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In reviewing the first ep of "SCTV", this will also be the first of my reviews of the show I grew up watching as a teen. When I first watched this before "Saturday Night Live" on my local NBC station, the original opening credits had a Spike Jones song as its theme and used a test pattern with a male Indian (or Native American to be politically correct) drawing as its logo. The one I just saw on YouTube has a later show theme with the modern graphics to go with it. Anyway, it has three characters that would run throughout the whole series-newscasters Floyd Robertson and Earl Camembert and Johnny LaRue-here depicted as an exercise guru who smokes and eats while doling his "lessons". There are also promos for a show about a doctor who does surgery that's not needed which segues into a lawyer show who's defending said doctor against people who didn't like his practices. Another show called "Backstage" explores LaRue's offscreen life and his problems which bleeds into a "Masterpiece Theatre" show and another Robertson-Camembert piece. The show begins with a "Sunrise Semester" and ends with "Words to Live By' which is how many of these early eps begin and end. As a fan, I was very amused how this early primitive show began. Kudos for John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Catherine O'Hara, Harold Ramis, and Dave Thomas (as the Beaver) for bringing so much joy to me during my teen years! I'll review the next ep right away...