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SCTV Network 90

Season 5 1983

  • 1983-01-28T05:00:00Z on Super Channel
  • 1h 5m
  • 9h (6 episodes)
  • Canada
  • English
  • Comedy
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.

6 episodes

Season Premiere

1983-01-28T05:00:00Z

5x01 A Star Is Born with Crystal Gayle

Season Premiere

5x01 A Star Is Born with Crystal Gayle

  • 1983-01-28T05:00:00Z1h 30m

The Days of the Week returns for another six episode run. Other notable sketches: the first Half Wits, Artisans and Their Art with the inimitable Bradley P Allen, and A Star is Born, starring Crystal Gayle.

5x02 SCTV Classifieds / Vic Arpeggio

  • 1983-02-11T05:00:00Z1h 30m

To encourage small business advertising, SCTV cuts its ad rates, resulting in a series of homemade ads for several micro-businesses. Also features the classic Stars In One profile of child star Rusty Van Reddick and the first episode of Vic Arpeggio Private Investigator. Jayne Eastwood guests as the moderator for Philosophers at work

1983-02-18T05:00:00Z

5x03 Bobby Bittman Retires

5x03 Bobby Bittman Retires

  • 1983-02-18T05:00:00Z1h 30m

Features a short wraparound about Bobby Bittman's retirement from showbiz and subsequent comeback. Also features the continuation of William B Williams' mutli-story arc as he hosts his very own show. A classic of discomfort comedy, the William B Williams Show is such a disaster that not even William B can take it and he walks off his own show. The William B Williams Show includes the first appearance of legendary songwriter Irving Cohen

1983-02-25T05:00:00Z

5x04 Sweeps Week

5x04 Sweeps Week

  • 1983-02-25T05:00:00Z1h 30m

SCTV's longest wraparound show finds a poltergeist of television's past haunting the station during sweeps week, and Guy must call in the services of a technology savvy clairvoyant. Originally aired during February, which is apparently a Sweeps Month in America, when the networks pull out all the stops to get ratings. The Days of the Week is the only sketch not linked in some way to the wraparound. Johnny LaRue's final appearance on SCTV is in a minor promo, Jumping For Dollars

5x05 Sammy Maudlin: South Sea Sinner

  • 1983-03-11T05:00:00Z1h 30m

William B Williams returns to the Sammy Maudlin Show, the Shmenges host a beauty pageant, and Jackie Rogers Jr plugs his upcoming special, Jackie, We Hardly Knew Ye.

Season Finale

1983-03-18T05:00:00Z

5x06 3D Firing Line: Midnight Cowboy II

Season Finale

5x06 3D Firing Line: Midnight Cowboy II

  • 1983-03-18T05:00:00Z1h 30m

A set of unconnected sketches featuring many recurring characters, including a new Count Floyd vehicle, 3D Firing Line, which takes a look at Midnight Cowboy II, Ed Grimley in Whatever Happened to Baby Ed, the final episode of The Days of the Week (with cameos by Catherine O'Hara and Carol Burnett), as well as The Fishin' Musician, Stars In One, and perhaps the finest Mel's Rock Pile - the tribute to punk rock. Not a bad way to leave network television.

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