Various (early)
Harold Ramis
Harold Ramis did early various on SCTV — Melonville's fake television network, Second City Canada at championship density, John Candy, Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin satirizing the medium from inside the broadcast. Writers' sketch comedy, deep-cut characters. TV Flash files him as 1970s satire faculty, the alumni heat before the later legend hardened.
Harold Ramis appears in various early turns on SCTV, the 1970s sketch series that let Second City Canada build a fake television network and then roast the real one. Melonville as a closed system; John Candy, Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin as the championship roster. Ramis is early faculty heat: a writer-performer in the density, deep-cut characters instead of a single mascot, satire from inside the broadcast.
1970s craft, Global / Syndicated / NBC walls: SCTV. Harold Ramis supplies early various. s01e01 is the handshake — Backstage opens the fake television network. Second City Canada's sharpest already satirizing the medium from inside the broadcast: writers' sketch comedy, deep-cut characters, not just later Hollywood alumni. s01e26 is the reminder the run had a middle: Lust for Paint is a first-season named hour. Melonville craft at championship density: the local-affiliate parody still the joke, the troupe still the reason to stay past the sketch you came for. 1976–1984 on the spine.
TV Flash files him with the Melonville hours, not a later-film poster. The catalog's point is the sketch factory. On this desk Ramis is 1970s comedy craft: various as a credit that still means invention, the reason SCTV photographs as a writers' room you can watch, not just the Hollywood alumni list.
s02e01 carries the mid-to-late temperature. Season 2 Premiere is the catalog's plain door. The fake network still expanding: Candy, O'Hara, Levy, Martin as a writers' room with faces, still mocking television from the inside. On this blotter Ramis stays early various — SCTV, Global / Syndicated / NBC, the 1970s hour that still has a job in it.
FAQ
If I only sample SCTV for Harold Ramis, which filing is the door?
The catalog's on-ramp is s01e01 (Global / Syndicated / NBC, 1976–1984). Backstage opens the fake television network. Second City Canada's sharpest already satirizing the medium from inside the broadcast: writers' sketch comedy, deep-cut characters, not just later Hollywood alumni. That is Harold Ramis as early various already working, not a cold open you skip.
Is Various (early) a lead turn or the room around the lead?
Early ensemble / faculty heat. Harold Ramis is various on SCTV — writer-performer density, not a later-legend poster.
Where does early various still announce the job?
The later coordinate is s02e01. Season 2 Premiere is the catalog's plain door. The fake network still expanding: Candy, O'Hara, Levy, Martin as a writers' room with faces, still mocking television from the inside. SCTV still carries Harold Ramis there; queue it when the premiere has already taught the seating.
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