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#1 - Sammy Maudlin 23rd Anniversary / CBC
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 11/5/1982
Sammy celebrates a milestone anniversary, sidekick William B walks off the show, and the janitors of SCTV go on strike.
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#2 - Indecent Exposure
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 11/12/1982
Guy Caballero is busted for writing a bad check to Fred Willard, forcing the arrival of SCTV Chairman Allan "Crazy Legs" Herschman. In 'The Nutty Lab Assistant', Ed Grimley makes his debut in this spoof of 'The Nutty Professor' in which Grimley decides to concoct a potion to make himself more attractive to his girl crush, and he ends up transforming into pop singer John Cougar. Mrs. Falbo's Tiny Town looks at atoms and rainy day activities. Also, Jackie Rogers Jr. promotes his late father's last TV special, "Swingin' With Mother Nature."
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#3 - Melonvote
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 11/19/1982
The elections in Melonville for various public offices are under way. Mentally unstable Mayor Tommy Shanks is up for re-election against the seedy Vic Hedges. Meanwhile, Libby Wolfson runs for City Council, than becomes infatuated with her opponent.
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#4 - Jane Eyrehead
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 11/26/1982
Features the segment "Angel Cortez: FBI Jockey." Bobby Bittman PSA for the Public Library. Gus the Security Guard makes everyone sign in while, John Houseman reads the phone book, "Farm Film Report" with Deney Terrio. The band America performs "Right Before Your Eyes."
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#5 - Towering Inferno
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 12/10/1982
The SCTV office moves into the tallest, thinnest building in Melonville, which turns into a spoof of 'The Towering Inferno' as Guy, Edith, and others are trapped in the 200-story tall building just as a fire breaks out and strands them on the uppers floors.
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#6 - Christmas
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 12/17/1982
Guy Caballero and Johnny LaRue come to blows over a meager Christmas bonus, resulting in a busted, drunken Johnny desperately tracking down Santa. Segments include Lola Heatherton's "Love Spirit" Christmas Special. Ed Grimley stars in "The Fella Who Couldn't Wait For Christmas."
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#7 - A Star Is Born
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 1/28/1983
"The Days of the Week" returns for another six-episode run with a few new characters. The debut of "Half Wits" and "Artisans and Their Art with Bradley P. Allen". A spoof of the 1976 film 'A Star is Born' starring Crystal Gayle as an up-and-coming singer named Esther Blodgett
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#8 - SCTV Classifieds / Vic Arpeggio
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 2/11/1983
To encourage small business advertising, SCTV cuts its ad rates, resulting in a series of on-the-cheap ads for several micro-entrepreneurs. In the segment "Stars In One" profiles aging child star Rusty Van Reddick. Vic Hedges stars in "Vic Arpeggio, Private Investigator".
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#9 - Bobby Bittman's Retirement
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 2/18/1983
After discovering that he's opening for Ben Vereen and not the other way around, Bobby Bittman retires from show business. Sammy Maudlin's ex-sidekick, William B. Williams, hosts his own talk show with Irving Cohen.
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#10 - Sweeps Week
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 2/25/1983
It's Sweeps Week and SCTV is promoting specials like "Jumping for Dollars", where large busted women jump up and down while Johnny LaRue watches, and "The Dallas Cowgirls Salute Aaron Copland," which is bit more self-explanatory.
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#11 - South Sea Sinner
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 3/11/1983
William B Williams returns to the Sammy Maudlin Show. The Shmenges host a beauty pageant. Jackie Rogers Jr. plugs his biographical special, "Jackie, We Hardly Knew Ye".
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#12 - Midnight Cowboy II
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 3/18/1983
"Midnight Cowboy II", a takeoff of the original Midnight Cowboy movie. Also, "Whatever Happened to Baby Ed" as a spoof of "Whatever Happed to Baby Jane". The final episode of "The Days of the Week" (with cameos by Catherine O'Hara and Carol Burnett). Finally, "Mel's Rock Pile" hosts the British punk rock band, The Queen Haters, and they trash the place.
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The Best Episodes of Second City Television Season 5
Every episode of Second City Television Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Second City Television Season 5!
Second City Television is a Canadian television sketch comedy show offshoot from Toronto's Second City troupe that ran between 1976 and 1984.
Genre:Comedy
Season 5 Ratings Summary
"Sammy Maudlin 23rd Anniversary / CBC" is the best rated episode of "Second City Television" season 5. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 11/5/1982. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Indecent Exposure".