John Blanchard Filmography

Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday The 13th

Crew: Director

Actors: Coolio, Majandra Delfino, Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, Tom Arnold

Synopsis: Several of the biggest teen horror hits of the 1990s get slashed in this satiric comedy. Hagitha Utslay (Tiffani Amber Thiessen) is a television reporter with Empty-V News who is covering a series of murders that have the students of Bulimia Falls High School quaking in their boots. The school's Read More

Best of the Kids in the Hall

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Upon taking to the airwaves, the Lorne Michaels-produced series The Kids in the Hall quickly joined the likes of Monty Python's Flying Circus as one of the edgiest and funny sketch comedy shows on television. Featuring five Canadian men in the majority of the roles, the program aired on HBO and Read More

The Best of John Candy on SCTV

Crew: Director

Synopsis: For many years, comedian John Candy was a staple of the prestigious Second City comedy troupe where he was known for creating such unforgettable characters as Johnny La Rue and Dr. Tongue. He was also a noted impressionist who had audiences rolling in the aisles with his take on such figures as Read More

The Kids in the Hall [TV Series]

Crew: Director

Rocket Boy

Crew: Director

Actors: Rick Moranis, John Candy, Dave Thomas, Robert Donner

Synopsis: In this sci-fi comedy a gentle video store clerk has a secret double life as an intergalactic crimefighter who must stop an evil alien from stealing the hair off human heads. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Screwball Academy

Crew: Director

Actors: Colleen Camp, Kenneth Welsh, Christine Cattall, Charles Dennis, Angus MacInnes

Synopsis: Trying to shoot an erotic feminist film, a knock-out lady director chooses a small coastal town, where she's hoping she can work in an uninterrupted environment. However, the local rowdies--right-wing Christians, and red-neck stud-dudes--interfere from the get-go. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Really Weird Tales

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Originally telecast October 4, 1986, Really Weird Tales was meant to be a satirical spin on the old Twilight Zone series. SCTV regulars John Candy, Martin Short, Catherine O'Hara and Joe Flaherty head the cast of this 90-minute comedy anthology. The tenor of the project can be gauged by the first Read More

The Last Polka

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This HBO comedy special is a send-up of Martin Scorsese's The Last Waltz. Scorsese's film, it will be recalled, recorded the final concert of the rock group The Band. Polka deals with the rise and fall of that fabulous Lutonian twosome, the Schmenge Brothers. John Candy is Yosh Schmenge, and Eugene Levy Read More

SCTV Network: Teacher's Pet with the Boomtown Rats

Crew: Director

Actors: The Boomtown Rats

Synopsis: Billy Sol (John Candy) and Big Jim (Joe Flaherty) persuade The Boomtown Rats to sing "Never in a Million Years" -- and then maneuver them into blowin' up reeeeal good -- on the newest episode of "Farm Film Report." The SCTV Movie of the Week is "Teacher's Pet" in which Ricardo Montalban (Eugene Levy Read More

SCTV Network: Pre-Teen World Telethon with Johnny Puleo and the Harmonica Gang

Crew: Director

Actors: Dick Blasucci, Paul Flaherty

Synopsis: Tonight's wraparound sketch is a fundraiser for SCTV series "Pre-Teen World"; unfortunately, none of the show's adolescent hosts are able to stay awake for the entire telethon. Also featured this evening is the uproarious "Rat Pack" spoof "Maudlin's Eleven," a hip and with-it movie caper starring Read More

SCTV Network: Midnight Video Special with Talking Heads and Plastics

Crew: Director

Actors: Talking Heads, The Plastics

Synopsis: Veejay Gerry Todd (Rick Moranis) welcomes Talking Heads and The Plastics to his high-tech variety show "Midnight Video Special" -- only to be defeated by an attack of superior technology from Japanese entrepreneur Tim Ishimuni (Dave Thomas). Also: Johnny LaRue (John Candy) demonstrates his Read More

SCTV Network 90: Repeats

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Per its title, this episode of SCTV: Network 90 consists entirely of repeats from the earlier syndicated SCTV -- minus the contributions of departed regulars Tony Rosato and Robin Duke. Some of the material was in 1981 already familiar to the series' fans, notably "What's My Shoe Size" and "The Read More

SCTV Network 90: Southside Fracas with Southside Johnny

Crew: Director

Actors: Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, The Asbury Jukes

Synopsis: This session of SCTV: Network 90 combines fresh material with reruns from the earlier syndicated SCTV. The new sketches include running-gag promos for the new theatrical feature "Melvin and Howard," in which Melvin Dummar (Rick Moranis) is teamed successively with Howard Hughes (Joe Flaherty), Howard Cosell Read More

SCTV Network 90: Lunchtime Street Beef/Repeats with Robert Gordon

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Gordon

Synopsis: Having been rendered persona non grata after the failure of his starring film "Polynesiantown," Johnny LaRue (John Candy) not only loses his studio parking spot, but he must deal with the humiliation of hosting a tacky man-on-the-street show -- assuming that there are any men on the street Read More

SCTV Network 90: Pledge Week with Roy Orbison

Crew: Director

Actors: Roy Orbison

Synopsis: After the previous week's fiasco, the Sunbright Detergent Company has pulled all its commercials from SCTV, forcing desperate station owner Guy Caballero (Joe Flaherty) to emcee a pledge drive. In an effort to shake the audience from its indifference, P.R. director Maureen Wallace (Catherine Read More

SCTV Network 90: Moral Majority

Crew: Director

Actors: Graham Stinson

Synopsis: Tonight's episode is hosted by unsavory SCTV owner Guy Caballero (Joe Flaherty), who summons up what little sincerity he has left to promise that he will honor any pressure group that happens to be associated with the network's sponsors. This may explain why hard-hitting, uncompromising Read More

SCTV: The Cisco Kid

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this precursor to the syndicated TV show Mad Movies With the L.A. Connection, a vintage episode of The Cisco Kid is completely redubbed with voices provided by SCTV writers Martin Short (soon to become an on-camera regular), Steven Kampmann, Peter Torokvei, and Don Dickinson. Also seen on this Read More

SCTV: Dick Cavett

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Count Floyd (Joe Flaherty) goes into overdrive with his "Oooh! Scary!" exclamations when Monster Chiller Horror Theater is saddled with a telecast of The Dick Cavett Show, wherein Cavett (Rick Moranis) interviews funnyman Bobby Bittman (Eugene Levy) about his new book "The Complete Filmmaker" and Read More

SCTV: Best of 3

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Undaunted by the fact that the SCTV satellite has just crashed, station owner Guy Caballero hosts this clip show comprised of highlights from the series' third season. Included are "Do It Yourself Advertising With Phil," The Merv Griffin Show, the MacKenzie Brothers' take on Star Wars, Dick Cavett Read More

SCTV Network 90: Polynesiantown with Doctor John

Crew: Director

Actors: Dr. John, Dick Blassuci

Synopsis: Corpulent SCTV personality Johnny LaRue (John Candy) desperately tries to save his job (and, incidentally, lobbies for a "crane shot" on his show) when his new movie "Polynesiantown" -- a shameless rip-off of Chinatown, co-starring musical guest Dr. John -- lays a big and noxious egg. Other Read More

SCTV Network 90: One on the Town with Levon Helm

Crew: Director

Actors: Levon Helm, Cate Brothers Band

Synopsis: Introduced by shifty SCTV station manager Guy Caballero (Joe Flaherty), this first episode of NBC's SCTV: Network 90 is largely a potpourri of sketches culled from the original, syndicated SCTV. Several of these vignettes were herein shown in the United States for the first time, notably "Play It Read More

SCTV Network 90: Bouncin' Back to You with the Tubes

Crew: Director

Actors: The Tubes, Juul Haalmeyer, Dick Blasucci

Synopsis: Fresh out of drug rehab, singing sensation Lola Heatherton (Catherine O'Hara) dreams of a comeback special -- a dream that somewhat evolves (or devolves?) into the finale of The Wizard of Oz. In his first appearance, the Fishin' Magician (John Candy) introduces musical guest stars The Tubes Read More

SCTV Network: The Godfather with James Ingram and John Marley

Crew: Director

Actors: John Marley, James Ingram, Juul Haalmeyer, Dick Blasucci

Synopsis: John Marley reprises his characterization of movie mogul Lou Woltz -- here renamed Leonard Bernstein (Where did they come up with that one?) -- in tonight's extended spoof of The Godfather. This epic also includes an ersatz guest appearance by Luciano Pavarotti (John Candy), the cast of The Andy Griffith Show Read More

SCTV Network: Doorway to Hell with Eugene Fodor

Crew: Director

Actors: Eugene Fodor

Synopsis: Talk-show host Sammy Maudlin (Joe Flaherty) sits by helplessly as funnyman Bobby Bittman (Eugene Levy) chews out his brother Skip Bittman (Rick Moranis) -- in Yiddish -- for doing a bad George C. Scott imitation. SCTV's Movie of the Week, "New York Rhapsody," is the story of a tenement kid (played Read More

SCTV Network: SCTV Staff Christmas Party

Crew: Director

Actors: Paul Flaherty, Dick Blasucci, Juul Haalmeyer, Bob Dolman, Doug Steckler

Synopsis: Virtually every character created by the SCTV cast makes a guest appearance in this episode, which is given coherence by an ongoing (and seemingly never-ending) staff party. Among the highlights: John Candy recreates Orson Welles' famously profane commercial-outtake tape, as part of "Liberace's Read More

Bernadette Peters Live at the Jubilee Auditorium

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This home video release captures singer and actress Bernadette Peters performing live at Edmonton's Jubilee Auditorium in 1981. Songs include "Broadway Baby" and "Thank You For Being A Friend." ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More

SCTV: The Sammy Maudlin Show - Bob Hope in China

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Sammy Maudlin (Joe Flaherty) and William B. (John Candy) play host to surprise guest star Bob Hope (Dave Thomas), whose outtakes from his latest direct-from-China TV special upstages a particularly wretched monologue from Bobby Bittman (Eugene Levy) -- as does another surprise drop-in by Danny Read More

SCTV Network: CCCP1 with Al Jarreau

Crew: Director

Actors: Al Jarreau, Juul Haalmeyer, Dick Blasucci, Bob Dolman, Doug Steckler

Synopsis: Hijacking the SCTV satellite, the Soviet Union beams their own TV schedule to North America, including such brainwashed hits as "Today is Moscow," "Uposcabblenyk," "What Fits Into Russia," and ads for "Tibor's Tractor" and "Strelnokoff Vodka." SCTV personalities Dr. Tongue (John Candy), Woody Read More

SCTV Network 90: The Great White North with Ian Thomas

Crew: Director

Actors: Ian Thomas

Synopsis: "Great White North" hosts Bob and Doug McKenzie (Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas) take off as wraparound hosts for this heady blend of new material and classic SCTV reruns. As our two heroes attempt to emulate (or rather, steal) the talk show hosted by Brian Johns (Eugene Levy), musical guest star Ian Thomas Read More

SCTV Network: I'm Taking My Own Head, Screwing It On Right, and No Guy's Gonna Tell Me It Ain't wit

Crew: Director

Actors: The Plasmatics, Paul Flaherty, Dick Blasucci, Barry Sand

Synopsis: Talk show host Libby Wolfson (Andrea Martin) and her dear friend Sue Bopper (Catherine O'Hara) stage their new feminist musical at a dingy dinner theater. It hardly needs saying that the show is a fiasco, with male co-star Seth Dick III (Joe Flaherty), cast in the pivotal role of "Sexist Pig," Read More

SCTV Network: Walter Cronkite's Brain with Rough Trade

Crew: Director

Actors: Rough Trade

Synopsis: One of the few SCTV Network episodes without a unifying theme, this episode is simply a collection of hilarious one-shot sketches. Among the highlights: horror stars Dr. Tongue (John Candy) and Woody Tobias Jr. (Eugene Levy) give acting lessons (in 3-D?); and Edith Prickley (Andrea Martin) teaches Read More

SCTV Network: Zontar with Bonar Bain and Natalie Cole

Crew: Director

Actors: Natalie Cole, Bonar Bain, Juul Haalmeyer, Beverly Schechtman

Synopsis: Mind-controlling aliens take over SCTV, planting leafy pods in the brains of the staffers -- not to mention musical guest star Natalie Cole (but not before she sings "Nothin' But a Fool"). Alien leader Zontar (John Candy) chortles in demonic glee, but takes umbrage when he is compared to Curly Joe DeRita Read More

SCTV: Mel's Rock Pile/Macarthur Park

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Highlights this week include a promo for "Jackie Stewart's Wide World of High Voices," with Jackie (Dave Thomas) interviewing Neil Young (Rick Moranis) and promoting future appearances by Queen Elizabeth II and the Bee Gees. On "Mel's Rock Pile," Richard Harris (Thomas) performs an interminable Read More

SCTV: Alpha Channel

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas are spotlighted as Harvey K-Tel presents his newest album, "Gordon Lightfoot Sings Every Song Ever Written." Moranis and Thomas are also on hand as Bob and Doug McKenzie, explaining why hockey games now suck. Elsewhere "The Alpha Channel" intrudes upon script Read More

SCTV: Two Way TV/Pit Bulls

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Mr. Kessler (Rick Moranis) introduces SCTV's latest technological development, Two Way TV, which allows the folks at home to choose between "Wall Street Week," "Farm Report," "The Happy Hooker Goes to Hollywood" and "Leave It to Beaver." SCTV News anchorman Earl Camembert (Eugene Levy) goes Read More

SCTV: 1984-Big Brother

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Sid Dithers (Eugene Levy) explains how to avoid stress. Bob Hope (Dave Thomas) stars in this week's remake of Taxi Driver. "Kanadian Korner" hosts Bob and Doug McKenzie (Rick Moranis, Thomas) don their blindfolds (actually earmuffs) to play the mystery guest segment of "Name That Beer." And in the Read More

SCTV: Midnight Express Special

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this dual spoof of TV's Midnight Special and the movie Midnight Express, Bud Abbott (Eugene Levy) and Lou Costello (Tony Rosato) go to the airport, where Lou is framed for drug trafficking. Sent to a Turkish prison, Abbott and Costello introduce the musical group the Band in the manner of Read More

SCTV: Gene Shalit's America

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Gene Shalit (Eugene Levy) discusses overindulgence in America, as guest stars Orson Welles (really Dave Thomas), Shelley Winters (Robin Duke), and William Conrad (Tony Rosato) gorge themselves at Le Grand Cochon. Kanadian Korner hosts Bob and Doug McKenzie (Rick Moranis, Thomas) are forced to do Read More

SCTV: The Mating Game

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Although he's lost his SCTV editorial spot, hard-hitting Bill Needle (Dave Thomas) offers advice on how to succeed in show biz to a couple of aspiring actors (Tony Rosato, Robin Duke). Eskimo Art (Rick Moranis) sells paintings and eats the leftovers. Edith Prickley (Andrea Martin) hosts an Read More

SCTV: Cookery Crock/Cartoon Coroner

Crew: Director

Synopsis: "Cookery Crock"'s host Angus Crock (Dave Thomas) welcomes war criminal Dr. Joseph Mengele (played by Joe Flaherty à la Gregory Peck), who injects a hormone serum into a casserole. The director/host of "The Freddie de Cordova Show" (Flaherty) interviews guests while remaining just outside camera Read More

SCTV: Death Motel

Crew: Director

Synopsis: With Dr. Tongue gone, his hunchbacked assistant Bruno (Woody Tobias Jr., better known as Eugene Levy) is elevated to stardom on Monster Chiller Horror Theater's presentation of "Death Motel" -- in 3-D ($15.75 extra for special glasses). On "Kanadian Korner," hey, the McKenzie brothers (David Thomas Read More

SCTV: The Lone Ranger Show

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Those hosers Bob and Doug McKenzie (Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas) are still talking about snow chains, their topic from last week's "Kanadian Korner"; and there's also a promo for Phil Donahue's interview with the Pope (Tony Rosato). In the new investigative reporting show "60/20," Earl Camembert (Eugene Levy Read More

SCTV: Play It Again Bob

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In an episode-length parody of Play It Again, Sam, Woody Allen (played by Rick Moranis) accepts advice from the ghost of Bing Crosby (Joe Flaherty) in order to become close pals with Bob Hope (Dave Thomas) -- only to end up writing a new road picture for Bob and Anita Ekberg (replacing "that Read More

SCTV: My Factory, My Self

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Walter Cronkite (Dave Thomas) hosts the "Dialing for Dollars" movie "My Factory, My Self", a tender tale of romance and labor disputes starring Sally Jane Clayburgh-Streep (Andrea Martin). Extra added attractions include promos for new soap opera-sports show "The Young and the Wrestling" and the Read More

SCTV: Lee A. Iaccoca's Rock Concert

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Filling the gap left by departing troupe members John Candy and Catherine O'Hara, Rick Moranis, Tony Rosato, and Robin Duke join the SCTV cast as the irreverent Canadian sketch comedy series begins its third season. Station manager Edith Prickley (Andrea Martin) welcomes us back, getting in a Read More

SCTV: Thursday Night Live

Crew: Director

Actors: Dick Blasucci, Paul Flaherty

Synopsis: This episode features SCTV's new "hip, relevant" comedy show "Thursday Night Live," broadcast direct from glamorous Edmonton and guest-hosted by news anchor Earl Camembert (Eugene Levy). Alas, Doug McKenzie (Dave Thomas) misses the show because he's wearing earmuffs, as he explains ruefully to Read More

SCTV: Death of a Salesman

Crew: Director

Actors: Dick Blasucci

Synopsis: Tonight's feature presentation is Guy Caballero's dinner-theater production of Death of a Salesman, starring an impeccably dressed Ricardo Montalban (Eugene Levy) as Willy Loman, Margaret Hamilton (Andrea Martin) as Linda, DeForest Kelley (Dave Thomas) as Biff, and George Carlin (Rick Moranis) as Read More

SCTV: Star Wars

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Tonight's highlight is "Kanadian Korner," wherein that beer-guzzling hoser Doug McKenzie (Dave Thomas) imitates Darth Vader and the phaser sound. Also, "SCTV News" celebrates Togo as the tiny country breaks the record for most earthquakes in a single year. Phil the Garment King (Eugene Levy) Read More

SCTV: Hollywood Salutes the Extras

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The titular sketch is part of the ongoing series "Bad Acting in Hollywood," hosted by Kirk Douglas (Joe Flaherty), with guest stars Sid Dithers (Eugene Levy) and "special business extra" Miles Dustin'hoffer (Tony Rosato). Elsewhere, "Kanadian Korner" emcees Doug and Bob McKenzie (Dave Thomas, Rick Moranis Read More

SCTV: The Irwin Allen Show

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Rick Moranis plays the eponymous host of the combination talk show/disaster flick "The Irwin Allen Show." Tonight's guests are Shelley Winters (Robin Duke), who drowns in a capsized ocean liner; Red Buttons (himself), who is stung to death by a swarm of giant bees; and Charlton Heston (Joe Flaherty Read More

SCTV: Night Gallery

Crew: Director

Synopsis: SCTV's resident intellectual Hugh Betcha (Joe Flaherty) hosts a chilling "Night Gallery" episode starring Bob Schmenge (Tony Rosato). Molly Earlie (Robin Duke) and her special guest May Sparks (Andrea Martin) demonstrate the many uses for the Bingo Drop Can on "Crazy Crafts." In lieu of a topic on Read More

SCTV: Gaslight

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Tonight's presentation of the vintage stage melodrama Gaslight features Cecil (Joe Flaherty) and Cynthia (Andrea Martin), the same couple who appeared in the previous season's "Murder Is Bad for Your Health." On "Sunrise Semester," Angus Crock (Dave Thomas) discusses the subtleties of Read More

SCTV: Man's Ability to Imitate

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Mr. Wilcox (Rick Moranis) demonstrates the proper techniques for imitating Ed Sullivan and Jimmy Stewart on "Sunrise Semester." Among the sponsors for tonight's public service announcements are "Concerned Children for Truth in Advertising" and "The National Association to Reinstate Cigarette Read More

SCTV: Mel's Rock Pile

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Shifty station owner Guy Caballero (Joe Flaherty) answers viewer mail. Talk show emcee Merv Griffin (Rick Moranis) -- "oooh" -- welcomes Liberace (Dave Thomas), Lou Ferrigno (Tony Rosato), and Yasser Arafat (Flaherty). Andrea Martin makes a house call on "Cheryl Kinsey, Travelling Sexologist." On Read More

Red Skelton's Funny Faces

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Belying his 70 years, Red Skelton delivers a virtuoso performance in this comedy-concert special. In addition to offering a vast array of his familiar characters, Red also performs a number of his best pantomime routines, both hilarious and eloquent. Jimmy Dale provided the original music for this Read More