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

==== Peak years ====
In 1981, the new American youth-oriented cable network [[Nickelodeon]] took an interest in ''YCDTOTV''. Nickelodeon originally aired several episodes in the edited half-hour syndicated format as a test run. The response was positive, and in January 1982, Nickelodeon began airing the entire edited season. By 1983, ''YCDTOTV'' was the network's highest-rated show.

Production on new episodes of ''YCDTOTV'' resumed full-time in 1982 in the half-hour all-comedy format, with Nickelodeon and CJOH as production partners. Over the next few years, the series was screened nationally in Canada. [[CTV Television Network|CTV]], the network CJOH-TV was affiliated with, broadcast the show on Saturday mornings between 1982 and 1990, with little publicity. However, ''YCDTOTV'' continued to expand its audience in the United States on Nickelodeon, where it initially aired five times a week and eventually every day. The series gained broader exposure in its native Canada in 1988 when it was added by the newly established youth-oriented [[YTV (Canada)|YTV]] cable channel. It was heavily promoted and aired daily during peak viewing hours.

Viewers in the United States were given the opportunity to enter the Slime-In, a contest hosted by Nickelodeon that flew the winner to the set of ''You Can't Do That on Television'' to be slimed. The contest was later replicated by Canada's YTV as the Slime Light Sweepstakes.

In 1983 at [[WGBH-TV]] in [[Boston|Boston, Massachusetts]], Roger Price created a version of ''YCDTOTV'' for American public television network [[PBS]] titled [[Don't Look Now (1983 TV series)|''Don't Look Now'']] (originally to be titled ''Don't Tell Your Mother!''). The show was similar to episodes from the 1979 season of ''YCDTOTV'', including music videos and several earlier ''YCDTOTV'' sketches and motifs (including a variation on the show's trademark green slime gag called "Yellow Yuck"). Despite high ratings, the series ended after its five-episode trial run in October 1983, possibly because of complaints from parents about its content. Nickelodeon was also concerned that if ''Don't Look Now'' was successful, it could mean the end of ''YCDTOTV''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=You Can't Do that On Television |url=http://members.shaw.ca/wtyo/ycdtotv.html |access-date=2016-04-20 |website=members.shaw.ca}}</ref> The series was believed lost until all five episodes surfaced in early 2013. They have been posted on [[YouTube]], excluding the copyrighted music videos.

Price created another show for Nickelodeon in 1985, the less successful ''[[Turkey Television]]''. It featured several main cast members of ''YCDTOTV'' including Les Lye, Christine McGlade, Kevin Kubusheskie and Adam Reid. By this time, McGlade, now in her twenties and eager to move on with her life, had moved to Toronto and was flying back to Ottawa for ''YCDTOTV'' taping sessions. ''Turkey Television'' also marked McGlade's debut as a producer, a career that she continued after leaving ''YCDTOTV'' in 1986. Another Price production using ''YCDTOTV'' cast members, ''UFO Kidnapped'', was made in 1983. Although the pilot aired on Nickelodeon, the series was not picked up.