The first iteration of The David Steinberg Show ran on CBS television in the United States for five weeks in the summer of 1972.
This series was partly modelled on The Jack Benny Program, in that it was largely about the behind-the-scenes adventures of the cast of a variety show and their friends.
The supporting cast featured a number of people who would go on to greater fame on SCTV, and many Steinberg cast members were, in fact, simultaneously working on the first season of SCTV, which debuted the same week as The David Steinberg Show.
SCTV cast members doing "double duty" on Steinberg included Joe Flaherty, Dave Thomas and John Candy.
)[3] SCTV stalwart Andrea Martin also appeared in a few episodes of The David Steinberg Show, but not as a regular.