Ever !

[@mordantfilms]

Great, classic Ramis-era episode! Love the old commercials, too - Corey Feldman in a ketchup ad!

[@paulvato]

I worked for Just Pants at Fox Valley Mall!

[@FuzzyMemoriesTV]

Were they indeed righteous trousers?

[@staticmunk7777]

oh my gosh this is so amazing I love this show I hope there is more sctv archives you have

[@bethdibartolomeo2042]

It's odd to think that that baby in the movie camera commercial would be as old as me, depending on when the commercial was filmed. I was two months old when this was taped.

[@SocialistDistancing]

My childhood flashed before my eyes. LoL

[@525Lines]

SCTV would only issue edited bits to these half hour shows. Pretty rare stuff!

[@MikeSmith74653]

This episode is Harold Ramis' last SCTV episode, and SCTV owner and president Guy Cabellro's first (Only Joe Flathery's voice is heard).

[@wmbrown6]

I think Mr. Ramis was in the first episode or two of the second season, the one where his Moe Green character was kidnapped by Leutonians - and Edith Prickley (Andrea Martin) succeeded him as station manager.

[@MikeSmith74653]

@@wmbrown6 Ramis did appeared in the Indecent Exposure segment in the SCTV Network days.

[@chasspeed]

He was in the first two episodes of season 2. The first episode had Moe Greene introducing the 2nd season and on the 2nd episode Moe was kidnapped.

[@Legend813a]

This really compresses the 1952 movie Moulin Rouge well.

[@memyself4ever1]

Wow! A Dynamo commercial!

[@gregsells8549]

Followed by an ad for "Animal House." There would be one Dynamo commercial with a man, tagged "Recommended by people who used to use powders."

[@goodmaro]

And one for Palmolive, by the same company. People in North America seem to have forgotten Palmolive soap, overshadowed as it became by their dishwashing liquid, though the soap preceded it.

[@og_steiney]

wow ELO: Mr. Blue Sky - Still the Happiest Song Ever recorded in 2019

[@princeofcupspoc9073]

S01E26

[@dannyvails9342]

I miss that guy.

[@sralyn]

Sweet. Fancy. Moe-ses!

[@wmbrown6]

I'm not too sure, but the V/O on the Dynamo ad sounds like it could have been NBC staff announcer Jerry Damon who died in 1979. Given that the SCTV series was about a low-budget TV station - and its own budgets, in their actual production, were just as low if even lower at the outset - it's a wonder this was picked up by NBC Chicago flagship WMAQ and not, say, WSNS. ;-) However, in New York WOR Channel 9 - which may have been a model for SCTV in terms of its own operation which were likewise "low budget" - did air SCTV, from 1977 to 1979, Saturdays at 11 P.M. And yes, for you New Yorkers out there, 'Cousin Brucie' was more than capable of "breaking out" of his usual "EEEEEE!" shtick - and seemed to be angling at that point for the then-lucrative V/O market on a par with his onetime colleague from WABC Musicradio 77 days, Dan Ingram. (Mr. Morrow was also, in that period, doing entertainment reports for WNBC Channel 4's "NewsCenter4.")

[@patd9737]

I think a lot of NBC stations aired this right after Saturday Night Live. The NBC station in Milwaukee, WTMJ, aired SCTV on Saturdays at midnight during those years.

[@wmbrown6]

@@patd9737 - WNBC Channel 4 in New York did not start carrying "SCTV" until the 1979-80 season.

[@jessecoffey4737]

In Baltimore, SCTV aired on, of all places, a PBS station, WMPT.

[@goodmaro]

@@wmbrown6 Which is why my friend Bob vehemently denies Harold Ramis played the station manager in the first season, since he watched SCTV from the "first season" -- in New York. I was in Chicago at the time and saw these WMAQ airings. But I don't think WOR served in any way as a model for SCTV. However, Toronto's CITY-TV, channel 79, did. That's what they were making fun of as channel 109. CITY ran with just enough power to be considered broadcast and force cable carriage. The call letters were just serendipity with *Second* City.

[@wmbrown6]

@@goodmaro - If the Second City had a New York branch and those in that troupe started a TV show about a TV station, no doubt WOR-TV would have been the model.

[@CelesteKTheNewWaveRevue]

I didn't know that SCTV was run in the US?

[@NOcode]

Will there be anymore SCTV uploads?

[@FuzzyMemoriesTV]

Yeah one more soon

[@NOcode]

Awesome!

[@Legend813a]

200 francs!

[@ModMokkaMatti]

Is it just me, or is William B. continually laughing in the background?

[@billirvin9364]

Babe Ruth wore #3, not #4, lol! I know nobody cares, just happened to notice that.

[@wmbrown6]

That's what was noted in the description - Lou Gehrig wore #4, thus John Candy as Ruth was wearing Gehrig's number! Wonder if SCTV was making their own little commentary about all the numerous factual inaccuracies in "biopics"?

[@diamonddog13]

@@wmbrown6 That particular scene was more based on the movie The Lou Gehrig Story, so having Babe wear number 4 was kind of a wink at that.

[@wmbrown6]

@@diamonddog13 - You don't mean "The Pride Of The Yankees," dontcha?

[@diamonddog13]

@@wmbrown6 Yes that's correct Thanks

[@paulyricca3881]

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[@JesseTheMindless]

Yoo hoo... LOL 😅😉