gmark@ihuxf.UUCP (09/20/84)
Does anybody have any access to the SCTV shows on Cinemax??? We get HBO, SHOWTIME, TMC, etc., but there will be no Cinemax in this area for a YEAR!!! A YEAR WITHOUT SCTV!!!! HELP!!!!!
rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen) (09/20/84)
> Does anybody have any access to the SCTV shows on Cinemax??? We get HBO, > SHOWTIME, TMC, etc., but there will be no Cinemax in this area for a YEAR!!! > A YEAR WITHOUT SCTV!!!! HELP!!!!! They've gotten really redundant and boring of late, with the same "Six Gun Justice" movie serial nonsense over and over, and other rather boring segments. Cinemax is now rebroadcasting the best of the early Cinemax SCTV shows (SCTV--The Second Coming), including "Half-Wits" (if you "like" Alex Trebek on the new Jeopardy [??], you'll "love" Alex Trebel as the host of "Half-Wits" on SCTV, with contestants like Arthur Figgis), "The Soren-Weiss Report" (combining the worst of MacNeil-Lehrer and Sneak Previews), ads for the film "Prickley Business", more from Stan and Yosh Schmenge and their orchestra (from the same guys who gave us a tribute to Lutonian composer John Williams [!!!], now it's "New Wave Schmenge!"---imagine Schlock of Feagulls' "Wishing [If I Had a Photograph of You]" and "Billie Jean" [??] done polka style!), and more. The early ones were as good as the old SCTV (with even a special appearance or two by John Candy, Dave Thomas, or Catherine O'Hara), including a strange "tribute" to Frank Capra, using their usual technique of taking two or more unrelated movies and combining them to make nonsense. But they've fizzled in recent installments. "FUNNNNNNG-shin-ull!" "Alex? What time is it?" -- AT THE TONE PLEASE LEAVE YOUR NAME AND NET ADDRESS. THANK YOU. Rich Rosen pyuxn!rlr