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“Sweeps Week/The Days of the Week” from SCTV

“Sweeps Week/The Days of the Week” from SCTV

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Rendering future soap-opera parodies unnecessary, SCTV’s “Days of the Week” stretched through two seasons in the early ’80s. This clip is from the climactic wedding episode, and it includes a promo for SCTV’s Sweeps Week.

Sequoia National Forest: Lucas Spielberg

Sequoia National Forest: Lucas Spielberg

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In 1994, a man calling himself Lucas Speilberg swindled $40,000 from the Sequoia National Forest marketing department in exchange for a “high-end Hollywood-level” TV campaign. Twenty years later, after 63 FOIA requests, the campaign has been made public.