At 7:30 PM on 21 September 1976 (a Tuesday), with little fanfare, no budget, and on a network that, at the time, was strictly second-rate compared to Canada's two 'national' networks (CTV and CBC), 'Second City Television' started broadcasting. For the next year, once a month on Thursdays at, you got it, nine and to the tune of Spike Jones' "Dance Of The Hours" (the first Series theme song), SCTV bit the hand that fed it.