You Can't Do That on Television

Cast

Over 100 actors appeared on YCDTOTV bewteen 1979 and 1990. The following is an abbreviated list. It includes actors appearing in 10 or more episodes.

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• Stephanie Bauder 1989-1990
• Chris Bickford 1989-1990
• Jennifer Brackenbury 1989-1990
• Carlos Braithwaite 1989-1990
• Justin Cammy 1983-1985
• Alasdair Gilli 1982-1986
• Amyas Godfrey 1986-1989
• Matthew Godfrey 1986-1987
• Abby Hagyard 1982-1990
• Kevin Kubusheskie 1981-1984
• Vanessa Lindores 1982-1987
• Les Lye 1979-1990
• Christine McGlade 1979-1986
• Brodie Osome 1981-1983
• Doug Ptolemy 1982-1987
• Adam Reid 1984-1987
• Lisa Ruddy 1979-1985
• Kevin Schenk 1979-1981
• Sariya Sharp 1989-1990
• Jill Stanley 1989-1990
• Christian Tessier 1989-1990
• Ted Wilson 1989-1990

Alanis Morissette, a cast member in five episodes of the 1986 season, later became a highly successful musician.

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Cast comments

Cast member Justin Cammy, now a professor, described the show like this:

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:You Can't Do That on Television was the first post-modern children's program of my generation. It subverted all recognizable forms and deconstructed the pre-teen's understanding of such important institutions as the family, the school and the video arcade. When the school teacher did not know any better than to call Milton's masterpiece "Pair of Dice Lost," the program functioned as an ideological clarion call to future college students like you who would go on to demand the displacement of an ossified Western canon with more relevant investigations of low culture."

Related Topics:
Milton - Masterpiece - Western canon - Low culture

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