SCTV’s “Death of a Salesman”
One of the things I loved about SCTV was their willingness to take a weird premise and just let it play out. There might be other sketch shows that would have thought of “Death of a Salesman” starring Ricardo Montalban and DeForest Kelly, but none of them would let it spool out, getting stranger and stranger, for over 7 minutes:
When I was in college there was a local channel that would play the full 90 minute SCTV episodes at 1 in the morning, which was the perfect environment for the bizarre dreamlogic fueling that show. Absolutly brilliant.
And as a chaser, here’s Spock and McCoy in “Check Please: