Features: DVD
By popular demand, the first single SCTV DVD releases are now available. These were the first two 90-minute shows to be broadcast on NBC.Southside Fracas: This offers the "Only For Women" talk show, Dick Cavett interview with Dick Cavett and the Berman film parody sandwiched into Count Floyd's "Monster Horror Chiller Theater" as well as the Siskel & Ebert take-off and more. The Sammy Maudlin Show: Bob Hope In China: Some of the best segments of the first three seasons were compiled here including loads of short skits surrounding "Lee A. Iacocca's Rock Concert"--featuring Gino Vanelli, Ringo Starr and Barbra Streisand's duet with Slim Whitman--and that fine British film The Man Who Would Be King Of The Popes. Bonus features included.
Editor's Note
An edgier version of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, the Canadian sketch comedy series SCTV premiered in 1977 and ran for three seasons in a half-hour format before being picked up by NBC and expanded to 90 minutes in 1981. Unusual for a sketch comedy series, SCTV's skits were tied together by the framing device of a fictional television network populated by feuding newscasters, dishonest talk show hosts, failed cabaret singers, fishing musicians, and other eccentric show biz types. In between were sketches of biting contemporary satire delivered by an inspired cast of future stars: Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Rick Moranis, Catherine O'Hara, Dave Thomas, and the late-great John Candy. This collection includes the second disc of SCTV - VOLUME ONE for a total of two 90-minute episodes: "Southside Fracas," which features the skits "Only for Women" and "Monster Horror Chiller Theater;" as well as "The Sammy Maudlin Show," featuring "Lee A. Iacocca's Rock Concert" and "The Man Who Would be King of the Popes."
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