Frantic Times Radio Logs
This is very much an ongoing
project -- trying to get a complete set of radio logs for the Frantic
Times radio series. Much of what follows is derived (admittedly
second-hand) from date information from the original CBC open reel tapes
containing the shows. Unfortunately, only the month and year of the show
was recorded (if that), leaving the broadcast dates for a number of shows
in some doubt (especially for those of seasons three and four). Thankfully
the tapes were also numbered, with two shows recorded per tape. It does
seem that sometimes the "second" show on the tape was sometime the first
to be played, so some of the dates listed below may be off by a week in
some circumstances (and hopefully not more than that! ;-) So what follows
is my best reconstruction for what is the most likely original air
dates for the shows.
Also note that the names given for the shows and individual skits are
the names I have given them -- they should not be construed as being
"official". I have done my best to provide descriptive names for the skits
to help those fans who do have tapes to better identify what they have.
The titles I've provided for the shows are usually what I thought was the
"showcase" skit for that show.
If you happened to have taped the show when it was originally aired
(like me) and then dated them (unlike me), please email me with your info!
(And before you ask, yes, I do have copies of all of the
recordings listed below. ;-)
1st SeasonNovember 6 1981 - April 16 1982
24 Shows
Total
Show was broadcast on Fridays during the second hour of "Variety
Tonight"
Show #1
"Rent-A-Witness" - November 6 1981
Frantic Times Goes to
Press
Rent-A-Witness
Hinterland's Who's Who: The Black
Duck
Act Your Age Game Show
Edie Pleasant's Household Hints
Song: Neatness Counts
What's Playing in Ottawa
Men Don't
Even Bother Watching
A Picnic in Northern Ireland
|
Show #2
"Cruelty to Dinosaurs" - November 13 1981
Frantic Times
Goes to Press
Secret Meeting of the Canadian S.I.A.
Robert
Service's Weather Report
Assessing the Sexual Revolution
Letters to the Frantics
Suicide Watch (Ad: Manfred's Garlic
Rings)
Premiers Discuss How to Handle the Constitutional
Debate
Mr. Liar Talks about Cruelty to Dinosaurs
Ted Krinkle
Investigates Prostitution in Calgary
Ballad of Kid
Galois
Song: Grade 3 is Killing Me
Note: The first show to feature a product from the fictitious
"Mansfred's" company. Also the first show to feature the "Roland
Grit" character, host of the long-running "Suicide Watch" series of
skits. |
Show #3
"Make Me Laugh Game Show" - November 20 1981
Frantic
Times Goes to Press
Make Me Laugh Game Show
Capt. Fifi of the
CRTC Police
Song: Stupid Allouettes
Public Servants Under
Stress
Mr. Friendly's Medley of Via Rail Songs
|
Show
#4
"Invasion of the Butter-Snatchers"- November 27
1981
Frantic Times Goes to Press
Date Interrupted by a
Submarine
Come to the 1988 Calgary Olympics Games
Song:
Another Bloody Royal Mouth to Feed
The Geneva Talks Game
Show
Invasion of the Butter-Snatchers
Broccoli
Deficiency
Carpentry with Wood: Building a Bomb Shelter
|
Show
#5
"Modernizing the Post Office" - December 4 1981
Frantic
Times Goes to Press
Song: He Had a Butcher's Heart *
Modernizing
the Post Office
Joe Clark Calls a Square Dance
Ad: DelMundi
Chocolate Pudding
Dr. Dornhoffer's Medical Advice
Mr.
Friendly's CanCon Nursery Rhymes
It's a Funny World with Allan
Smith
Song: Praise the Lord, I Found the Right
Note: First show to feature the "Allan Smith" character, who
never really understood what was going on around him (which is why
his world always seemed so "funny" to him).
|
Show
#6
"A Salute to the Medical Profession" - December 11
1981
Doctor Having a Hard Day
Newton Feeb Visits a General
Practitioner
A Doctor Testifies in Court
Sammy the Elephant
Show: Hospitals
A Secret Medical Emergency
Doctors Doing Ads
Man With Too Much to Die For
Stitches Game Show
Note: The first show to feature a "Sammy the Elephant Show" skit.
This character actually pre-dates the Frantics, and was originally
part of Dan Redican's stage show. |
Show
#7
"Budget Night" - December 18 1981
Budget
Night
Confronting the Other Man
Ad: Hanser D'Amour
PSA:
Smokey the Bear
Carpentry with Wood: Making a
Campfire
Dressing for a Fire
Interview with Al MacNeil of The
Calgary Flames
In Love with Barbie
It's a Funny World with
Alan Smith: The Old Swimming Hole
Note: The first show to feature the long-running characters
"Lloyd Boyd" and his son "Monty". |
Show
#8
"The Merry Xmas Show" - December 25 1981
Name That
Prune Game Show
Ad: Manfred's Season's Greetings
How Much is
That Doggy in the Window
Office Xmas Party with Vladimir
Naborikov
God's American Excess Card
Song: I Saw Mommy Kissing
Santa Clause
Longette Watch
Sammy the Elephant Xmas
Show
Gift-Giving at the Post Office
Song: It's Xmas Dinner
|
Show
#9
"The First Draft of King Lear" - January 1 1982
Frantic
Times Goes to Press
Raising the Titanic
Blowing Wayne Newton
Away
Ad: 1982 Ski Cat Snowmobile
The First Woman in
Space
The New Archeologists
Successors to Brezhnev
The
First Draft of King Lear
Let's Be Frank with Frank Frankly: Cold
War Politics in the 80s
Coach Gives a Pep-Talk to the Saskatoon
Snappers
Song: Teddy the Keilbassa |
Show
#10
"Cloning is Dangerous" - January 8 1982
Papan's Via
Rail Surplus Warehouse
The Bun Addict
Cloning is
Dangerous
It's a Funny World with Alan Smith: Alan Smith's
Dad
Ad: Ed's Wine
PSA: Drink if You Drink, Don't Drive
The
Human Race *
Van
Gogh's Ear**
Song:
Ain't She Sweet (Dedicated to Mom) |
Show
#11
"Isn't That the Damndest" - January 15 1982
Chickens
vs. Colonel Chicken Lickin' Good
Monsters Are Bothering
Mathers
Song: This Finger's for You Mr. Trudeau
Bill from Bala
Buys a Bus Ticket (aka Isn't that the Damndest)
Home Insulation
Information from the Government
Song: Albert Einstein
Note: This was last regular show featuring Maggie Butterfield as
a guest. It was also the last of the shows recorded at Yuk Yuk's
Comedy Cabaret. The first show to feature the long running "Bill
from Bala" character. |
Show
#12
"A Tribute to The Military" - January 22 1982
A
Communications Problem in the Canadian Military
Sergeant
Interviews a "Gay" Soldier
Responding to the Soviet Bloc's
Crackdown on Poland
Military Passwords
U.S.S. Iowa
Ad: Get
Training in the Canadian Military
Buster Pule - Super Trooper:
Flying into Germany
Dinner at the Alliterative Restaurant
The
Siberian Death Camp Musical
Note: This is the first show featuring Carolyn Scott as a guest.
It is also the first show to be recorded at the Blue Orchid Room at
the Ontario College of Art. First show to feature "Buster Pule -
Super Trooper". |
Show
#13
"Trudeau's Resignation" - January 29 1982
Rescue from
Palmyra
Trudeau's Resignation
Frantic Times Sports Report:
Fringe Sports
Ad: The Wheatnoon 1800 Watch
Frank, I Smell
Smoke
Ad: Renaissance Painting Warehouse
Ed Wallace Speaks Out
Loud: Behavioural Psychology
Bert Boutette and His Barber Shop
Quartet
Man Fearing He is Turning Into a Woman
Song: Bill
Watson: Hero of the Miniature Railroad |
Show
#14
"It's Gretzsky Night in Canada" - February 5 1982
The
Boogens!
Wayne Gretzsky Shopping Mall
Review of Reagan's First
Year in Power
Buster Pule - Super Trooper: Captured by
Nazis
Song: You're Boring
It's Gretzsky Night in Canada
The
National Jerk Convention
Furniture Wars
|
Show
#15
"To Poland with Love" - February 12 1982
Ad: New Lite
Beer
Frantic Times Goes to Press Pt. 1
Interrogating a
Brick
Ad: Give Her Me
Frantic Times Goes to Press Pt.
2
Ned Krinkle Reports on the Red Brigade
Point-Counter-Point:
Senseless Killing is Bad
Sammy the Elephant: Valentine's Day
Show
Breakfast with Margery: General James Dozier
Shanghai
School of Broadcasting
To Poland with Love
|
Show
#16
"Heckling Abe Lincoln" - February 19 1982
At Least
Jane Isn't Smoking
Frantic Times Sports: Interviewing Coach of
Calgary Flames
Heckling Abe Lincoln Part 1
Male Prostitution
in Canada
Heckling Abe Lincoln Part 2
Ad: Howie Meeker for
Reese Career Services
Suicide Watch: Man Who Dialed the Wrong
Number
National Enquirer Records
Heckling Abe Lincoln Part
3
Song: I'm Nuts for You and You're the Nut for Me
|
Show
#17
"What if the NDP Were in Power in Ottawa?" - February 26
1982
Karen Kain for Montcalm Mineral Water
Ad: Stash for Life
Lottery
The Unexplainablistic: Have Aliens Visited
Earth?
Caspar the Friendly Defense Secretary
It's a Funny
World with Allan Smith: Sleeping with My Wife
Hinterland's Who's
Who: The Great Eastern Seal Hunter
What If Theatre: What if the
NDP Were in Power in Ottawa?
Buster Pule - Super Trooper: The
Dash to Switzerland
Having an Affair with the Lawn
Song: 1979
|
Show
#18
"Reach for the Top" - March 5 1982
Reach for the Top
*
Mrs.
Sarnicky Makes a Commercial About Biff Detergent
Smokey the Bear
Questioned
Announcement from the National Coalition of
Mothers
Satan's Choice Game Show
Extreme Cold Weather
Report
Music That Introduces Science Shows
Quennel and Mary:
Quennel Gets Serious
Song: Chemistry of Love
Note: The first show to feature the long-running character
"Quennel". |
Show
#19
"The Horrors of Fruit Cocktail" - March 12 1982
Car
Noises *
Not-So-Famous
Last Words
Song: Buddy, Can You Spare a Stamp?
The Duncan,
Mike, Ted and Jeff Report: Street Signs
Miss Fairbrass, New
Secretary
The Horrors of Fruit Cocktail
Song: Get Back to
Work Or I'll Shove That Damn Bell Up Your...
Clark-igula
Song:
What Can't They Be Called Smith?
Note: The first show to contain a "Duncan, Mike, Ted and Jeff
Report" skit. |
Show
#20
"Reach for the Bottom" - March 19 1982
Reach for the
Bottom
Not-So-Famous Last Words
Bill from Bala: Snow Shoveling
in Bala
Frantic Times Sports Hotline
Toronto Police
Investigating Themselves
Suicide Watch: Man Who Can't Live
Without a Camero (Ad: Manfred's Roast Beef Cereal)
Gross-out
Competition
Song: The Grass-Hopper People from France
|
Show
#21
"Really People" - March 26 1982
Mrs. Sarnicky Tries
Simon's Cake Mix
Really People
J.L.'s Cheddar Slices
Just
Between Us Girls
The Church of All Denominations
Buster Pule -
Super Trooper: In Occupied France
Hinterland's Who's Who: The
Great Yellow Snowplow
Pizza Delivery Man
Song: Nobody Likes
Me
Note: The first show to feature the character "Mrs. Sarnicky",
who always loved any product the ad men were trying to pitch.
|
Show
#22
"The Dating Game" - April 9 1982
Students Run B.C.
Parliament
Afghanistan Becomes Russia's Vietnam
Ad: Ed's
Perfume *
Not-So-Famous
Last Words
The Dating Game
The Journal
Cosmos
The
Duncan, Mike, Ted and Jeff Report: Boats
Quennel's Mom *
|
Show
#23
"Chicks, Try To Figure 'Em" - April 9 1982
Chicks,
Try To Figure 'Em
Mrs. Sarnicky Tries Dovey Toilet Tissue *
Bill
From Bala Goes to the CN Tower
Unemployment Telethon
Porno
Industry Poem
My Kind of People
Mensa Meeting
Song: It's
For Science |
Show
#24
"The Whole Earth Game Show" - April 16 1982
Ransom
Demand
Frantic Times Sports Report: Hunting Road Signs
Ad: New
Nothing
The Whole Earth Game Show
Song: The Atheist's
Hymn
Duncan, Michael, Ted and Jeff Report: How Quickly Can We
Wrap Up Our Show?
Doing a Survey on Extra-Marital Sex **
Mr.
Safety: Tips to Make Your Vacation Less Horrifying
Andrews
Corners: Nuclear Bomb Test Site
Song: I'd Like Your Furniture
|
2nd SeasonJuly 10/11 1982 - September 25/26 1982
12 Shows
Total
Show was broadcast during the Air Farce's time slot (Saturdays @
10:35pm on FM network, Sundays @ 1:05pm on AM network)
Show
#27
[Unknown title] - July 10/11 1982
(Possible Lost
show? Could also be a simple mis-numbering of the original source
tapes.) |
Show
#28
"Last Will and Temperament" (aka "Boot to the Head") -
July 17/18 1982
Vacation Organization
It Was Hot in the City,
Part 1 (The Inattentive, Ever-Narrating Private Eye)
Talking at
the Bus Stop (We're So Much Alike)
National Geographic Looks at
How Animals Adapt on the Etosha Pan
It Was Hot in the City, Part
2
Last Will and Temperament
Hinterland's Who's Who: The
Downtown Parking Lot
It Was Hot in the City, Part 3
Superhero
High School Reunion
Song: Insurance Agent Man
|
Show
#29
"King of the Mole People" (aka "Odd Things") - July
24/25 1982
Song: If I Could Speak French
Emergency
Pizza
That's What I Think: Textbooks
Lonely Guy in a Room
Waiting for Someone to Call and Bring Love into an Empty Life
The
Mail Order Bride from the Philippines
Explosives Testing
The
Journal
King of the Mole People (aka "Odd Things") *
Song:
I'm Going Home Alone
Note: "Odd Things" is the official name for the "King of the Mole
People" sketch, which appeared on the Frantics' first album.
|
Show
#30
"The Mommies" - July 31/August 1 1982
Georgio
O'Toole, The Irish-American One-Man Band Part 1
The "I Wish I Was
in Belgium" Society
Sexual Fantasies
Georgio O'Toole, The
Irish-American One-Man Band Part 2
Mr. Safety: Boating Safety
Tips
The Mommies
Georgio O'Toole, The Irish-American One-Man
Band Part 3
Star Trek vs. Star Wars
Song: I'm Unsympathetic
|
Show
#31
"Death Wish VIII" - August 7/8 1982
Ad: Death Wish
VII
Board Meeting at Imperialist Oil
The Fable of the Good
Brother and the Naughty Brother
Fred Head with the Rock Club
Update
Tom and Barb's Hardware Store
Ed Wallace Talks Out
Loud: Prejudice Against Fish
Eating at the Fanciest Restaurant in
Town
Ad: Grocery World
Adventures in Inverted Reality Medicine
Theater
Song: One Note Song
|
Show
#32
"Gross Me Out" - August 14/15 1982
Warning Against
Taping Frantic Times #1
Ad: Smack Toothpaste
Gross Me Out
Game Show
Gossip at Home
Thinking Without a Permit
Warning
Against Taping Frantic Times #2
Police Go On Strike
Wearing a
Hat
Song: Dyslexic Version of "Over the Rainbow"
Warning
Against Taping Frantic Times #3
|
Show
#33
"Dare to Dream" - August 21/22 1982
Newton Feeb
Announces Monster Drag-Race
Helping Out in The Rose Garden
Man Buried Up to His Head in Cement in the Sidewalk
Bill from
Bala Buys a Movie Ticket
Here's What I Think: Somebody Should Ban
Brooke Shields
Dare to Dream Game Show
Talking Cheese
Song:
(I Go, We Go) Yugoslavia
|
Show
#34
"Chump Radio" - August 28/29 1982
Hinterland's Who's
Who: The Dead Animal on the Road
Gawain Attempts to Fight a
Dragon
Ad: Wheatnoon Weld-o-matic
Chump Radio (aka Funeral for
a DJ)
Business is a Game (Monopoly)
A Real Estate Agent Shows
a House to Mr. and Mrs. Discerning
Ad: At Ford Quality Is Job
#1
Suicide Watch: The Beautiful, Smart Woman (Manfred's Beach
Bread)
Song: Michael the Fish
|
Show
#35
"A Message from Phil" - September 4/5 1982
Mrs.
Sarnicky Tries Parker's Peanut Butter
Selling One's Soul for a
Newspaper
A Message from Phil, Part 1
Horvath's House of
Shirriff Pudding Hockey Coin Plaques
National Teenagers Decency
League
Wife Killed by a Pressure Cooker
Song: Punk Square
Dance
A Message from Phil, Part 2
Marrying
Frankenstein
Song: Problem with Rhymes Song
A Message from
Phil, Part 3
|
Show
#36
"The Hunted" - September 11/12 1982
Ad: The
Hunted
Running Dog-Pygmalion
The Lottery Winner
Fred Head's
Rock Club Update
Carrying Jennifer's School Books Home
Piano
Lessons
French-Canadian Hockey Fighters of the West
Clean Up
Your Room *
Song:
Starting Today
|
Show
#37
"Fred Head Knows Too Much" - September 18/19
1982
Mrs. Sarnicky Tries Fudgers Instant Coffee
Meeting
Somebody While Waiting for a Train
Candy Vavoom on Trial for
Murder
Interviewing a Film Director
Professor Science
Says
Fred Head Knows Too Much
At Home with the Stuba's:
Teaching Junior the Facts of Life
Polygamous Marriages
Song:
Mimico
|
Show
#38
"Heaven is for Presbyterians" - September 25/26
1982
Explaining Magic Tricks **
The
Jones' Family News
Gold! **
Negative
or Positive?
A Man Yelling at a Loaf of Bread
Heaven is for
Presbyterians *
Theatre
Review
Body Odor
Song: Harry the Hindu
Hermit
|
3rd SeasonSeptember 29 1982 - March 30
1983
Returned to Variety Tonight. Show now played during the
first hour of the Wednesday night show; Guest star is Carolyn Scott.
Show
#39
"Film My Death?" - October 1982
Ad: Mrs. Sarnicky
Tries Anacidic
The Unexplainablistic: Near-Death
Experiences
Confessions of a Scoundrel
Film My Death?
The
Psychology Student Replacement Receptionist
Fred Head Has to
Leave
Song: Mrs. Brezhnev
|
Show
#40
"Something's On Henry" - October 1982
Open House at a
Montreal Elementary School in 1930
National Geographic Looks at
the Akoshi Indians
Suicide Watch: Pranksters Taunt Roland Grit
[Ad: Manfred's Pork Juice]
Buying a Personal Massager
Fred
Head's Rock Club Update
The Messy Patient
The Shut Up!
Technique
Something's on Henry
|
Show
#41
"Sounds Like Love"
The Easiest Cases of
Sherlock Holmes
Communicating with Fruit Flies
The Results of
Breeding Humans
Law Firm with an Insanely Long Name
Frantic
Times Sports Report: Coach of the Montreal Concords
Cruising Down
Yonge Street
Reasons for Not Getting Married
Sounds Like
Love
Song: Oh What a State
|
Show
#42
"Class in Logical Deduction" - October
1982
George Plimpton Compares American and Canadian
Football
Honey, Could You Please...
Class in Logical Deduction
**
Joe
Clark Dancing on Diefenbaker's Grave
Newton Feeb Visits the
Travel Agency
Frantic Times Sports Report: How Overweight People
Can Get Into Shape
It's Hard to Love a Man in a Sergio Valenti
Jacket
Arthur and Hurricane Arthur
Ad: New Improved Perk
Morning Coffee
Song: Doing the Liberal Cabinet Shuffle
|
Show
#43
"What If Cheese Could Fly?" - November 1982
Ad:
Mrs. Sarnicky Tries Simon's Pizza Mix
Claude Charon
Resigns
Reporting a Crime
It's a Funny World with Alan
Smith
Lighthouse Mission Variety Night
Song: Let's Go Down and
Out Together
What If Cheese Could Fly?
Fall CBC TV
Lineup
Mr. Safety's Tips for a Safe Halloween
Banned
Books
ET Trick or Treaters
Song: We're The People Inside Your
Walls **
|
Show
#44
"Mr. Liar's Condensed Bible"
Ad: Thunder &
Jesus Seal Removal
The Pipeline Cost-Estimate
Should We Ban
the Hammer?
Mr. Liar's Condensed Bible
John the Baptist
The
Calgary Stampeder Cheerleaders Explain Relativity
It's Not My
Car
Jake & Harriet Limper: The Last Two People on Earth
Song: A Baby-Sitter's Lullaby
|
Show
#45
"The Last Spike"
The Canadarm
"Ottawa Is
Beautiful" Song Contest
The Story of Tiny Little Man
Monty
Boyd Destroys School
The Last Spike (aka It Was The
Railroad)
Applicant for the Federal Job Creation Program
Ad:
Brooke's Shield
Song: I Can Hardly Wait Till the End of This Song
|
Show
#46
"Steve: Part-Time Messiah" - November 1982
I
Was Sick to My Stomach
Hand Over Your Morals
Ad: Tom Little
Motors: Buy Our Cars Out of Pity!
Our Nation's Business
Steve:
Part-Time Messiah
Ad: The Panther Z20
Talking About Something
Else in the Elevator
The Marine Drill-Sergeant
Pope for a
Day
Giving Birth
Enjoying Worldly Beauty
Show: Why Do I
Love Him?
|
Show
#47
"Second Christmas Special" - December 1982
Ad:
Philip Shaver (Song: God Shave Our Gracious Queen)
Moses Brings
the Commandments Back to God
Song: Last Minute Christmas
Shopping
Finding a Sales-Clerk
Mr. Safety's Tips for a Less
Horrifying Christmas
Ad: Decliners
Song: I Saw Daddy Kissing
Santa Claus
Song: It's Christmas Dinner
The Reformed
Scrooge
The Ibsen Doll House
|
Show
#48
"Candy the Nun" - January 1983
Mrs. Sarnicky
Tries Nealy's Ice Cream
Jacques Cousteau Explores the Sudbury
Municipal Swimming Pool
Using an ATM for the First Time
Poets
Meeting
Candy the Nun
Interview with Movie Stars
Oliver
Twist Disciplined
Fable: Why Chipmunks Have No Ears
Fred
Head's Rock Club Update
This Week We Look at: The Works of
Sigmund Freud
Myron Putz is Fed Up
Song: I'm Blue
|
Show
#49
"Ti Kwan Leep" - February 1983
Hits the Way You
Remember Them
Frantics' Bingo
Crank Phone Call
Ti Kwan
Leep
Ad: Jack's Folding Warehouse
The Wedding Date
Captain
Highliner Talks About Knots
Applying for Liquor
Doctor Telling
a Man He is About to Die
Song: My Wife Wears the Pants in the
Family
|
Show
#50
"Mozart" - February 1983
Ad: Grecian Formula
Brain Restorer
Great Giant Titans Looks at: Mozart
Mr.
Non-Sequitor #1
Gregorian Scat Singing
Non-Responsible
Trudeau
Pulitzer vs. Pulitzer
Working on the Chain
Gang/Letter/Saw/Smoking/Link Fences
No Reason to Live
Talking
About the Weather
Dating the Statue of Liberty
Jake &
Harriet Limper: The Last Two People on Earth
Disorganized Crime
in Montreal
Mr. Non-Sequitor #2
Song: He's Wearing Nazi
Paraphernalia **
|
Show
#51
"Roman Numerals" - February 1983
Conan the
Librarian
Roman Numerals (aka "The Decimal System")*
Canadian
Summer
The Art, Frank and Thelma Cake Company
Ad: Mrs.
Sarnicky Tries Refresh Soap
Dial-A-Jerk
Fred Head's Rock Club
Update
Honeymoon at the YMCA
Song: How To Write A Song (aka
"Sexy Voice, Catchy Phrase and a Musical Hook") *
Note: "Roman Numerals" and "How to Write a Song" are the official
names for these two pieces, which were both used on the Frantics'
first album "Frantic Times". |
Show
#52
"Teen Seeking Car Insurance" - February
1983
Ad: Radio Bloopers Volume 12
Funeral of a TV Fitness
Expert
Teen Seeking Car Insurance
Solving Canada's Economic
Problems through Death
Capt. Mark Philips and Princess Anne Argue
by Proxy
Talking About Racial Prejudice in an Elevator
Gay
Gunslingers of the Wild West
The Dance of the 7 Garbage Can
Lids
Suicide Watch: Talks to Hamlet (Mansfred Ad: Sour Cream and
Onion Laxative)
How I Became a Liberal
Jake & Harriet
Limper: The Last Two People on Earth
Rhyming Medical
Care
Song: A Socialist Dream in a Promised Land
|
Show
#53
"The Wizard of Ottawoz" - April 1983
Let's See
What's on the Radio
Meeting of the Halifax Optimists
Club
Smashing Royal Doulton Figurines
Weekend Ski
Conditions
Fireman Saving Wax Lips
Glazed Donuts **
Doctor
and Nurse During an Operation
Crime in Vancouver
Mathematical
Prostitute
Fast Freddy Breaks a Man's Heart
Cutting a Deal
with a Kidnapper
Song: Silly Love Talk Song
Smug,
Self-Righteous Critics
The Wizard of
Ottawoz
|
Show
#53a
"Theories of Creation"
Mrs. Sarnicky Tries
Whippo Desert Topping
Fred Head's Rock Club Update
Theories
of Creation
Song: One Damn Saxophone
Jake and Harriet Limper:
Jake Goes for a Walk
Polly Want a Cracker?
Quennel and Mary:
Mary Breaks Up with Quennel
Song: Meat
The show ordering got slightly mucked up -- this show is dated as
"Feb 23 1983", and since the previous show featured Jake and Harriet
Limper's first fight, this show must have followed it, hence its
listing as show "#53A". |
Show
#54
"Black Mungo" Joe Clark Family Leadership
Review
Canadian Grades of Meat
Complaints About Pierre Trudeau
Oh You Were Drunk!
The Effects of Alcohol on Motor
Skills
Wake-Up Call for Mr. Rory
Name That Badger
Ed
Broadbent Talks About Not Voting for the NDP
You Mean Anglican
Ministers Can Marry?
Black Mungo
Song: I'm Dating a Girl Who's
Double-Jointed
|
Show
#55
"The Red Baron" - April 1983
Last Request at
the Firing Squad #1
The Big Nugget
Drive Thru Gourmet
Dining
2 + 2 = 5
Road-Hockey Night in Canada
Between the
Sexes: Asexual Reproduction
Last Request at the Firing Squad
#2
Ted Krinkle Reports on the Durham County Science Fair
Great
Giant Titans: The Red Baron
Song: Thank God for the North West
Territories
|
Show
#56
"To the Pole"
Robin Hood
The Beatles in
Parliament
The Time Machine
To the Pole
Message from the
Sherriff of Nottingham Vandalism
Choosing Staff
You Know Much
About Motors?
Song: There's a Point
Determining Who Should Get
into the Lifeboats
Trudeau Press Conference
It's Not
Cheating
Robin Shoots His Final Arrow
Song: Two Big Hairy Men
Came Along (I'm So Sad)
Talk With Your Mother Game Show
|
4th SeasonJune 25 1983(?) - June 29 1985
Get their
own time slot after Basic Black on Saturday afternoon. The show is played
continuously at this time, with occasional repeats. The dates are
definitely odd in this listing, supposedly beginning before the air
dates in June -- perhaps the date information on the tapes are now
referring to recording dates? The repeats during this season make it
nearly impossible to tie down exact broadcast dates -- what dates appear
here are those originally written down on the master tapes.
Show
#57
"Weathermen" - May 1983
Fred Head Defends a
Tree
A Man Shaming a Wall Clock
Getting Votes for the
Conservative Party
Weathermen
Hinterland's Who's Who: The
Great Motorcyclist
Voting for Good or Evil
The Duncan, Mike,
Ted and Jeff Report: Lumpy Pancakes
A Man Taunting the Great
Barrier Reef
The Sound of the Way the World Ends
Song: I Shot
Bambi's Mother
The Russians Declare Peace
What if Sudbury Was
Not Hit by a Nuclear Bomb?
Ad: Sudso Detergent
A Man Ignoring
the Orange Juice
Jane Leaves Tarzan
Song: You Need
Me
|
Show
#58
"Mr. Canoehead"
Fred Head Rides the Bus
Hinterland's Who's Who: The Montreal Head Office
The
Philosophical Domestic Dispute
Mr. Canoehead - Genesis
Ad:
Bug-Off House & Garden Grenade
Suicide Watch: Fluffy (Ad:
Manfred's Tube-of-Lard)
Space Shuttle Orders Pizza
Witches
Take the Pepsi Taste Test
Mr. Canoehead Tries to Return to
Work
Song: You Always Eat the One You Love (aka The Black Widow
Spider song)
|
Show
#59
"The Legend of Flying Father Shapitinski" - May
1983
The Show Must Go On
Hinterland Who's Who: The Worm on
the Pavement
Selling a Stick of Dynamite **
A
Ramblin' Man
Song: Rock and Roll Heaven
Why Didn't You Just
Tell Me
Pigeon, Don't Jump!
The Legend of Flying Father
Shapitinski **
Ad:
Come to Saskatchewan
The Appraiser
Mr. Canoehead: Is
Discovered
Just Like I Planned It **
Song:
Murdering Folks in Their Sleep
|
Show
#60
"Give a Man a Fish"
Ad: Come to
Saskatchewan
Booking a Room and Prostitute
Putting on a Show
in a Barn
Give a Man a Fish
Bomba the Jungle Boy
Dr.
Wallaby Goldfarb Talks About Nuclear Fusion
Buying Slippers in an
Alternate Reality
Ad: Chester Spivey's Trailer Park
Ad:
Morality in a Can
A Word on Canada's Future
Talking to
Mom
The Break-In
We've Been Robbed
Song: When You
Die
|
Show
#61
"Philosopher's Drycleaning" - June 1983
Do You
Live in Calgary?
Capt. Fifi of the CRTC Police Stopping
Pornography
Philosopher's Drycleaning
The 1983 Defense
Budget
Buying French Pastry **
The
Tree Pruner
The Government Time Machine
Useless Body Parts:
The Gall Bladder
A Man and a Woman Sitting in a Chair
Mr.
Canoehead Gets a Personal Manager
Song: The Happiest Day in
Augusta's Life
|
Show
#62
"The Supply Teacher"
F-104
Starfighter
Not-So-Famous Last Words
Sherlock Holmes: The
Mystery of the Gloved Hand
Summer Stock Theater Listing
The
Unexplainablistic: Spontaneous Human Combustion
The Computer
Programmers and The Gnat
Mr. Canoehead Becomes a Crime
Fighter
The Supply Teacher
Song: Wake Up!
|
Show
#63
"The PC Leadership Convention" - July
1983
Whatever Happened to the Great American Dream?
Frantics
News: PC Leadership Convention #1
Ad: Princess Diana
Wine
Nothing a Woman Can't Handle
Frantics News: PC Leadership
Convention #2
Song: Peter Pocklington
The Story of the
Blumpable People
Ad: Chester Spivey's Trailer Park
Frantics
News: PC Leadership Convention #3
Buying a Pair of Casual Shoes
**
Mulroney
Unites the PCs
Song: Has Anyone Here Heard Dan Hill?
|
Show
#64
"I Was Trudeau's Double"
Death Meets Reagan
White vs. Clemson
Darth Vader Revealed
Duncan, Mike, Ted
and Jeff Report: Look at the Duncan, Mike, Ted and Jeff
Report
Death Calls Wendy Fulton
Peas
I Was Trudeau's
Double
A Woman in the Office
The National CBC Television
Employee Test
The Layers of Consciousness
Mr. Canoehead: The
Hostage Situation
The Drunk Bus Driver
Song: Today I Got a
Haircut
|
Show
#65
"The Buyout, Takeover & Squash Holding
Company" - July 1983
Applicants for Canada's Secret
Service
Mr. Eggs Explains the Various Grades of Eggs
Pierre
Trudeau's Answering Machine Message
The Drunk Grocery Store
Clerk
Fishing with Live Bait: Using Bengal Tiger for
Bait
Godot's Answering Machine Message
Board Meeting of The
Buyout, Takeover & Squash Holding Company
Complaint
Letters
Get Cut-Off In Mid-Sentence Game Show
Go On Without
Me
Song: Senior Surfers
|
Show
#66
"Having a Pillow"
Diamond Ring Bought from
Sears
Having a Pillow
Summer Stock Theater Listing
Attack
of the Killer Toasters
Ordering a Killer Donut
Attack of the
Killer Bits and Bites
Song: The Ballad of Earl Runkie
Horror
Film Movie Review
Godzilla Gets Contacts
Song: Dutch Cowboys
|
Show
#67
"The Day of Name Choosing"
Hinterland's Who's
Who: The Maislin Truck
Speaking in French
Becoming a Montreal
Concorder
Mr. Canoehead: Bomb at a Nuclear Power Plant
#1
Song: I Owe it All to Donuts
The Day of Name
Choosing
Suicide Watch: It's Free (Ad: Manfred's Chocolate
Cheesecake Soap-on-a-Rope)
Song: We're All on the Bus
Together
|
Show
#68
"Rooster Private Eye" The New Ed Broadbent
The
Fence Sitters
Dr. Wallaby Goldfarb Looks at the Origins of the
Universe
Following the Doctor's Instructions
The
Gadget-aholic
The Day All of the Skin Peeled Off My
Body
Rooster Private Eye
Song: Worm
Sex
|
Show
#69
"Eric the Red"
Let's See What's on the Radio
Ted Krinkle Reports on The America Cup Sailing Race
Bill from
Bala's Country Cottage
Ad: Factory Mattress Outlet
Waiting for
the Bus
Mr. Safety's Tips for Avoiding Mosquitoes
Speech at a
Wedding (aka Kiss the Bride)
Eric the Red Goes on a Raid
Song:
My Husband's Dead
|
Show
#70
"Perogie Rustlers"
Let's See What's on the
Radio
The Shuttle Runs Out of Toilet Paper
Clint Trundle at
the Summer National Drag-Racing Championships
Ad: Thighs Akimbo
Part 4
Nobody's Perfect
Old Used Tires
Asking a Former CBC
Employee to Lunch
Perogie Rustlers
Song: Psychoanalytical
Island Paradise **
|
Show
#71
"Billy the Kid"
Backyard Beatles
Doomed
Lovers
Death Comes to the Audiophile
Great Giant Titans: Billy
the Kid
Song: A Woman Asks "The Question"
The Would-Be
Canadian Author
Galley Slave Seniority
Song: Roamin' Romans
|
Show
#72
"Judging Your Life"
A Man Worrying a
Vase
Mr. Safety's Tips for a Safer Barbeque
Mr. Canoehead's
Canoe Gets Magnetized
A Man Barring a Smoked Salmon **
Meeting
of the Enormous Buyout Takeover & Squash Holding Company
Bill from Bala, Chauffeur
Judging Your Life
Fascinating
People
Song: Gas Station Washroom **
|
Show
#73
"Seagulls"
Let's See What's on the Radio
Hinterland's Who's Who: The Seagull in the Ballpark
Mr.
Canoehead vs. The Mole Monks Pt. 1
Hacking the Government
Payroll
Ted Krinkle Reports on the Pickering Nuclear Reactor
A
Foot and a Half of Water
Mr. Safety: Tips for a Safer School
Year
Mr. Canoehead vs. The Mole Monks Pt. 2
Suicide Watch:
Dingbat Donaldson (Ad: Manfred's: Antibiotic, Antihistamine
Pickels)
Song: I Want to Marry a Catholic Priest
|
Show
#74
"The Most Lovable Man in the World"
Let's See
What's on the Radio
Report on Acid Rain
Mr. Canoehead vs. The
Mole Monks Pt. 3
Those Fascinating People: The Upside-down
Man
Red-Neck Crossword
Pidge at the Funeral
Ad: Breasts and
Bytes Magazine
Mr. Canoehead vs. The Mole Monks Pt. 4
The Most
Lovable Man in the World
Frantic Time Song Contest Winner
Song: Carol Walner: Firespotter
|
Show
#75
"Interesting" - December
1983
Interesting
Objecting to Sex in Our Society
Wallaby
Goldfarb Looks Into The Energy Shortage
A Director Chastising His
Cast
Song: Thank You Renee
Meeting the Wise Man of the
Mountain
Reasons Why You Need Summer School
Great Giant
Titans: Banting and Best
Song: The RCMP Narc Song
|
Show
#76
"Third Christmas Show" - December 1983
Ad:
Revenge of Saint Nick
Cabbage Patch Dolls Child Abuse
Investigation
Bill from Bala as Santa
Ad: Revenge of Saint
Nick #2
Seeking Donations for the Red Cross at the Dinner
Table
Christmas Theatre
Lonely Guy Wandering the Streets
Looking for Love
Ad: Revenge of Saint Nick #3
The Elves'
Revenge
'Leonard Cohen' Sings "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like
Christmas"
|
Show
#77
"Hair"
Waiting for a Non-Existent Bus
Speech
Writing for a Gink
Wallaby Goldfarb: The Greenhouse
Effect
Dating a Dutchman
Arthur Pierce's Finger is on the
Button
Hair
It's My Life Game Show
Ad: Durable
Battery
Song: 'Twas the Night Before New Year's
|
Show
#78
"I'm Just a Clown"
Bill from Bala Talks to a
Hungarian Learning English
Mathers Asks the Doctor Some
Questions **
Wallaby
Goldfarb: Stealth Technology
Surgery with Food
I'm Just a
Clown
Moses Presents the 10 Commandments
Song: TV Watching
Plants
|
Show
#79
"The First Canadian in Space" - 1984
Ad:
Astronaut Promoting a VW Car
Canadian and American Ambassadors in
a Bar
Wallaby Goldfarb: A Canadian in Space
Canadian Astronaut
Applicants
Todd Booster vs. Moo Moo Bunnylips' Huge Death Ray
Russians Announce that they Will Send a Canadian to Space First
Briefing Canadian Astronauts Candidates
The Henny Youngman 1
Bilingual Countdown
Space Beauty Contest
Song:
Spaceman's Vomit
Russians Put First Canadian Into Space
|
Show
#80
"Cowboys"
Going to Fort Longo
Cowboys
Imagining the Future
Naming Things
Guns in the Wild West
Song: Lord, It's Hard to Be a Cowboy
Indian Creation
Legend
Building a Bridge
Song: God Made Velour Just for
Cowboys
Cowboy Nicknames
General Custer's Geometrical Tactics
The Disappearance of Fort Longo
|
Show
#83
"Lloyd Boyd Lost in TV Land"
LLoyd Boyd Tries
to Fix the TV Arial
Zapped into TV Set
Tiny Toddler Time
Channel Flipping
Donald Comes Over to Help
Todd Booster:
Moo Moo Bunnylips' Asteroid Aimed at the Earth
Channel Flipping
(The Killer Shark)
Donald Brings Back Dead Shark
Monty Gets
Zapped into the TV
Bewitched
The Tommy Hunter Show
Channel Flipping
Fishing with Live Bait: Katherine Hepburn
Bait
Monty on Hill Street Blues
Bologna Ad
The Love
Battleship
Monty and Lloyd Get Zapped Back Home
|
Show
#84
"Red, Red, Red, Yellow"
Anthropologist Studying
a Bum Pt. 1
Suicide Jumper
Harry, Look at Those People
Outside
Mr. Canoehead vs. The Purse Snatcher
Anthropologist
Studying a Bum Pt. 2
Becoming a Railway Engineer for the
Chicks
Making Love
Red, Red, Red, Yellow
Cleaning Up the
Office
Thank You Street-Car Driving Man **
Song:
Security Guard
|
Show
#85
"The Cheesy Queen"
Ad: The Melbolator
The
Cheesy Queen #1
Song: My Love is Cheesy
Motorcycles Aren't
Cars
Ted Krinkle: Science Experiments to Send into Space
The
Cheesy Queen #2
Greasy Spoon Job Applicant
Reporting a Naked
Women Next Door
PSA: Smoking Isn't Cool
Miss July
Asking
to Marry the King's Daughter
|
Show
#86
"Luther, Paula and the Ultramind"
Pepsi or
Coke: You Decide
Suicide Watch: The Ultramind (Ad: Manfred's
Carp Tarts)
The Ultramind Robs the Bank and Kidnaps Paula
Mr.
Synopsis Sums Up the Story So Far #1
Luther Feeds His Pet Shrew
The Superhero Tavern
Mr. Synopsis Sums Up the Story So Far
#2
The Ultramind in His Stronghold
Song: The Ultramind Song
Mr. Canoehead and Luther vs. the Ultramind
|
Show
#87
"The Police"
Ad: Trenge Detergent
Problems
with Sammy's Burger Barn Sign
Newton Feeb Calls the Police
Song: Tommy Lookout, Daddy's Got a Gun
A Man Cajoling a
Punt
Mr. Safety's Tips on How to Deal with Policemen
The
Speeding Ticket
Song: The Cop-pertones Sing
A Man Flattering a
Tent **
The
Police Sculptor
Mr. Canoehead vs. Michelangelo's David & The
Quarry Boys
Rapping at the Courthouse
|
Show
#88
"Kretchfoop for King of the World"
Ad: Cheese
Dortmunds
Kretchfoop Gives a Message to Earth
Alien
Leadership Convention
News Report with Bugamo Chub-Chub
Bill
from Bala Complains about the Aliens
Todd Booster: The Evil
Galactic Warlord Larry Tries to Blow Up the Earth
Speech from
Ronald Reagan
Speech from Constantin Chernenko
Speech from
Kretchfoop
Kretchfoop's Acceptance Speech
Song: I Love Earth
|
Show
#89
"Little Fuzzy Bits of Junk" - June 30
1984
Let's See What's on the Radio
The Corny Car
Salesman
Ad: Belts and Welts
Superhero Boot Camp
Rhonda's
Going to Have a Baby: Doug's Perspective
Song: A Song Which
Follows You
What If the Sky Above Us Was Green?
Rhonda's Going
to Have a Baby: Rhonda's Perspective
Ad: Manfred's Nuclear
Asbestos Saccharine Red-Dye #2 Drink
Little Fuzzy Bits of
Junk
Song: Impressionist Painters
|
Show
#90
"The Anti-Solar Concert"
Playing with Somebody
Else's Cat
The A-Team
Mr. Interesting: If You Took Every Grain
of Sand on Earth...
Problems Renting a Video Tape
Mr.
Interesting: An Interesting Fact from Nature...
The Anti-Solar
Concert (Song: I'm Sunburned)
A Big Scary Noise
Song: Fernando
Poo
Mr. Interesting
|
Show
#91
"Brown Car"
Edna & Chester
Code
421
Couch Stain
Ad: Manfred's Sour Cream and Onion
Bremerhavens
Retirement Home Talk
Man Berating a Motel
Sign
Frantic Times Song Contest
The Ultramind Gets a Day-Pass
from Prison
The Ultramind and Bruno vs. Mr. Canoehead
Song:
Brown Car **
|
Show
#92
"Socrates"
Suicide Watch: The Werewolf (Ad:
Manfred's Low-Cal French Fries)
Household Hints
Halloween in
Nastyville
Never Date the Enemy
Fred Head's Rock Club
Update
Song: Multiple Personalities
Win the Money Game
Show
Great Giant Titans: Socrates
Song: I
Sweat
|
Show
#93
"Denim vs. Corduroy" - November 1984
Denim or
Corduroy: You Be the Judge
Suicide Watch: Roland Grit and the
Other Woman (Ad: Manfred's Amphetamine Tortilla Chips)
In My
Village (Metric system)
Denim or Corduroy: A Historical
Perspective
Ad: The Supercom IV
I'm A Creature of Habit
If
You Don't Invest, I'll Unleash the Monster in My Briefcase
Denim
or Corduroy: Statement on Behalf of Corduroy
PSA: If You Drink,
Drive
Todd Booster: Moo Moo Bunnylips Installs a Toll
Booth
Denim or Corduroy: Statement on Behalf of Corduroy
Song:
Hey Fritz
|
Show
#94
"Olympics"
Intro from the New CBC
Headquarters
Ad: Canadian Olympic Fundraising #1
Sam Horowitz
Literary Agent
Ad: Canadian Olympic Fundraising #2
Frantic
Times Sports: Diving / Sweating
Song: I Like 'Em Tall
Spooning
with Beckie Sue
Ad: Canadian Olympic Fundraising #3
Mr.
Canoehead vs. Old Mrs. Dumpy
Song: Carp
|
Show
#95
"Mud"
Controlling Inventory
Complaining
Letters and Mud
A Salute to Mud
The Ultramind Hijacks a
Plane
The Ultramind's Brother Ted vs. The Ultramind
Mr.
Synopsis
The Ultramind in the Cockpit
SuperCloud
Ultramind Turns Cockpit into a Salad Bar
A Stewardess Lands
the Plane
Canadian Army vs. The Ultramind
The Ultramind Gets
Rained Out
Song: Mud
|
Show
#96
"Seraphim Boot Camp"
Seraphim Boot Camp
Mrs.
Sarnicky and Mama Tarino's Spaghetti Sauce
Fixing a Leak at Three
Mile Island
Kinds of Love
Grunt-a-gram **
Miniature
Adults
Donating Blood and More
The Ultramind vs. Wayne
Gretzky
Song: It's a Rodent **
|
Show
#97
"D-Day Landing" - December 1984
Dork
Test
Cheating in Your Dreams
Class of 1985 Valedictorian
Speech
Mr. Interesting: An Apple a Day...
D-Day Landing
Mr. Interesting: Before Man Invented Written
Languages...
Flintstones: Fred Loses the Fire
Mr.
Interesting
Todd Booster vs. Bunk Trousers Bunnylips' Voter
Disintegration Ray
Song: Muzak Party
Down
|
Show
#98
"The High School Show"
Teachers Skipping Class
Sex Objects
What Did You Do Friday Man?
Morning
Announcements
I Hope You Brought Enough for Everyone
How Do
You Spell Relief?
Principal Strickland Talks to Miss
McQuaid
Jason Mahooch's Geography Mark
A Few More
Announcements
Valentine's Day Card for Teacher
The Hitler Bomb
Plot
Corporal Punishment
Song: Heavy Metal Shop
|
Show
#99
"The High School Christmas Dance" - December
1984
Suicide Watch: Hugh Beaumont (Ad: Manfred's Irradiated
Chili)
Ad: Mrs. Sarnicky Tries Wrinkles Potato Chips
Hugh Asks
Loretta To the Dance
PSA: If You Drink, Don't Dance...
Hugh
Tries to Asks His Father for the Car
Christmas In My Village
Christmas Isn't Much Fun in Nastyville
Ad: Mrs. Sarnicky Tries
Wilbur's Fish Sticks
Hugh Reporting to the Guys About His
Date
Song: All I Want for Christmas is $100,000
Bucks
|
Show
#100
"Sam's Theory of Atomic Decay"
Suicide Watch:
The Quotation Compiler (Ad: Manfred's Contraceptive Melba
Toast)
The Over-Metaphoric Cowboy
Cops Threaten to Kiss a
Suspect **
You
People Are Fat *
Moses
is Sent to a Shrink
Complaint Letters about the Previous
Sketch
Sam's Theory of Atomic Decay
Song: Crazy Subatomic Love
|
Show
#100a
"The Ultramind vs. Mrs. Sarnicky"
Mrs. Sarnicky
for Sunburst Margarine
Todd Booster: Moo Moo Bunnylips is Up to
Nothing
Caveman Love
A Man Nitpicking a Sunset
A Man is His
Tie
Mrs. Sarnicky for Oasis Deodorant
A Man Embarrassing a
Tape Deck
In the Offices of Mrs. Sarnicky International
The
Ultramind vs. Mrs. Sarnicky and Mr. Canoehead
Song:
Peterborough
Date for Todd Booster is 1934, meaning that this show was
broadcast in 1984; It is announced that this was Frantic times
episode #100, though this episode was not labelled as such according
to the master tapes -- interestingly enough, this is formerly a lost
episode derived from a non-CBC source. The episode also has the
distinction of having two guests: Caroline Scott and Magg
Ruffman both appear on this show. |
Show
#101
"Ode to Laura Petrie"
Ted and Marcie Arrange
Their Marriage
Newton Feeb Has a Date with Candy Vavoom
Rick
the Nickel
Ted and Marcie's Wedding
Song: Donut
World
Removing War from the Language
Ode to Laura
Petrie
Gangsters Divide Up Their Territories
Ted and Marcie's
Honeymoon
Song: I'm Rich, I'm White, I Love It **
|
Show
#102
"Legal Bar Exams"
Legal Bar Exam
#5
Quennel and Mary: Thinks About Death
I Need New Socks
A
Man Policing a Desert
The Fortune Teller Sees a Dipstick
Legal
Bar Exam #8
The Inventor of the 4-Colour Pen
Legal Bar Exam
#15
A Woman Shaving her Legs
Elderly Couple Talk About
Money
Song: Making Love in Outer Space
|
Show
#103
"Family Feud: Good vs. Evil"
Family Feud: Good
vs. Evil
Devising Game Shows
Evil Plots the Downfall of Mr.
Canoehead
Evil Trade Show
Ad: Disabletronic
Lana the
Shapeshifter Teams Up with The Ultramind
Lana Meets Mr.
Canoehead
Mr. Canoehead Trapped!
Lana Reveals Herself to Be
Evil Eva Gabor/Escape
Song: Manitoba
This was formerly a "missing" show, recently recovered from a
non-CBC source. |
Show
#104
"The No Audience Show"
Ad: Thunder & Jesus
Seal Removal
Speech at a Wedding (Kiss the Bride)
A Punk
Square Dance
The Tree Pruner
Todd Booster: The Martian Death
Ray
Fable: Why Chipmunks Have No Ears
The Horrors of Fruit
Cocktail
Song: Something's on Henry
A Man Taunting the Great
Barrier Reef
The Last Spike (aka It Was the Railroad)
Ad:
Breasts and Bytes
National Geographic Looks at How Animals Adapt
on the Etosha Pan
Rooster Private Eye
Song: Meat
This was formerly a "missing" show, recently recovered from a
non-CBC source. |
Show
#105
"From the Extremely Quiet People's Club"
Mr.
Interesting: If You Took Every Grain of Sand on Earth...
Great
Giant Titans: The Red Baron
Ad: Chester Spivey's Trailer Park
Mr. Interesting: Turtles
Buying French Pastry **
Theories
of Creation
Song: I Shot Bambi's Mother
Man Yelling at a Loaf
of Bread
Fishing with Live Bait: Using Bengal Tiger for
Bait
Mr. Interesting: People in China
Buying a Pair of Shoes
**
Ad:
Fanny Fudger Toilet-Seat Warming Service
The Police Sculptor
Mr. Canoehead vs. Michelangelo's David & The Quarry
Boys
Song: Gas Station Washroom **
This was one of only two shows recoded wholly in the studio
(hence the title). |
Show
#106
"Obi Wan Kenobi Driving School"
From the
Extremely Quiet People's Club
Eating at a Baseball Game
The
Cliched Affair
Fred Head's Rock Club Update: Talks about
Chile
Dog Tricks
Obi Wan Kenobi Driving School
New Baby
Tests **
Driving
Chicks Mad: Ordering at the Drive-In Burger
Marvin the Mole Buys
a Car **
The
Invisible Family
Salem Witch Trial
Mr. Canoehead vs. Car
Thieves
Song: I'm Gonna Be
Car-Sick
|
Show
#107
"Egg Mover Man"
Getting on a VIA
Train
Escaped Young Offender Alert
A Poem #1 (Toothbrush
Poem)
The Frantics Rewrite History: Saving Christ
Egg Mover
Man
Todd Booster vs. Moo Moo Bunnylips' Giant Space
Mirror
Thanksgiving
Driving Chicks Mad at the
Beach
Alternative Three Bears Story
Fighting or
Squabbling
Stopping a Man from Smoking **
Song:
Vancouver SWAT Team
|
Show
#108
"I Sell Computers"
Nit Test
Suicide
Hotline: The Depressed Janitor (Ad: Manfred's Giblet Chiclets)
Mr. Interesting: Marriage Statistics
Driving Chicks Mad at
the Pizza Joint
Come on Get on with it the Suspense is Killing Me
Ad: John & Frank's Restaurant (x2)
Mr. Interesting: The
Hypotenuse
Ad: John's Stand-Up Sushi Bar
Dr. Wallaby
Goldfarb: UFOs
Why Become a Non-Sexist Male?
Mr. Canoehead vs.
Waring Gang Members
Song: I Sell Computers **
|
Show
#109
"I'm a Fungus"
Request Time
Man Eating a
Pizza
I'm a Fungus
Jack and the Beanstock Part
1
Calculating Why Fat Shirley is the Only Woman for Me **
Jack
and the Beanstock Part 2
I Lost the Cord for My Glasses...
The
Right Woman?
Giving Acid to an Accountant
Todd Booster: Moo
Moo Bunnylips Blockades Ore from Mars
Song: Last Night We Made
Love
|
Show
#110
"Dating a Woman More Intelligent Than
You"
Intro Buying a First Class Ticket on Air Canada Mrs.
Sarnicky Tries Miss Evelyn Face Cream Moebius Strip Theatre /
Destined to Be a Guidance Councilor Alternative Three Little Pigs
Story The Family Reunion Picture Lateral Thinking Theatre: Gone with
the Wind Dating a Woman More Intelligent Than You **
Mr. Canoehead vs. The Ultramind (Who's Stealing All the World's Bacon
Bits) **
Song: Our Family Store / Outro
|
Show
#111
"What Dreams Mean"
Mrs. Sarnicky Tries
Sunshine Yogurt
Morally Handicapped
Battle of the Sexes:
Toilet Seats
Idiot Tax **
Message
for Liz Taylor
What Dreams Mean
The Last Chapter of a
Marriage
Quennel Meets Newton Feeb
Song: The Man for You
Note: Magg Ruffman and Caroline Scott both co-starred on this
show. |
Show
#112
"Roughage"
Manfred's Zit Die
Mrs. Sarnicky
Tries Perkin's Pork Pie
Todd Booster: Stopping the World from
Being Flooded
A Poem #1
Lateral Thinking Theatre: A Streetcar
Named Desire
A Poem #2
The Interior Decorator
A Poem
#3
World in Perspective
A Poem #4
Arlene, Someone's at the
Door **
Tyrannosaurus
Rex, Private Eye
Song: Roughage
|
"Fran of the Fundy"December 19 1987 - January 2
1988
Special 3 Part Series - A Spoof of Anne of Green Gables.
| Originally
broadcast as a holiday special around Xmastime 1987, the series
deals with fictional New Brunswick Premier Buddy Wentworth and his
quest to create Fran of the Fundy -- a New Brunswick
alternative to Anne of Green Gables. All of this while trying
to win a provincial election, a caucus that betrays him, and
battling his own personal demons in overcoming the evil Anne. A
truly warped short series that along the way takes a swipe at
various Canadian cultural icons. (A good piece written immediately
prior to this series can be found on the clippings
page). |
"Fran
of the Fundy Part 1" - December 19 1987
Premier Buddy
Wentworth Takes Japanese Investors on Tour
Japanese Catch Ferry
to PEI
Buddy Attacks Tourist Going to PEI
Jimmy & Barney
Buddy & Press Aide Discuss Political Fallout
Cabinet
Discusses Idea of Emergency Leadership Race
Buddy Loses it at a
Campaign Rally
Newscast
Buddy in the Looney Bin
Emergency
Leadership Convention
|
"Fran
of the Fundy Part 2" - December 26 1987
Newscast: Interview
with Buddy
Buddy Talks to Press Aide / Finance Minister
Buddy
Meets Berton Peters
Election Update: Politcal Analysts
Ad:
Nihilist Lumber League
Buddy Visits Atlantic Television
Buddy
Visits the CBC
Buddy Visits CTV
Buddy Visits Galactic
Productions
|
"Fran
of the Fundy Part 3" - January 2 1988
Buddy Dreams About
Fran
Buddy Lands in Fredericton
Election Update: Political
Analysts
Fran of the Fundy Contest
Nihilist Lumber
League
Production Begins on Fran of the Fundy
Election Update:
Political Analysts
Buddy Visits the Set
Buddy in
Hospital
TV Debut of Fran of the Fundy
Anne of Green Gables
Nightmare
Buddy Recovers /
Conclusion
|
"The Frantics Look at History"September 1 - October 20
1988
Special 8 Part Series
| This
eight-part special series comprises what is arguably The Frantics'
best work. Inventive and very funny, this series looks at the whole
of history as seen through the eyes of Jimmy & Barney, two guys
sitting at some anonymous local bar with East-coast accents who have
"been there" and seen it all. The series runs from the age of the
dinosaurs to the future, covering everything from the plight of a
two-brained Diplodocus dinosaur having an argument with itself to a
couple of Visigoths trying to explain to a Roman why they are
sacking Rome, to a future Star Trek-inspired "Church of Kirk".
Sadly, it is also the very last Frantics series that involved all
four members of the comedy troupe. |
History
#1
"The Beginning" - September 1 1988
Jimmy &
Barney Talk About History in General
Ad: Napoleon for Maher's
Pile Preparation
Jimmy & Barney Talk About Fame
Lifestyles
of the Rich & Famous: Gerld the Caveman
Ad: Hun
Mouthwash
Nobel Prize Committee Meeting
Jimmy & Barney
Talk About Royalty
Robin Hood and King John Fight
Jimmy &
Barney Talk About Having Good Names
Spanish Inquisition Game
Show
Columbus Discovers America
Song: Renaissance
Man
Closing Time for Jimmy & Barney
Note: This show features guest star Brian Moffat from The
Norm, which was the comedy show that replaced Frantic
Times. |
History
#2
"Age of the Dinosaurs to the Ancient Greeks" -
September 8 1988
Jimmy & Barney Talk About Pre-History
A
Diplodocus' Two Brains Get in an Argument
Jimmy & Barney
Talk About the Age of Mammals
Cave Man Invents Language
Cave
Man Cooking with Org
Primitive Sex Call-In Show
Jimmy &
Barney Talk About the Ancient Greeks #1
The First Olympics
Jimmy & Barney Talk About the Ancient Greeks #2
Ad:
Rambocles Part VI: The Big Horsey
Men Behind Bars:
Socrates
Zeus Explains The Birds and the Bees to
Hercules
Jimmy & Barney Talk About The Four Ages of Mankind
A Redecorator in Ancient Troy
Closing Time for Jimmy &
Barney
|
History
#3
"The Rise & Fall of the Roman Empire" -
September 15 1988
Jimmy & Barney Talk About the Romulus and
Remus
Ides of March Parade
Jimmy & Barney Talk About the
Rise of Christianity
Christian Groupies
Song: The Twelve
Disciples
Coliseum Games Review
A Christian Faces the
Lions
Jimmy & Barney Talk About the Romans Borrowing Everyone
Else's Gods
Song: At the Orgy
Emperor Claudius at the Orgy
Mt. Vesuvius Erupts
Song: Back Off, We're
Druids
Visigoths Sack Rome
Closing Time for Jimmy &
Barney
|
History
#4
"The Dark Ages and the Time of Chivalry Through to the
Renaissance" - September 22 1988
Jimmy & Barney Talk
About the Dark Ages #1
The Early Kings of England
Waiting for
the Renaissance
History Corrected: Ghengis Cohen
Jimmy &
Barney Talk About the Dark Ages #2
Song: Here Come the
Christians
Joan of Arc's Trial at The People's Court
Ad:
Sistine Chapel Magazine
Jimmy & Barney Talk about the Popes
Luther's Bake Sale
Marco Polo Returns from China
Audience Reaction to Macbeth
Doctor Debate Cure for the
Plague
Song: Holy Crusade
|
History
#5
"From the Time of Columbus to the Age of Cowboys" -
September 29 1988
Jimmy & Barney Talk about Cortez and the
Aztecs
I Hate Amerigo Vespucci
Jimmy & Barney Talk about
Canada and the U.S.A.
Pilgrims Land in Virginia
Choosing the
American National Animal
A Prisoner is Sent to Australia
Jimmy
& Barney about European Gentry and Cassanova
Cassanova is
Overbooked
Song: "All You Need is a Pulse"
Pirate Dance
Steps
Jimmy & Barney Talk about How Canadians Treat Their
History
Rush Bagot: 1812 Am I Eh?
Jimmy & Barney
Sherriff Canoehead vs. The Hole-in-the-Head Gang
Jimmy &
Barney
|
History
#6
"The Industrial Revolution and the Victorian Era" -
October 6 1988
Jimmy & Barney Talk About Living in France
During the Age of Enlightenment
Alessandro Volta Creates
Electricity
Song: The Miner's Lament
Jimmy & Barney Talk
about Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria: Straight Sex
Jimmy &
Barney Talk about Literature
Fishing with Captain Ahab
People
Killed at Gettysburg
Lincoln Assassination Review
Jimmy &
Barney Talk about Confederation
Watson Answers the First Phone
Call
Edison's Assistant Creates the CD
Ad: Statue of
Liberty
Jimmy & Barney Talk about the Boar War
A Soldier
Leaves for the Boar War
Jimmy & Barney Talk about Henry
Ford
|
History
#7
"The 1900s" (The Modern Era) - October 13
1988
Jimmy & Barney
Anarchists and WWI
Xmas in the
Trenches During WWI
Jimmy & Barney Talk about the
1920s
Todd Booster vs. Moo Moo Bunnylips & His Giant Lens
Bradford Guthrie, Brother of Woody
Heckling Winston Churchill
America Gets into WWII
Jimmy & Barney Talk about Mahatma
Ghandi
McCarthy Hearings
Improvements to Vacuum
Cleaners
Jimmy & Barney
|
History
#8
"The Future" - October 20 1988
Jimmy &
Barney Talk About the Future
Drag Race Ad of the Future
Jimmy
& Barney Talk About How Fast Things Get in the
Future
Intergalactic Phone Sex Therapist
Presidential Address
of the Future
Jimmy & Barney Talk About How the Future Is Not
How We Thought It Would Be
The Church of Kirk
Jimmy &
Barney Talk About Future Nostalgia
Religious TV of the
Future
Astronauts Return to a Future Earth
Song: Those
Witnesses Was Right
This show features guest star Brian Moffat from The Norm,
which was the comedy show that replaced Frantic Times.
|
"Those People Across the Street"July -August 1989
| This
special summer-replacement series starred Rick Green and Peter
Wildman as two long-time friends and neighbours who deal with
various situations that face them. Unlike Frantic Times this
show took a single story and ran with it -- much like a sitcom --
instead of the more typical sketch comedy. Arguably one of the most
consistently funny of the post-Frantic Times radios shows done
by members from the original troupe.
While this could have been a six-part series, chances are that it
may have been a 7-part or longer series. If you happen to have any
of the missing episodes and would be willing to trade, please let me know!
This series is one of the few occasions where I can post the
"official" title for the show, since it was announced at the
beginning of each show. |
|
"The Freezer" - July 8 1989
"Death by Weed-Whacker" - July 15 1989
"Somebody's Having a Baby" - July 22 1989
"The Robbery" - July 29 1989
"No Pain, No Gain" - August 5 1989
"Peter's Number Comes Up" - August 12 1989
|
"Growing Up and Having Babies"Summer 1991[?]
Special 6 Part
Series, broadcast at 11:30am on Saturdays
| Another
special summer-replacement series which again paired up Rick Green
and Peter Wildman, this time as two friends who go through puberty
together, marry and have kids. At the beginning of each show, the
series was described as "The story of Rick and Peter chasing girls,
getting married and raising kids. An odyssey from the suburbs to the
singles-bars and back to the suburbs". This show was a return to the
sketch comedy format typical of the "Frantic Times" shows.
This series is another one of those few occasions where I can
post the "official" title for the show, since it was announced at
the start of each episode.
This would be the final radio series done by members of the
Frantics troupe until the advent Dan Redican's "Mr. Interesting"
series 8 years later. |
| Show #1
- Virgin Territory
Intro
Hair Down There
Fluoridation Must Be the Reason Why
Girls Seem Less Icky
Coach Teaches Sex Education
Are You
Kidding?
KQ Radio Dedication Love Line
When You Going to Ask
Her Out?
Song: He Hasn't Called
Meeting Your Date's Father at
the Door
Song: My Mom Dresses Me
Rick & Pete
Talk/Outro
|
| Show #2
- College Girls
Intro
Peter Wants to Move Out
Looking Up Dirty Words in the
Dictionary
Sex with Stu Radio Call-In
Calling Peter About
Breaking Up with Maggie
No Woman's Too Shallow for Peter
I
Want to Be a Liberated Guy
Women's Intuition
Rick at the
Coffeehouse
Song: She's a Picture in My Daddy's National
Geographic
Rick & Pete
Talk/Outro
|
| Show #3
- What If They Had a Sexual Revolution, and No-One Came?
Intro
You're Faking it Aren't You?
Scoring Women Out of
Ten
There's Nothing Funny About Impotence
Peter Dates a
University Girl
Peter Dates Rick's Former Girlfriend
Sex with
Stu Radio Call-In
Song: I'm Engaged
Rick & Pete
Talk/Outro
|
| Show #4
- Bells are Ringing for Me and My Live-In Lover
Intro
The Rules of Moving in Together (or "Being
Pre-Engaged")
Rick & Peter Talk About Rick's Impending
Marriage
Wedding Anniversary Gift Themes
Linda Wants to Wear
White at the Wedding
Sex with Stu Radio Call-In
How Couples
With/Without Kids See Themselves
Larry's Bowling
Newsletter
Peter Gets Married
Song: I Poisoned Your
Dinner
Rick & Pete
Talk/Outro
|
| Show #5
- He Has His Father's Eyes, His Mother's Mouth, and a Monkey's
Body
Intro
Birth Horror Stories
Dr. Wallaby Goldfarb Talks about
Human Reproduction
First Time Parents and Second Time
Parents
Birth Class at the Laleche League
Sex with Stu Radio
Call-In
The Baby's Coming Tonight
The Birth at the
Hospital
Song: Something Told Me Things Never Be the Same
Rick
& Pete Talk/Outro
|
| Show #6
- The Terrible Twos, The Terrible Threes, The Terrible Fours...
Intro
The First Night Home with the New Baby
What People
Really Want
Rick and Pete Talk About Affairs
The Twenty-First
Night Home with Baby
Checking Out the Baby-Sitter
Children's
Toys
Going to a Party After the Birth
Sex Education
Male
Stereotyping at the Toy Store
Song: They're Just Kids
Rick
& Pete Talk/Outro
|
"Running with Scissors with Mr. Interesting"July 3 1999 -
August 7 1988
Dan Redican returns to CBC radio with this special 6
part series, which was broadcast at 3:30pm on "Definitely Not the
Opera".
(My copy of show #2 is incomplete, and am missing shows #3 and #4.
If you have a copy of any of these shows, please let me know!)
| Show
#1 - July 3 2000
Mr. Interesting Intro The Show
The Groom Who Didn't Pay
Attention
How Children Learn from their Parents
Mr.
Interesting Intros Next Sketch
He's A Rebel
The Worst Lover of
All Time
Mr. Interesting Comments on Previous Two Sketches
Oh
Baby (I Gotta Go for Bread)
A Comedic Well That Will Never Run
Dry
Mr. Interesting Gets His Car Towed -
Outro
|
Show
#2 - July 10 2000
Mr. Interesting (Incomplete)
The Hopeless Cosmetics
Case
Hey Ladies
Don't Judge Me
Mr. Interesting Does the
Plow Pose
Family Reunion
Mr. Interesting in the Jacuzzi -
Outro
|
| Show
#5 - July 31 2000
Intro - Embalming for Teens
Dolphin at a Wedding
The Gay
Blind Date - Part 1
Getting in Touch with Your Feelings with Mr.
Interesting
The Gay Blind Date - Part 2
He Was a Bum But I
Loved Him
Speaking Hindi with Mr. Interesting -
Outro
|
Show
#6 - August 7 2000
Intro - Mr. Interesting's Internal Combustion Drinking
Straw
The Topless Crisis
Man Who Lives in a Hole
Do You
Like My Hat
Mancey Street Layer
Mr. Interesting is Convicted
and Cancelled - Outro
|
"Mr. Interesting's Guide to the Continental United States"July
8 2000 - August 12 2000
Special 6 Part Series, broadcast at 3:30pm
on "Definitely Not the Opera"
| Show
#1 - July 8 2000
Mr. Interesting Introduces the Show
The Boarding Pass
Air
Canada Announcer
Mr. Kirkirkenden Dates a Fashion Model
Mr.
Interesting and the U.S. Border Guard
Ad: Desperate Measures
Perfume
Beam of God's Pure Love
Mr. Interesting Meets the U.S.
Coast Guard
Mr. Interesting Gets into the U.S. -
Outro
|
| Show
#2 - July 15 2000
Intro - Mr. Interesting Intros the Show
The Difference Between
Americans and Canadians #1
The Thousandth Pizza
The Kidnapping
- Part 1
I Don't Like Chicken
A Cleaning Woman
Fantasies
The Kidnapping - Part 2
The American Bar and Grill -
Outro |
| Show
#3 - July 22 2000
Intro - Kansas
The Anti-Fish Sign
Who Needs the Pain
The
Greasy Local
Don't Interrupt My Show
The Interesting-Mobile is
Fixed
Motivational Speaker for Death Row Inmates
The Living
Dead Problem
Song: I'm in Love with A Mechanical Bull
Zombies
With Attitude - Outro |
| Show
#4 - July 29 2000
Intro - Las Vegas, New Mexico
Gas Station Robbery
Gay
Friendly Shoes
Mr. Smartypants
Fish Oil
Throwing Your Shame
into the Grand Canyon
Eddie Dies - Outro
|
| Show
#5 - August 5 2000
Intro - Mr. Interesting in the High Desert
The Mexican
Hairless
Mr. Interesting Gets Rolled
New Age Wood
Cutters
Mr. Interesting at Rosie's Bar
Daisy Confronts Rosie -
Outro |
| Show
#6 - August 12 2000
Intro - Reluctant Rectal-Probing Aliens
Sulphur Man Has A Bad
Day
A Little Girl Visits a Hollywood Studio
Nelson
Mr.
Interesting Dies - Outro |
* This skit was later used on one of the
Frantics' two records.
** This skit was later used in the television
series, "Four on the Floor"
|
