You can't Do that on Television

[Desert Man]

In 1979, a Canadian TV station in Ottawa, Ontario (the nation's capital) produced the first episode of You Can't Do That on Television, a popular children's live-action comedy series. Two years later (1981), Nickelodeon in the US carried the show, and was a successful hit series lasted until the early 1990s. Nickelodeon, followed by the Disney Channel (began 1982) and Cartoon Network (premiered 1992), owes a salute to YCDTOTV, for making children's television what it is. The show's adult male actor, Les Lye, died in 2009 at age 85, surely deserves a Maple Leaf-star on the Canadian Walk of Fame in Toronto.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbt5CbCRI7E

[jeffandnicole]

Watched this show every day after school. Great show!!!

[froggie]

Anyone up for a Barfie Burger?

[Max Rockatansky]

Wasn't Double Dare roughly on air during the same after school segment?

[formulanone]

I don't know anything about this show...

...thank goodness that was an opposite sketch.

[jwolfer]

Alanis morrissette got her start on that show

[jp the roadgeek]

I don't know anything about this show...

...thank goodness that was an opposite sketch.

That'll get you slimed

[Pete from Boston]

Very inaccurately named show, obviously.

[PHLBOS]

When my hometown finally got cable in the late 80s; while surfing around with the remote, I did periodically stop when the show was broadcasted and watch it.

A sizable part of that show (particularly the locker jokes sketch) seemed to model after Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.

Very inaccurately named show, obviously.

The creators/writers obviously played the irony card when the show was named.

[Stephane Dumas]

Very inaccurately named show, obviously.

The creators/writers obviously played the irony card when the show was named.
[/quote]

There some skits who would had been classifield inappropriate today like the one where Barth bully Zilch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39RzAASfv6I
and they find a way to talk about drugs by using pies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlvNApW_ik4

[WillWeaverRVA]

I miss this show. I used to watch it all the time.

[GCrites]

I don't know anything about this show...

...thank goodness that was an opposite sketch.

That'll get you slimed

Some water will clean that up

[SSOWorld]

Daaaaaaiiiiii heard that!

[froggie]

Some water will clean that up

Unless they're in a heat wave...

[Pete from Boston]

Very inaccurately named show, obviously.

The creators/writers obviously played the irony card when the show was named.

Just like I did when I made that remark.

[Desert Man]

I watched YCDTOTV when I first had cable when I was around 5 or 6. YCDTOTV reruns continued to air until 1994 and was replaced by All That, Nickelodeon's attempt to bring 1990s styles to children's television. There is an article on YCDTOTV on Wikipedia and on IMDB, the top source for information on legendary TV shows.