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According to Dave Thomas ' account in SCTV: Behind The Scenes, various ideas were batted around, then — and here's where meeting attendees remember things differently — either Close or Patinkin came up with the idea of presenting programming from the world's smallest TV station.

The cast immediately jumped on the idea as a workable model for presenting virtually unlimited range of characters, sketches, and ideas while still having a central premise that tied everything together.

From there, the actual content of the show ( the characters, the situations, the Melonville setting, etc.

) was all the work of the cast, with contributions from producers Alexander and Sahlins.