SCTV Classifieds/Vic Arpeggio: SCTV Network (TV Episode)

• Director: John Bell
• Main Cast: Mary Charlotte Wilcox
• Release Year: 1983
• Run Time: 90 minutes

Plot

An offer by Guy Caballero (Joe Flaherty) to accept low-rent "spot" ads on SCTV segues into the '50s private eye show "Vic Arpeggio," a black-and-white spoof of the vintage TV series Johnny Staccato starring Vic Hedges (also Flaherty). Pop culture maven Brock Linehan (Martin Short) introduces three representative clips from the long-running TV show "Oh, That Rusty," which, through the decades, undergoes a number of startling -- and idiotic -- format changes. Also on the docket: "Koffler and Meltzer," a Jewish-American-Princess version of Starsky & Hutch starring Andrea Martin and Mary Charlotte Wilcox; talk show host Sammy Maudlin (Flaherty) explains that his co-host William B. has walked off the show as he welcomes guest stars Sandler and Young (Short, Eugene Levy) and Luciano Pavarotti (John Candy); "Days of the Week" reaches its eighth episode; and a panel of Canada's foremost philosophers debate over whether The Flintstones was stolen from The Honeymooners. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide