It lasted six seasons and I watched it so much as a kid; mostly for the Super Dave segments. The joke about using genuine Saskatchewan sealskin bindings is one we still use around my parent's house.

Also, I love it when an obvious dummy is thrown off a cliff or building and Super Dave always delivered on that.

Agree, the use of an obvious dummies for falls, suicides or getting thrown through windows is possibly my favorite sight gag of all time

I think my Dad & I used to watch a censored version of this show. But yeah, whenever Super Dave isn't on the screen, you're just sitting around waiting for him. The rest of the show is sub-benny hill trash.

Haha! Yes thanks O2Thief! I forgot about the dummy gags with SuperDave. In essence, that was mostly THE gag. My favorite segment as well.

Oh that's where SuperDave comes from. All I remember were the animated ones with a few live-action segments throughout. It truly was a golden age for comedy when all you needed was a bad stunt double like SuperDave or stock footage of a car going off a cliff like in Tunces. Why even bother to write dialog?

Super Dave's arrogance and obliviousness were vital components, as well as Fuji Hakayito. It's amazing that it took until 1987 - fifteen years after Super Dave appeared on the John Byner Comedy Hour - for someone to realize SD could carry a show. I can't see how one can watch Bizarre for Byner.

Bizarre aired on CTV in Canada, as the show was produced by Glen-Warren. GW was owned by Baton Broadcasting, who also owned CFTO. Bizarre was in-house and met Canadian content regulations, so Bizarre fulfilled its primary functions - helping meet CRTC obligations for CTV, tits and swears for Showtime.

Yeah, it's so much different as a US citizen who was never exposed to this. For us Super Dave just kind of emerged from time to time with no context, seeing this is like growing up with Shel Silverstein being the guy who wrote poms that were awesome when you were 8, and then hearing Freakin at the Freaker's Ball for the first time.

Except not as good.

OR I guess a non-cable-having US citizen.

Actually I was raised on a lot of Canadian television non-cable as we lived only about an hour from the border. Everything from You Can't Do That On Television to The Friendly Giant, Littlest Hobo and good ole Bizzare. Not to mention all of the soft core porn that showed up on late night French speaking TV.

5 for Tunces alone