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SCTV. Volume 1 [videorecording (DVD)] : Network 90.

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Shout Factory ; distributed by Sony Music Entertainment, c2004.

Alternate title:

Second City Televisin Network. Volume 1 [videorecording (DVD)] : Network 90

Second City TV. Volume 1 [videorecording (DVD)] : Network 90

Network 90 [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)] :

5 videodiscs (ca. 13 hr.) : Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 booklet.

Program content : The Second City Entertainment, Inc., 1983.

Special features: Commentaries by Joe Flaherty and Eugene Levy ; the 1989 Aspen Comedy Festival SCTV tribute. original cast members Flaherty, Levy, Andrea Martin, Catherin O'Hara and Dave Thomas joined Conan O'Brien for this event, which was first broadcast on HBO ; nearly 90 minutes of newly created audio and video segments featuring cast and crew insights and memories ; a photo-packed 24-page booklet with essays by Conan O'Brien, SCTV executive producer, Andrew Alexander and veteran pop journalist Don Waller.

Contains the first nine episodes from the original series of 90-minute shows broadcast on NBC in 1981.

Disc 1. (163 min.) Episode 79. One on the town ( May 15, 1981) ; Episode 80. Polynesiantown ( May 22, 1981) ; Extra: SCTV remembers -- Disc 2. (158 min.) Episode 81. Southside fracas ( May 29, 1981) ; Episode 82. Complication (June 19, 1981) ; Extra: Origins of SCTV (25:30 min.) -- Disc 3. (157 min.) Episode 83. Lunchtime Street beef (July 3, 1981) ; Episode 84. Moral majority (July 10, 1981) ; Extra: Remembering John Candy (27 min.) -- Disc 4. (160 min.) Episode 85. Pledge week (July 17, 1981) ; Episode 86. Bouncin' back to you (July 24, 1981) ; Extra: The craft of SCTV (29 min.) -- Disc 5. (130 min.) Episode 87. The Great White North (July 31, 1981) ; Extra: SCTV reunion - 1999 U.S. Comedy Arts Festival (63 min.).

Executive producers, Andrew Alexander, Len Stuart ; producers, Dick Blasucci, Scott Dobson ; associate producer, Anthony Blasucci ; various episode writers & directors.

John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Rick Moranis, Catherine O'Hara, Dave Thomas and Harold Ramis.

SCTV was the first television show based entirely upon the concept of satirizing the medium of television itself, which enabled the performers to skewer everything from feature films, promos and commercials to such familiar local television staples as late-night horror movie hosts and the backstage goings-on at the fictional SCTV station itself.

Sketch comedy television programs.

Television comedies.

Comedy sketches.

Television programs -- Canada.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Flaherty, Joseph P., 1940-

Levy, Eugene, 1946-

Martin, Andrea, 1947-

O'Hara, Catherine.

Thomas, Dave, 1949-

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