You Can't Do That on Television (1979)

6.7	Listal rating
7.7	IMDB rating

Directed by (View all)

Alex Sutton

Brian Lebold

Starring (View all)

Les Lye

Ross Ewich / ...

Abby Hagyard

Valerie Prevort / ...

Christine McGlade

Old Lady / ...

Lisa Ruddy

Lisa Ruddy / ...

Alasdair Gillis

Alasdair Gillis / ...

Doug Ptolemy

Doug Ptolemy / ...

Vanessa Lindores

Vanessa Lindores / ...

Kevin Kubusheskie

Kevin Kubusheskie / ...

Written by (View all)

Roger Damon Price

Geoffrey Darby

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Childhood TV favorites (93 items)
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Published 2 years, 2 months ago

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By nickelodeon (78 items)
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Published 1 year, 6 months ago

5 comments

5 votes

1970's Children's TV (60 items)
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Published 2 years, 4 months ago

4 votes

Nickelodeon (37 items)
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Published 6 years, 5 months ago

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2 votes

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Published 9 months, 3 weeks ago

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The messiest thing and I don

6 years ago at May 12 2:47

KingFahtah

1 vote

A bunch of Canadian children get water and green slime dumped on them as they discuss and make jokes about various weekly themes. A very silly and entertaining program, quite adventurous for it's time. Alanis Morrisette was in a couple of episodes when she was little. The producer guy Les Lye was the main adult actor and played the infamous Bath who ran a very bad burger shop. The theme tune was a... read more

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You Can't Do That on Television (abbreviated YCDTOTV) is a Canadian television program that first aired locally in 1979 before ultimately airing internationally in 1981. It primarily featured preteen and teenaged actors in a sketch comedy format in which they acted out skits based on a theme for that episode.

Release date : 3 February 1979

Nickelodeon (4), Sketch Comedy (3), Comedy (2), Canada (2), Water (2), Child Actors (2), Teen (2), Child Actors Teen (1), Slime (1), Skits (1), 1970s (1)

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Childhood TV favorites (93 tv items)

" I actually didn't see this show until the late 80s when it aired on Nickelodeon all the time. My favorite part was, of course, any time anyone got slime or water dumped on them. "

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1970's Children's TV (60 tv items)

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KingFahtah posted a review 6 years ago

The messiest thing and I don

“A bunch of Canadian children get water and green slime dumped on them as they discuss and make jokes about various weekly themes. A very silly and entertaining program, quite adventurous for it's time. Alanis Morrisette was in a couple of episodes when she was little. The producer guy Les Lye was the main adult actor and played the infamous Bath who ran a very bad burger shop. The theme tune was a ragtime version of William Tell overture. When you see this and Degrassi you realise Canadians took children's tv seriously.” read more

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