“Pipeline” sketches include “Passport To Adventure”, “Promo: Tax Advice”, “SCTV News Bulletin”, “Taps No-Name Supermarket”, “The Doctor Braino Hour”, and “Pipeline”.
“Consumer Action Line” sketches include “Promo: The Young Weasels”, “Fireside Chat”, “Simple Touch Whitener”, “Tex and Edna Boil’s Organ Emporium”, “Family Crisis”, “Graft Cheese”, and “SCTV News”.
Read More“Bad Acting In Hollywood” sketches include “Promo: Donohue In The Morning”, “Sid Dithers: Private Eye”, “Promo: U.F.O. Sharkey”, “Enough About Me”, “Promo: Fish Police”, “Biller Hi-Lite” and “Bad Acting In Hollywood with Tom Boslee”.
“Alfred Hitchcock Presents” sketches include “Only For Women”, “SCTV Movie Of The Week: Hats Of The West”, “Promo: Consumer Concern”, “Long Distance”, “SCTV Sports Special Presentation: Melonville Snooker Championships”, “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” and “The Devil’s Towering 10-G Upsidedown Inferno”.
Read More“SCTV 30th Anniversary Show” features station personalities in a show-length special, with clips of the HUAC hearings, westerns, and the panel show “What’s My Shoesize?”.
“The Occult” sketches include “Mr. Science with Johnny LaRue”, “SCTV News”, “Fireside Chat with Mayor Tommy Shanks”, “4th Degree”, “Monster Chiller Horror Theatre: Whispers Of The Wolf”, and “Words To Live By: Mulciber Arimaspians”.
Read More“Undersea World” sketches include “Me and You and Yoga and Me”, “High Q”, “LaRue Towers”, “Marriage Counsellor”, “Botch and Lamb Soft Contact Lenses” and “Jacques Cousteau’s Undersea World”.
“Edith Prickley: Station Manager” sketches include “Shoot At The Stars”, “SCTV News”, “Message From Guy: Edith Prickley”, “Jaws 23 Part 1”, “Sunrise Semester: Town Pride”, “Promo: Sore Losers”, and “Words To Live By: Edith Prickley”.
Read More“Arabs” sketches include “Message From Guy”, “Farm Film Report”, “The Millionaire”, “Falcons and Oysters”, “Speaking Of Talk with Lou Jaffee”, “Grease from LaRue Enterprises”, and “How The Middle East Was Won”.
“Happy Endings” sketches include “The Mirthmakers with Orsan Welles”, “SCTV News”, “Modular Shoe Kit from K-Tel”, “Chinese Fairy Tales with Lin Ye Tang”, “Triple Feature Movie” and “Pit Stop Deodorant”.
Read More“Writer Strike” sketches include “Restless Doctors”, “SCTV News Bulletin”, “Master Ralph Roister Doister”, “Palmoval”, “SCTV News”, “LaRue By Night”, “Harlett Romances”, and “Ernest Kirsch, SCTV Writer”.
“Municipal Election” sketches include “Johnny LaRue for City Council”, “SCTV Election Central”, “Promo: One Is Enough” and “Career Home Study”.
Read More“The Kidnapping of Moe Green” sketches include “SCTV Editorial”, “Donna”, “Promo: Master Sergeant Chef”, “SCTV News”, “Cup ‘N Soup”, “Petty Claims Court”, “Linkin Mercurry: Dali Edition”, “K-Tel Dali Car Stash Wax”, “SCTV Movie Of The Week: Nice Kids From Hell”, and “SCTV News Bulletin”.
“SCTV Solid Gold Telethon” features a show-length telethon hosted by Sammy Maudlin (Joe Flaherty), Bobby Bittman (Eugene Levy), and Johnny LaRue (John Candy), with commercials for “Beef and Booze Restaurant” and “Max Lax”.
Read More“Premiere” sketches include “SCTV Editorial”, “Ernest Kirsch, SCTV Writer”, “Promo: Lola Heatherton in Concert”, “Promo: The Love Craft”, “Waterspray from Pocketpic”, “SCTV News”, “Words To Live By: Rev. Ernest Kirsch”, “The Incredible Bulk”, “Moxwell House Decaffeinated Coffee”, and “Feedback”.
“Bob Hope Desert Classic” sketches include “Promo: Monster Chiller Horror Theatre: The House of Cats”, “SCTV Sports Central”, “Delay”, “Betty Bain: Professional Juror”, “Masterpiece Theatre: Naughty Chambermaids”, and “Bob Hope Desert Classic”.
Read More“The Man Who Would Be King of the Popes” sketches include “Tiny Tops”, “Morning Facial with Princess Carlotta”, “Promo: Check Please”, “The Man Who Would Be King of the Popes”, “Mr. Coffee Table Book from Venerable Electric”, “The Uncle Earl Show”. “Harry Filth”, “Insights”, “Get Tough”, “Grumbles on Route 41”, and “Enough About Me”.
“Lust For Paint” features a show-length parody of Moulin Rouge hosted by Moe Green (Harold Ramis). Also includes promos for “Celebrity Tattletales” and “The Babe Ruth Story”.
As well, reviews of five sketches which only appeared in the original Rhodes syndication package for the United States: “Sunrise Semester: Beekeeping with Lin Ye Tang”, “Dining With LaRue: Jimmy’s Parthenon”, “Sports World”, “Consultation with Dr. Jake Sloan” and “Challenge My Sermonette”.
Read More“The Grapes of Mud” sketches include “Muley’s Roundhouse”, “The Three Dummies: Of Mice And Dummies”, “SCTV AM News Today”, “The Grapes of Mud” and “Disco Farming”.
“Officer Friendly” sketches include “Message From Moe”, “A.M. Little America”, “Promo: Dan Money” “SCTV AM News Today”, “Civil Engineering”, “Officer Friendly”, “Promo: The Undersea World of Marcel Cousteau”, “Promo: Masterpiece Theatre: All The Long-Leggedy Beasties”, and “Dream Interpretation.
Read More“The Sammy Maudlin Show” sketches include “Counterattack”, “Paul’s Workshop with Paul Fistinyerface”, “Promo: Baretta’s Bird”, “SCTV AM News Today”, “Promo: James Whitmore Tonight”, “The Sammy Maudlin Show”, and “Dialing For Dollars”.
“World At War” sketches include “Head and Chest”, “Passport To Adventure”, “Promo: Klagg”, “The World of Mystery: Sandwich On The Orient Express”, “Sleepfast”, “World At War”, “Staywhite Toothpaste”, and “Lowell Thompson Remembers”.
Read More“The $129,000 Question” sketches include “Dr. Benson, The Credit Psychiatrist”, “Wake Up with Alki Stereopolis”, “Fluffy Puff Toilet Paper”, “SCTV AM News Today”, “PSA: Tags”, “Promo: Fat Masterson: Private Eye”, “The $129,000 Question”, “The Point from Schickette”, “Elvira Mad Again Part II”, “Don Perignon” and “Words to Live By: Father Chick Murphy”.
“SCTV Boogie” sketches include “Attention Span Booklet”, “Sunrise Semester: Meteorology 101”, “Promo: Mick Mason: Police Photographer”, “It Was That Way with Keith Hampshire”, “Join the Shelley People”, “Pocket Belt, Pocket Hat, and Spare Sock Caddy”, “I Cry Each Day I Die”, “Promo: Monster Chiller Horror Theatre - Dr. Tongue’s Evil House of Wax”, and “SCTV Boogie”.
Read More“Galaxy 66” sketches include “Diving For Dollars”, “Sunrise Semester: Elevator Conversation”, “Serfs”, “Sci-Fi Theatre with Bradley Omar”, “Promo: To Tell The Truth”, “Mrs. Prickley’s Jams, Jellies and Preserves”, “Promo: Swish Buckler”, “Pyramid Power”, “Beside The Point”, “Bald & Brassy” and “Words To Live By: Dr. Bradley Omar”.
“Madame Blitzman” sketches include “PSA: Recriminalize Marijuana”, “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”, “Dante’s Inferno”, “Filips Milk of Amnesia”, “SCTV AM News Today”, “Promo: Meatball Heroes”, “Monster Chiller Horror Theatre: Madame Blitzman”, “Venerable Electric” and “SCTV News Bulletin: Tornado Warning”
Read More“Leave It To Beaver” sketches include “Promo: Library Police”, “Exorcising with Reagan Blair”, “SCTV AM News Today”, “Chickadee Chickette Chicken-Style Loaf”, “Leave It To Beaver 25th Anniversary Party”, “Quick-Wash Dish Laundry”, “PSA: Children on Booze”, “Blind Fists of the Furious Dragon”, “Dr. Tongue and his Animal Friends”, “Family Detective” and “Dialing For Dollars: Three Jerks and a Gal”.
“Good-Bye America” sketches include “Nothing”, “Winning Chess with Boris Morris”, “SCTV AM News Today”, “20 Depressing Hits by Connie Franklin”, “PSA: Warning Signs”, “Good-Bye America” and “Sex”.
Read More“Ben-Hur” features a show-length parody of the 1959 epic hosted by Moe Green (Harold Ramis). Also includes commercials for “Bill and Mike Dolls”, “Masquerade Funeral”, “Top Secret” and “Tobacco Paste”
“The Hefty Neil Story” features the titular parody of Rocky as part of SCTV Sports Central’s coverage of the heavyweight championship. Also includes commercials for “Those Funny Guys”, “SCTV News”, “50 Psalms” and back-to-back drama series “Emergency Orderly” and “Court Clerk”.
Read More“Broads Behind Bars” sketches include “Three Mariners”, “Sunrise Semester: Do-It-Yourself Home Dentistry”, “SCTV News: Helsinki Trip”, “Dining with LaRue: The Scorched Earth”, “Broads Behind Bars” and “Promo: An Evening with Col. Sanders”. Tabby Johnson and Judith Dagley also appear.
“The Taxidermist” sketches include “Nuclear Sized Baggys”, “Farm Report”, “Welcome Back President Kotter”, “Promo: The Glass Menagerie”, “Alistair Cook’s Armenia”, “SCTV Mystery Movie of the Week: The Taxidermist”, “20 Depressing Hits by Connie Franklin”, and “SCTV News: Earl’s Coughing Fit”.
Read More“Philosophy Street” sketches include “Good-Bye America”, “Sunrise Semester: Self Defense for Women”, “Promo: Bath Talk”, “SCTV AM News Today: Taped Music”, “Philosophy Street”, “S&M Airlines”, “Total Woman with Cassie Mackerel”, “SCTV Movie of the Week: A Fistful of Ugly”, “Longjeans G-11 Watch”, and “Feedback with Moe Green”.
“Therese et Joe” sketches include “SCTV News: New Deli”, “Sunrise Semester: Political Sciences 101”, “Robco Up-Your-Nose Pollution Filter”, “SCTV News: Action Line / Nutrition Report”, “Dining with LaRue: Tang Gardens”, “Silver Bullet Suppositories”, “Northern Ireland Perspective ‘77 with Lou Jaffe”, “Painfree and Staybrite”, “SCTV Foreign Film of the Week: Therese et Joe”, and “SCTV PM News: Terrorism Commentary”
Read More“Dialing For Dollars” sketches include: “Homelier You”, “An SCTV Before School Special: Beauty and the Beets”, “SCTV AM News Today”, “The Laser-Matic”, “Firing Squad”, “Famous Philosophers’ School”, “Alice, The Wonder Dog”, “Dialing For Dollars: Changing Partners”, “Evelyn Woods Speed Talking School” and “Promo: 15 Minutes”. Chris Boddie also appears.
“Shock Theatre” sketches include “Discretion Warning”, “Promo: Extreme Close-Up”, “Dining With LaRue: Rico’s Trattoria”, “50 Practical Jokes”, “The Wacky World of Poverty”, “Alpro Dog Food”, “Eye on Science”, “Promo: A Fistful of Ugly”, “Shock Theatre”, and “Promo: Margot Fontaine at the Russian National Circus". Donald Cowper also appears
Read More“Match Unto My Feet” sketches include: “Promo: Baa, Baa, Black and White Sheep”, “Sunrise Semester: Faking Orgasms with Dr. Cheryl Kinsey”, “Promo: It’s An Unusual World, Isn’t It?”, “Witness to Yesterday”, “SCTV AM News Today: Earl In San Francisco”, “Amanda II Microwave Oven”, “PSA: Warning Signs”, “Match Unto My Feet”, “Promo: AC/DC” and “Words to Live By: Father John Duffy”. Brenda Donohue also appears.
“Memoirs of Anton Chekhov” includes “Labrador Slugger”, “SCTV AM News Today: Earl Asleep”, “Heavenly Bodies”, “Mr. Science”, “The House of Beauty”, “SCTV News Today: Alternative Perspectives”, “Cornabix”, “Masterpiece Theatre: Three Plays”, “Hooker Handbook”, “The Memoirs of Anton Chekhov”, “Plainclothes Mountie” and “SCTV PM News Today: Floyd breaks up”. Donald Cowper, Jayne Eastwood and Monica Parker also appear.
Read More“Ethnic Humor” sketches include “Disclaimer”, “Sunrise Semester: Humanities 196 with Dr. Ernest Bruter”, “The Leutonian Hour”, “Promo: Plainclothes Mountie”, “Out-Patient”, “Hints for Homemakers”, “North American Stethoscopy Institute”, “Theatre North American”, “Golden Hits of the 11th Century” and “Words to Live By: Dr. Ernest Bruter”.
“Crosswords” sketches include “The Sammy Maudlin Show”, “Sunrise Semester: Classical Greek with Alki Stereopoulos”, “Spray-On Socks”, “The $211,000 Triangle”, “Cooking with LaRue”, “Backstage”, “Masterpiece Theatre: Crosswords”, “Promo: The Exorcist of Oz”, “Shakespeare’s Greatest Jokes”, and “Words to Live By: Father Michael Meyer”
Read MorePersonal website of photographer and writer Bronwyn Douwsma.
I’m on the bus. It’s too early to be human and I haven’t had my coffee yet so I don’t really want to do much; maybe read or listen to music, things that help tune out the other people or the monotony of the commute. When I leave the suburbs, it's usually dark. I sometimes look out the windows, but more to see how far I’ve traveled than at anything interesting. By the time I arrive downtown, I can see the sun coming up over the harbour.
The year is winding down. I’m preparing to go to New Brunswick for my regular Christmas visit with the family; my travel arrangements up there have all been taken care of. I haven’t bothered with Christmas shopping yet; my cash flow was a little tight until my last paycheque came in, and my tolerance for the malls has dropped over the years. Everything costs too much money now.
If there was one word to describe the 13th season of SNL, it would be “consistent”. No longer on the bubble thanks to the previous year’s success, SNL in 1987-88 continued pretty much in the same direction as the last season with a little more confidence and a little less to prove.
Sketches include “Pumping Up With Hans & Franz”, “Wilson Trap Doors”, “Church Chat”, “Airline”, “Jorge Garcia, Nice Guy Dictator”, “The Cop & The Prostitute”, “When Great Minds Meet” and “Pirates”. 10,000 Maniacs performs “Like The Weather” and “What’s The Matter Here”.
Sketches include “Calgary 1988”, “Giant Businessman”, “The Bean Cafe”, “The Pat Stevens Show”, “Girl Watchers”, “Computer Panic”, “Casey Kasem Sings The Beatles”, “Delivery Room”, “Stand-Ups III”, and “The Pawn Shop”. Randy Travis performs “Forever And Ever, Amen” and “What’ll You Do About Me”.
“Dining With LaRue” sketches include “Promo: Take The Money And Run”, “Raised By Geese”, “Big Giant Restaurant”, “Relaxing With Raoul”, “National Council of Antique and Restricted Automatic Weapons”, and “Dining With LaRue”.
“The Flaming Turkey” sketches include “The Two Goofs Grocery Store”, “PSA: Mental Illness”, “Insights with Hugh Betcha”, “Promo: Meet The Pawnbroker”, “SCTV News” “Polardak ESP-1 Camera”, “Firing Squad” and “SCTV Big Cultural Event: The Flaming Turkey”.
It’s been a while since I’ve posted here.