Product Details

• Actors: Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Dave Thomas, John Candy
• Directors: John Bell
• Writers: Andrew Alexander, Brian Doyle-Murray, Brian McConnachie, Jim Fisher, Jim Staahl
• Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 3
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Shout Factory Theatr
• DVD Release Date: October 24, 2006
• Run Time: 415 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000H6SY1O
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #116,469 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "SCTV - Best Of The Early Years" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

SCTV's best half-hour episodes from 1978 - 1980 are showcased in this 3-DVD collection. From its humble beginnings in 1976, SCTV transformed from a half-hour comedy airing monthly in Canada on the Global Television Network to a widely embraced series that, by the third season, was airing weekly on the CBC and syndicated in the U.S.

Guy Caballero and Edith Prickley were born in the early years. The McKenzie Brothers started here. Earl Camembert, Floyd Robertson, Johnny LaRue, Sammy Maudlin and Bobby Bittman—characters destined to become household names—were first beamed into consciousness here.

Starring: John Candy, Robin Duke, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Rick Moranis, Catherine O'Hara, Tony Rosato and Dave Thomas

Special Features Include:

Commentaries by Robin Duke, Joe Flaherty and executive producer Andrew Alexander

The featurette "Looking Back With Andrea Martin,"

CBC news magazine segment "The McKenzie Brothers - Take Off, Eh"

Examining the impact The Great White North had on Canada

"Andrew Alexander Answers Fan Mail."

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

37 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Wait on the real thing!, January 3, 2008

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Jeffrey R. Young "Silver Fox" (Columbus, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: SCTV - Best Of The Early Years (DVD)

The people that released this DVD make me want to throw my DVD player out my window (my big screen TV is too heavy to lift) and land it on their heads. WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?

Any true fan of SCTV is willing to wait as long as it takes to get all of the original series INCLUDING Harold Ramis in chronological order the way they SHOULD be released.

I bought all of the previous 90-minute volumes, but until you people release this fabulous series the right way, you WILL NOT get any more of my money, you HOSERS!

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good but not great, December 6, 2006

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PianoGuyFromSC (Columbia, SC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: SCTV - Best Of The Early Years (DVD)

First of all, the cover of this set is misleading because it lists John Candy and Catherine O'Hara as though they were on equal footing with the rest of the cast. But if you're a big fan of either, you'll be disappointed because there's hardly ANY of their material on these disks. Tony Rosato and Robin Duke are funny. So was Shemp Howard. But we all know how we feel about those Shemp episodes! Not quite what we paid the admission price for.

Secondly, as others have pointed out, this is a random selection of the early half-hour shows, with some overlap of later "best of" shows which are already out on DVD. And not one bit of Harold Ramis. (Some ads for this set even mention Martin Short, who was nowhere near this project!)

But thirdly, this still is a very, very funny set. If you love SCTV, you will laugh your way through these discs, with lots of Bob & Doug, Count Floyd, and movie parodies such as Taxi Driver as done by Dick Cavett, etc. This may be all we ever get of the early years, so if you're a fan, grab them while you can. What's next? SCTV...the Cinemax years??

53 of 61 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars No Harold Ramis???, September 12, 2006

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David Scott "davidsco38" - See all my reviews

This review is from: SCTV - Best Of The Early Years (DVD)

How the producers of this set could leave off the star of the show, is beyond fathomable. Any true fan of SCTV knows that the early years, the half hour shows, were the best. When it moved to NBC, it lost it's edginess and never was quite the same. The star that made those early years so great was Ha-Harold Ramis. C'mon! Officer Friendly? Moe Green? It's a crying shame. They wonder why sales tailed off for the later DVD's, and they do something as dumb as this. Sad. Why don't they ask the FANS what they want?