Second City Television is a Canadian television sketch comedy show offshoot from Toronto's The Second City troupe that ran between 1976 and 1984. The basic premise of the show is that "SCTV" is an independent television station in the city of Melonville. Rather than broadcasting the usual TV rerun fare, the station produces a bizarre and humorously incompetent range of cheap local programming. This can range from a soap opera called "The Days of the Week" , to game shows like "Shoot At The Stars" in which celebrities are literally shot at like targets in a shooting gallery, to full blown... movie spoofs like "Play it Again, Bob" in which Woody Allen tries to get Bob Hope to star in his next film. A typical episode of SCTV would present a compendium of programming seen on the station throughout their programming day. This would mean a given episode could contain everything from SCTV news broadcasts to sitcoms, dramas, talk shows, kids shows, and/or game shows.
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| On the air: | September 21, 1976-July 17, 1984 |
| Number of seasons: | 8 |
| Network: | NBC, Global Television Network, CBC Television, Movie Central |