Editing You Can't Do That on Television (section)

== Cast ==
[[File:Ruth Buzzi.jpg|thumb|upright|Original cast member Ruth Buzzi]]
Apart from the central cast as [[Les Lye]] and [[Abby Hagyard]], who played the adult character roles, over 100 pre-teen and teenage actors appeared on ''YCDTOTV'' between 1979 and 1990. Some of the most notable cast members included:

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! Name !! Year(s) !!style="width:20%"| First Appearance !!style="width:20%"| Last Appearance !! Notes
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|Stephanie Bauder
|style="white-space:nowrap;"|1989–90
|Episode 114: Choices
|Episode 142: Privileges
|style="text-align:left;"|Went on to star in ''[[Night of the Demons 3]]'' alongside fellow castmate Christian Tessier.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Night of the Demons III (1997) |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116073/ |publisher=IMDb}}</ref>
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|Nick Belcourt
|1989
|Episode 114: Choices
|Episode 134: Effort
|style="text-align:left;"|Known for a recurring gag of being unable to remember whether his name was Nick or Ted, stemming from a real-life incident during a read-through in which he read Ted Wilson's lines by mistake.
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|Chris Bickford
|1989–90
|Episode 114: Choices
|Episode 143: Inventions
|style="text-align:left;"|Fourth and final host. Known for his trademark leather jacket.
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|style="white-space:nowrap;"|Jennifer Brackenbury
|1989–90
|Episode 114: Choices
|Episode 143: Inventions
|style="text-align:left;"|Referred to by some fans as "The New Vanessa." Jen co-hosted the ''Worst of YCDTOTV'' videocassette along with Chris Bickford and Christian Tessier.
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|Carlos Braithwaite
|1989–90
|Episode 114: Choices
|Episode 141: Learning
|style="text-align:left;"|The only African-American cast member during the show's 1990 season.
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|Jami Burning
|1981
|Episode 017: Strike Now
|Episode 022: Smoking
|style="text-align:left;"|Native American performer who appeared in traditional clothing; only appeared twice during the 1981 season.
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|[[Ruth Buzzi]]
|1979
|Episode 001: Live!
|Episode 014: End Of The Line
|style="text-align:left;"|Played many of the adult female characters, and was only slimed twice.
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|Andrea Byrne
|1987–89
|Episode 111: Adoption
|Episode 122: Pollution
|style="text-align:left;"|Famous for her "[[Annie (1982 film)|Little Orphan Andrea]]" persona<ref>{{Citation|title=YCDTOTV adoption episode|url=https://www.bitchute.com/video/V5FvuKZ6JFMS/|language=en|access-date=2022-01-26}}</ref> in the Adoption episode.
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|Justin Cammy
|1983–86
|Episode 049: Classical Music
|Episode 084: Revenge
|style="text-align:left;"|Did not appear in any 1986 episodes although he is in the official cast photo. Appeared in his first episode clad in a diaper playing a sitar, as Roger Price's revenge for having to deal with Justin's difficult mother.
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|Stephanie Chow
|1984–87
|Episode 074: Families
|Episode 112: Anniversaries
|style="text-align:left;"|Offered the chance to return for the 1989 season, but declined.
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|Angie Coddett
|1981–84
|Episode 017: Dating
|Episode 060: Foreign Countries
|style="text-align:left;"|Known for her character "Angie the Talking Doll" during the 1981 season.  She appeared in only one episode each in 1982 and '84.
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|Eugene Contreras
|1982–85
|Episode 029: Popularity
|Episode 088: Movies
|style="text-align:left;"|He and his brother Roddy were chosen after Roger Price, who had been looking for Hispanic kids for the show, overheard them speaking Spanish, although they had arrived at the studio too late to audition.
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|Roddy Contreras
|1982
|Episode 035: Television
|Episode 035: Television
|style="text-align:left;"|Roddy's appearances in his only episode were edited out of the Nickelodeon airings of the show post-1983, once the network became advertiser-supported.
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|Tim Douglas
|1979
|Episode 001: Live!
|Episode 010: Boring
|style="text-align:left;"|Tim was the first cast member to be slimed, and one of only two cast members to have the "real" green slime dumped on him made from moldy food leftovers.

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|Ian Fingler
|1979
|Episode 009
|Episode 009
|style="text-align:left;"|Only appeared in one episode.
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|Jonothan Gebert
|1979–81
|Episode 001: Live!
|Episode 026: Peer Pressure
|style="text-align:left;"|Jono was also a cast member on ''Whatever Turns You On'' and ''Something Else''. By the 1981 season he was too tall to appear on the link set and was seen mainly in execution and dungeon skits.
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|Alasdair Gillis
|1982–86
|Episode 031: Vacations
|Episode 108: Mysteries and Crimes
|style="text-align:left;"|Second official host. Cameo in 1989's Fantasies and Age episodes.
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|Amyas Godfrey
|1986–89
|Episode 089: Fairy Tales, Myths, & Legends
|Episode 139: Embarrassment
|style="text-align:left;"|Along with Andrea Byrne, Rekha Shah and James Tung, Amyas was one of only three kid cast members to transition from 1986–87 to 1989, and the only one to appear regularly in '89.
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|Matthew Godfrey
|1986–87
|Episode 091: Know-It-Alls
|Episode 112: Anniversaries
|style="text-align:left;"|Older brother of Amyas Godfrey. He and his brother had just moved back to Ottawa after four years living in [[Dallas]] when they were cast; their time in Texas was occasionally used as an in-joke on the show.
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|[[Abby Hagyard]]
|1982–90
|Episode 027: Cosmetics
|Episode 143: Inventions
|style="text-align:left;"|Adult cast member. Her most frequent roles were Mom (Valerie Prevert) and the British-accented Librarian, but she played most adult female roles during her time on the show. She was not slimed until the 1989 season.
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|David Helpin
|1979
|Episode 001: Live!
|Episode 014: End of the Line
|style="text-align:left;"|David was one of the original cast members, and hosted many of the "call in" segments. He was slimed, along with the rest of the cast, in the St. Patrick's Day episode.
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|Brad Hampson
|1979
|Episode 002
|Episode 010: Boring
|style="text-align:left;"|Brad was one of the only cast members of the inaugural season to not get slimed.
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|Rodney Helal
|1979–81
|Episode 001: Live!
|Episode 026: Peer Pressure
|style="text-align:left;"|Rodney was one of a few cast members to be featured on both ''YCDTOTV'', as well as its sister show, ''Whatever Turns You On''. Although he was never slimed, Rodney was frequently on the receiving end of pies.
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|Ramona Helal
|1979
|Episode 003: Nickel and Dime
|Episode 003: Nickel and Dime
|style="text-align:left;"|Ramona was the older sister of Rodney Helal, and was only in one episode. She was however featured in several episodes of ''Whatever Turns You On''.
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|Michael Hora
|1983–84
|Episode 044: Future World
|Episode 051: Fame
|style="text-align:left;"|Never Slimed.
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|Jim Johnson
|1979
|Episode 001: Live!
|Episode 014: End of the Line
|style="text-align:left;"|Adult cast member. Only on the show for first season as a [[disc jockey]] for music segments (common in the first season, but never aired in subsequent years).
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|Adam Kalbfleisch
|1984–86
|Episode 062: Moving
|Episode 095: Country
|style="text-align:left;"|Watered twice during his run on the show, but never slimed.
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|Cyndi Kennedy
|1979
|Episode 001: Live!
|Episode 014: End Of The Line
|style="text-align:left;"|Cyndi hosted several of the 1979 episodes, and famously went home sick after being slimed for the first time.
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|Martin Kerr
|1981–83
|Episode 025: Nutrition
|Episode 040: Pets
|style="text-align:left;"|Kerr joined the cast after Roger Price saw him in one of the local "Roving Camera" segments when the show aired on CJOH and decided he liked him. He also participated in ''Something Else''.
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|Pauline Kerr
|1984-85
|Episode 060: Foreign Countries
|Episode 078: Wealth
|style="text-align:left;"|Martin Kerr's younger sister.
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|Tanya King
|1981
|Episode 018: Fitness
|Episode 018: Fitness
|style="text-align:left;"|Tanya only appeared in one episode, and is one of the few cast to avoid being pied, slimed, or watered.
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|Kevin Kubusheskie
|1981–84
|Episode 016: Strike Now
|Episode 068: Halloween
|style="text-align:left;"|Kubusheskie became a writer and producer on the series during the 1989 and 1990 seasons, and on occasion made cameos.
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|Vanessa Lindores
|1982–87
|Episode 035: Television
|Episode 112: Anniversaries
|style="text-align:left;"|Lindores was the show's third host, and returned to host 1989's Age episode. She also appeared (then pregnant) in 2004's reunion "Project 131". The only other cast member to have the "real" green slime dumped on her made from rotten food leftovers.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Roger Price Interview |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUDFVcLr1gY | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/kUDFVcLr1gY| archive-date=2021-12-11 | url-status=live|website=Youtube | date=February 25, 2015 |publisher=Geoffrey Darby}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
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|Tony Lefebvre
|1982
|Episode 036: Sports
|Episode 036: Sports
|style="text-align:left;"|Tony was one of only three cast members that never appeared on the link set, but was watered at Barth's.
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|Darryll Lucas
|1981-82
|Episode 015: Work
|Episode 040: Growing Up
|style="text-align:left;"|Darryll was the only actor on the series to play an exclusive role in one recurring sketch; He played "Zilch," Barth's often-abused burgery assistant. The only exception is, in Episode 032: "Vacations," in addition to playing "Zilch," he also played an umpire.
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|Simone Lumsden
|1982
|Episode 036: Sports
|Episode 036: Sports
|style="text-align:left;"|Simone also never appeared on the link set. She was properly "initiated" into the cast, getting slimed in the dungeon.
|-
|[[Les Lye]]
|1979–90
|Episode 001: Live!
|Episode 143: Inventions
|style="text-align:left;"|One of only two adult cast members, and the only one to appear in the show from its very first to its very last episode.  Also starred in ''Whatever Turns You On.''
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|Mike Lyon
|1981
|Episode 018: Fitness
|Episode 024: Drugs
|style="text-align:left;"|Appeared in only two episodes.
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|[[Christine McGlade|Christine "Moose" McGlade]]
|1979–86
|Episode 001: Live!
|Episode 093: Garbage
|style="text-align:left;"|Christine was the first official host. She featured also in many skits and also had a brief cameo in the "Age" episode in 1989.  Her younger sister Lisa was used in some skits as an uncredited extra. She also appeared on ''Whatever Turns You On'' and ''Something Else'', and went on to develop the short-lived ''[[Turkey Television]]'' with Roger Price.
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|[[Pat Mills (director)|Patrick Mills]]
|1989–90
|Episode 121: Security
|Episode 143: Privileges
|style="text-align:left;"|Mills became a film director and screenwriter, post YCDTOTV.
|-
|Forest Wolf Mohawk
|1982
|Episode 039: The Not-So-Fair-Show
|Episode 039: The Not-So-Fair-Show
|style="text-align:left;"|Along with Jami Burning, one of only two Native American cast members. Only appeared in one episode.
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|[[Alanis Morissette]]
|1986
|Episode 090: Pop Music
|Episode 100: Contests
|style="text-align:left;"|Appeared in a total of five episodes. Was slimed three times, but only one of her slime scenes aired (Pop Music).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Long Lost Pictures From YCDTOTV Vaults |url=https://twitter.com/YCDTLive/status/859657040834310144 |website=Twitter |publisher=Roger Price}}</ref>
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|Brodie Osome
|1981–83
|Episode 015: Transportation
|Episode 049: Classical Music
|style="text-align:left;"|Osome appeared in Project 131 with Vanessa Lindores and Marjorie Silcoff. 
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|Doug Ptolemy
|1982–87
|Episode 030: Fads and Fashion
|Episode 112: Anniversaries
|style="text-align:left;"|Ptolemy made a cameo appearance in the 1989 Age episode, after leaving and also had a battle with drug addiction after the show ended.
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|Natalie Radmore
|1982
|Episode 039: The Not-So-Fair-Show
|Episode 039: The Not-So-Fair-Show
|style="text-align:left;"|Natalie was slimed, watered, and pied in her only appearance.
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|[[Adam Reid (actor)|Adam Reid]]
|1984–87
|Episode 078: Wealth
|Episode 112: Anniversaries
|style="text-align:left;"|Reid made a cameo in the 1989 Punishment episode. He also co-wrote several episodes that season with Roger Price.
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|Elizabeth Richardson<ref name="IMDb_full_credits">{{Cite web |title=You Can't Do That on Television (TV Series 1979–1990) - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb |url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078714/fullcredits |access-date=2019-09-04 |website=[[IMDb]]}}</ref>
|1982-83
|Episode 28: Cosmetics
|Episode 48: Inequality: Kids vs. Adults
|style="text-align:left;"|Elizabeth is one of the very few cast members never to be watered, pied or slimed during her time on the show.
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|Lisa Ruddy
|1979–85
|Episode 001: Live!
|Episode 088: Movies
|style="text-align:left;"|Ruddy was a cast member on ''Whatever Turns You On'' as well. At the end of her tenure on the show, she, Christine McGlade and Les Lye were the only remaining original cast members. Ruddy was sometimes called "Motormouth" Lisa Ruddy, because of her tendency to talk a lot. She took the longest sliming of the show during the "Cooking" episode, having two extra large buckets dumped on her during the sliming at the dinner table.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Facebook Live Q & A |url=https://www.facebook.com/events/905224869628693 |website=Facebook |publisher=Slime Studios}}</ref>
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|Scott Sandeman
|1981
|Episode 019: Safety First
|Episode 025: Nutrition
|style="text-align:left;"|Scott appeared in only two episodes and is one of only a few cast members to be featured in multiple episodes without getting slimed, pied, or watered.
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|Sidharth Sahay
|1989-90
|Episode 116: Communication
|Episode 135: Sports
|style="text-align:left;"|Brother of Vik Sahay.
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|[[Vik Sahay]]
|1986–87
|Episode 105: Sleep
|Episode 112: Anniversaries
|style="text-align:left;"|Canadian actor of Indian descent, whose brother Sidharth Sahay, also appeared on show.
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|Kevin Schenk
|1979–81
|Episode 008
|Episode 026: Peer Pressure
|style="text-align:left;"|Schenk was also a cast member on ''Whatever Turns You On.''
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|[[Klea Scott]]
|1982–84
|Episode 031: Vacations
|Episode 054: ESP – Magic Astrology
|style="text-align:left;"|Scott was born in [[Panama]]. After ''You Can't'', she played significant roles in the movies ''[[Minority Report (film)|Minority Report]]'' and ''[[Collateral (film)|Collateral]]'', as well as a leading role in the television series ''[[Intelligence (Canadian TV series)|Intelligence]]''. She also was featured in other Roger Price productions, such as UFO Kidnapped.
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|[[Rekha Shah]]
|1986–89
|Episode 094: Garbage
|Episode 122: Pollution
|style="text-align:left;"|Shah went on to star in another successful Nickelodeon show ''[[Fifteen (TV series)|Fifteen]]''. Was only green slimed once because she hated it so much.
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|Sariya Sharp
|1989–90
|Episode 122: Fantasy
|Episode 143: Inventions
|style="text-align:left;"|Sariya's trademark became complaining about her "totally Neanderthal mother" who never let her have her ears pierced, and her nice hair frequently getting ruined by green slime.
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|Marjorie Silcoff
|1984–85
|Episode 056: History
|Episode 084: Revenge
|style="text-align:left;"|Silcoff was watered in three episodes plus Project 131, but never slimed. She returned for Project 131 along with Vanessa Lindores and Brodie Osome.
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|Kevin Somers
|1979–81
|Episode 001: Live!
|Episode 019: Safety First
|style="text-align:left;"|Somers was also a cast member on ''Whatever Turns You On''. Like Gebert, he appeared chiefly in execution and dungeon skits by 1981 due to his height and age, although he did also participate in ''Something Else''.
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|Amy Stanley
|1989–90
|Episode 133: Celebrations
|Episode 141: Learning
|style="text-align:left;"|Amy, the younger sister of Jill Stanley, was the only cast member not yet born when the series premiered in February 1979.
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|Jill Stanley
|1989–90
|Episode 115: Chores
|Episode 141: Learning
|style="text-align:left;"|Jill had previously starred in the movie ''[[Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller]]'' as "Nancy." She had a problem with remembering her lines, which became a running gag on ''YCDTOTV''. Was offered the hosting gig but turned it down.
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|[[Christian Tessier]]
|1989–90
|Episode 116: Communication
|Episode 143: Inventions
|style="text-align:left;"|Tessier is an actor and singer, whose first appearance on television was this program.
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|Sarah West
|1979
|Episode 007: The famous green slime show (St. Patrick's Day)
|Episode 009: Executive Washrooms
|style="text-align:left;"|Was the first female cast member to be slimed in the dungeon.<!-- <ref>{{Cite web |title=Where Are They Now? Interview With Sarah West |url=--><!-- blacklisted http://ycdtotv.com/cast/interviews.php?p=west blacklisted --><!-- |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101204143406/http://ycdtotv.com/cast/interviews.php?p=west |archive-date=December 4, 2010 |website=You Can't Do That on Television |department=The Slime Society}}</ref> -->
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|[[Teddy Wilson (television personality)|Teddy Wilson]]
|1989–90
|Episode 114: Choices
|Episode 143: Inventions
|style="text-align:left;"|Billed here as Ted Wilson, he later shared hosting duties on ''[[Never Ever Do This At Home]]'' and ''[[Innerspace (TV series)|Innerspace]]''.
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|Bradfield Wiltse
|1979
|Episode 007: The famous green slime show (St. Patrick's Day)
|Episode 007: The famous green slime show (St. Patrick's Day)
|style="text-align:left;"|Only appeared in one episode.
|}