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SCTV, Volume 1 - Network 90 (5 Disc Set)
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Genre | Television |
Format | Box set, NTSC, Color, Multiple Formats |
Contributor | Mary Charlotte Wilcox, Paul Flaherty, Martin Short, John Hemphill, Andrea Martin, Brian McConnachie, Catherine O'Hara, John Bell, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, John Candy, Dick Blasucci, Dave Thomas, Tom Couch, Rick Moranis See more |
Language | English |
Number Of Discs | 1 |
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Available for the first time on home video, in a 5-disc DVD box set. It covers the first nine 90-minute episodes which aired on NBC (and later in syndication), and also includes tons of special features.
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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
Review
"One of TVs all-time best sketch shows." -- New York Daily News
"One of the 50 best television shows of all time . . . a gloriously funny run." -- TV Guide
"SCTV brought together the funniest minds ever to grace late-night television." -- Associated Press
"There are many remarkable things about SCTV, not the least of which is that its funny." -- Chicago Tribune
Product details
- Aspect Ratio : 1.33:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 5.6 ounces
- Item model number : Relay Time: 768 min; 5Videos
- Director : John Bell
- Media Format : Box set, NTSC, Color, Multiple Formats
- Run time : 13 hours
- Release date : June 8, 2004
- Actors : Eugene Levy, John Candy, Andrea Martin, Joe Flaherty, Rick Moranis
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- Studio : Shout Factory
- ASIN : B0001S6AQE
- Writers : Brian McConnachie, Tom Couch
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #5,783 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #653 in Comedy (Movies & TV)
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The entire cast is great (although I am not much of a John Candy fan, he is generally excellent in SCTV, particularly doing impersonations such as Alfred Hitchcock), but I think the standouts are easily the two women, Andrea Martin and Catherine O'Hara, who never fail to make me laugh. In particular the recurrent character of non-English speaking Vice President of Program Coordination Pirini Scleroso (Martin) is the single funniest feature of the set. I especially enjoy the guest editorial by Pirini when crabby manager Guy Caballero is out of the room (at one point she answers the phone with "Sell forty shares!"), and her visit to the English for beginners classroom. Martin also excels in the musical "Indira" and with O'Hara in the hilarious episode of "Monster Chiller Horror Theatre" (another recurring favorite) featuring the "Ingmar Burgman" film "Whispers of the Wolf," which is a devastatingly accurate send-up of Bergman. The other Martin bit that I prize is "Mrs. Falbo's Tiny Town," which is the most surreal children's show ever conceptualized. Eugene Levy also proves excellent in virtually every sketch: watch for him as Gino Vanelli and as the host of "Mel's Rock Pile," which features the funniest presentation of "MacArthur Park" in history. I also love Joe Flaherty as Slim Whitman, who sings with everyone from Indira Gandhi to Barbra Streisand to great comedic effect.
My favorite sketches include the Guy Caballero and Pirini Scleroso dialogues, "Monster Chiller Horror Theatre" ("Doctor Tongue's 3-D House of Stewardesses" and "Whispers of the Wolf"), the Edith Prickley monologues, "The Larry Siegel Show," "The Great White North," "Farm Film Report," "Mrs. Falbo's Tiny Town," "Spray-On Socks," "High-Q," and "The Brooke Shields Show."
Of course along with the winners come a few clunkers. My least favorite storyline was the "Polynesiantown" spectacle, which was never really all that funny and was extremely long. I found the "Leave It to Beaver 25th Anniversary" sketch to be boring and not especially entertaining, either. The only recurring character I disliked was that of Bobby Bittman, which is surprising because I generally like Levy so much. I just think it is repetitive and falls flat quickly.
In summary, I am delighted that I have finally been introduced to SCTV. It is brilliant, far funnier than Saturday Night Live, and is now available to comedy lovers everywhere. Buy this set if you want to laugh for a long time.
However, the format is not how I remember it as I used to watch the half hour shows in reruns late at night as opposed to the 90 minute NBC shows depicted here, but many of the same bits are here. Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas do some dead on ringers of Woody Allen and Bob Hope. I think Rick does Woody better than Woody does, if that is possible. Who can forget the "Great White North"? There are simply some unforgettable moments of the kind of satire that makes the Simpson's so funny. The late great John Candy in some bits he later reprised in various films ("Splash", for example) playing Johnny LaRue, with his exercise show with famous line "better take it easy, my heart is beating like a rabbit". For those too young to remember Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, the comedy satire of "Mel's Rock Pile" may not make sense, but for those who do it is too funny for words.
The show was a parody of television, with "SCTV" representing a TV channel (likely modeled after 1970's ABC). The commercials, the "sweeps week", the late night programming, and the behind the scenes productions, and more, are all just a wonderfully written satire of what was the unbelievable spectacle of 1970's network television.
The only downer is that this set does not include the inclusion of Martin Short, who created some memorable characters such as Ed Grimly, and who participated in some of the best sketches they did. Also missing are dozens of classics which were not part of the NBC 90 minute show. That said we can always hope those are released in DVD quality as well. Considering how many films these actors went on to be in, they represent the same kind of talent development that made SNL famous. I would call this SNL combined with Monty Python, classic sketch comedy, but more satire than antics.
Highly recommended. It is great to see John Candy, Rick Moranis, Eugene Levy, and others so familiar to comedy films in the last two decades, and how they all got their start. Thanks for finally releasing these, now get busy with the second set!