SCTV:THE BEST OF THE EARLY

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• Release Year: 1980
• Genre: Comedy
• Plot: SCTV GETS ON THE AIR!; ; SCTV: Best of the Early Years is a collection of SCTV's best half-hour episodes and a tribute to the raw talent and limitless creativity of the people who built the SCTV network.; ; SCTV began humbly in late 1978, with a low-to-no-budget half-hour show airing monthly in Canada on the Global Television network, then a struggling startup. It didn't take long for the exceptional cast and writers to make their mark on the comedy-loving counterculture - by its third season SCTV was airing weekly on the CBC and syndicated in the U.S.; ; Guy Caballero and Edith Prickley were born on these shows. The McKenzie Brothers were created. Earl Camembert, Floyd Robertson, Johnny LaRue, Sammy Maudin and Bobby Bittman - characters who were destined to become household names - were first beamed into consciousness here.
• Cast: Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Dave Thomas, John Candy, Catherine O'Hara, Tony Rosato, Robin Duke, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Donald Cowper, Peter Wildman, Dick Blasucci, Jayne Eastwood, Monica Parker, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Valri Bromfield, Brenda Donohue, Ron Gwynne, Sherry Miller, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Sheldon Patinkin, Linda Rennhofer, Peter Aykroyd, Kathleen Wallace-Deering, Mimi Kuzyk, Joe Seely, Claude Tessier, Paul Flaherty, Don Dickinson, Ken Dresen, Steven Kampmann, Jan Randall, Martin Short, Pj Torokvei, Lisa Turina, George Bloomfield, Milad Bessada, John Blanchard, Brian Doyle-Murray, Michael Short, Jim Fisher, Jim Staahl, Andrew Alexander, Del Close, Bernard Sahlins
• Director: George Bloomfield
• Runtime: 6:55
• Company: Shout Factory, Shout! Factory
• Media Format: Series