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How is that? Well, let's run down the original cast: [[John Candy]]. [[Joe Flaherty]]. [[Eugene Levy]]. [[Andrea Martin]]. [[Catherine O'Hara]]. [[Harold Ramis]]. [[Dave Thomas]]. [[Martin Short]]. Add in latecomer [[Rick Moranis]], and you have a veritable who's who of comedy. Due to the connections between the Chicago and Toronto branches of the Second City comedy troupe, there was considerable constructive feedback between this show and ''[[Saturday Night Live]].''
The show started with a thirty-minute format on the Global Television Network, which ran from 1976-1979. After that, the show was picked up by [[CBC]] and expanded to an hour. During this era, the show's most popular characters, Bob and Doug McKenzie, debuted. The show was expanded to ninety minutes in 1981 when [[NBC]] picked it up as late-night programming (this version was known as ''SCTV Network 90''). During this stretch of the run, coupled with the fact that it was neither live nor taped before a live audience, it was able to push the boundaries of traditional sketch comedy. It won 15 [[Emmy Award]]s over its network lifespan. A final season of 45-minute episodes aired on Superchannel in Canada and Cinemax in the U.S. (as ''SCTV Channel'') over 1983-84.
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