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Dante's Inferno

SCTV
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A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.

The setup

On SCTV's game show from hell, host Bill Dante hands out prizes for the juiciest confessed sins and sends the least wicked contestant into the flaming pit.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

Three contestants are summoned through the gates of hell onto Dante's Inferno, a garish game show hosted by the tuxedoed Bill Dante with costumed demons standing by. In the opening round each player names the sin they would commit to win a trash-compactor stereo, and Linda's brazen confession earns the prize, a Hawaiian holiday and an early exit. The other two are marched to the den of demons, where a wrong guess about their friends' accounts of their worst deeds costs them flesh: Holly wins all of her neighbours' possessions by admitting she covets everything, while Leon misjudges his own misdeed and is condemned to a week in the flaming pit before he can try again next week.

The funny people

Meet the cast. 6

Say it with us

Highly quotable.

Remember, the biggest sin takes the prize.

For every wrong answer, a demon will rend a bit of your flesh.

I covet, Bill. I covet everything I see.

Behind the scenes

The people who made it.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

The closing credits bill the show as written and produced by Johnny LaRue, John Candy's recurring SCTV character, as a La Rue Enterprises Production with all proceeds going to the LaRue Foundation of LaRue, Ontario.

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