Second City Television: A History and Episode Guide

This work offers a complete episode guide and comprehensive history of Second City Television. With unforgettable parodies of game shows (Shoot at the Stars) and classic movies (The Man Who Would Be King of the Popes), and freewheeling commercials for products like Oil of Oil, the Canadian sketch comedy series won devoted fans and influenced many films and television shows that followed. The SCTV crowd created dozens of memorable characters (such as station president Guy Caballero and showbiz mogul Johnny LaRue) and featured many well-known performers and writers--among them John Candy, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, and Harold Ramis--on the rise to stellar comedic careers. This book provides a sketch-by-sketch breakdown and review of each of SCTV's 135 episodes, including a vote for the best moments of each. Two appendices provide guides to the program's compilation shows and recently released boxed sets on DVD.