You Can't Do That on Television
1979
📺 11 Seasons
🎬 145 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 30 min/episode
Comedy
You Can't Do That on Television is a Canadian television program that first aired locally in 1979 before airing internationally in 1981. It featured pre-teen and teenaged actors in a sketch comedy format. Each episode had a theme. The show was notable for launching the careers of many performers, including Alanis Morissette, and writer Bill Prady, who would write and produce shows like The Big Bang Theory, Gilmore Girls and Dharma and Greg.
The show was produced by and aired on Ottawa's CTV station CJOH-TV. After production ended in 1990, the show continued in reruns on Nickelodeon through 1994, when it was replaced with the similar All That. The show is synonymous with Nick, and was at that time extremely popular, with the highest ratings overall on the channel. The show is also well known for introducing the network's iconic slime.
The program is the subject of the 2004 feature-length documentary, You Can't Do That on Film, directed by David Dillehunt.
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Seasons
Season 1
The main plot for this episode is unknown, but it featured a Panasonic radio as a prize for one of the phone-in competitions, as most of the episodes from this 1979 season. This episode also featured a segment on baton twirling. The episode contains the well-known scene where Ross (before a major costume revamp) teaches Jono Gebert how to do a weather forecast on an actual CJOH news/weather set.
Season 2
The Muppets Get Suffed will not be seen at this time so that we may present...
Christine's dad makes her do work while hosting the show, so she keeps shovels a wheelbarrow full of dirt onto the set.
Season 3
The Incredible Hulk Runs out of Deodorant will not be seen at this time so that we may present...
Christine brings in a box of cosmetics and explains the use of each one. She offers advise about the dangers of using corn chip flavored lipstick.
Season 4
Kermit the Frog Tries to Cross the Highway will not be seen at this time so that we may present...
The cast looks at all of the pets people have, some normal, some very strange.
Season 5
Laverne and Shirley Kill Each Other will not be seen at this time so that we may present...
Christine is broke and the other cast members won't talk to her until she pays up what she owes them. In order to do the show, she pays them each a dollar to do their lines with her.
Season 7
The A-Team Blows Up the Land of Oz will not be seen at this time so that we may present...
The cast does many sketches about various fairy tales.
Season 10
Doogie Howser Gets Blamed for Sawing the Wrong Leg Off a Patient will not be seen at this time so that we may present...
The cast is very upset that kids get blamed for everything.
Season 11
Because of the 25 year anniversary, the cast (having been doing the show all these years, but is so bad that no one will air it) are given one final aired episode. Ross is retiring, Brodie is given the new Chez Barth's, Vanessa (who is with child) and Marjorie are up to no good, and Alasdair and Justin are mad because they weren't in enough scenes. Things are changing...but, is change good? Will the kids finally be relieved of their duties at the show as the ultimate change? This is the official reunion episode of the series.
User Reviews
This old commedey series, is pretty fun, when you get to know some gags, like the slime when the "actor" "says" -''I don't know'
It has been the kickstarter on Nickeleodeon, and problay also where the slime part, which you still can see in Kids Choice Award.
If you do not know, this old series, give it a try.
March 12, 2017
Crew
Producer
Roger Damon Price
Network
CTV, Nickelodeon
Production
Carleton Productions