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SCTV DID IT FIRST: Pocket Pal Air Collision Detector

In SCTV DID IT FIRST, we explore SCTV’s influence in the comedy world, most notably sketches being ripped off by SNL.

This is not necessarily a case of SCTV did it first, but rather, SCTV tried to do it first. This sketch’s story is explained in Dave Thomas’s book SCTV: Behind the Scenes:

In that first season [of SCTV] I wrote a piece about a little K-Tel-type decide that warns you of impending midair collisions. I’d been...