SCTV - Second City Television - "Shock Theatre" - WMAQ-TV (Complete Broadcast, 4/9/1978)

Miss those local stations. I loved Bozo, Ray Rayner, Dirty Dragon show. I lived in La grange and Hinsdale in the 1970s.

This is that hard to find intro I've been looking for that says, "...& Dave Thomas as The Beaver."

Two days later, in April 11, 1978, in Chile, color television began transmissions through Televisión Nacional de Chile, UCV Televisión, Channel 13 of Catholic University and Channel 9 of University of Chile.

The boy in "Shock Theatre" is John Candy's nephew, Donald Cowper. He was in quite a few segments in the first year of "SCTV".

A lot of the humor from that time hasn't aged very well.

In NYC, as I mentioned in other comments sections of other clips put up, "SCTV's" first home was WOR Channel 9.

I don't see a mention of the Marshall Brodien sketch.

WKQX in 1978 was album rock at the time, by 1979 it became adult contemporary and then in 1992 it became modern rock.

Is "The Wacky World of Poverty" a parody of "Let's Make a Deal"?

"That dog eats meat.
He ain't no British cigarette, and neither am I."

LOLWUT?

WMAQ have trouble selling ad time during the midnight hour I guess. so many PSAs during this.

The 30 min version of sctv are classics the network versions were ok these were funnier

the ads are almost as funny as the show!! 
that was Kevin "home alone" Mcallister's dad as the drunk driver!

Man I loved this show.

Thanks so much for sharing this rare treat with us. SCTV - best sketch show ever. I will say that I can see why that ugly Alpro sketch was apparently taken out of repeats. It doesn't feel like SCTV at all.

Love it!!

Laughed more in a half hour than at any recent SNL’s.

This would never be allowed on the TV today.

It looks you have a unique version of this episode. The ending credits with Earl Camembert's coughing fit was actually from The Taxidermist episode of SCTV. The actual ending credits should have had Andrea Martin as a ballet dancer.

That Alpro sketch is a perfect example of why so called "cancel culture" and "woke ness" were created in the first place. The hell is so funny about a guy beating his wife? As someone who as a little kid saw their dad being physically abusive towards their mom I'd like to know. There's a big difference between edgy and politically incorrect humor and demented and mean spirited humor.

Was that Tony Rosato sitting in the audience on The Wacky World Of Poverty?

Canada SNL!

Theme song was an excerpt of "Dance of the Hours" by Spike Jones.

Thanks for posting those SCTV shows. They have been a "Holy Grail" of mine for many years because I first watched the show on Channel 5 after SNL, then those half-hours disappeared after the NBC 90-minute show started.

When they resurfaced years later, they had been re-edited with the show openings and bumpers changed to ones from later in the 1980s, and often skits edited or missing.

Regarding the "Maurice Green" / "Harold Ramis" difference: This episode was an early one in the first season, when the show was only on in Canada before it got picked up in the U.S. the following year. The character of Moe Green existed from the beginning but only later became the station manager. The "Harold Ramis" version was as originally shown in Canada. By the time the episode aired in the U.S., the character was well established as the station manager so they edited out the beginning where he introduces himself and superimposed Maurice Green's name.

The first 13 shows aired in Canada before they had a deal in the U.S. The U.S. shows were two minutes shorter. By the "second half" of Season 1 (1977-78) they were producing both a Canada and U.S. version of the show, but apparently, to some extent the first 13 had to be reconstructed from the ground up, so some episodes don't exactly correspond to a specific Canadian show. There were a few sketches that found their way into the U.S. shows which didn't air in Canada and haven't been seen since, because the later (1984 and after) reruns were adapted from the Canadian shows.

"Al Pro Dog Food" is not one of these, but nonetheless is a very rare sketch because it was pulled for content reasons.

Now, I have heard things suggesting that the U.S. versions of these shows might not have been archived and are now "lost," but I don't know if that's true or not. But aside from the reconfigured reruns (based on the Canadian versions) they haven't been seen in 40 years, and out of 78 episodes in the first three seasons, only 15 (mostly from Season 3) were released on DVD.

A thin John Candy!

SCTV was a lot faster-paced in the first couple of seasons, with more commercial spoofs, which appealed to me a lot at the time. In the later seasons, skits could drag out through an entire program.

sctv is a true treasure

I would have rather this video not have a watermark its really hard to watch for me

Sweet fancy Moe-ses

S01E08

The Scary Story was a killer🤣

If only there was a time machine

SCTV was great , a faster pace than SNL , I remember when I was a Chippendale about the same time as John Candy and Rob Skiba .

Use to watch sctv when it was new, the memories

Was that a relative of Earl Camembert or Rockin' Mel Slirrup promoting that Datsun 280Z contest before the actual content?

Thankfully, the "Dining with LaRue" segment didn't become an all-inclusive "Dying with LaRue" one, instead. Mangia!

LOVED THIS. Complete with the original credits and the Rhodes slide. Good times at midnight Saturday nights after SNL on WMAQ!

My dog needs Alpro!

Linguini and clam sauce avangule! In slang italian that means linguini and clam sauce fuck you!

Read the label.

OMG, was watching this and googled the show and it said Flaherty died yesterday. RIP.

Dude,it's Bluestreak!