There were six people who loved to watch television

bp: 131/81

I had mixed feelings about the DVD release of SCTV before perusing this episode guide removed my ambivalence. Its brilliance from 1976 through 1982 is beyond question, but I wonder how much of SCTV will be lost in translation, not only because of topicality, but its deliberately obscure cultural references. (This was my favourite program as a teenager, but even as a longtime fan I had to read up for some of the Canadian references.) Caroline suggested I was at a similar impasse with a lot of Spitting Image, which I think is a good comparison.

Shout! Factory, who disentangled the clearance problems that prevented SCTV from having a previous video release, have kindly provided a preview of the original Network/90 opening credit sequence that NBC quickly supressed.