You Can't Do That on Television

You Can't Do That on Television
Scene from the third opening
Genre	Sketch comedy
Created by	Roger Price
Directed by	Geoffrey Darby Brian Lebold Brenda Mason Alex Sutton Roger Price Gerben Heslinga
Starring	Les Lye and Cast
Country of origin	Canada
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	10
No. of episodes	144, (plus 2 "Worst of" compilations)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Geoffrey Darby Bryn Matthews Jeffrey C. Weber John Findlay Geraldine Laybourne Robert Wilson
Producer(s)	Roger Price Geoffrey Darby Brenda Mason
Location(s)	CJOH-TV Studios Ottawa, Ontario
Running time	60 minutes (1979–80) 30 minutes (1981–90)
Release
Original network	CTV (1979–90) Nickelodeon (1982–90)
Original release	February 3, 1979 – May 25, 1990
External links
Website

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 similar to that of the United States Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In and Saturday Night Live. Each episode had a specific theme normally relating to pop culture of the time. The show was notable for launching the careers of many performers, including alternative rock singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette, and screenwriter 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, and was marketed specifically for an American audience. After production ended in 1990, the show continued in reruns on the Nickelodeon cable network in the United States through 1994, when it was replaced with the similar themed sketch-comedy variety program All That. During its original run, the show was seen as one and the same with Nickelodeon, achieved high ratings and is well known for introducing the network's iconic slime (usually green).

Since October 5, 2015, the show has been airing reruns on a sporadic basis on TeenNick's classic Nickelodeon block, The Splat.