A reader was kind enough to send this tidbit to me.

It seems Alasdair is in the The New Book of Knowledge
Annual Encyclopedia for 1986...

Slime!

 

 

 

 

 




"Getting 'slimed' is all in a day's work for Alasdair Gillis of Ottawa, Canada -
he's a star on the cable TV show 'You Can't Do That on Television.' The show, a comedy series for kids, is filled with non-stop skits and gags (including the slime, which can pour down on any cast member). Alasdair won a spot on the show through a school audition in 1982. In 1985, at age 14, he became the show's host. Rehearsing and taping the show keeps Alasdair busy every day after school and full-time in summer."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BACK -----------------------------500721877211823 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="userfile"; filename="email.html" Content-Type: text/html Wait! Don't touch that mouse... Ahaaaa...thought you were gonna hit a mail link, eh? Not so fast, partner...

I really should have written this a long time ago. Maybe this won't matter to you, but before you expend energy writing to me (and I really hope you do) you need to know two things.

First...

Yeah sure, I have episodes of YCDTOTV. Probably every one (except that darn Adoption episode which only aired once and was then censored).

And second...

No, I can't make copies of them for you.

"But WHY NOT?!?!" you scream at me.

EEK! After putting in my earplugs, I would tell you this. Barring the obvious copyright infringement, the simple fact is you are one of literally hundreds of people to ask me for episodes of YCDTOTV. I sometimes get 10 requests in the course of just one week, and this page has been around almost two years and seen over 35,000 visitors. I can only imagine how many requests Ric from the YCDTOTV Web gets...he's had tens of thousands of visitors over the years. Sheesh.

So, if I copied every episode that you lovely maniacs have requested since this page started, I'd be doing it every spare moment of my life, and my VCR's would have fried long ago. One of them I bought in 1984. I think it's about ready to start collecting a pension.

I wish everyone who wanted episodes of all their favorite tv shows could have them on tape. Lots are available commercially, but why they don't sell YCDTOTV is beyond me. Fans of YCDTOTV are older now and have more disposable income. The tapes could be offered in Columbia House or something. I'm working on it, really. My advice to you at this point is:

 

TAKE THE SURVEY!

 

It will be used as ammunition in my attempt to hunt down Roger Price and get him to negotiate selling the rights to duplicate YCDTOTV faithfully and legally.

 

The Alasdair Gillis Fan Page was assembled with extremely primitive HTML skills (just enough to get me in trouble), some spare time, plus the priceless help of people who were generous enough to offer what they could: information, memories, pictures, videotapes, articles, whatever! Thanks to all of you, we've got ourselves the best darn Alasdair Gillis Fan Page on the entire World Wide Web! ;-)

So can we share? Got a tape of the afternoon Alasdair hosted Nickelodeon? What about that lost Adoption episode of YCDTOTV? Any recent pictures of him? Information about what he's been doing since he went to college? Whatcha got?!?

Are YOU Alasdair Murray Gillis?

Write to me!

But pleeeeeze don't write just to ask for episodes. :-(

 

Oh! You just wanna say hi and stuff?

That's cool too! Send email

 

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