I know I participated in that discussion and he dint read my comment. I listed Murdoch Mysteris and Heartland. I had no idea if they are known outside of Canada though.
My older sister and I were literally just talking about that like 3 days ago lol, I would get soooo upset at the end of each episode and it would drive my sister crazy
I'm surprised no one else has mentioned Anne of Green Gables and the various sequels, e.g. Road to Avonlea. I was never a fan, but it was very popular here.
I love Anne of Green Gables, all versions. Megan Follows was in an episode of the Littest Hobo when she was younger, I think it was a 2 part episode if I remember right.
I am stunned that nobody mentioned The Beachcombers! Truly a Canadian classic, and I got to watch it being filmed a few times since I spent my summers near Gibsons
David may have retired, but the Nature of Things is still going strong. I certainly love the show and have watched it for thirty years. David Suzuki is a brilliant and lovely person. A true friend to the planet.
My husband was in the first episode of "Littlest Hobo". He was the boy that helped get the rope to the shore. His dad was the tractor driver, and his siblings and cousins were in the bus. Done in Burleigh Falls , Ontario.
I always felt mad at the careless people on the show that did something to cause a bigger problem and then Hobo had to come to town and save the day doing some 'daring doggy do'. Then the last few minutes is everyone asking Hobo "why don't you stay with us" and Hobo looks down the road with this deep introspective pause like "I would like to, but some idiot two towns over is going to flick a cigarette into a pile of leaves and start a wild fire... I need to go save a baby and alert the fire chief"
ReBoot: The first fully computer animated TV series. The main characters are sprites living in a computer system named Mainframe who mend tears, fend off enemies such as viruses, code masters, and software pirates, and compete against the user in games.
@@wingzero7316 - Me too. It was about the toy manufacturer pulling out. They did make toys based on the characters near the end - but, in the beginning, they were selling toys of the worlds - which no one wanted.
A Canadian show I loved here in the UK was The Raccoons. I especially loved the ending theme song for it. Was it shown/popular in America. Theme tunes were so much better back then. Especially for cartoons.
I don't think it was popular in the US, as my American spouse had never heard of it. I, however, have made my kids watch an episode. Man, has animation stiles changed!
Canada’s Worst Driver is a hoot. Friends nominate their terrible driving friends as worst driver and most are really bad. The chosen drivers then compete in driving school each week where theoretically, one is picked to graduate. They agree to hand in their driver’s license at the beginning and in a few cases don’t improve enough to get them back. It’s a great binge watching show and very funny. Oh and real. These drivers really are bad.
The repeated "Look where you want to go" saved me from an accident last year. Getting to a red light, I slipped on a patch of black ice and knew I would not stop in time without bumping into the car in front of me. I heard "Look where you want to go" in my head and turned my wheel toward the next lane where there was no car and missed the corner of the car in front of me by 3-4 inches at most.
There's actually several versions of "....Worst Driver" (America's, Britain's, etc). Canada is unique in that it actually has the aim of trying to improve the drivers' skills. The rest of them just make fun of the terrible drivers.
I'm Scottish and grew up watching The Littlest Hobo but I never knew it was Canadian. I loved it so much. Pure heartstrings pull. Degrassi was popular too.
That show looking back ...He wasn't so friendly ....Dammit he had a chicken In a bag Nailed to the wall...Now look up! Waaaay Up ...I'll go around back And drop down the draw bridge....Dude had a molt ..!!
You Can't Do That on Television, produced here in Ottawa by CJOH-TV, now CTV Ottawa. They also produced the Galloping Gourmet show with Graham Kerr and The Amazing Kreskin. YCDTOT had amazing local talent.
How about Fred Penner's Place, my family claim that even before I learned to read the time I would always run back into the house just in time to watch the show.
COME. ON! Where is The Beachcombers!???! As a kid growing up, it was ALL about Sunday night TV. Disney at 6pm, followed by Nick, Jesse, and always conniving, yet 100% hilarious Relic! ❤
Due South is my all-time favorite Canadian TV Show. It was funny and touching at the same time. What is funny about the production of the show is that it is about a Canadian going to the US but the production was actually in Toronto so a lot of of Americans ended up working in Toronto.
Little Mosque on the Prairie, Polka Dot Door, Today's Special, Rick Mercer's report, This Hour has 22 minutes, Royal Canadian Air Farce, just for laughs festival, Street Cents, Marketplace, The Elephant Show, Danger Bay, Fred Penner's Place, The Friendly Giant, and Babar should also be on this list. Not sure if Americans know this one or if it's really Canadian but the entire season of Lost was filmed in Canada. EDIT: Forgot The Green Forest and the Racoons.
Always thought Polka Dot Door was from the US. LOVED The Friendly Giant. What a lovely gentle show that was. Babar was very good. His list is very small. I could give him about 50 Canadian series at least. I'm an old fogey and have seen quite a few lol....... 🧓
My little cousins watched Marie Soleil all the time too. Pretty sure iirc The Elephant Show is with Sharon Lois and Bram, right? its been LONG time., oh man while I was typing this The Littlest Hobo song was playing bc Tyler was watching that part and it all came back to me =) love that theme song.
SCTV, Night Heat, King of Kensington, Fraggle Rock, Da Vinci's Inquest, Flashpoint, Rookie Blues, Travellers, Frontier, Orphan Black and Degrassi. There are many more filmed here but these actually said they were in Canada, except Night Heat which referred to the city as the Metro. They has to "dirty up" the streets to make it look more American.
Ooh, Flashpoint was really good. I remember the incident that inspired that show as I lived in Toronto at the time. Some guy was holding someone hostage on the street at gunpoint. The team was called and he was neutralized. The thing is - the camera operator wasn't aware that was happening, so if you saw it live, you saw it live.
Fraggle Rock was a co-production with Canada and the UK according to Wiki. There probably was Canadian talent on the show as there often is on American series. William Shatner and James Doohan on Star Trek for one, Conrad Bain, the wealthy man on Different Strokes who adopts brothers Arnold (Gary Coleman) and Willis and of course Keifer Sutherland on 24.
French Canada is surely very distinct regarding TV shows. We’ve got 4 general channels and a few dozens of specialized channel all in French. On new years eve, we've got a special show called "Bye bye" which make a satirist review of the year that is ending. It's been broadcasted for over 50 years and it is extremely popular in Québec. It is the equivalent of the big ball falling at time square...some kind of a tradition for us.
As an anglo in Quebec I find that all 4 channels are the same, and Bye Bye only makes sense to francophones. English humour is completely different to french humour, so I don't "get" it. To be fair, my francophone boyfriend doesn't get english humour, either.😄 It's a cultural thing.
And Todays Special came on right after that. What was the cartoon of the forest animals, I forget, sadly =( its been like 40 years. The one with the loud mouth bluejay and the squirrels..?
@dreaa29 could very well have been raccoons. Like I said, I forgot the name of the show :( iirc it was on channel 2 TVO. Or BodyBreak with Hal Johnson and Joanne McCloud... I couldn't remember the name of the segment, but man, it came up fast when I put in their names, which I did remember.
I would have liked to see Reboot on that list, personal Canadian fav of a 12-14 year old me. Happy the list started off with The Littlest Hobo. Fun fact: The character Hobo is played by London with about 10 other dogs, 5 or 6 in each episode, that were trained to do different tricks(basicly London had a pack of stunt doubles). Hobo saved the day by doing things like saving babies; finding lost hikers; calling the fire department; bringing evidence to the police to help clear innocent people; not only bringing adults to the well, but first bringing a blanket or food to help little Timmy survive down there. Hobo was hope on four paws!
Reboot was partnered up with Nickleodeon, so American's definitely know what it is. Funny thing is, Nickleodeon ended the partnership, and so the studio didn't have to contend with U.S. television rules, and that was when the show took a massive leap forward in quality and became less silly episodic and started to have branching story archs and real tension.
Trailer park boys, one of my favorites. Littlest hobo was on when I was a kid. Great show. Other sketch comedy show that was popular was SCTV. guys like Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas, John Candy, Martin Short.
There are a couple of Canadian shows that you didn't mention, the first one is Forever Knight, this show is very serious, it revolves around a person named Nick Knight, who is a cop and is also a vampire, which at times, he uses his vampiric abilities, to help people. The premise of Friday the 13th: The Series is a fantasy horror television series that ran for three seasons, from October 3, 1987, to May 26, 1990, in first-run syndication. The series follows Micki and Ryan, cousins who inherit an antiques store; after selling all the antiques, they learn from Jack Marshak that the items are cursed. The trio then works together to recover the objects and return them to the safety of the shop's vault.
Kim's Convenience is hilarious. Please give it a shot. It is a family owned store and the show awesome comedy writers. The Littlest Hobo was a childhood favorite. That was not a tattoo it was the last lines of the theme song you would have heard if you played the clip a few seconds longer. I think that person was just finishing the lyrics because you can't, not finish the song. It is a core memory for me and probably many others.
@2:50 "For some reason I want this dog [Hobo] to be like a crime solving detective dog...." In that case, you should watch a Canadian TV show called "Hudson & Rex", a police procedural show about a detective and his amazing K9 wonderdog going around solving crimes. It's filmed in Newfoundland and Labrador, and stars Diesel vom Brugimwald as the dog.
1 Littlest Hobo 2 Beach Combers 3 King of Kensington 4 Rocket Robin Hood 5 Edison twins 6 De Grassi St 7 Corner Gas 8 Kids in the hall 9 4 on the floor 10 Red Green
@@randytessman6750 Actually, it was The Hilarious House of Frightenstein. I loved Vincent Price introducing the different scenes, and the Professor (the only part of the show that talked about normal stuff in an educational way).
When I first moved to Canada, I was addicted to North of 60. Really outstanding show. How can Republic of Doyle not be on this list? Fantastic comedy drama with that signature Newfoundland Maritime humour.
I like North of 60° but it was pretty depressing at times. Not a whole lot of upbeat on that series. I mostly watched it for Peter and Michelle and some of the other actors. Blackstone was so violent I never made it past the first episode.
These never seem to make the list. Hilarious House of Frightenstein, U8TV, The Catwalk with Neve Campbell, Beachcombers, Polka Dot Door, You Can't Do That On Television with Alanis Morrisette, My Secret Identity with Jerry O'Connell. There are so many more. Great Canadian content over many generations.
Hilarious House of Frightenstein was produced in Hamilton, Ontario. Vincent Price recorded all the poetry and bits in one day. The bulk of the characters were done by comic actor Billy Van. But the Prof was Dr. Sumner a physicist from Australia 🇦🇺 I believe. Loved him.
Fun facts: Fred Rogers and Ernie Coombs (Mr. Dressup) both got their start with Children's TV in Canada. Fred had a show called MisterRogers was aired for 2 years in the 50s, before he returned home to Pittsburgh and created Mister Roger's Neighborhood. Several sets were brought back with him. Ernie stayed and Mr. Dressup was actually a spin off from the children's show "Butternut Square". Canada had several sketch comedy troupes over the years beyond Kids in the Hall. One of the earliest sketch comedy duos ever in TV was Wayne and Shuster, which were radio turned TV celebrities from 1940s-1980s. There was also "Royal Canadian Air Farce" and "This Hour has 22 Minutes" which were really popular in the 90s-2000s.
As a Long Islander, New Yorker, and my last state is the final US state before Toronto, ON, CN and Montreal, QU, CN My favorite Canadian shows is Kids in the Hall!! I watch Kids in the Hall EVERYDAY!! I have a crush on Bruce McCulloch, David Foley, and Mark McKinney.
Ernie Coombs was an American who originally worked as a puppeteer for Fred Rogers. Bob Homme (Friendly Giant) was also an American but was already doing children's programming in Canada. It was he who suggested Ernie come to Canada to work in children's TV.
There was actually four german sheperds that they would use for the Littlest Hobo. When I was a young teen, I met one of the dogs, London, and got his picture and his autograph (paw). The world needs more shows like this.
The dog was not named Hobo it was a hobo. The chorus of the theme song " Maybe tomorrow I'll want to settle down, Until tomorrow I'll just keep moving on" The dog was always moving to another place never staying in the same place for more than 1 episode before moving on. Also Rude, you didn't think Canada could find a trained dog for a TV show even though the USA has Lassie.
He is a young guy. Shows starring live animals are not a thing in modern times. Doubt you would find anyone under 20 who knows who Lassie is. Or Flipper, Francis the talking mule, Skippy, Rin Tin Tin or even Mr. Ed. I could list more but.....
I don't know how big it was in USA, but i was a big fan of Highlander: the series. Which was a Canada/France production. The show's main character, Duncan MacLeod would live in Vancouver one season, then move to Paris next season, back and forth like that for the whole series. Admittedly, i enjoyed the episodes that were set in France a bit more, but only cause it was a bit more exotic.
"Maybe tomorrow i'll want to settle down, until tomorrow i'll just be moving on' that's part of the lyrics from the Littlest Hobo's theme song in the intro. "I didn't know Canada had a sketch comedy show" - SCTV was around in the 1970s, and starred some famous comedians like Rick Moranis, Martin Short, Dave Thomas, John Candy and Eugene Levy
First: Yes, we absolutely DO need a whole episode focused on The Littlest Hobo Second: ORPHAN BLACK!!!!! If you have never seen this show, but enjoy sci-fi thrillers, do yourself a favour and watch this show!! And Tatyana Maslany is phenomenal. She plays... uh... 8 different roles? It's really good.
Orphan Black was the best. The scene in the second episode when Sarah's hand get scraped up by the briefcase was real, Tatiana banged up her hand hitting the case. You can see her hand scratched up in the next Alison scene. Tatiana really threw herself into the show.
I had to stop the video for a second... when you started up the clip of the Littlest hobo, you need to know that every Canadian watching was singing along... passionately... and now the theme song is stuck in all of our heads for at least 24 hours.
We have a LOT of sketch comedy shows... This hour has 22 minutes Royal Canadian Air farce Red green SCTV There are plenty more... we have loads of comedians. We need to keep laughing so we don't freeze to death
...last add-on reply, I swear. (Don't hold me to that) English canadians feel mostly the same way as Americans about French... just had to throw that out there lol
@@jasongreek2342We definitely agree with you. Tired of Quebec being treated better than every other province. Trying not to turn this political so I will move on.
@@GillianMcGeorge-Cruikshank why are you tired? I understand it's hard to believe in lies for a whole life, why bother seeking any understanding when it's so easy to despise, the lazy way for the "tired people". By the way I also used to watch the little doggy show....In French!
One fairly modern one that seems to be forgotten...Little Mosque On The Prairie. I've watched it a few times and it's typical of many Canadian shows...a show with the premise of helping people with their struggles, but with comedy as an added bonus that helps lighten the situation.
The Friendly Giant was one I watched as a kid. Vikings was a great show. Smallville, Stargate SG-1, Heartland, Fringe...and more! There were many American shows that actually filmed in Canada.
Fringe actually only filmed the first two episodes in Toronto. Unfortunately it was during a very bitter winter where temps were -45 with windchill. They moved the series to New York for some sort of tax thing. The show Lucifer was filmed in Vancouver.
@@TerriPhillips-xs1oz The pilot episode of Gilmore Girls was filmed on Main Street Unionville, just north of Toronto. In the Mouth of Madness was also filmed on this street. So my head cannon is that they are both in the same universe
Student Bodies is a television sitcom that was produced in Montreal from 1997 to 1999. Though the show enjoyed much bigger success in Canada, the show was originally made for the American market under the distribution of 20th Television and aired on many Fox affiliated stations during the 1997-1998 and 1998-1999 seasons,[2][3] as well as a brief return during the winter of 2000.[4][5][6] The show aired in Canada on Global and YTV. It has been called "an imitation of Saved by the Bell" by critics,[citation needed] and featured an ensemble cast of high school students at Thomas A. Edison High School. As of 2018, the show aired in reruns on ABC Spark.
The show revolves around the lives of six high school students who are part of the school newspaper, Thomas A. Edison High School 2. The series is a mix of live-action and animation.
I think as a Canadian of a certain age,it is required to know at least some of the tune and lyrics to The Littlest Hobo. Seriously, we all do... SCTV is the best sketch show. Check it out. You will see a lot of familiar faces. You should do a whole show on The Littest Hobo. The Beachcombers is one of the earliest big time Canadian shows. This Hour Has 22 Minutes,comedy sketch show Royal Canadian Air Farce, comedy sketch show, Degrassi( the original, not the second one with Drake( Aubrey Graham) North of 60, ongoing drama of native Dene people, one of my favourites.
Tyler….SNL’s producer, Lorne Michaels is Canadian, and loads of Canadian comedians, have come from sketch comedy backgrounds eg John Candy, Eugene Levy, Martin Short,Rick Moranis, Catherine O’Hara, Joe Flaherty, Dave Thomas, Da Ackroyd etc. etc.
Still Standing is a good show. I've been to a few of the towns featured on it. My aunt and uncle lived in one of the towns when I was a kid and I would visit them there in the summers. I watched the show with my grandmother before she died and she really enjoyed it. Lytton BC was featured in the first season, 2015, Lytton was mostly destroyed in a wildfire in 2021. It was a nice town to visit, hopefully it will be again. Harrison Hot Springs is a nice lakeside resort community that was on the show in 2019. I remember going there to watch some sand castle building contests when I was a kid. They stopped those contests in 2009 though.
Murdoch Mysteries (I believe it is known in the US as "The Artful Detective") never gets any mentions on lists of Canadian TV shows. But I think is one of the better ones. It is basically if CSI went back in time to late 1890's Toronto and met with all the well known people of that time Edison, Tesla, Ford etc.
I recommend watching Are You Afraid Of The Dark. It's the kids version of The Twilight Zone,but with a group of kids called the Midnight Society who tell each other scary stories,plus it's Canadian.
Student Bodies was a teen comedy set in school and it ran for two or three seasons you were looking at a movie on IMDB, because it had just one year next to the name student bodies would have 1997 to 1999
One of the more recent Canadian TV shows (it's actually run 17 seasons) is "Heartland. Filmed in Alberta it is a great show for family viewing. Beautiful scenery, excellent acting and lots of drama about a family living and raising a family on the prairies. I believe it is produced by CBC and I'd say the production would stand up against any show internationally.
Kids In The Hall started as a stand-up skit act, two of them, Bruce & Mark were hired by Lorne Michaels to write for SNL but a lot of their skits weren't able to be shown on US television so Lorne decided to have Bruce and Mark get their old troupe back together and do a Canadian skit show with all the edgier skits they couldn't use for SNL like Dave Foley's talk about menstruation. Canadian television allows certain words and situations that US television doesn't, like dropping an F Bomb (first time was on Degrassi High in the 1980s, a show for teens) or show nudity like the show Lexx, all the nude scenes are edited out of the US version. All Hollywood movies with nudity and swearing are shown in full here too, no edits after 8pm. Other types of edits like Bruce Willis carrying the "I HATE NI**ERS" sign in Die Hard 3 is shown instead of the "I HATE EVERYONE" edit in the US, all kinds of little things like that.
Also want to add that when Mark and Bruce were writing for SNL they created a character that gave LGBTQ relationship advice and talked about homophobia which was adamantly refused by NBC because he was flamboyantly gay and promoted drugs & alcohol. Scott Thomson's Buddy Cole is one of the most popular characters on KITH, the only difference is that Buddy Cole doesn't smoke weed which was still illegal in the 90s, even in Canada the subject was touchy, had to be cigarettes for television.
I love how, out of a sort of rebellion, they put stuff in their final episode that otherwise wouldn't be allowed. One that isn't even on UA-cam (at least last time I checked) was the skit "Hitler F%%king a Donkey" -- that one made jaws drop. And it was hilarious! They also finally gave the Chicken Lady origin story, which, shall we say, had a lot to do with the farmer himself, and a particularly amorous chicken that exploded during the act (hence Chicken Lady's quirk of exploding every time she got horny). There was nothing "safe for work" in that episode!
HILARIOUS HOUSE OF FRIGHTENSTEIN This show is absolutely insane. With the wolfman DJ who would dance in front of a psychedelic pattern. That image is a permanent image locked in my brain
There was more than 1 dog that portrayed "Hobo".. as with most "star" animals, it often require more than 1 to perform the differant tasks required to put it all together. They also toured to different towns throughout Canada with the main dogs involved and their trainer/handler. I got to go once when they came to our little local mall and I was thrilled! ❤ Also, I would have added "This Hour Has 22 Minutes".. very very funny, very Canadian, and the first show we got to see Rick Mercer.
@@BabyT709 YES! I got that autographed photo as well! I grew up in Oakville.. they came out to an open air plaza.. London and the puips.. they were beautiful! 😄
"Student Bodies", they are mentioning, is a teen highly comedic juvenile drama, that focuses on a group of kids/friends/enemies/frenemies that work on their school paper, the main character being the comic style illustrator. It deals in a comedic way the trials & tribulations of teenage struggles. Dealing with bullying, romance, marriage/family planning via home economics lesson, a game show to the battle between the sexes, a rich spoiled snob that falls into poverty etc. I remember watching it when i was in elementary school, when i was babysat, as my second cousin (sis & I was babysat at the time by our great aunt) would have it on during breakfast before heading to school. There is some tough situations, that I think could have been handled better in it, but for the 90's in which is when i watched it, was for the time neutral in its handling. It was definitely no Degrassi, similar to 'saved by the bell' but with less structured but move flamboyant acting.... it was good but it definitely wasn't great. Although I am seriously behind in the series, due to personal reasons that hindered it for me. My favourite Canadian program, is without a doubt the long running Canadian western drama "Heartland', which is about a teen girl whom inherited her late mother's ability to understand & figuratively speak to equine (horses), while having some social skills with people, she does have some problems, but is highly devoted her well known profession of 'horse whispering". It is based off a series of books by the same name. Set in an Alberta rural small town & farming life. Unlike her, her sister is very different being a Type A personality, with a university degree & CEO level business skills, whom has to move back after the mother's death, from a municipality leaving her big city life behind..... ends up marrying an oil corporate owner. They live with their grandfather, whom had a history of cattle rancher on their ranch that had been passed through the family line foe generations. The girl's father becomes, hesitantly at first, whom had abandoned them as children due to an pain medication & I believe alcohol addiction due to a bulldogging accident, which prior to the abandonment, led to divorce. They at the beginning employ the daughter to the country singer 'brad paisley', as a ranch hand for several seasons. Taking in their second (the first become a vet, prior to the first episode) juvey recipient program thingy, in which the main character ends up married to several years later, in which ironically considering he was very much a city boy from the start with a total delinquent attitude, a vet as well working under his predecessor. Often competing against their much larger & richer neighbour's luxurious ranch. It is a very humble, but deep drama, that is rarely seen in Canadian television.
I was in Gibson's few weeks ago, the building is still there Molly's Reach cafe' is still standing, would be nice if they restored the place, and brought back a new version of the Beach Comers, pretty hard to replace Bruno Gerussi and the cast, they did a marvelous job of the show!
"Are You Afraid of the Dark?" was a TV show centered around kids' horror. The plot involved teens sharing scary stories around a campfire. As a young adult, I was addicted to watching this show.
Tatiana Maslany star of Orphan Black is from Regina Saskatchewan. Corner Gas filmed just south of Regina. Gerry Dee star of Mr D is now the host of Family Feud Canada.
"The Odyssey" is a critically acclaimed Canadian television series that follows the story of a young boy who falls into a coma after a lightning strike. The boy's subconsciousness transports him to a parallel world where he finds himself surrounded by children of his own age. The show is known for its imaginative and creative storytelling, and it has won several awards for its unique concept and execution. Ryan Reynolds, the Hollywood superstar, played the role of a character named Macro in "The Odyssey". Although he was still early in his career at the time of the show's production, Reynolds delivered an impressive performance that helped to establish him as a rising star in the industry. The show also featured several other talented actors and actresses, making it a must-watch for fans of science fiction and fantasy television.
This hour has 22 minutes, Red Green show, Royal Canadian Air Farce, Letterkenny, Corner Gas The Raccoons was a Canadian cartoon that was good. -There was also some tv show with a camp, and they sang a lot and there were kids.- Camp Cariboo! thank you google Video and Arcade top 10!!! how could i forget that one!
Anyone remember The Beachcombers? It ran for 18 years yet nobody seems to remember it. My grandpa watched it every week, even took a road trip to Gibson's BC to eat at the diner Molly's Reach, which turned out to be a hardware store in reality, the inside of the diner was a set. Hahaha!! No soup for him.
@@d_s_spence My grandparents took care of me when my dad was having legal issues that included some prison time in the late 70s-early 80s, so for roughly 4 years I watched Beachcombers almost every week. They rarely watched anything from the US except those nighttime soaps like Dallas and Fantasy Island, my granny loved Tattoo, and my gramps liked MASH and Twilight Zone, mostly they watched British shows like Monty Python, Coronation Street, Dr. Who, Benny Hill etc. Beachcombers was a Sunday ritual as much as HNiC was a Saturday ritual and The Littlest Hobo was a Thursday ritual with my grandparents. I didn't watch a lot of tv as a kid outside Saturday morning cartoons and classic horror movies so my tv experiences are whatever the adults were watching, even their theme songs still play in my head.
Still Standing is awesome. Been on a long time. Funny and heartwarming and shows how awesome Canadians are ❤ Jonny Harris is also a co-star on Murdoch Mysteries
Jonny Harris is hilarious. I first saw him on Murdoch Mysteries and thought to myself "this guy should do stand-up". Then I Googled him and found out he already does - and he's fanstastic.
Road to Avonlea (PEI, 1900s). Unité 9 (Québec female prison). Les Bougon (iconic Québec family on welfare). North of 60 (Indigenous town life up North). Due South (Mountie). This hour has 22 minutes (comedy). Anne with an E (modern rendition of Anne of Green Gables). Mégantic (about the train derailment tragedy in 2013). La nuit où Laurier Gaudreault s'est réveillé (drama by Xavier Dolan). La P'tite Vie (a Québec classic).
Schitt's Creek is not "unknown" in the US. It won best comedy, best actor best actress, best supporting actor and best supporting actress at the Emmys last year.
18:00 This is definitely a cult classic and *way* more popular in Qc than anything else that's been covered in this video while english canadians probably don't know about it any more than Tyler does, hence the wikipedia page being in french only. Our humour also doesn't translate well to english. This is a good example of the fundamental differences in our cultures in my opinion. Here's just a couple more... - La Petite Vie -Le coeur a ses raisons -Km/h -Radio-Enfer -Watatatow -Omertà -Les filles de Caleb -Découverte -La semaine verte -Caméra café (Qc) -Bob Gratton : Ma vie, My Life -Les beaux malaises -Les Bougon -Les Boys (not to be confounded with "The Boys", that superhero parody). It's a hockey series based on movies of the same name. -Lance et Compte -Soirée Canadienne -Fais-moi peur // Are You Afraid of the Dark? and some old kids' shows : -Fanfreluche -Sol et Goblet -Bobino -Le pirate maboule -La souris verte -Cornemuse -Passe-Partout -Iniminimagimo -Sur la rue Tabaga -Bibi et Geneviève I'm sure I forgot many 🤔
À cela j'ajouterais Infoman, le grand laboratoire. les belles histoires des pays d'en haut, Rue des pignons, les beaux dimanches, Les couche-tard, Tous pour un. Je me souviens d'un concurrent bien spécial qui avait lu la bible au complet au moins sept fois. Il était incollable , très impressionnant. On peu ajouter la soirée du hockey? Je ne suis pas fan mais la musique thème était la trame de mon enfance. Après le bain, le hockey avec mon père, ma mère et mes frères.
La Petite Vie, was the first Canadian TV show (of either English or French language) to ever gather more than 4 million viewers, a performance it achieved twice in 1995
I loved The Littlest Hobo. London was a fabulous actor. Kim's Convenience was really funny. Same with Schitt's Creek and The Beachcombers. North of 60 was great. I'm trying to think of other Canadian shows I liked over the years. The Wayne and Shuster Comedy Hour for sure. The Friendly Giant!
One of the biggest ones in the last 25 years is Trailer Park Boys. It's an acquired taste, with the drinking, occasional comedic gunplay and the drugs, but it's wildly popular both in Canada and elsewhere. They've done live theatre shows across the world. I grew up on The Beachcombers, largely because it was filmed in my home province of British Columbia. A sitcom I really enjoyed but wouldn't play well with some audiences was Little Mosque on the Prairie. That's worth checking out. It's about a young Imam (pastor) who arrives in a small prairie town (the prairies are basically Canada's answer to the southern US or the Bible Belt) and has to share a building with an Anglican priest and they become good friends. Of course, there's the Glenn Beck/Rush Limbaugh style radio talk show host who doesn't like that Muslims are moving into their appropriately named town of Mercy. It's really quite funny and as it was written by a Muslim woman, it's not afraid to be self-deprecating. There's a bit where the Imam is staying at a Muslim family's home whose daughter he has a will they or won't they kind of relationship and he catches her in the middle of the night without her hijab (headscarf) on. Hilarity ensues because they both act like he just saw her naked. Nobody is safe on that show. I used to love it. You can probably track the episodes down on UA-cam and they're definitely worth your time.
There is a current series with a dog who is a cops partner called Hudson and Rex, Tyler you should check it out it’s good! Another Canadian gem was Danger Bay!
About the french series suggestion, let me add something: out of those, Serie Noire, Les Invincibles and C'est comme ca que je t'aime are some the most awesome TV shows I've ever seen and I strongly, very strongly suggest anyone to watch them with subtitles. They are groundbreaking!!! Really. The writer, Francois Letourneau, is an actual genius.
Quebec's mini series were _very_ good. I watched "Les Filles du Caleb," "Marie Chapdelaine," and the only one Celine Dion starred in "Des Fleurs Sur La Neige" which (although the subject was very dark) she was fantastic! I also loved "La Baleine et la Grenouille." HUGE fan of Karine Vanasse and only wish I had more access to her films and series. Would also like to see Chloé Robichaud's "Pays (Boundaries)" but it's nowhere on DVD that I can find. 😟
Still Standing is AMAZING. Johnny came to Teeswater and Goderich. Two very local small towns that are only an hour away from me. Very cool to see it all on tv- and to see Johnny connect with our communities. An absolute MUST watch as well.
Did anyone mention "The Tommy Hunter Show"? It was on Saturday nights right after "Hockey Night in Canada". Also "Super Dave Osborne". Another show is "On the Road Again with Wayne Rostad".
Tyler, I don’t know if you read the comments but I want to thank you. From the comments, a huge portion of your viewers are Canadian, including myself. I feel like our country is more divided than ever but your videos remind us of all of the great things that are Canadian and we can share our experiences and similarities with each other in the comment section. For that, I thank you
"I didn't know Canadians had sketch comedy shows" Dude, check out SCTV, huge names in Canadian sketch comedy that you would almost certainly be familiar with
Flash Point. We still watch the reruns. The Mercer Report. My sin loved Jacob two-two childrens show. Traders. Watched Land and Sea with my father in-law. Street Legal a Canadian legal dtama. Border Town, The Listener was a great show. More childrens shows like Fred Penners place, Road to Avonlea, Emily of New Moon and many more.
There is also 19-2. It is a show, based at Montreal. It was at first made by french canadian actors, it as been adapted with english actors for english television.19-2 follows the professional and personal lives of patrol officers from the Montreal Police Service's Station 19, which covers an inner-city area of the city.
Four on the Floor Smith & Smith (The origin of Red Green) House of Frightenstein (Seriously one of the best TV Shows ever) The Friendly Giant Video Hits on CBC (was the go to place for music videos in the 80s) SCTV (Americans may have heard of it but I guarantee you 99.9999% of them are unaware it's Canadian)
Hilarious House Of Frightenstein freaked me out when i was a kid, with the wolfman DJ and he and Igor would dance in front of a green screen but it was all psychedelic and trippy. Then there was a witch who made potions and Dr Pet Vet and a gorilla who got pelted with ping pong balls and Vincent Price would tell scary stories Such a creative show. A canadian comedian Billy Van played most of the characters on the show
@@OntarioAtOrion Yeah the Wolfman stuff did absolutely nothing for me as I HATED the 60s/70s trippy psycadelic music and vibe they put out but for me the best part of the show (besides Billy Van and his array of characters) was Professor Julius Sumner Miller. He fostered an early love of science in me, and he never talked down to the audience like so many would have, he encouraged kids if they didn't understand words he was saying to ask their parents and teachers and explore it together, simply wonderful.
@kopitarrules the wolfman part scared me and left an imprint in my mind. I could never figure out where that image came from till I saw the show again later as an adult It was like, oh, that's horrific
I'm surprised no one mentioned Murdoch Mysteries. It's a current series set in Toronto in the early 1900s
Murdoch Mysteries is known worldwide
I know I participated in that discussion and he dint read my comment. I listed Murdoch Mysteris and Heartland. I had no idea if they are known outside of Canada though.
Perhaps its more known as Artful Detective in USA. They are currently in Season 17.:)
There’s also a kids version. It’s on the cbc gem under kids. Haven’t seen it, still behind on the adult show
@@SuperHonshu Seriously? The ARTFUL DETECTIVE?? oh that's awful
The littlest hobo used to make me cry at the end when the dog would walk away and i could never understand why he wouldn't stay with the families lol
I was going to say the exact same thing 😁👍
Me too. The music was sad which helped to get the tears going. That show reminded me a bit of Lassie.
My older sister and I were literally just talking about that like 3 days ago lol, I would get soooo upset at the end of each episode and it would drive my sister crazy
Omg same, favourite show.
Danger Bay was another one. My oldest son is called Jonah 😅😊
@@JudithBisson I loved Danger Bay!!!! I didn't know it was Canadian.
I'm surprised no one else has mentioned Anne of Green Gables and the various sequels, e.g. Road to Avonlea. I was never a fan, but it was very popular here.
The newest version is the best. The actress is amazing in the role. A perfect Anne.
I love Anne of Green Gables, all versions. Megan Follows was in an episode of the Littest Hobo when she was younger, I think it was a 2 part episode if I remember right.
@@bbee4523 I didn't know about her being in the Littlest Hobo.
@@noadlor Megan was quite young, maybe 7 or 8. I believe it was the first season. She was so cute.
oh no , Megan Fallows was the best as were the whole entire cast ) @@noadlor
I am stunned that nobody mentioned The Beachcombers! Truly a Canadian classic, and I got to watch it being filmed a few times since I spent my summers near Gibsons
That was the first show I thought of….and The Friendly Giant.
Canadian kids spent Sundays nights with the Beachcombers.
I came to add "Beachcombers" and "Friendly Giant", and what's the first thing I see in the comments? lol! Perfect!
All dads loved beachcombers 😊
@@blazingstar9638 My grandmother had such a crush on Bruno Gerussi.
I completely forgot about The Nature of Things with David Suzuki ... made him a household name in Canada.
Pity it went to his head, he now nothing more than an anti human climate alarmist!
For my age and location, there was also "John Acorn the Nature Nut"
also WOK with Yan
David may have retired, but the Nature of Things is still going strong. I certainly love the show and have watched it for thirty years. David Suzuki is a brilliant and lovely person. A true friend to the planet.
@@3ggh3adhad totally forgotten that show! Mom watched all the time.
Although it was reasonably known in the US, SCTV is one of the greatest shows ever-look at the careers of its cast.
Definitely.
Bet they don't know its Canadian😂
My husband was in the first episode of "Littlest Hobo". He was the boy that helped get the rope to the shore. His dad was the tractor driver, and his siblings and cousins were in the bus. Done in Burleigh Falls , Ontario.
Wow that’s awesome. I remember that show when I was a kid
Nice❤❤❤ something to remember for sure
Cool!
We can see the words. No need to censor yourself lol.
"Just for laughs gags" is a hidden camera prank show that is actually wholesome and pretty funny.
It started in Montreal for the Just for Laughs festival 😂
Really? I find it painfully unfunny...
@@dman5179me too. Just pure cringe
@@dman5179 They've done a handful of actually funny pranks, but most are just very bland and obvious, and yea....not funny.
Tyler should do a whole video on this show. It’s so funny.
Little Mosque on The Prairie was a good one too 😄
I love Little Mosque. I have been rewatching it on Prime.
+1 for this show. Post 9/11 it was SUCH a breath of fresh air on the Muslim community in Canada.
I interviewed Arlene Duncan from the show for The Toronto Star. She's a great gal.
Love❤
He absolutely was a crime solving dog, and every episode will make you cry ❤️
He was the Canadian version of Lassie, lol. I loved Hobo.
I always felt mad at the careless people on the show that did something to cause a bigger problem and then Hobo had to come to town and save the day doing some 'daring doggy do'. Then the last few minutes is everyone asking Hobo "why don't you stay with us" and Hobo looks down the road with this deep introspective pause like "I would like to, but some idiot two towns over is going to flick a cigarette into a pile of leaves and start a wild fire... I need to go save a baby and alert the fire chief"
@@Leapyean As much as i laughed at your description, it was pretty accurate. The show ended the same way every time.
I heard a comedian describe the littlest hobo as murder she wrote without the little old lady and a dog put in her place.
@@Leapyean "doggy derring-do" is perfect. 😆 And never, ever any doggy doo-doo.
ReBoot: The first fully computer animated TV series. The main characters are sprites living in a computer system named Mainframe who mend tears, fend off enemies such as viruses, code masters, and software pirates, and compete against the user in games.
Reboot aired in USA
@@wingzero7316still a effin’ good show tho
Tyler admitted to knowing about Reboot on a previous video. I don't think he knows about Shadow Raiders.
@@vaudreelavallee3757 i loved shadow raiders, wish they made more seasons
@@wingzero7316 - Me too. It was about the toy manufacturer pulling out. They did make toys based on the characters near the end - but, in the beginning, they were selling toys of the worlds - which no one wanted.
A Canadian show I loved here in the UK was The Raccoons. I especially loved the ending theme song for it. Was it shown/popular in America. Theme tunes were so much better back then. Especially for cartoons.
I have a raccoons puzzle that I was doing yesterday, it’s like 35 years old lol
I don't think it was popular in the US, as my American spouse had never heard of it. I, however, have made my kids watch an episode. Man, has animation stiles changed!
Fantastic show, I still listen to the theme song.
@@xnostalgiax me too. I actually found loads of different versions of the song on Spotify. I think there's a playlist of different versions.
"Run with us..." Still not going to get the Littlest Hobo theme out of my head though.
Bizarre... with John Byner and which introduced the magnificient SuperDave!!
Wayne and Shuster, 4 on the Floor. Comedy classics!! 😍
Super Dave - Oh my spleen! LOL
Canada’s Worst Driver is a hoot. Friends nominate their terrible driving friends as worst driver and most are really bad. The chosen drivers then compete in driving school each week where theoretically, one is picked to graduate. They agree to hand in their driver’s license at the beginning and in a few cases don’t improve enough to get them back. It’s a great binge watching show and very funny.
Oh and real. These drivers really are bad.
I like how the show escalated into "we can't fix this, we need a psychologist".
The repeated "Look where you want to go" saved me from an accident last year. Getting to a red light, I slipped on a patch of black ice and knew I would not stop in time without bumping into the car in front of me. I heard "Look where you want to go" in my head and turned my wheel toward the next lane where there was no car and missed the corner of the car in front of me by 3-4 inches at most.
I know someone who ended almost winning XD
@@isabelleblanchet3694 I picked up a lot of really useful driving tips from that show.
There's actually several versions of "....Worst Driver" (America's, Britain's, etc). Canada is unique in that it actually has the aim of trying to improve the drivers' skills. The rest of them just make fun of the terrible drivers.
I'm Scottish and grew up watching The Littlest Hobo but I never knew it was Canadian. I loved it so much. Pure heartstrings pull. Degrassi was popular too.
How was Degrassi not on this list!?
@@luclaplante1346I think because Degrassi is known in the US.
@@alleycat5061Degrassi is known cause of The Next Generation run of the show.
The Friendly Giant
Wow…. I grew with him…. B&w. Jerome the Giraffe and Rusty the rooster.
I really don't know how they missed this one. It was legend.
mr. dressup.
That show looking back ...He wasn't so friendly ....Dammit he had a chicken In a bag Nailed to the wall...Now look up! Waaaay Up ...I'll go around back And drop down the draw bridge....Dude had a molt ..!!
@@freakyflowI met the oboe player for one of the raccoons.
You Can't Do That on Television, produced here in Ottawa by CJOH-TV, now CTV Ottawa. They also produced the Galloping Gourmet show with Graham Kerr and The Amazing Kreskin. YCDTOT had amazing local talent.
Including Alanis Morissette.
They had you can't do that on television in the US too though. Aired into the mid 90s there
They had it on Nickelodeon and also why their logo still has slime in the background
I saw Teddy at fan expo years ago, he was on that show.
After a few years it became a Nickelodeon co production, so it’s known in the US quite well. It gave the channel its infamous green slime!
A really funny show I found was This Hour Has 22 Minutes
I was so surprised this was not in the list (also The Rick Mercer Report!)
Or Royal Canadian Air Farce
Mr. Dress-up and The Friendly Giant are childhood classics.
Okay and what about Chez Helen? You have to be a bit older to remember that one, but much beloved!
How about Fred Penner's Place, my family claim that even before I learned to read the time I would always run back into the house just in time to watch the show.
“There’s a voice that keeps on calling me..down the road that where I’ll always be” 🎶💃🏻🕺🏻
...until tomorrow I'll just keep moving on 😢
And that's going to be stuck in all our heads for the rest of the week.
No one from my generation doesn't know that song by heart.
Thank you. Now I'm going to have that song stuck in my head! 🙄 lol
That song gets me every time!
COME. ON! Where is The Beachcombers!???! As a kid growing up, it was ALL about Sunday night TV. Disney at 6pm, followed by Nick, Jesse, and always conniving, yet 100% hilarious Relic! ❤
He already covered The Beachcombers in another video.
Relic, the greatest anti hero on Canadian TV. And in real life a former WWII bomber pilot wounded in action
Yup, dinner in front of the TV on Sunday nights. Damn, I'm old. 😂
Did any other Canadians start to sing when the opening came on ....thanks Tyler wonderful childhood memories
What's hilarious is that he then read the lyrics and for confused even though he just heard them
Anyone over 40 did, for sure
If you mean for The Littlest Hobo...yes, yes I did, as I suspect everyone who watched it, did! Until tomorrow, the whole world is my home...
You should definitely check out 'Still Standing'. If it brings a tear to your eye, it'll be cuz you're laughing! Canadians face adversity with humour
Due South is my all-time favorite Canadian TV Show. It was funny and touching at the same time. What is funny about the production of the show is that it is about a Canadian going to the US but the production was actually in Toronto so a lot of of Americans ended up working in Toronto.
That was a fantastic show. I was trying to remember the name of it. What a handsome Mountie for sure.
I'm adding Danger Bay to the list! So good! And nothing beats The Littlest Hobo. Ohhh man, the memories!
Little Mosque on the Prairie, Polka Dot Door, Today's Special, Rick Mercer's report, This Hour has 22 minutes, Royal Canadian Air Farce, just for laughs festival, Street Cents, Marketplace, The Elephant Show, Danger Bay, Fred Penner's Place, The Friendly Giant, and Babar should also be on this list. Not sure if Americans know this one or if it's really Canadian but the entire season of Lost was filmed in Canada.
EDIT: Forgot The Green Forest and the Racoons.
Always thought Polka Dot Door was from the US. LOVED The Friendly Giant. What a lovely gentle show that was. Babar was very good. His list is very small. I could give him about 50 Canadian series at least. I'm an old fogey and have seen quite a few lol....... 🧓
My little cousins watched Marie Soleil all the time too. Pretty sure iirc The Elephant Show is with Sharon Lois and Bram, right? its been LONG time., oh man while I was typing this The Littlest Hobo song was playing bc Tyler was watching that part and it all came back to me =) love that theme song.
SCTV, Night Heat, King of Kensington, Fraggle Rock, Da Vinci's Inquest, Flashpoint, Rookie Blues, Travellers, Frontier, Orphan Black and Degrassi. There are many more filmed here but these actually said they were in Canada, except Night Heat which referred to the city as the Metro. They has to "dirty up" the streets to make it look more American.
Ooh, Flashpoint was really good. I remember the incident that inspired that show as I lived in Toronto at the time. Some guy was holding someone hostage on the street at gunpoint. The team was called and he was neutralized. The thing is - the camera operator wasn't aware that was happening, so if you saw it live, you saw it live.
I loved Da Vinci’s Inquest
Fraggle Rock was a co-production with Canada and the UK according to Wiki. There probably was Canadian talent on the show as there often is on American series. William Shatner and James Doohan on Star Trek for one, Conrad Bain, the wealthy man on Different Strokes who adopts brothers Arnold (Gary Coleman) and Willis and of course Keifer Sutherland on 24.
French Canada is surely very distinct regarding TV shows. We’ve got 4 general channels and a few dozens of specialized channel all in French. On new years eve, we've got a special show called "Bye bye" which make a satirist review of the year that is ending. It's been broadcasted for over 50 years and it is extremely popular in Québec. It is the equivalent of the big ball falling at time square...some kind of a tradition for us.
As an anglo in Quebec I find that all 4 channels are the same, and Bye Bye only makes sense to francophones. English humour is completely different to french humour, so I don't "get" it. To be fair, my francophone boyfriend doesn't get english humour, either.😄 It's a cultural thing.
We can talk about « Radio enfer » 🤣 so funny tv show
Polka dot door was one of my favourite shows as a kid
And Todays Special came on right after that. What was the cartoon of the forest animals, I forget, sadly =( its been like 40 years. The one with the loud mouth bluejay and the squirrels..?
@@reggitwend7405 you don’t mean the raccoons ??
@dreaa29 could very well have been raccoons. Like I said, I forgot the name of the show :( iirc it was on channel 2 TVO.
Or BodyBreak with Hal Johnson and Joanne McCloud... I couldn't remember the name of the segment, but man, it came up fast when I put in their names, which I did remember.
I would have liked to see Reboot on that list, personal Canadian fav of a 12-14 year old me.
Happy the list started off with The Littlest Hobo. Fun fact: The character Hobo is played by London with about 10 other dogs, 5 or 6 in each episode, that were trained to do different tricks(basicly London had a pack of stunt doubles). Hobo saved the day by doing things like saving babies; finding lost hikers; calling the fire department; bringing evidence to the police to help clear innocent people; not only bringing adults to the well, but first bringing a blanket or food to help little Timmy survive down there. Hobo was hope on four paws!
I was in my early 20s when it was on, but totally watched it.
Reboot was partnered up with Nickleodeon, so American's definitely know what it is. Funny thing is, Nickleodeon ended the partnership, and so the studio didn't have to contend with U.S. television rules, and that was when the show took a massive leap forward in quality and became less silly episodic and started to have branching story archs and real tension.
Trailer park boys, one of my favorites. Littlest hobo was on when I was a kid. Great show. Other sketch comedy show that was popular was SCTV. guys like Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas, John Candy, Martin Short.
Joe Flaherty (rip), Andrea Martin, Catherine O'Hara, all such comedic geniuses.
There are a couple of Canadian shows that you didn't mention, the first one is Forever Knight, this show is very serious, it revolves around a person named Nick Knight, who is a cop and is also a vampire, which at times, he uses his vampiric abilities, to help people.
The premise of Friday the 13th: The Series is a fantasy horror television series that ran for three seasons, from October 3, 1987, to May 26, 1990, in first-run syndication. The series follows Micki and Ryan, cousins who inherit an antiques store; after selling all the antiques, they learn from Jack Marshak that the items are cursed. The trio then works together to recover the objects and return them to the safety of the shop's vault.
Kim's Convenience is hilarious. Please give it a shot. It is a family owned store and the show awesome comedy
writers.
The Littlest Hobo was a childhood favorite. That was not a tattoo it was the last lines of the theme song you would have heard if you played the clip a few seconds longer. I think that person was just finishing the lyrics because you can't, not finish the song. It is a core memory for me and probably many others.
Did anyone ever see the Canadian Tire commercial, with the semi truck driving across Canada. Playing the Little Hobo Song. A classic
@2:50 "For some reason I want this dog [Hobo] to be like a crime solving detective dog...."
In that case, you should watch a Canadian TV show called "Hudson & Rex", a police procedural show about a detective and his amazing K9 wonderdog going around solving crimes. It's filmed in Newfoundland and Labrador, and stars Diesel vom Brugimwald as the dog.
1 Littlest Hobo
2 Beach Combers
3 King of Kensington
4 Rocket Robin Hood
5 Edison twins
6 De Grassi St
7 Corner Gas
8 Kids in the hall
9 4 on the floor
10 Red Green
you missed..... Hilarious House of Frankenstein
and little mosque on the prairie
@@randytessman6750 Actually, it was The Hilarious House of Frightenstein. I loved Vincent Price introducing the different scenes, and the Professor (the only part of the show that talked about normal stuff in an educational way).
except for Igor you mentioned every character that WASNT Billy Van ...lol@@Shan_Dalamani
@@randytessman6750 I didn't like Igor.
When I first moved to Canada, I was addicted to North of 60. Really outstanding show.
How can Republic of Doyle not be on this list? Fantastic comedy drama with that signature Newfoundland Maritime humour.
Definitely should be on the list. In the top ten!
I like North of 60° but it was pretty depressing at times. Not a whole lot of upbeat on that series. I mostly watched it for Peter and Michelle and some of the other actors.
Blackstone was so violent I never made it past the first episode.
Loved this show. Had a crush on Allan Hawco.
These never seem to make the list. Hilarious House of Frightenstein, U8TV, The Catwalk with Neve Campbell, Beachcombers, Polka Dot Door, You Can't Do That On Television with Alanis Morrisette, My Secret Identity with Jerry O'Connell. There are so many more. Great Canadian content over many generations.
And U8TV has Sports Center host Jennifer Hedger and BBCAN host Arisa Cox.
These were all great shows. Funny enough I never realized Frightenstien was a Canadian show but I was a child when it was on tv
I didn’t know Frightenstein was Canadian!! I love that show. Catwalk and you can’t do that on television were amazing!!
Hilarious House of Frightenstein was produced in Hamilton, Ontario. Vincent Price recorded all the poetry and bits in one day. The bulk of the characters were done by comic actor Billy Van. But the Prof was Dr. Sumner a physicist from Australia 🇦🇺 I believe. Loved him.
You'll never guess My Secret Identity! * sprays paint cans *
Fun facts:
Fred Rogers and Ernie Coombs (Mr. Dressup) both got their start with Children's TV in Canada. Fred had a show called MisterRogers was aired for 2 years in the 50s, before he returned home to Pittsburgh and created Mister Roger's Neighborhood. Several sets were brought back with him. Ernie stayed and Mr. Dressup was actually a spin off from the children's show "Butternut Square".
Canada had several sketch comedy troupes over the years beyond Kids in the Hall. One of the earliest sketch comedy duos ever in TV was Wayne and Shuster, which were radio turned TV celebrities from 1940s-1980s. There was also "Royal Canadian Air Farce" and "This Hour has 22 Minutes" which were really popular in the 90s-2000s.
As a Long Islander, New Yorker, and my last state is the final US state before Toronto, ON, CN and Montreal, QU, CN My favorite Canadian shows is Kids in the Hall!! I watch Kids in the Hall EVERYDAY!! I have a crush on Bruce McCulloch, David Foley, and Mark McKinney.
Fun fact
Mr.Dressup was an American and
Mr.Rogers as Canadian but they both had shows in their opposite Countries
Incorrect, they were both American but worked together on Canadian tv. Coombs eventually got Canadian citizenship though.
Didn't know. I found Mr. Rogers seemed like he was talking down to the children while Mr. Dress up seemed to treat children more intelligent.
Did not know that! Cool
Ernie Coombs was an American who originally worked as a puppeteer for Fred Rogers. Bob Homme (Friendly Giant) was also an American but was already doing children's programming in Canada. It was he who suggested Ernie come to Canada to work in children's TV.
Omg!... Littlest Hobo!.. I can still sing the song. It was popular when there was only 1 channel.... Pretty old show.
CBC baby 😂😂😂
There was actually four german sheperds that they would use for the Littlest Hobo. When I was a young teen, I met one of the dogs, London, and got his picture and his autograph (paw). The world needs more shows like this.
I did too , but i think it was 2 dogs for the 60s program and 2 dogs for the 79-80s show.
The dog was not named Hobo it was a hobo. The chorus of the theme song " Maybe tomorrow I'll want to settle down, Until tomorrow I'll just keep moving on" The dog was always moving to another place never staying in the same place for more than 1 episode before moving on. Also Rude, you didn't think Canada could find a trained dog for a TV show even though the USA has Lassie.
He is a young guy. Shows starring live animals are not a thing in modern times. Doubt you would find anyone under 20 who knows who Lassie is. Or Flipper, Francis the talking mule, Skippy, Rin Tin Tin or even Mr. Ed. I could list more but.....
He's probably too young to know Lassie.
4 dogs, London and 3 of her pups played the Littlest Hobo
Did they just try to correct a generation of Canadians? Bold.
@@fluttergirl75 what?? Your words are all mixed up.
I don't know how big it was in USA, but i was a big fan of Highlander: the series. Which was a Canada/France production. The show's main character, Duncan MacLeod would live in Vancouver one season, then move to Paris next season, back and forth like that for the whole series. Admittedly, i enjoyed the episodes that were set in France a bit more, but only cause it was a bit more exotic.
With Adrian Paul be still my heart
Loved the Highlander series had a big crush on the lead actor.
@@corinnemcleod1804100 percent agree
"Maybe tomorrow i'll want to settle down, until tomorrow i'll just be moving on' that's part of the lyrics from the Littlest Hobo's theme song in the intro.
"I didn't know Canada had a sketch comedy show" - SCTV was around in the 1970s, and starred some famous comedians like Rick Moranis, Martin Short, Dave Thomas, John Candy and Eugene Levy
First: Yes, we absolutely DO need a whole episode focused on The Littlest Hobo
Second: ORPHAN BLACK!!!!! If you have never seen this show, but enjoy sci-fi thrillers, do yourself a favour and watch this show!! And Tatyana Maslany is phenomenal. She plays... uh... 8 different roles? It's really good.
Orphan Black was the best. The scene in the second episode when Sarah's hand get scraped up by the briefcase was real, Tatiana banged up her hand hitting the case. You can see her hand scratched up in the next Alison scene. Tatiana really threw herself into the show.
I saw her at fan expo years ago.
Thoroughly enjoyed Corner Gas! Always appreciated the fact that there was no "canned laughter" in that series.
I had to stop the video for a second... when you started up the clip of the Littlest hobo, you need to know that every Canadian watching was singing along... passionately... and now the theme song is stuck in all of our heads for at least 24 hours.
We have a LOT of sketch comedy shows...
This hour has 22 minutes
Royal Canadian Air farce
Red green
SCTV
There are plenty more... we have loads of comedians. We need to keep laughing so we don't freeze to death
...CTV had success with corner gas, so the CBC copy-pasted and made Kim's convenience with our tax dollars.
...last add-on reply, I swear. (Don't hold me to that)
English canadians feel mostly the same way as Americans about French... just had to throw that out there lol
@@jasongreek2342We definitely agree with you. Tired of Quebec being treated better than every other province. Trying not to turn this political so I will move on.
@@GillianMcGeorge-Cruikshank why are you tired? I understand it's hard to believe in lies for a whole life, why bother seeking any understanding when it's so easy to despise, the lazy way for the "tired people".
By the way I also used to watch the little doggy show....In French!
"respectable Canadian dog" LOL Also the Beachcombers and Mr. Dress-Up (our version of Mr. Rogers) were terrific Canadian tv shows.
Not many people know that Mr. Dressup was American but grew up in Maine not far from the border.
One fairly modern one that seems to be forgotten...Little Mosque On The Prairie. I've watched it a few times and it's typical of many Canadian shows...a show with the premise of helping people with their struggles, but with comedy as an added bonus that helps lighten the situation.
The Friendly Giant was one I watched as a kid. Vikings was a great show. Smallville, Stargate SG-1, Heartland, Fringe...and more! There were many American shows that actually filmed in Canada.
Fringe actually only filmed the first two episodes in Toronto. Unfortunately it was during a very bitter winter where temps were -45 with windchill. They moved the series to New York for some sort of tax thing.
The show Lucifer was filmed in Vancouver.
@@TerriPhillips-xs1oz The pilot episode of Gilmore Girls was filmed on Main Street Unionville, just north of Toronto. In the Mouth of Madness was also filmed on this street. So my head cannon is that they are both in the same universe
Student Bodies is a television sitcom that was produced in Montreal from 1997 to 1999. Though the show enjoyed much bigger success in Canada, the show was originally made for the American market under the distribution of 20th Television and aired on many Fox affiliated stations during the 1997-1998 and 1998-1999 seasons,[2][3] as well as a brief return during the winter of 2000.[4][5][6] The show aired in Canada on Global and YTV. It has been called "an imitation of Saved by the Bell" by critics,[citation needed] and featured an ensemble cast of high school students at Thomas A. Edison High School. As of 2018, the show aired in reruns on ABC Spark.
The show revolves around the lives of six high school students who are part of the school newspaper, Thomas A. Edison High School 2. The series is a mix of live-action and animation.
Day in, day out, it’s what it’s all about
Hey, it's not real-llfe, it's high school.
I think as a Canadian of a certain age,it is required to know at least some of the tune and lyrics to The Littlest Hobo. Seriously, we all do...
SCTV is the best sketch show. Check it out. You will see a lot of familiar faces.
You should do a whole show on The Littest Hobo.
The Beachcombers is one of the earliest big time Canadian shows.
This Hour Has 22 Minutes,comedy sketch show Royal Canadian Air Farce, comedy sketch show,
Degrassi( the original, not the second one with Drake( Aubrey Graham)
North of 60, ongoing drama of native Dene people, one of my favourites.
You got all my favorites 😊
I also painted the sets for 22 Minutes and Air Farse. Every skit a different set.
60 years old and a Canadian ex-pat for over 20 years, and I still get teary eyed hearing the Littlest Hobo theme.
Tyler….SNL’s producer, Lorne Michaels is Canadian, and loads of Canadian comedians, have come from sketch comedy backgrounds eg John Candy, Eugene Levy, Martin Short,Rick Moranis, Catherine O’Hara, Joe Flaherty, Dave Thomas, Da Ackroyd etc. etc.
Still Standing is a good show. I've been to a few of the towns featured on it. My aunt and uncle lived in one of the towns when I was a kid and I would visit them there in the summers. I watched the show with my grandmother before she died and she really enjoyed it.
Lytton BC was featured in the first season, 2015, Lytton was mostly destroyed in a wildfire in 2021. It was a nice town to visit, hopefully it will be again.
Harrison Hot Springs is a nice lakeside resort community that was on the show in 2019. I remember going there to watch some sand castle building contests when I was a kid. They stopped those contests in 2009 though.
Still standing is one of the best newer shows in Canada. Hope he comes through our town one day.
I was at one of the shows in Oil Springs.
Murdoch Mysteries (I believe it is known in the US as "The Artful Detective") never gets any mentions on lists of Canadian TV shows. But I think is one of the better ones. It is basically if CSI went back in time to late 1890's Toronto and met with all the well known people of that time Edison, Tesla, Ford etc.
It started in the 1890's they have progressed into the 1900-1910 era as they have Teddy Roosevelt as the visiting American President.
I recommend watching Are You Afraid Of The Dark. It's the kids version of The Twilight Zone,but with a group of kids called the Midnight Society who tell each other scary stories,plus it's Canadian.
Student Bodies was a teen comedy set in school and it ran for two or three seasons you were looking at a movie on IMDB, because it had just one year next to the name student bodies would have 1997 to 1999
Oh man, I used to love Student Bodies when I was a kid
One of the more recent Canadian TV shows (it's actually run 17 seasons) is "Heartland. Filmed in Alberta it is a great show for family viewing. Beautiful scenery, excellent acting and lots of drama about a family living and raising a family on the prairies. I believe it is produced by CBC and I'd say the production would stand up against any show internationally.
Was great at first. When they also had Christmas specials and other special episodes. Then they kept cutting down the episodes. Lost interest.
Kids In The Hall started as a stand-up skit act, two of them, Bruce & Mark were hired by Lorne Michaels to write for SNL but a lot of their skits weren't able to be shown on US television so Lorne decided to have Bruce and Mark get their old troupe back together and do a Canadian skit show with all the edgier skits they couldn't use for SNL like Dave Foley's talk about menstruation. Canadian television allows certain words and situations that US television doesn't, like dropping an F Bomb (first time was on Degrassi High in the 1980s, a show for teens) or show nudity like the show Lexx, all the nude scenes are edited out of the US version. All Hollywood movies with nudity and swearing are shown in full here too, no edits after 8pm. Other types of edits like Bruce Willis carrying the "I HATE NI**ERS" sign in Die Hard 3 is shown instead of the "I HATE EVERYONE" edit in the US, all kinds of little things like that.
Also want to add that when Mark and Bruce were writing for SNL they created a character that gave LGBTQ relationship advice and talked about homophobia which was adamantly refused by NBC because he was flamboyantly gay and promoted drugs & alcohol. Scott Thomson's Buddy Cole is one of the most popular characters on KITH, the only difference is that Buddy Cole doesn't smoke weed which was still illegal in the 90s, even in Canada the subject was touchy, had to be cigarettes for television.
I love how, out of a sort of rebellion, they put stuff in their final episode that otherwise wouldn't be allowed. One that isn't even on UA-cam (at least last time I checked) was the skit "Hitler F%%king a Donkey" -- that one made jaws drop. And it was hilarious! They also finally gave the Chicken Lady origin story, which, shall we say, had a lot to do with the farmer himself, and a particularly amorous chicken that exploded during the act (hence Chicken Lady's quirk of exploding every time she got horny). There was nothing "safe for work" in that episode!
Simu Liu was on Kims Convenience. He played Shang-Chi and the legend of the 10 rings and ken in Barbie....(to name 2)
The Beachcombers
HILARIOUS HOUSE OF FRIGHTENSTEIN
This show is absolutely insane. With the wolfman DJ who would dance in front of a psychedelic pattern. That image is a permanent image locked in my brain
King of Kensington wasn't mentioned.
Friendly Giant.
The theme song from The Littlest Hobo hit the nostalgia part of my noggin!!
Wind at my back. It's one of my favorite shows. It's for old grannys, but i was a young boy and still loved it.
There was more than 1 dog that portrayed "Hobo".. as with most "star" animals, it often require more than 1 to perform the differant tasks required to put it all together. They also toured to different towns throughout Canada with the main dogs involved and their trainer/handler. I got to go once when they came to our little local mall and I was thrilled! ❤ Also, I would have added "This Hour Has 22 Minutes".. very very funny, very Canadian, and the first show we got to see Rick Mercer.
Dad met the owner with London and her 3 pups who also played the Littlest Hobo in Toronto, he got an autographed picture of them
@@BabyT709 YES! I got that autographed photo as well! I grew up in Oakville.. they came out to an open air plaza.. London and the puips.. they were beautiful! 😄
"Student Bodies", they are mentioning, is a teen highly comedic juvenile drama, that focuses on a group of kids/friends/enemies/frenemies that work on their school paper, the main character being the comic style illustrator. It deals in a comedic way the trials & tribulations of teenage struggles. Dealing with bullying, romance, marriage/family planning via home economics lesson, a game show to the battle between the sexes, a rich spoiled snob that falls into poverty etc. I remember watching it when i was in elementary school, when i was babysat, as my second cousin (sis & I was babysat at the time by our great aunt) would have it on during breakfast before heading to school. There is some tough situations, that I think could have been handled better in it, but for the 90's in which is when i watched it, was for the time neutral in its handling. It was definitely no Degrassi, similar to 'saved by the bell' but with less structured but move flamboyant acting.... it was good but it definitely wasn't great.
Although I am seriously behind in the series, due to personal reasons that hindered it for me. My favourite Canadian program, is without a doubt the long running Canadian western drama "Heartland', which is about a teen girl whom inherited her late mother's ability to understand & figuratively speak to equine (horses), while having some social skills with people, she does have some problems, but is highly devoted her well known profession of 'horse whispering". It is based off a series of books by the same name. Set in an Alberta rural small town & farming life. Unlike her, her sister is very different being a Type A personality, with a university degree & CEO level business skills, whom has to move back after the mother's death, from a municipality leaving her big city life behind..... ends up marrying an oil corporate owner. They live with their grandfather, whom had a history of cattle rancher on their ranch that had been passed through the family line foe generations. The girl's father becomes, hesitantly at first, whom had abandoned them as children due to an pain medication & I believe alcohol addiction due to a bulldogging accident, which prior to the abandonment, led to divorce. They at the beginning employ the daughter to the country singer 'brad paisley', as a ranch hand for several seasons. Taking in their second (the first become a vet, prior to the first episode) juvey recipient program thingy, in which the main character ends up married to several years later, in which ironically considering he was very much a city boy from the start with a total delinquent attitude, a vet as well working under his predecessor. Often competing against their much larger & richer neighbour's luxurious ranch. It is a very humble, but deep drama, that is rarely seen in Canadian television.
I was in Gibson's few weeks ago, the building is still there Molly's Reach cafe' is still standing, would be nice if they restored the place, and brought back a new version of the Beach Comers, pretty hard to replace Bruno Gerussi and the cast, they did a marvelous job of the show!
Beach Combers was how I learned to pronounce Persephone
The café's still there? Must be quite the relic.
"Are You Afraid of the Dark?" was a TV show centered around kids' horror. The plot involved teens sharing scary stories around a campfire. As a young adult, I was addicted to watching this show.
Tatiana Maslany star of Orphan Black is from Regina Saskatchewan. Corner Gas filmed just south of Regina. Gerry Dee star of Mr D is now the host of Family Feud Canada.
"The Odyssey" is a critically acclaimed Canadian television series that follows the story of a young boy who falls into a coma after a lightning strike. The boy's subconsciousness transports him to a parallel world where he finds himself surrounded by children of his own age. The show is known for its imaginative and creative storytelling, and it has won several awards for its unique concept and execution.
Ryan Reynolds, the Hollywood superstar, played the role of a character named Macro in "The Odyssey". Although he was still early in his career at the time of the show's production, Reynolds delivered an impressive performance that helped to establish him as a rising star in the industry. The show also featured several other talented actors and actresses, making it a must-watch for fans of science fiction and fantasy television.
I loved the Odyssey. Hard to find it now.
This hour has 22 minutes, Red Green show, Royal Canadian Air Farce, Letterkenny, Corner Gas
The Raccoons was a Canadian cartoon that was good.
-There was also some tv show with a camp, and they sang a lot and there were kids.- Camp Cariboo! thank you google
Video and Arcade top 10!!! how could i forget that one!
There was also Forest Rangers from the early 60's.
I was in the audience for the first two tapings of This Hour has 22 minutes. It was a lot of fun. I also went to a taping of "Up Home tonight.
Anyone remember The Beachcombers? It ran for 18 years yet nobody seems to remember it. My grandpa watched it every week, even took a road trip to Gibson's BC to eat at the diner Molly's Reach, which turned out to be a hardware store in reality, the inside of the diner was a set. Hahaha!! No soup for him.
I watched it every Sunday night when I was a kid. It was great back then but I don't think it would hold my attention now.
@@d_s_spence My grandparents took care of me when my dad was having legal issues that included some prison time in the late 70s-early 80s, so for roughly 4 years I watched Beachcombers almost every week. They rarely watched anything from the US except those nighttime soaps like Dallas and Fantasy Island, my granny loved Tattoo, and my gramps liked MASH and Twilight Zone, mostly they watched British shows like Monty Python, Coronation Street, Dr. Who, Benny Hill etc. Beachcombers was a Sunday ritual as much as HNiC was a Saturday ritual and The Littlest Hobo was a Thursday ritual with my grandparents. I didn't watch a lot of tv as a kid outside Saturday morning cartoons and classic horror movies so my tv experiences are whatever the adults were watching, even their theme songs still play in my head.
Littlest hobo was one of my favorite show
Maybe tomorrow ill want to settle down is the theme song for littlest hobo
I nominate "DaVinci's Inquest". Just the opening credits make me swoon!
Still Standing is awesome. Been on a long time. Funny and heartwarming and shows how awesome Canadians are ❤ Jonny Harris is also a co-star on Murdoch Mysteries
Jonny Harris is hilarious. I first saw him on Murdoch Mysteries and thought to myself "this guy should do stand-up". Then I Googled him and found out he already does - and he's fanstastic.
Road to Avonlea (PEI, 1900s). Unité 9 (Québec female prison). Les Bougon (iconic Québec family on welfare). North of 60 (Indigenous town life up North). Due South (Mountie). This hour has 22 minutes (comedy). Anne with an E (modern rendition of Anne of Green Gables). Mégantic (about the train derailment tragedy in 2013). La nuit où Laurier Gaudreault s'est réveillé (drama by Xavier Dolan). La P'tite Vie (a Québec classic).
Maaaaaan, the second The Littlest Hobo intro started...if you know, you know.
Danger Bay is an old one.Haven was about residents with speceal powers in a town called Haven.
Schitt's Creek is not "unknown" in the US. It won best comedy, best actor best actress, best supporting actor and best supporting actress at the Emmys last year.
Was quite the sweep, great way to go out.
No Beachcombers or Danger Bay!?!?!
Such classic opening tunes. (Along with Littlest Hobo)
18:00 This is definitely a cult classic and *way* more popular in Qc than anything else that's been covered in this video while english canadians probably don't know about it any more than Tyler does, hence the wikipedia page being in french only. Our humour also doesn't translate well to english. This is a good example of the fundamental differences in our cultures in my opinion.
Here's just a couple more...
- La Petite Vie
-Le coeur a ses raisons
-Km/h
-Radio-Enfer
-Watatatow
-Omertà
-Les filles de Caleb
-Découverte
-La semaine verte
-Caméra café (Qc)
-Bob Gratton : Ma vie, My Life
-Les beaux malaises
-Les Bougon
-Les Boys (not to be confounded with "The Boys", that superhero parody). It's a hockey series based on movies of the same name.
-Lance et Compte
-Soirée Canadienne
-Fais-moi peur // Are You Afraid of the Dark?
and some old kids' shows :
-Fanfreluche
-Sol et Goblet
-Bobino
-Le pirate maboule
-La souris verte
-Cornemuse
-Passe-Partout
-Iniminimagimo
-Sur la rue Tabaga
-Bibi et Geneviève
I'm sure I forgot many 🤔
-Soupe-Opéra
-Babar
-La maison de Ouimzie
-Les Débrouillards
-Les intrépides
-Robin et Stella
À cela j'ajouterais Infoman, le grand laboratoire. les belles histoires des pays d'en haut, Rue des pignons, les beaux dimanches, Les couche-tard, Tous pour un. Je me souviens d'un concurrent bien spécial qui avait lu la bible au complet au moins sept fois. Il était incollable , très impressionnant. On peu ajouter la soirée du hockey? Je ne suis pas fan mais la musique thème était la trame de mon enfance. Après le bain, le hockey avec mon père, ma mère et mes frères.
La Petite Vie, was the first Canadian TV show (of either English or French language) to ever gather more than 4 million viewers, a performance it achieved twice in 1995
In a 7 million population
I loved The Littlest Hobo. London was a fabulous actor. Kim's Convenience was really funny. Same with Schitt's Creek and The Beachcombers. North of 60 was great. I'm trying to think of other Canadian shows I liked over the years. The Wayne and Shuster Comedy Hour for sure. The Friendly Giant!
One of the biggest ones in the last 25 years is Trailer Park Boys. It's an acquired taste, with the drinking, occasional comedic gunplay and the drugs, but it's wildly popular both in Canada and elsewhere. They've done live theatre shows across the world. I grew up on The Beachcombers, largely because it was filmed in my home province of British Columbia.
A sitcom I really enjoyed but wouldn't play well with some audiences was Little Mosque on the Prairie. That's worth checking out. It's about a young Imam (pastor) who arrives in a small prairie town (the prairies are basically Canada's answer to the southern US or the Bible Belt) and has to share a building with an Anglican priest and they become good friends. Of course, there's the Glenn Beck/Rush Limbaugh style radio talk show host who doesn't like that Muslims are moving into their appropriately named town of Mercy.
It's really quite funny and as it was written by a Muslim woman, it's not afraid to be self-deprecating. There's a bit where the Imam is staying at a Muslim family's home whose daughter he has a will they or won't they kind of relationship and he catches her in the middle of the night without her hijab (headscarf) on. Hilarity ensues because they both act like he just saw her naked. Nobody is safe on that show. I used to love it. You can probably track the episodes down on UA-cam and they're definitely worth your time.
Yess . I love tpb 😂😂
There is a current series with a dog who is a cops partner called Hudson and Rex, Tyler you should check it out it’s good! Another Canadian gem was Danger Bay!
Still standing is such a great show, I hope someday I react to some of the episodes they really show real Canadian life in small towns
About the french series suggestion, let me add something: out of those, Serie Noire, Les Invincibles and C'est comme ca que je t'aime are some the most awesome TV shows I've ever seen and I strongly, very strongly suggest anyone to watch them with subtitles. They are groundbreaking!!! Really. The writer, Francois Letourneau, is an actual genius.
Quebec's mini series were _very_ good. I watched "Les Filles du Caleb," "Marie Chapdelaine," and the only one Celine Dion starred in "Des Fleurs Sur La Neige" which (although the subject was very dark) she was fantastic! I also loved "La Baleine et la Grenouille." HUGE fan of Karine Vanasse and only wish I had more access to her films and series. Would also like to see Chloé Robichaud's "Pays (Boundaries)" but it's nowhere on DVD that I can find. 😟
@@sadee1287 Oh btw, you might be interested to know that Karine Vanasse is a total sweetheat in person if you ever meet her.
Still Standing is AMAZING. Johnny came to Teeswater and Goderich. Two very local small towns that are only an hour away from me. Very cool to see it all on tv- and to see Johnny connect with our communities. An absolute MUST watch as well.
Did anyone mention "The Tommy Hunter Show"? It was on Saturday nights right after "Hockey Night in Canada". Also "Super Dave Osborne". Another show is "On the Road Again with Wayne Rostad".
Omg. I had forgotten about Bizarre and Super Dave. That show was hilarious!
Juliette after the Saturday hockey. I was allowed to stay up because she was Ukranian.
@@amandahodgin9316super Dave!
@@MaryHemmings genuine Saskatchewan Sealskin Bindings on his “safety equipment” 😂
My mom loved the Tommy Hunter show!
Hilarious House of Frightenstein or the Friendly Giant. Loved those as a kid
Tyler, I don’t know if you read the comments but I want to thank you. From the comments, a huge portion of your viewers are Canadian, including myself. I feel like our country is more divided than ever but your videos remind us of all of the great things that are Canadian and we can share our experiences and similarities with each other in the comment section. For that, I thank you
Sorry but I just remembered another one: The Edison Twins. I used to hang with the actor who played Paul the younger brother back in the 90s.
"I didn't know Canadians had sketch comedy shows" Dude, check out SCTV, huge names in Canadian sketch comedy that you would almost certainly be familiar with
He didn't even notice who the stars of Shirt's Creek are.
1980's classics... DeGrassi High, The Beachcombers, Danger Bay
Tyler seeing something for the second or third time that he literally talked about in other videos: "I've never heard of that!"
Almost as if he smokes a "J" before each reaction video.
Flash Point. We still watch the reruns. The Mercer Report. My sin loved Jacob two-two childrens show. Traders. Watched Land and Sea with my father in-law. Street Legal a Canadian legal dtama. Border Town, The Listener was a great show. More childrens shows like Fred Penners place, Road to Avonlea, Emily of New Moon and many more.
The Littlest Hobo, is still played on some CTV stations every morning.
There is also 19-2. It is a show, based at Montreal. It was at first made by french canadian actors, it as been adapted with english actors for english television.19-2 follows the professional and personal lives of patrol officers from the Montreal Police Service's Station 19, which covers an inner-city area of the city.
Four on the Floor
Smith & Smith (The origin of Red Green)
House of Frightenstein (Seriously one of the best TV Shows ever)
The Friendly Giant
Video Hits on CBC (was the go to place for music videos in the 80s)
SCTV (Americans may have heard of it but I guarantee you 99.9999% of them are unaware it's Canadian)
Omg I forgot about Video Hits! Loved that show and the cool host. I wanted to be just like her. I wish I could remember her name
@@lorie371 I believe it was Samantha Taylor. She was indeed super cool and an awesome host.
Hilarious House Of Frightenstein freaked me out when i was a kid, with the wolfman DJ and he and Igor would dance in front of a green screen but it was all psychedelic and trippy. Then there was a witch who made potions and Dr Pet Vet and a gorilla who got pelted with ping pong balls and Vincent Price would tell scary stories
Such a creative show. A canadian comedian Billy Van played most of the characters on the show
@@OntarioAtOrion Yeah the Wolfman stuff did absolutely nothing for me as I HATED the 60s/70s trippy psycadelic music and vibe they put out but for me the best part of the show (besides Billy Van and his array of characters) was Professor Julius Sumner Miller. He fostered an early love of science in me, and he never talked down to the audience like so many would have, he encouraged kids if they didn't understand words he was saying to ask their parents and teachers and explore it together, simply wonderful.
@kopitarrules the wolfman part scared me and left an imprint in my mind. I could never figure out where that image came from till I saw the show again later as an adult
It was like, oh, that's horrific