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From https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/rick-moranis-joins-sctv-reunion-documentary-netflix-1110613
6:12 AM PDT 5/10/2018 by Etan Vlessing
Moranis will join Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short and Dave Thomas in the comedy special to be directed by Martin Scorsese.
Comedy legend Rick Moranis will appear in Netflix's upcoming SCTV reunion, An Afternoon With SCTV, after all.
Moranis, who along with Dave Thomas played SCTV and Saturday Night Live's beer-loving McKenzie brothers during the 1980s, was not named as part of the original castmembers set to participate. The live taping will be hosted by Jimmy Kimmel on Sunday in Toronto.
But Netflix on Thursday confirmed Moranis will appear alongside Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short and Thomas in the comedy special, which is set to launch in 2019. Canada's CTV also boards the project.
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samnsara
(17,622 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)I very clearly remember "SCTV Network 90"...I had seen some of the half-hour shows, but "SCTV Network 90" premiered right around the time I got my first VHS recorder. Blank tapes were around $15 to $20, believe it or not. The recorder was big and bulky and the "remote" had a CORD and the only thing it did was pause.
But I taped every show and watched them to the point where I had memorized most of my favorite sketches.
It's great that Moranis is on board. Wish John Candy could have been there too. Probably the best ensemble cast to ever hit the airwaves.
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)Still funny as hell! Love Count Floyd! Vampire that howled like a Werewolf. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)And that was with the competition of SNL on NBC and Fridays on ABC. Those two didn't even come close.
Take off, hosers!
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)SNL, in particular, was at a low ebb during the SCTV Network 90 days.
SCTV just came up with these inexplicable concepts, like this one:
If you grew up during the show's classic late-'70s/early-'80s run, there's a good chance youve seen the skit that starts with five-time Grammy winner Michael McDonald driving through city streets at high speed as Christopher Cross' Ride Like the Wind plays. Pulling up outside a building, McDonald parks and bolts from the vehicle, entering the building and running down the stairs into what turns out to be a recording studio. He offers a quick greeting as he ducks into the vocal booth just in time to sing his signature background vocal on the hit song.
McDonald, masterfully portrayed by Rick Moranis, a regular on the show at that time, pops in and out of the booth, even stopping to sign some paperwork at one point. As soon as the song ends, hes gone just a few seconds later, back in his car to speed away, presumably onto his next studio session destination.
He was everywhere. He was on Steely Dan albums. By the time I heard him on Ride Like the Wind, I thought, Okay, we have to do something with this. But it was done out of reverence, Moranis explained in a 2004 interview with Sound & Vision. I love the guy and really love his music. I think he took the Doobie Brothers to a whole other level.
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/michael-mcdonald-sctv-sketch/
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Here's another weird and wonderful Moranis classic: The Gerry Todd Show.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)emulatorloo
(44,120 posts)a kennedy
(29,655 posts)geardaddy
(24,926 posts)Ramis was an earlier cast member.
lame54
(35,287 posts)CanSocDem
(3,286 posts)TheMightyFavog
(13,770 posts)Wasn't it shortly after he lost his wife to cancer?