FILE - Former cast members of SCTV, from left, Dave Thomas, Joe Flaherty, Catherine O'Hara, Andrea Martin, foreground, Harold Ramis, Eugene Levy and Martin Short, pose at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival ...

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.

Though the name "Second City Television" implies a comic sensibility rooted in Chicago, "SCTV" was always wilder, more exotic and tougher to pin down. It bore some resemblance to the sketch comedy of ...

So many bad TV shows have received the DVD treatment that it's almost disorienting when a really good one comes along. "SCTV Network/90: Vol. One" performs a valuable service -- it retrieves a show ...

This show was spun off from "SCTV Network 90" which was cancelled after two seasons on NBC. The same cast from 1982-83, with the exception of John Candy, appears on this 45-minute sketch comedy series ...