Second City Television: Season 6
Season 6 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Second City Television Season 5.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 6 Progress Shield
Maudlin O' the Night
Nov 22, 1983 · 45 min
(This is the start of the SCTV Channel, when SCTV moved to Cinemax. Shows are 45 minutes long). Guy Caballero launches the new SCTV cable channel. The Schmenge Brothers try new wa
Gimme Jackie / Australia
Dec 6, 1983 · 45 min
Sid Dithers finds love in "An Officer and a Gentile". Perini Scleroso gets her own sitcom. "The National Midnight Star" is rechristened "Hollywood Dirt Tonight". Australian actor M
It's a Wonderful Film
Dec 20, 1983 · 45 min
Producer, Martin Simmons is making a Christmas movie by classic film director Frank Bailey but decides that profit is more important than a making a quality movie so fires Bailey a
The Date Debate / Scary Previews
Jan 3, 1984 · 45 min
Count Floyd and Woody Tobias Jr co-host a new movie review show, Scary Previews
You're On / Das Boobs
Jan 17, 1984 · 45 min
Das Boobs puts Porky's on the deck of Das Boot. Also features a trio of commercials with Irving Cohen, and the call-in show You're On, hosted by councilman for Melonville East, Max
Stars In One: Bob Hope / Happy Hour
Jan 31, 1984 · 45 min
"Happy Hour" was a mock children's show, by bar patron, Happy Marsden, and the bartender, Mike. A mock western filmed in black and white, "Six Gun Justice", with was shown on each
Stalag SCTV
Feb 14, 1984 · 45 min
Scripts are being stolen from SCTV, and new guy Fred Winston is the likeliest suspect. Highlights include Al Peck's Dinosaur Days and Lewis Does Dylan.
Diary of a Female Person / Happy Hour
Feb 28, 1984 · 45 min
Happy Hour shows another episode of Six Gun Justice, and Brock Linehan features Libby Wolfson's struggles to produce her new film.
Just For Fun / Black Like Vic
Mar 13, 1984 · 45 min
Rusty Van Reddick does a PSA for nursery schools; tonight on "Just for Fun," Stan Kanter launches a discussion on nuclear proliferation; in a 1962 episode of "Vic Arpeggio," our he
Youth, Do They Give A Damn or What? / Happy Hour
Mar 27, 1984 · 45 min
Soren and Weiss try to figure out what's up with the youth of today, while Don and Cheaplaffs have further adventures on Happy Hour. Also features a trio of commercials with Sophia
Allenscam
Apr 10, 1984 · 45 min
Features several wraparound elements, including an unfolding scandal involving Brad Allen, artist Willem de Kooning never quite being interviewed on three shows, and new character
Oliver Grimley
Apr 24, 1984 · 45 min
Cheryl Kinsey does a live show, while Ed Grimley, does Oliver Twist
Half Wits / Save the World Parade
May 22, 1984 · 45 min
Melonville's parade to promote world peace might not go as the announcers wish. Meanwhile, Alex Trebel is eager for someone, anyone to score on his game show "Half Wits."
Jackie Rogers, Jr. for President / Happy Hour
Jun 5, 1984 · 45 min
The wraparound features Jackie Rogers Jr's run for president, while Six Gun Justice's penultimate episode airs on Happy Hour. Jayne Eastwood returns as moderator for Philosophers a
Celebrity Fairie Tayles / Canadian Gaffes and Practical Amusements
Jun 19, 1984 · 45 min
Celebrity Fairie Tayles features the unlikely pairing of Alan Alda and Ed Grimley, while Canadian Gaffes features the gang from Headline Challenge in another brutal parody of the C
You're On / Happy Hour
Jul 3, 1984 · 45 min
Happy Hour presents the exciting conclusion to Six Gun Justice, and host Happy Marsden makes a surprising confession. The show also features and another episode of the oddly-paced
Pledge Week
Jul 17, 1984 · 45 min
Various SCTV characters host a pledge drive for the network as it goes bankrupt.