I guess it was just a little over three years ago when SCTV’s Rick Moranis created the character of Gerry Todd, genial “hepcat” host of the all-night show on Melonville’s video music channel. In typical Second City fashion, the Gerry Todd Show was based on a juxtaposition of hopelessly incongruous elements—a late ’50s easy listening radio show catapulted into the futuristic universe of 175 channels per household cable television. Planted in front of a bevy of video monitors and behind a selfoperated control board, Gerry Todd—he of the slicked-backhair-with-square-horn-rimmedglasses-and-goatee persuasionchecked in with the guys in the circling satellite for fast-breaking weather reports, tried a videophone dialing for dollars, and even opened up the request line (Caller: “Hey, Ger, how about a Mission Impossible?” Todd: “Sure. Any particular episode?”).