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You Can't Do That On Television was a Canadian sketch comedy that first aired on CTV on February 3rd, 1979 and then premiered in the United States on Nickelodeon on January | '''''You Can't Do That On Television''''' was a Canadian sketch comedy that first aired on CTV on February 3rd, 1979 and then premiered in the United States on Nickelodeon on January 2nd, 1982 until it's end on May 25th, 1990 for 144 episodes and two specials. It was created by British producer Roger Price (who previously created the children's sci-fi series ''The Tomorrow People'') and the show was the fourth iteration of the format that first debuted on the British sketch comedy series ''You Must Be Joking!'' (also created by Price). | ||
The show mainly features comedy sketches performed by a mostly preteen cast that relate to the episodes topic. The show would also feature the use of green slime and water dumped on the cast, the slime would go onto be a Nickelodeon trademark and continues to be the channel's trademark to this day. The cast would sometimes feature future rock musician Alanis Morissette, filmmaker Patrick Mills, and Big Bang Theory co-creator Bill Prady. | The show mainly features comedy sketches performed by a mostly preteen cast that relate to the episodes topic. The show would also feature the use of green slime and water dumped on the cast, the slime would go onto be a Nickelodeon trademark and continues to be the channel's trademark to this day. The cast would sometimes feature future rock musician Alanis Morissette, filmmaker Patrick Mills, and ''The Big Bang Theory'' co-creator Bill Prady. | ||
The show would become a ratings success in Canada and would later score even bigger ratings once the show started airing on Nickelodeon. After the show's end, the latter would rerun the show until early 1994 and would air one episode, 1986's "Enemies & Paranoia" as part of the channel's "Old School Pick" in 2004 but was pulled halfway through the airing. Similar to what happened to [[The TNT Show (lost unaired Michael Jackson sketch; 2009)|an episode of The TNT Show in 2009]], the episode contain jokes on then president Ronald Reagan and Reagan's death made headlines during the episode's airing and was replaced with an episode of The Fairly Oddparents<ref>https://nickstory.fandom.com/wiki/June_8,_2004</ref>. The show would briefly be reran in 2015 on the TeenNick block "The Splat" before disappearing from the air altogether. A reboot of the show was announced in 2017 with Price involved<ref>https://www.avclub.com/exclusive-you-cant-do-that-on-television-is-getting-a-1798539646</ref> but was canned two years later due to rights disputes<ref>https://twitter.com/iamjimmyfox/status/1172991613854871552</ref>. | The show would become a ratings success in Canada and would later score even bigger ratings once the show started airing on Nickelodeon. After the show's end, the latter would rerun the show until early 1994 and would air one episode, 1986's "Enemies & Paranoia" as part of the channel's "Old School Pick" in 2004 but was pulled halfway through the airing. Similar to what happened to [[The TNT Show (lost unaired Michael Jackson sketch; 2009)|an episode of ''The TNT Show'' in 2009]], the episode contain jokes on then president Ronald Reagan and Reagan's death made headlines during the episode's airing and was replaced with an episode of ''The Fairly Oddparents''<ref>https://nickstory.fandom.com/wiki/June_8,_2004</ref>. The show would briefly be reran in 2015 on the TeenNick block "The Splat" before disappearing from the air altogether. A reboot of the show was announced in 2017 with Price involved<ref>https://www.avclub.com/exclusive-you-cant-do-that-on-television-is-getting-a-1798539646</ref> but was canned two years later due to rights disputes<ref>https://twitter.com/iamjimmyfox/status/1172991613854871552</ref>. | ||
While the show is well remembered for the time it aired on Nickelodeon, episodes are really hard to come by and many of the masters for the episodes are rumored to have been destroyed. | While the show is well remembered for the time it aired on Nickelodeon, episodes are really hard to come by and many of the masters for the episodes are rumored to have been destroyed. | ||
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==Availability== | ==Availability== | ||
Of the 144 episodes that were produced and aired, only under half of the show's run exists in broadcast quality. A home media release of the show never materialized due to royalties and various streaming releases have popped up in the past decade. The first season of the show is considered by many to be the hardest season to find as the season only aired in Canada and never aired on Nickelodeon, many of the season's masters are considered missing and are rumored to have been erased since it was a common practice at the time. In 2013, Price uploaded off-air copies of the entire first season of the show to YouTube but have since been taken down and no backups have resurfaced. Twenty one episodes from the show's second and third season were available on Amazon Prime but have since been unavailable.<ref>https://www.amazon.com/You-Cant-Do-That-Television/dp/B00B3Q748Q</ref><ref>https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B00C0OM9FS/ref=atv_dp_season_select_s2</ref><ref>https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B00FZEZ0C4/ref=atv_dp_season_select_s3</ref> In March 2021, those same episodes were added to Paramount + and can still be viewed as of the writing of this article<ref>https://twitter.com/paramountplus/status/1374803005107675147</ref>. The rest of the series have resurfaced online thanks to home recordings from Nickelodeon airings. Due to the ongoing rights issues with the show, it's unlikely the rest of You Can't Do That On Television will ever surface. | Of the 144 episodes that were produced and aired, only under half of the show's run exists in broadcast quality. A home media release of the show never materialized due to royalties and various streaming releases have popped up in the past decade. The first season of the show is considered by many to be the hardest season to find as the season only aired in Canada and never aired on Nickelodeon, many of the season's masters are considered missing and are rumored to have been erased since it was a common practice at the time. In 2013, Price uploaded off-air copies of the entire first season of the show to YouTube but have since been taken down and no backups have resurfaced. Twenty one episodes from the show's second and third season were available on Amazon Prime but have since been unavailable.<ref>https://www.amazon.com/You-Cant-Do-That-Television/dp/B00B3Q748Q</ref><ref>https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B00C0OM9FS/ref=atv_dp_season_select_s2</ref><ref>https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B00FZEZ0C4/ref=atv_dp_season_select_s3</ref> In March 2021, those same episodes were added to Paramount + and can still be viewed as of the writing of this article (though it requires a subscription to service before the episodes can be viewed)<ref>https://twitter.com/paramountplus/status/1374803005107675147</ref>. The rest of the series have resurfaced online thanks to home recordings from Nickelodeon airings. Due to the ongoing rights issues with the show, it's unlikely the rest of ''You Can't Do That On Television'' will ever surface. | ||
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Revision as of 19:10, 21 October 2021
You Can't Do That On Television was a Canadian sketch comedy that first aired on CTV on February 3rd, 1979 and then premiered in the United States on Nickelodeon on January 2nd, 1982 until it's end on May 25th, 1990 for 144 episodes and two specials. It was created by British producer Roger Price (who previously created the children's sci-fi series The Tomorrow People) and the show was the fourth iteration of the format that first debuted on the British sketch comedy series You Must Be Joking! (also created by Price).
The show mainly features comedy sketches performed by a mostly preteen cast that relate to the episodes topic. The show would also feature the use of green slime and water dumped on the cast, the slime would go onto be a Nickelodeon trademark and continues to be the channel's trademark to this day. The cast would sometimes feature future rock musician Alanis Morissette, filmmaker Patrick Mills, and The Big Bang Theory co-creator Bill Prady.
The show would become a ratings success in Canada and would later score even bigger ratings once the show started airing on Nickelodeon. After the show's end, the latter would rerun the show until early 1994 and would air one episode, 1986's "Enemies & Paranoia" as part of the channel's "Old School Pick" in 2004 but was pulled halfway through the airing. Similar to what happened to an episode of The TNT Show in 2009, the episode contain jokes on then president Ronald Reagan and Reagan's death made headlines during the episode's airing and was replaced with an episode of The Fairly Oddparents[1]. The show would briefly be reran in 2015 on the TeenNick block "The Splat" before disappearing from the air altogether. A reboot of the show was announced in 2017 with Price involved[2] but was canned two years later due to rights disputes[3].
While the show is well remembered for the time it aired on Nickelodeon, episodes are really hard to come by and many of the masters for the episodes are rumored to have been destroyed.
Episodes
Season 1
# | Episode Title | Status | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Live! | Partially Lost | |
2 | A CJOH Shoestring Production | Lost | Screenshots exist |
3 | Nickel and Dime | Lost | Screenshots exist |
4 | Peanuts | Lost | Screenshots exist |
5 | Repeat | Lost | Screenshots exist |
6 | Ottawa Director | Lost | Screenshots exist |
7 | St. Patrick's Day | Lost | Screenshots exist |
8 | Backstage | Lost | Screenshots exist |
9 | A Staff Privvy/Executive Washrooms Production | Lost | Screenshots exist |
10 | Boring | Lost | Screenshots exist |
11 | Straitjackets | Lost | Screenshots exist |
12 | Local Show | Lost | Screenshots exist |
13 | Sore Foot | Lost | Screenshots exist |
14 | End of the Line | Lost | Screenshots exist |
Season 2
# | Episode Title | Status | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
15 | Work | Found (Subscription Required) | Available on Paramount + |
16 | Transportation | Found (Subscription Required) | Available on Paramount + |
17 | Strike Now | Found (Subscription Required) | Available on Paramount + |
18 | Dating | Found (Subscription Required) | Available on Paramount + |
19 | Fitness | Found (Subscription Required) | Available on Paramount + |
20 | Safety First | Found (Subscription Required) | Available on Paramount + |
21 | Sexual Equality | Found (Subscription Required) | Available on Paramount + |
22 | Personal Hygiene | Found (Subscription Required) | Available on Paramount + |
23 | Smoking | Found (Subscription Required) | Available on Paramount + |
24 | Crime and Vandalism | Found (Subscription Required) | Available on Paramount + |
25 | Drugs | Found (Subscription Required) | Available on Paramount + |
26 | Nutrition | Found (Subscription Required) | Available on Paramount + |
27 | Peer Pressure | Found (Subscription Required) | Available on Paramount + |
Season 3
# | Episode Title | Status | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
28 | Cosmetics | Found (Subscription Required) | Available on Paramount + |
29 | Addictions | Found | |
30 | Popularity | Found | |
31 | Fads and Fashion | Found | |
32 | Vacations | Found | |
33 | Rip-Offs | Found | |
34 | Bullying | Found | |
35 | Culture Junk | Found | |
36 | Television | Found | |
37 | Sports | Found | |
38 | Heroes | Found | |
39 | The Not-So-Fair-Show | Found | |
40 | Growing Up | Found |
Season 4
# | Episode Title | Status | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
41 | Media | Found | |
42 | Pets | Found | |
43 | Medicine | Found | |
44 | Rules & Regulations | Found | |
45 | Future World | Found | |
46 | Nature | Found | |
47 | Cooking | Found | |
48 | Inequality: Kids vs. Adults | Found | |
49 | Rumors | Found | |
50 | Classical Music | Found | |
51 | Manners | Found | |
52 | Fame | Found | |
53 | Priorites | Found |
Season 5
# | Episode Title | Status | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
54 | Courage | Found | |
55 | Friends | Found | |
56 | Ambition | Lost | Screenshots exist |
57 | Hobbies | Found | |
58 | ESP, Magic and Astrology | Found | |
59 | Literature | Lost | Screenshots exist |
60 | Clubs | Lost | Screenshots exist |
61 | Foreign Countries | Lost | Screenshots exist |
62 | Marketing | Found | |
63 | History | Found | |
64 | Body Parts | Found | |
65 | Technology | Lost | Screenshots exist |
66 | Moving | Lost | Screenshots exist |
67 | Halloween | Lost | Screenshots exist |
68 | Christmas | Found | |
69 | Holidays | Found | |
70 | Colleges | Lost | Screenshots exist |
71 | Politics | Found | |
72 | Science | Lost | Screenshots exist |
73 | Divorce | Lost | Screenshots exist |
74 | Families | Found | |
75 | Malls (Hangouts) | Found | |
76 | Seasons (Weather) | Found | |
77 | War | Lost | Screenshots exist |
78 | Jealousy | Found | |
79 | Wealth | Found |
Season 6
# | Episode Title | Status | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
80 | Outer Space | Lost | Screenshots exist |
81 | Wildlife and Animals | Lost | Screenshots exist |
82 | World Records | Lost | Screenshots exist |
83 | Identity Crisis | Lost | Screenshots exist |
84 | Pessimism/Optimism | Lost | Screenshots exist |
85 | Romance and Dating | Lost | Screenshots exist |
86 | Fears, Worries, and Anxiety | Lost | Screenshots exist |
87 | Relatives | Lost | Screenshots exist |
88 | Revenge | Lost | Screenshots exist |
89 | Movies | Lost | Screenshots exist |
Season 7
# | Episode Title | Status | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
90 | Fairy Tales, Myths, and Legends | Lost | Screenshots exist |
91 | Pop Music | Lost | Screenshots exist |
92 | Know-It-Alls | Lost | Screenshots exist |
93 | Parties | Lost | Screenshots exist |
94 | Garbage | Lost | Screenshots exist |
95 | TV Commercials | Found | |
96 | Country | Lost | Screenshots exist |
97 | Back to School | Lost | Screenshots exist |
98 | Illness | Lost | Screenshots exist |
99 | Enemies and Paranoia | Found | |
100 | Contests | Lost | Screenshots exist |
101 | Censorship | Found | |
102 | Poverty and Unemployment | Lost | Screenshots exist |
103 | Part-Time Jobs | Lost | Screenshots exist |
104 | Discipline | Lost | Screenshots exist |
105 | Sleep | Lost | Screenshots exist |
106 | Home | Lost | Screenshots exist |
107 | Mysteries and Crimes | Lost | Screenshots exist |
108 | Luck | Lost | Screenshots exist |
109 | Savings | Lost | Screenshots exist |
Season 8
# | Episode Title | Status | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
110 | Books and Reading | Lost | Screenshots exist |
111 | Adoption | Partially Lost | Nickelodeon pulled the episode after two airings. Two versions exists.[4] |
112 | City Life | Lost | Screenshots exist |
113 | Anniversaries | Lost | Screenshots exist |
114 | Smells | Partially Lost | Screenshots exist |
Season 9
# | Episode Title | Status | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
115 | Choice | Lost | Screenshots exist |
116 | Chores | Lost | Screenshots exist |
117 | Communication | Lost | Screenshots exist |
118 | Fitness | Lost | Screenshots exist |
119 | Malfunctions | Lost | Screenshots exist |
120 | Cleanliness | Lost | Screenshots exist |
121 | Security | Lost | Screenshots exist |
122 | Pollution | Lost | Screenshots exist |
123 | Fantasies | Lost | Screenshots exist |
124 | Time | Lost | Screenshots exist |
125 | Mistakes | Lost | Screenshots exist |
126 | Punishment | Lost | Screenshots exist |
127 | Beliefs | Lost | Screenshots exist |
128 | Age | Lost | Screenshots exist |
129 | Excess | Lost | Screenshots exist |
130 | Looking Cool | Lost | Screenshots exist |
131 | Losing Things | Lost | Screenshots exist |
132 | Failure | Lost | Screenshots exist |
133 | First Times | Lost | Screenshots exist |
134 | Celebrations | Lost | Screenshots exist |
135 | Effort | Lost | Screenshots exist |
136 | Sports | Lost | Screenshots exist |
137 | Smoking | Lost | Screenshots exist |
138 | Generosity | Lost | Screenshots exist |
139 | Embarrassment | Lost | Screenshots exist |
Season 10
# | Episode Title | Status | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
140 | Blame | Lost | Screenshots exist |
141 | Secrets | Lost | Screenshots exist |
142 | Learning | Found | |
143 | Privileges | Lost | Screenshots exist |
144 | Inventions | Lost | Screenshots exist |
[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]
Availability
Of the 144 episodes that were produced and aired, only under half of the show's run exists in broadcast quality. A home media release of the show never materialized due to royalties and various streaming releases have popped up in the past decade. The first season of the show is considered by many to be the hardest season to find as the season only aired in Canada and never aired on Nickelodeon, many of the season's masters are considered missing and are rumored to have been erased since it was a common practice at the time. In 2013, Price uploaded off-air copies of the entire first season of the show to YouTube but have since been taken down and no backups have resurfaced. Twenty one episodes from the show's second and third season were available on Amazon Prime but have since been unavailable.[17][18][19] In March 2021, those same episodes were added to Paramount + and can still be viewed as of the writing of this article (though it requires a subscription to service before the episodes can be viewed)[20]. The rest of the series have resurfaced online thanks to home recordings from Nickelodeon airings. Due to the ongoing rights issues with the show, it's unlikely the rest of You Can't Do That On Television will ever surface.
Gallery
References
- ↑ https://nickstory.fandom.com/wiki/June_8,_2004
- ↑ https://www.avclub.com/exclusive-you-cant-do-that-on-television-is-getting-a-1798539646
- ↑ https://twitter.com/iamjimmyfox/status/1172991613854871552
- ↑ https://www.cbr.com/you-cant-do-that-on-television-banned-nickelodeon-united-states/
- ↑ https://www.barthsburgery.com/epguide.htm
- ↑ https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/you-cant-do-that-on-television/episodes/
- ↑ http://www.ycdtotv.com/epg/index.php?year=1979&p=epg_list
- ↑ http://www.ycdtotv.com/epg/index.php?year=1981&p=epg_list
- ↑ http://www.ycdtotv.com/epg/index.php?year=1982&p=epg_list
- ↑ http://www.ycdtotv.com/epg/index.php?year=1983&p=epg_list
- ↑ http://www.ycdtotv.com/epg/index.php?year=1984&p=epg_list
- ↑ http://www.ycdtotv.com/epg/index.php?year=1985&p=epg_list
- ↑ http://www.ycdtotv.com/epg/index.php?year=1986&p=epg_list
- ↑ http://www.ycdtotv.com/epg/index.php?year=1987&p=epg_list
- ↑ http://www.ycdtotv.com/epg/index.php?year=1989&p=epg_list
- ↑ http://www.ycdtotv.com/epg/index.php?year=1990&p=epg_list
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/You-Cant-Do-That-Television/dp/B00B3Q748Q
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B00C0OM9FS/ref=atv_dp_season_select_s2
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B00FZEZ0C4/ref=atv_dp_season_select_s3
- ↑ https://twitter.com/paramountplus/status/1374803005107675147