1983 SCTV Power Play Billy Stemhovilichski (John Candy) playing hockey with the Toronto Bay Leaves
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This classic is from Second City Television (SCTV), a Canadian television sketch comedy show, broadcast in the 1970s and 1980s
SCTV had a 'Movie of the Week' segment. This one in 1983, entitled 'Power Play', was about young Billy Stemhovilichski (John Candy) being recruited by the coach (Dave Thomas) of the Toronto Bay Leaves.
It also features other names you may recognize, such as Catherine O’Hara, Eugene Levy, Rick Moranis and Joe Flaherty.
Enjoy!
You know it’s a Canadian show when all the actors know how to skate
Yeeeee doggie!!!
Even when they're walking!
@@moosewhizzerdave2066 yeah!!! That was too funny!!!
Right? I was amazed to see both Rick Moranis and John Candy skate more than adequately!
umm... im guessing they asked for actors who can skate, they wouldnt have got the role if they couldnt
RIP to our beloved station owner Joe Flaherty (Guy Caballero). With or without the wheelchair he always had our 'respect'...and love.
I always loved when Joe appeared in the SCTV skits. Sammy Maudlin and Alki Stereopolis were my favourites. RIP Joe.
I’m from Pittsburgh Pa. My name is James Flaherty. Joe was from Millvale Pa. In Pgh. Great comedic actor along with Eugene Levy. I think both were funnier than John. But that’s my opinion
Billy Barty...Heheheheheheheh
You will not make this putt! Ya Jackass!!!
Oh wow. RIP. I even have the Count Floyd record album
I like how John and Rick "skate walks" in the mall 😄
Toronto Eaton Center. Bottom floor just outside the Eaton’s store.
Not Eaton Centre. This is from the years that SCTV was filmed in Edmonton. The mall is credited at the end (Leduc is a large town just south of Edmonton).
and stop
Skate walking is underrated.
@@swankola it was filmed in Edmonton at Heritage Mall on 111 Street and 23rd Avenue. The mall opened in 1981 and was closed 20 years later in 2001. It's now a parking lot for an LRT station. Leduc County is where the scenes of "Billy" playing pond hockey with the kids in the farmer's field were filmed.
Man, I miss John Candy. He was such a talented actor and from everything I heard or read about his personal life he was a good man.
No drug scandals, no scandals of any kind that I have ever heard about. His kids have talked about how he was a great dad.
he would talk to people and take pictures at the airport like he was your friend!
The entire world misses The Candyman.
John Candy left this world too young. I miss seeing ppl onscreen, who are themselves.
I remember meeting Mr. John Candy at a Los Angeles Kings Hockey game at the Fabulous Forum. He had that jovial look that was his trademark. RIP
As a kid I never truly realized the brilliance of SCTV. Now I do.
Look Mom it's yellowbelly
As of 1967, the Bay Leafs have won just as many Stanely Cups as the other Leafs.
Lol
As Willy Wonka/Gene Wilder once yelled, 'You'll get nothing, Nothing, NOTHING, sir! Nothing ! Now good day, sir ! ' LOL 😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
And this year... The Tradition Continues !
*since
I love how both Rick Moranis and John Candy could actually skate. How Canadian of them.
the best Canadian comedy show ever SCTV blows SNL away
Kids in the hall, also great
Definitely better than the last 10 years of SNL. Best Canadian? Yes. With Kids in the Hall a very close 2nd.
SCTV the best North American comedy show ever.
Lol yeah right
Everyone connected to SCTV were extremely talented and became stars in their own right. Kids In The Hall was ok but they aren't in the same league. Not even close.
Nice to see O'Hara and Levy still having success 40 years later
Moranis and Candy walking through the mall like they're skating on ice 😂
That killed me 😂
couldn´t stop laughing, great idea
Syncopated 😂
Watched strange brew again. Forgot how great that movie is.
John Candy and Rick Moranis moving like NHL hall of famers on those skates. Just proves Canadians are born with skates on.
Must be rough on Mums! LOL
@@kennymik1509 Born with skate guards on the skates. 😂
Ha ha ha ha Most Excellent@@my3dviews
RIP Mr. Joe Flaherty! Such a hilarious man, he will be missed! Sctv was the best comedy of all time, filmed right here in and around Edmonton! Too cool!
We lost a great one! R.I.P.
Joe Flaherty, an Honorary Canadian and funny and talented man.
I moved to tropical Guam 38 yrs ago but earned ny KZhead name growing up in Edmonton. The SCTV cast were always happy to get back to Toronto on weekends, I heard. Wasn't the studio located south by the Riviera Hotel? Early 80s Motley Crue played 'The Riv', claiming to have received threats. Edmonton not yet ready. Yea, SCTV was looked forward to on TV every week. ❤
The amount of talent that SCTV spawned is amazing!
40 years ago , the legend of Billy Stemhovilichski was born.
Billy Stemlokovich was amazing!
He was the GOAT ! 😭
Billyyyyyyy where did ya gooooooo
Billy wanted to play with the Blackhawks, but became the Bay Leaves’ Stanley Cup.
The hidden gem is one of the kids screaming “I don’t want to play in the NHL anymore!” as he runs away.
Hilarious
That was Mitch Marner
WE ALL NEED THE Billy "Stemhovilichski" JERSEY
Good call… might make that happen for myself in advance of Father’s Day 💪
40 years later, still the best hockey movie ever.
I love how Donald Sutherland is Marqueed and his appearance is a Marquee listing on a movie poster😂
You guys haven't drunk Canada dry yet ?
@@williammeszaros3382 "Canada dry." I see what you did there! I'm partial to Schweppes myself. 😊
“Bobby Clarke with the goal” hahaha those kids are so lucky to be in this masterpiece.
Haha! And I'm a big Flyer fan!
Candy was the best. He left us too early.
SOOOO true 😢
After Joe Flaherty's death, I'm just re-watching some of these old SCTV vids. They're just so much better than anything on TV now.
The SCTV reruns are exponentially better than what Saturday Night Live is now. SNL used to be pretty good but now they just aren’t as imaginative as they used to be. The Kids in the Hall is another really good comedic show that came out of Canada that was/is better than the SNL of today.
While there are some archaeology shows, and Moonshiners worth watching, these probably beat the rest of it. The Travel Channel shows mostly fake ghost stories. Nat. Geo. plays drug busts all night long. SyFy rarely plays Sci-Fi, and when they do, it's either shark or croc something, or I've seen it. The comedy usually isn't funny, but political indoctrination, and the news is either extremely slanted, or just boring. MTV doesn't play music, except for the awful video music awards. PBS is pretty much all Dem operatives. None of these chans seem to be what they're supposed to be, except CMT, and I'm rarely into country. At this rate, I'll be going back to watching old episodes of That '70's show, and Battlestar Galactica. The original series, of course. Not Necessarily the News seems fresh and funny by comparison. I always laughed at how low budget and third-rate they played their TV station at SCTV. LOL: The Toronto Bay Leaves.
Man, this is brilliance....if you got SCTV, it still holds up as one of the funniest, most intelligent shows ever. Thanks for all the laughs. Life's good with these peeps in the rear view mirror.
And on a shoestring budget - part of it's allure!
Love how they skated every where they “walked”…. 😂
Billy's last name is a combo of Pete Stemcowski and Fank Mahovalich. LOL
And doing a Darryl Sittler impersonation.
I actually think Fank sounds better than Frank when coupled with Mahovlich...
Yes 🤣
Oh yeah? How do you know it wasn't Pete Mahovalich?
Oh.....MOST EXCELLENT!!!
SCTV moved to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in 1980 thanks to Dr. Allard who owed CITV (now Global Edmonton) We always saw the cast at the Oilers games, when Toronto was in town.
Soundtrack available at Woolco, Consumers Distributing and SAAN.
You forgot Steinburgs & Bi-way
I remember Consumers Distributing. They were way ahead of their time. No shoplifting there. I'm pretty sure I seen the soundtrack at Stedmans also.
I got mine at Sam's, and it only cost three dolers
Holy Blast from the Past brother. LOL
Consumers Distributing, bringing Canadians the true Soviet shopping experience since 1956.
I will catch myself, while watching a Leafs game, humming “Billyyyy, Billy boy’. Damn, this skit was beyond funny and insightful.
I love that the theme kind of sounds like Leonard Cohen.
From the Edmonton days of SCTV - love the mall scenes in the shiny new Heritage Mall....
I’m from Toronto, but, I lived in Edmonton for a year back in 2009. Great city .
End credits thank Leduc mall. 😂
Reruns of SCTV ran for years while this hidden gem got buried. I was starting to wonder if I would ever see it again.
Such a gift treasure to see!
I watched reruns growing up but never saw this before. Great skit!
SCTV understood Canadian culture. The film has no ending and fails to answer the audience's question regarding the essential story. I've seen so much Crap like this growing up that I just had to laugh how on point this one was, right down to the boom-mic in the shot.
I love how the song had to explain the "hidden meaning" because the film did such a poor job of expressing itself! 🤣 I loved SCTV for parodying crapping Canadian television at the time - King of Kensington and Beachcombers drove me nuts!
@@smgdfcmfah Ha! Growing up in Michigan I sometimes watched the CBC for change of pace as it seemed so laid back compared to American TV. Usually lead to a good snooze, Although Hockey Night in Canada and SCTV, that was good stuff.
This show was criminally underrated. So much talent!
Certainly not in Canada. It was a big hit at the time. Never missed an episode.
So much talent at one place at the same time, I'm glad I was around to watch SCTV
Perhaps the best hockey documentary ever.
I Miss John candy. He was such a good person.
I grew up watching SCTV, so damn funny. I saw where Joe Flaherty died today at 82. Thanks for making me laugh for decades. 2 April 2024
I love how they skate when they walk.
"Not too shabby, eh?" -- Canadian Short Film Criticism Development Corporation.
So awesome. SCTV was the best. Would watch it on City-TV here in Toronto back in the 80’s. ❤️🇨🇦❤️
Toronto has a great history when it comes to Entertainment.. lots of movies and t.v. shows filmed there. Queens Quay, Roy Thompson Hall, Yonge/ Dundas Square, U.of.T ...all great places to go to and try and spot someone famous when filming is being done.
Zeppelin and SCTV......My childhood growing up in the 70's and 80's !! The loss of the two Johns are the worst ever for me !!
@@kenglass7833 Make that 3 Johns. Rush's first drummer.
I walked by his grave at 8 this morning !!Yes make it three Johns.@@kawboy14
@@Sigma1_969 It's amazing how many times Sam the Record Man showed up in the background of movies set in New York City!
When SC TV got that money from NBC they really upped their game. You could see it in the Productions and what they were able to pull together and those with some incredibly brilliant years.. I never missed the show and there will never be another one with a cast like that ever again.. total brilliance.
I was emotionally moved by the acoustic Billy soundtrack
LOL Stemhovilichski goes all the way down his sleeve. That's hilarious.
As a native Nova Scotian I loved the their spoof on Magnum PI as Magnum PEI had me in tears.
I didn't understand that skit for the longest time until I moved to Maine. Now I get it!
The greatest hockey movie ever made.
These people were ahead of their time. It’s the simplicity that makes this great 👍
I have all of Murray Eagleson’s albums. What a talent.
It's good to know his music turns on KZhead commenters like you.
I prefer Gordon Lightmetre
sure you don't mean Buzz Lighthouse?@@jamesstuart3346
The hockey scenes were shot at the old Garden in Edmonton . At 4:36 you can see while John and Rick are loading the car in the exterior shot that the building seems to be falling apart back there. But when it came time to demo the old place the wrecking ball just bounced off the walls because it was actually very well constructed. I dont know how it was eventually leveled but it took millions more . Much to the annoyance of city tax payers who were sold the idea that the Garden would soon totally collapse .
Yup, they tore a local library down saying it was ready to collapse, and man, the machines about broke before the building gave way.
Love the fact that Candy is holding a Plasmatics album in the mall. They were the musical guests on this episode with the Fishin' Musician.
The Fishin' Musician 😁 So happy to have grown up with this show
I wasn’t aware Hot Alberta Roast Beef sandwiches were a thing. Such a gem this gets better with each viewing 😂
Alberta beef is world renowned for how good it is. Those Texans think they have great beef but Alberta beef has better cuts of the really good stuff. Better marbling in the prime cuts than what you will find in most USA beef. The states know how to make a great burger when they use ground chuck but Alberta has the best steaks anywhere in the world.
Billy, my boy, roast beef sandwiches are a real thing. Billy my boy, antacids stop the sting.
This was before he dropped out of the NHL and opened up “Roy’s Food Repair”. He promised to only help people after that game….
You can only get two out of three, your options are fast, cheap, and good
Lololol the skate walking and then stopping is so funny
The cast of all star actors in this production was incredible!
The skit was pretty average though.
SCTV rarely disappoints
This is the best comedy ever. Canadian movies in the 1970s were like this. This is so well done. It’s funny to watch if you’re American. It’s 100 times funnier if you grew up during that time as a Canadian. This is awesome and I’m so glad I get to see it again after 35 years
I recall watching this. Then after that, my brother and I kept calling the Toronto Maple Leafs, the Bay Leafs. 😂
I'm wondering if Toronto fans would even be insulted by that. They'd probably respect someone chirping their team with an SCTV reference.
Dave Thomas as William Shatner is priceless. And God how much I miss John Candy. He will always be MY PEPE LONGSOCKS
Jump the weed!
To my grandkids, because of my over the calfs, I am Pepe(french) longsocks.
The amount of talent on SCTV beggars the imagination, was I ever lucky to have seen this when it was all new.
First time I’ve ever seen this. Fantastic.
Love the Rush records in the background. :)
That was deep and illustrated the melancholy life many hockey players lived. The 'enforcer' role is perhaps the most demanding role of any player as they are mocked and thought of as a 'no mind' void of feelings and aspirations. They do their time in the league and then are promptly put out to pasture. It's a heartbreaking scenario, no glitz, no glory, no dating a supermodel and no certainly no Conn Smythe Trophy. Careers short lived, spit out and replaced by another who is tougher and stronger. Not all hockey players go on to have the Gretzky life style, some are left with a broken body and concussed brain and a small, insufficient savings account. The more we celebrate the the top point getters the more we dismiss The Enforcer. It's a lonely path and many times ends in misery and heartache.
Being an enforcer in the NHL is a tough role to have no pun intended but it is also almost extinct now. In today’s NHL if you can’t contribute in other areas of the game the chances aren’t good that a team is going to use a roster spot for them. These guys who have the role of an enforcer don’t have anyone holding a gun to their head and are free to go do something else so it is still a choice they make and not one that many players will make but with some people the lure of money and stardom must override making the smart decision of finding another occupation. Science has for the most part determined that brain injury is something that can lead to a disease that affects the cognitive abilities of someone who has sustained at least one too many blows to the brain. It is sadly something that too many people are willing to take the risk in contact sports but make no mistake it is still a personal choice that is being made when people take on such risks in things like a hockey enforcer.
Then when they die everyone talks about what a wonderful person he was and how he loved children. Yeah sure...
@@richardwestmoreland4796 Tru dat!
Richard smh that's like saying coal miners knew what they signed up for. And how can you know what you are signing up for if you have no brain? In all industries there are those who are treated much worse than others, have to work harder and get paid less. Billy's hippie girlfriend should educate you on the "glass ceiling." The problem here is everybody has these deep thoughts and nobody can tell me what he decided. It just cuts to the scene in the field? What Happened? Did he kill everyone?
Conn Smythe....
The way Candy is speaking with his upper lip not moving , and the song - has me dying over here!
Absolute classic!!!
Absolutely brilliant. RIP Joe Flaherty
Did it say Darryl Sittler as Billy? 😂 That explains the hair.
Man I miss those one piece hockey sticks, had me the Mike Bossy Titan
I had a Rick Martin and a guy lapointe.
I still have the Titan 2020 that I used in the 80's. Gretzky used one too. Those things are indestructible.
I was lucky to live in WNY (Buffalo) and pull in TV from Toronto in the 70s and 80s. SCTV was a favorite and 10x better than SNL after the late 70s. God, I miss Swiss Chalet down here!
Do you think Biden would approve a chalet sauce pipeline?
I've told many Islanders on Guam what a hit Swiss Chalet would be here. I remember my parents treating us to 'steaks at Bonanza'. Who has the coupons? 😂
Bringing back memories of when we had no remotes so had to turn the 12 channels we got manually and watching this show at night! Miss John Candy, Planes Trains and Automobiles still my favorite movie. Great now I'll be singing in my head Billy my boy" all day!
This is only of my all-time favourite SCTV movies!
Sctv was absolutely fantastic, while babysitting laughing my brains out I remember watching the house of pancakes, and when he started saying this is very scary, do you want pancakes and did the 3-D in the camera? I was laughing out of control.
I've never seen this before. I'm dying laughing.
we can only hope
Oh yes!!! I raise a Molson Golden (or two......um ...goin' for the hat trick) for this!!!! Thank you!!! Buffalo, NY
Buffalo region one of the few US areas that appreciates and are appreciated for their understanding of what SNOW is. I live near detroit on the canuck side and we barely get snow, unlike the lake erie snowbelt you guys live through.
@@thorinbane It's all good. I think we both know about cold. Not like Alaska cold but hockey city cold 😂.
Several Buffalo-area comments here. We were fortunate to get Canadian stations during the 70's and 80's. Mr. Dress Up, The Secret Railroad, HNIC, were all favorites of mine at various times.
@@matthewwoelfle5533 As a kid, our TV channel from Canada was audio only. The video / picture was just fuzz. But it was cool because it was like listening to radio. The original Spider - Man cartoons were on and it was...exactly like listening to radio!
@@kennymik1509 Yeah, that was sometimes the case with the 13" B&W set in my parents room. You had to whack the side of the thing repeatedly to clear some pictures, and even then it didn't always work. Oh well, you could always listen.
Oh man how I miss John Candy he was a real classic guy.
"...Blocking shots is an integral part of the game...." 😂 John Candy was the best 🥰
I think he said "slap shots are an integral part of the game!". It wasn't uncommon in street hockey to ban slap shots, amd one of the kids appeared to yell at him for scoring on a slap shot.
Bill Borilko would have been proud to play alongside Billy.
RIP Joe… thanks for the laughs.
I remember SCTV from my childhood in the 80's. Grew up in the finger lakes region of NY and we got this on air. I rediscovered it in college while living in Pittsburgh in 2000...... insanely underrated and still too unknown comedy show....❤❤❤
Not here...
SCTV was on in Northeastern Ohio, great lakes also, watch a fun show.
@@shiversvinceajamu873 CBC windsor broadcast reaching the toledo area.
@@thorinbane I was in Youngstown, Ohio on the Pa/OH border!
@@shiversvinceajamu873 WOW maybe when they went network 90 on NBC
For forty years now, I can't watch a puck drop without hearing, "And it's Billy's first game.... Billy's first game." And it's so good, because I look around and it's somebody's first game. :)
Very Funny
Sorry you left us so early Billy for that great shinny rink in the sky. RIP and remember - keep your stick on the ice!
Billy, my Billy boooooyyyy.
I remember that mall entrance when they came in from by the food court and the water fountains underneath the escalator. I miss Heritage Mall, such good memories.
Ya, I liked that mall. Couldn't believe that they demolished it.
Done in Leduc, AB
SCTV is unmatched with it's cast
What a gem. I never saw this when I was a kid but I can appreciate it now that I’m older than Sid Crosby.
Nomination for the Canne Festival that year. Apparently it was a critical success.
It won three cans
I miss John Candy. I used to see him sometimes in the mornings at the coffee shop in Newmarket on his way to work, and he'd always say, "Hiya!" in response to me saying "hi" to him as he walked by. Genuine person. I don't know how he managed to keep a straight face doing some of his skits but man he could make me laugh. This show was a perfect showcase for him and his style (IMO).
God i miss Canada
Too funny especially the beginning knockin the kids down. lol.
Guarantee that slapshot on the dirt road sent some little particles into the goalies eyes lol makes that scene even funnier
RIP John, Canada remembers
Hear ye!
SCTV set the standard for TV Sketch comedy. I was in tears watching Billy and the Leaves!! THIS IS TIMELESS - thanks
brings tears to my eyes. laughed so hard. 😅
Greatest Canadian movie in history. The Bay Leafs remain “Losers since ‘67”. Sadly even the great Billy Stanrgssjoesvkwetski couldn’t break the curse. 😢 🇨🇦
My mum and dad were 26 years old when they last won it. They're both 83 and great grandparents now, still waiting.
Billy was best utilized when screening goalies.
Good lord where has this been, that is absolute gold baby!
I'm from New York City, and I'm geeking out over the cast, well played Canada, well played. ✌️
The Dick Bedoes impersonation is spot on.
Still better than anything modern CBC barfs out.
I wish we could go back in time & tell John how much he was & will be loved✌️💔
In honour of Joe Flaherty, let's all take moment to appreciate his great Dick Beddoes impersonation here.
This was filmed in Leduc, next to my town!
I thought this was shot in Alberta. That outdoor countryside scenery looks so Alberta. Lol
😲Those are the biggest hockey pants I’ve ever seen in my life😂
And Candy was still a better skater than I'll ever be in my 50 years as a Canadian lol...