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In January 1981, production on YCDTOTV resumed, and a new set of episodes aired locally on CJOH through May 1981. As a result, CTV cancelled the show in December 1979 following poor ratings after only 13 episodes. timeslot on Tuesday nights, and some CTV affiliates opted not to carry the show, possibly because of concerns about its content. In addition, 22 children from the first season were trimmed down to seven: Christine McGlade, Lisa Ruddy, Jonothan Gebert, Kevin Somers, Kevin Schenk, Rodney Helal and Marc Baillon (another first-season cast member, Elizabeth Mitchell, only appeared in the pilot episode). Ruth Buzzi joined the cast playing many of the adult female characters, which included a strict schoolteacher named Miss Fitt and the studio secretary Miss Take. The show's creators shortened it to 30 minutes, removed local content, added a laugh track and replaced music videos with live performances from popular Canadian artists including Trooper, Max Webster, Ian Thomas, Ottawa's own Cooper Brothers (one of whose members, Dick Cooper, would later become a writer for YCDTOTV) and disco singer Alma Faye Brooks. The studio masters for the first-season episodes no longer exist, and all but three of the episodes from the first season were believed lost until early 2013, when copies of the missing episodes from off-air recordings were contributed by Roger Price and posted on YouTube.Īfter a successful first season, a national network version of You Can't Do That on Television entitled Whatever Turns You On was produced for CTV and debuted in September 1979 (its hour-long pilot episode had aired in May). The idea was successful, as (according to one episode) the show scored a 32 share of the ratings for CJOH in its 10:30 a.m. The show was meant to offer a program for children on Saturday mornings that made no attempt to be an educational program. Occasionally, the older children in the cast (such as Christine McGlade, Sarah West or Cyndi Kennedy) played adult characters.
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Actress Abby Hagyard, who played "Mom" opposite Lye's role as "Dad," would not join the cast until 1982. Veteran comedy actor Les Lye played numerous recurring characters and was initially the only adult to perform in the show's sketches he was also the only actor to appear for the entire length of the series' run. The show also benefited from several links with popular Top 40 Ottawa radio station CFGO for example, station personality Jim Johnson emceed the disco-dance segments and shared tidbits about the artists featured in the music videos played on the show. Each week, the show took its "roving camera" to hangouts around town, recording kids' jokes or complaints about life, which would be played on the following week's broadcast. The format also included performances by local disco dancers and special guests such as Ottawa-based cartoonist Jim Unger. The show consisted of comedy sketches, music videos (usually three per episode) and live phone-in contests in which the viewer could win a variety of prizes ( transistor radios, record albums, model kits, etc.).
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You Can't Do That on Television premiered on Februon CJOH-TV in Ottawa as a locally aired and produced one-hour low-budget variety program with some segments performed live. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) ( August 2012) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) See Wikipedia's guide to writing better articles for suggestions. This section's tone or style may not reflect the encyclopedic tone used on Wikipedia.