The Strange Story of SCTV in the USA | The Saturday Evening Post
Join Second City Television, better known as SCTV, grew out of the Toronto branch of Second City, the legendary comedy stage show and organization in Chicago. Launched in 1976, just under a year after the heavily Second City-influenced Saturday Night Live debuted in the States, the sketch show essentially took viewers through the broadcast day of a fictional TV station. This allowed parodies of any manner of TV shows and commercials, including news, soap operas, and Monster Chiller Horror Theater, a horror movie program hosted by Count Floyd (Joe Flaherty). Subscribe and get unlimited ...
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