Product Description
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SCTV Volume 2 picks up where the first volume left off,
presenting nine more 90-minute shows from SCTV’s memorable fourth
season. Originally broadcast on NBC in 1981 and 1982, this set
contains several of the episodes widely considered to be SCTV’s
best. Eugene Levy in "The Jazz Singer" or John Candy as the
village idiot in the Russian TV show "Hey Giorgy!" are just two
examples of the level of excellence the series achieved
throughout this season. "CCCP 1," "The Godher," "Zontar" and
"Teacher’s Pet" are some of the inspired wraparounds for these
memorable shows.
Commentaries, interviews, hidden treasure and other special
features round out another stellar collection of programming from
Guy Caballero’s experiment in television. SCTV is on the
air...and you will be on the floor.
And loaded with over 90 minutes of special features including new
& unreleased material:
*Larger Than Life: The Norman Seeff Photo Sessions
*SCTV Remembers, Pt. 2
*The SCTV Writers
*The Juul Haalmeyer Dancers
*Behind-The-Scenes Photo Gallery
*SCTV At The 1982 Emmy® Awards
THIS 5-DISC BOX SET INCLUDES:
*Nine 90-minute episodes from the NBC seasons with the comedic
talent of Eugene Levy (New York Minute, American Pie, A Mighty
Wind, Best In Show), Catherine O’ Hara (A Mighty Wind, Best In
Show), Joe Flaherty (National Security), Andrea Martin (My Big
Greek Wedding), and Dave Thomas (Who’s Your Daddy? ), Rick
Moranis (Honey, I Shrunk The Kids) and the late John Candy.
*Deluxe DVDigistak style package with graphics behind the clear
trays in a sturdy slip-case.
*Performances by musical stars Al Jarreau, The Plasmatics,
Natalie Cole, The Boomtown Rats, The Plastics and Talking Heads.
*Commentaries by Dave Thomas, Dick Blasucci, writer John
McAndrew, Andrea Martin and Catherine O’Hara.
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For those who never missed a Friday, and especially for
those who only know SCTV by reputation, these nine episodes,
presented chronologically on this five disc-set, are as great as
we remember, and perhaps even better than you've heard. With the
first nine episodes of SCTV's expanded Network 90 incarnation
under their belt (available, naturally, on volume 1 (
/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0001S6AQE/%24%7B0%7D )), the peerless ensemble
(John Candy, Joe Flahrety, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Rick
Moranis, Catherine O'Hara, and Dave Thomas) really found its
voice (or voices), and the show relied less on the so-called
"golden classics" from the show's early days to boldly subvert
sketch-comedy convention with brilliantly conceived and performed
wraparounds that link the sketches. Looming large in SCTV legend
are the program-length Godher parody, in which Don Caballero
launches an all-out network war; the devastatingly funny, "I'm
Taking My Own Head, Screwing It On Right, and No Guy's Gonna Tell
Me That It Ain't," arguably one of Martin and O'Hara's finest
hours, and the sci-fi spoof "Zontar," in which glowing cabbages
take control of the network.
Other moments for the pantheon: Meryl Streep blowing up real
good on the "Farm Film Report"; Bob and Doug McKenzie
demonstrating how to stuff a mouse inside a bottle; the
cross-parody "Benny Hill Street Blues," and the late Wendy O
Williams and the Plasmatics really cutting it up (with a
chainsaw!) on Gil Fisher's "The Fishin' Musician. Some of the
more topical bits are understandably dated, and that canned
laughter reeks of network Zontars imposing their will, but this
second, equally indispensable volume rescues SCTV from mere cult
object of obsession. Original cast member Harold Ramis is right:
In Thomas's encyclopedic history, SCTV: Behind the Scenes, Ramis
observes, "Everyone just got better and better. You would notice,
if you had the time to sit and watch all the shows, the
progression in excellence." --Donald Liebenson