SCTV began humbly in late 1976 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.

When SCTV, the little fictional local television station, first broadcast its small-town programming via big-time NBC in 1981, it immediately captured the devotion of comedy fans across North America.

Guy Caballero and Edith Prickley were born on these shows. The McKenzie Brothers were created. Earl Camembert, Floyd Robertson, Johnny LaRue, Sammy Maudlin and Bobby Bittman – characters destined to become household names – were first beamed into consciousness here.

SCTV has featured such stars as John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Rick Moranis, Catherine O’Hara, Dave Thomas, Harold Ramis and more!