High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Second City Television (SCTV) is a Canadian television sketch comedy show offshoot from Toronto's The Second City troupe that ran between 1976 and 1984. The basic premise of SCTV is that it is an independent television station in the city of Melonville, in an unknown province or state. Rather than broadcasting the usual TV rerun fare, the station produces a bizarre and humorously incompetent range of cheap local programming.