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The Worst Episodes of SCTV Network 90

Every episode of SCTV Network 90 ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of SCTV Network 90!

After a successful Canadian run as Second City TV on Global and SCTV on CBC, the cast packed up and moved to America (theoretically) when NBC offered them a timeslot under the title SCTV Network 90. With them, they brought their unique, quirky characters, their personalities, and the shows they had appeared on. Dick Blasucci had begun writing for the cast in their second series, SCTV, and joined them here, serving as a recurring straight man for the characters. Tony Rosato and Robin Duke wrote scripts at the beginning of the show as they had before, until quickly leaving to write and perform for Saturday Night Live. The appeal of SCTV Network 90, however, doesn't only come from the writing, but from the sheer wit of its legendary stars.

Genre:Comedy
Network:NBC

Lowest Rated Episodes Summary

The worst episode of "SCTV Network 90" is "The Great White North Palace", rated N/A/10 from 0 user votes. It was directed by Jim Drake, John Bell and written by Don Novello. "The Great White North Palace" aired on 4/16/1982 and is rated NaN point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "Pre-Teen World Telethon".

  • The Great White North Palace
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    #1 - The Great White North Palace

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 4/16/1982

    1. Message from Guy: Reruns 2. Indira, Live at the Ackron Arena 3. Angie Dickenson for Fancy-Free Undershields 4. Bob and Doug Wrap 5. Al Peck's Used Cars 6. The Days of the Week 7. Way to Go, Woman: Mother Theresa 8. Great White North Special 9. You: Fitness 10. Nightline Melonville: Unemployment 11. The Great White North Palace 12. Reverend Dan Ellsmire - Be My Friend

    Director: Jim Drake, John Bell

    Writer: Don Novello

  • Pre-Teen World Telethon
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    #2 - Pre-Teen World Telethon

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 4/23/1982

    1. Hands Off Remote Control Converter from Videotech 2. National Midnight Star 3. Pre-Teen World Telethon 4. Turk Gruman Police Dispatcher 5. SCTV Movie of the Week: Maudlin's Eleven 6. Prickley Heat 7. The Adventures of Shake 'n' Bake 8. Nightline Melonville: Kidnapping 9. Surgical Clinical Instruments 10. PSA: National Committee Against Noise Pollution

    Director: Jim Drake, John Bell

    Writer: Don Novello

  • The People's Global Golden Choice Awards
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    #3 - The People's Global Golden Choice Awards

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 5/1/1982

    1. People's Global Golden Choice Awards 2. Bob's Big Guy Restaurant 3. Convert-A-Toupe 4. The Merv Griffin Show: The Special Edition 5. Great White North: 15-pin Bowling 6. Tex and Edna Boil's Prairie Warehouse and Curio Emporium: Chuckie 7. The Fishin' Musician: Third World

    Director: Jim Drake, John Bell

    Writer: Don Novello

  • 3D Stake From the Heart
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    #4 - 3D Stake From the Heart

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 5/14/1982

    1. Message from Guy: The Days of the Week 2. Gene Shalit for Bufferil 3. House in a Box 4. The Days of the Week 5. Just for Fun: Copland, Friedan, Solzhenitzen 6. Dr. X: An Old Friend Returns 7. Tex and Edna Boil's Prairie Warehouse and Curio Emporium: Lawn Ornament Daze 8. The Making of 3D Stake from the Heart 9. Edna Boil's Prairie Warehouse and Curio Emporium: Western Clothing 10. Reverend Dan Ellsmire - Surprise Grab Bag 11. ? and Edna Boil's Prairie Warehouse and Curio Emporium: Auditions 12. The Irv Goldfarb Show 13. Bali Indonesian Cuisine Restaurant 14. The Irv Goldfarb Show 15. Edna Boil's Prairie Warehouse and Curio Emporium: Countess Boileena 16. Sunrise Semester: Conversational New Yorkese II with Norman Gorman

    Director: Jim Drake, John Bell

    Writer: Don Novello

  • Pet Peeves / The Happy Wanderers
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    #5 - Pet Peeves / The Happy Wanderers

    Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 5/21/1982

    1. Annie with The Original Cast 2. Stairways to Heaven 3. Donahue: Pornography 4. Pet Peeves of the Stars 5. The Days of the Week 6. The Happy Wanderers: Linsk Minyk 7. Shmenge Travel 8. The Happy Wanderers Looking Back on Shmenge Records 9. Second Nose Job 10. Nightline Melonville: Milk Slush Fund 11. Audiogames by Intellicoustic 12. The Fishin' Musician: Carl Perkins 13. K-I-L Ammo 14. Great White North: How to Beat the Russians 15. LaRue Fish Flakes and Frosted Fish Flakes 16. Stand Up and Be Counted with Bill Needle

    Director: Jim Drake, John Bell

    Writer: Don Novello

  • Chariots of Eggs
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    #6 - Chariots of Eggs

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 6/5/1982

    1. Commercial: Luciano Pavarotti for Edison Gum 2. The Sammy Maudlin Show: Chariots of Eggs 3. Johnny LaRue's Discount Deprive-O-Rama 4. SCTV News Special Report: NASA Production of Murder in the Cathedral 5. The Days of the Week 6. Ethel Merman Wake Up and Love Me 7. Great White North: Twist-off Beer Caps 8. Mr. Boom Microphone (from Ronco) 9. Mrs. Falbo's Tiny Town: Prison 10. Wheelbarrow World 11. Revenge 12. Carl's Cuts: Film Editing 13. Message from Guy: SCTV's Political Stance

    Director: Jim Drake, John Bell

    Writer: Don Novello

  • Battle of the PBS Stars
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    #7 - Battle of the PBS Stars

    Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 7/16/1982

    1. Long Distance 2. SCTV Sports: Battle of the PBS Stars 3. Wok on the Wild Side: The Case of the Stir-Fried Corpse 4. The Days of the Week 5. SCTV Movie of the Week: I Was a Teenage Communist 6. Harry's Discount Sex Shop: Businessman of the Year 7. Big Dude TV Dinner 8. Charlie's Kitchen 9. Mean Joe Greene Playhouse 10. Love Slaves of the Southwest 11. Comment with David Brinkley: Boredom

    Director: Jim Drake, John Bell

    Writer: Don Novello

  • Rome, Italian Style
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    #8 - Rome, Italian Style

    Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 10/15/1982

    1. "Mr. Know-It-All" The Life of Nostradamus - The Promo 2. Identical Bellhops 3. Money Talks with Brian Johns: Condominiums 4. Nightline Melonville: Margaret Thatcher and Tip O'Neill 5. Jerry Lewis Live on the Champs Elysees 6. Great White North: Dog Scoopers 7. The Days of the Week 8. International House of Panties 9. SCTV Foreign Film Festival: Rome, Italian Style 10. The Fishin' Musician: Jimmy Buffett 11. One-stop Lifestyle Services 12. Mouse House 13. Fireside Chat: Chipped Tooth 14. Norton Sheeff's The Making of: Dr. X 15. General Life's Insight 16. Sunrise Semester: Elementary Drawing 101 with Salvador Dali

    Director: Jim Drake, John Bell

    Writer: Don Novello

  • The Days of the Week / Street Beef
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    #9 - The Days of the Week / Street Beef

    Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 10/22/1982

    1. DiMaggio's on the Wharf 2. Street Beef Wrap 3. Norman Mailer for Tyde 4. Talking Projector Adventure Series 5. The Days of the Week episode 6: The Wedding 6. Street Beef: The Big O 7. Lipschitz & Lipschitz 8. TV Talk with Bill Needle 9. Carl's Cuts: Free Delivery 10. SCTV After School Special: How Nosy the Short-Haired Terrier Dog Got His Name 11. The Wall Street Journal 12. Finian's Rainbow Meats

    Director: Jim Drake, John Bell

    Writer: Don Novello

  • Sammy Maudlin 23rd Anniversary / CBC
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    #10 - Sammy Maudlin 23rd Anniversary / CBC

    Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 11/5/1982

    With a garbage strike looming, Edith persuades Pierre Trudeau to let SCTV pick up the CBC feed. Meanwhile, Sammy Maudlin decides to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his show two years early.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Indecent Exposure
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    #11 - Indecent Exposure

    Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 11/12/1982

    Fred Willard is involved in a scheme Guy Caballero has hatched, forcing the arrival of SCTV Chairman Alan ""Crazy Legs"" Shipman.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Melonvote
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    #12 - Melonvote

    Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 11/19/1982

    The second election episode, as covered by SCTV News Election Central. Also features the Shmenge's tribute to John Williams and the very first Stars In One, hosted by Brock Linehan, Martin Short's superb impression of Canadian celebrity interviewer Brian Linehan.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Jane Eyrehead
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    #13 - Jane Eyrehead

    Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 11/26/1982

    "Angel Cortez: FBI Jockey," Bobby Bittman PSA for the Public Library, Gus the Security Guard makes everyone sign in, John Houseman reads the phone book, "Farm Film Report" with Deney Terrio, The band America performs "Right Before Your Eyes," SCTV Movie of the Week: "The Bowery Boys In The Band," Dr. Rawl Withers introduces The National Midnight Star, Harry the guy with a snake on his face sells descramblers. A "reasonably faithful" spoof of Jane Eyre, Reverend Gene Filler of the Church of Unlimited Credit, "Monster Chiller Horror Theater" presents Dr. Tongue's 3-D House of Slave Chicks, Curly Howard sings love themes, Gus asks Edith Prickley out, People's Court (joined in progress), Rev. Gene Filler returns.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Towering Inferno
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    #14 - Towering Inferno

    Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 12/10/1982

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Christmas
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    #15 - Christmas

    Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 12/17/1982

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Star Is Born with Crystal Gayle
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    #16 - A Star Is Born with Crystal Gayle

    Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 1/28/1983

    The Days of the Week returns for another six episode run. Other notable sketches: the first Half Wits, Artisans and Their Art with the inimitable Bradley P Allen, and A Star is Born, starring Crystal Gayle.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • SCTV Classifieds / Vic Arpeggio
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    #17 - SCTV Classifieds / Vic Arpeggio

    Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 2/11/1983

    To encourage small business advertising, SCTV cuts its ad rates, resulting in a series of homemade ads for several micro-businesses. Also features the classic Stars In One profile of child star Rusty Van Reddick and the first episode of Vic Arpeggio Private Investigator. Jayne Eastwood guests as the moderator for Philosophers at work

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Bobby Bittman Retires
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    #18 - Bobby Bittman Retires

    Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 2/18/1983

    Features a short wraparound about Bobby Bittman's retirement from showbiz and subsequent comeback. Also features the continuation of William B Williams' mutli-story arc as he hosts his very own show. A classic of discomfort comedy, the William B Williams Show is such a disaster that not even William B can take it and he walks off his own show. The William B Williams Show includes the first appearance of legendary songwriter Irving Cohen

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Sweeps Week
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    #19 - Sweeps Week

    Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 2/25/1983

    SCTV's longest wraparound show finds a poltergeist of television's past haunting the station during sweeps week, and Guy must call in the services of a technology savvy clairvoyant. Originally aired during February, which is apparently a Sweeps Month in America, when the networks pull out all the stops to get ratings. The Days of the Week is the only sketch not linked in some way to the wraparound. Johnny LaRue's final appearance on SCTV is in a minor promo, Jumping For Dollars

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Sammy Maudlin: South Sea Sinner
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    #20 - Sammy Maudlin: South Sea Sinner

    Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 3/11/1983

    William B Williams returns to the Sammy Maudlin Show, the Shmenges host a beauty pageant, and Jackie Rogers Jr plugs his upcoming special, Jackie, We Hardly Knew Ye.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • 3D Firing Line: Midnight Cowboy II
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    #21 - 3D Firing Line: Midnight Cowboy II

    Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 3/18/1983

    A set of unconnected sketches featuring many recurring characters, including a new Count Floyd vehicle, 3D Firing Line, which takes a look at Midnight Cowboy II, Ed Grimley in Whatever Happened to Baby Ed, the final episode of The Days of the Week (with cameos by Catherine O'Hara and Carol Burnett), as well as The Fishin' Musician, Stars In One, and perhaps the finest Mel's Rock Pile - the tribute to punk rock. Not a bad way to leave network television.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Southside Fracas
    8.1/10 102 votes

    #22 - Southside Fracas

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 5/29/1981

    1. Sunrise Semester: Conversational New Yorkese with Norman Gorman 2. Lola Heatherton In Concert 3. Yellowbelly 4. Speaking of Talk with Lou Jaffe 5. Message from Guy: Illegal Aliens 6. Melvin and Howard 7. Sneak Previews: Empires are a Girl's Best Friend 8. The Point Shave and Haircut from Shickette 9. Dick Cavett 10. The Fracases: Southside Fracas 11. Only for Women: Divorce 12. Great White North: Making Doug Go 13. The Babe Ruth Story 14. Sid Dithers Private Eye 15. Monster Chiller Horror Theatre: Whispers of the Wolf

    Director: John Bell, John Blanchard

    Writer: Dave Thomas

  • One on the Town
    8.2/10 102 votes

    #23 - One on the Town

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 5/15/1981

    1. Message from Guy: Catch Our Stars 2. High Q 3. The Merv Griffin Show: Arafat, Liberace, Ferigno 4. English for Beginners 5. Dr. Benson Credit Psychiatrist 6. Message from Prickley: The New Season 7. Leave It to Beaver 25th Anniversary Party 8. Great White North: The Best Groups and Doug's Imitations 9. Dan Money 10. One On the Town: Levon Helm 11. Message from Hal Waxberg: Behind the Scenes 12. The $Millionaire 13. 20 Depressing Hits by Connie Franklin 14. Message from Guy: Consultant 15. Commercial: Half Legs 16. Masterpiece Theatre: All the Long-Leggedy Beasties 17. Spray-On Socks 18. Play It Again, Bob

    Director: John Bell, John Blanchard

    Writer: Dave Thomas

  • Bob Hope in China
    8.2/10 102 votes

    #24 - Bob Hope in China

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 6/19/1981

    1. Comment with David Brinkley: Quality Smoke 2. Cooking with Prickley 3. Tex and Edna Boil's Organ Emporium: Rhythm Ace 4. Career Home Study 5. Mr. Science: Coffee 6. Sammy Maudlin Show: Bob Hope in China 7. Taxi Driver with Woody Allen 8. Transmission Difficulty / Program Change 9. What's My Shoesize? 10. Great White North: Parking at Donut Places 11. Taxi Driver with Gregory Peck 12. Lee A. Iacocca's Rock Concert 13. Extreme Close-Up with Dave Thomas 14. The Man Who Would Be King of the Popes 15. Taxi Driver with Sid Dithers 16. The Love Boat: Deerhunter Special 17. Chet Vet, the Dead Pet Remover 18. My Fair Lady 19. Harlett Romances 20. Mel's Rock Pile: Richard Harris 21. Shock Theatre: Early to Bed

    Director: John Bell, John Blanchard

    Writer: Dave Thomas

  • Polynesiantown
    8.3/10 103 votes

    #25 - Polynesiantown

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 5/22/1981

    1. 5 Neat Guys: Neatest Hits 2. Tim Ishimuni Show 3. Kwallada 4. Message from Prickley: Polynesiantown 5. SCTV Movie Of the Week: Polynesiantown 6. Larry Siegel Talk Show 7. Indira, live at the Ackron Arena 8. Great White North: Traveling and Salaries 9. Brenda Vaccaro for Bren's Genfem Protecteze Pons 10. Sammy Maudlin Show: Drugs and Hollywood 11. The Rosemans 12. Yuri: Getting to Know You 13. Will: The Movie 14. SCTV British Film Festival: Look Back in a Bloody Rage 15. Gerry Todd Show 16. Crazy Hy's: TVs 17. Incredible Cash Contest 18. Crazy Hy's: Satellite Dishes

    Director: John Bell, John Blanchard

    Writer: Dave Thomas