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*Second City Television*
Second City Television
Created by	There is no creator credit given
Starring	John Candy; Robin Duke; Joe Flaherty; Eugene Levy; Andrea Martin; Rick Moranis; Catherine O'Hara; Harold Ramis; Tony Rosato; Martin Short; Dave Thomas
Country of origin	Canada
Original language	English
No. of seasons	6
No. of episodes	135
Production
Running time	30 mins. (1976-1981); 90 mins. (1981-1983); 45 mins. (1983-1984)
Original release
Network	Global (1976-1979); CBC (1980-1983); NBC (1981-1983); Superchannel (1983-1984)
Release	September 21, 1976 –; July 17, 1984

Second City Television is a Canadian sketch comedy television series that first aired on September 21, 1976 and last aired on July 17, 1984. The series had 6 seasons and made 135 episodes. One of SCTV's most popular sketches was the Bob & Doug McKenzie sketches which featured Bob who was played by Rick Moranis and Doug is played by Dave Thomas. The sketch was so popular that it was given its own animated show in 2009 and was featured on the 2002 episode, "The Bart Wants What It Wants" of The Simpsons when they visit Toronto.

In Canada, reruns are shown on The Comedy Network.

References

Other websites

SCTV at tv.com Archived 2008-04-17 at the Wayback Machine

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