- From 1979 to 1981, parts of the show were done live, with the comedy sketches being pre-taped. Some of the features of the live version of the show included musical guests, contests, phone in's, and "Roving Camera" scenes featuring kids in popular hangout spots telling jokes or airing complaints about life, among others. When Nickelodeon started airing the episodes, none of the 1979 episodes remained, however all of the 1981 episodes did. Nickelodeon's editors opted to remove everything but the comedy sketches and the "Roving Camera" segments. This cut the episodes to under 30 minutes, instead of the original one hour running time.
- The 1984 "Body Parts" episode had to be edited due to content. Three scenes had to be removed after the first airing:
- An opposite sketch where the kids in school are shown a porno by their teacher.
- Ross sells Playboy magazines to Ben and Alasdair.
- Karen says her favorite body part is "whats in the pants", the wallet.
- After these three scenes were cut, the episode was too short to run in a half hour time slot, so they simply showed more commercials during that episode from then on, plus they added two scenes that were put on the cutting room floor:
- Lisa tricks Moose into eating a chocolate covered grasshopper.
- Ben complains to his doctor about his new leg being sewed on backwards, and he can't stop spinning.
- The 1985 "Fears, Worries, and Anxieties" episode had to be modified in one scene. The scene had Alasdair, Mom, and Dad talking about a bully at school called "Killer Curtis". When it was discovered that there actually WAS a murderer named Killer Curtis in the U.S., they decided that the bully's name should be changed, so the words "killer Curtis" were changed to "Crusher Willis". This was done very badly because between the time that the episode was shot, and when they made the recording, Alasdair's voice had changed.
- After 1983, Nickelodeon started airing commercials, and so all episodes of "YCDTOTV" made before 1983 had to be cut by about 4 minutes for every airing after 1983.
- The episode called "Adoption" was banned from broadcast after being shown twice because of its distasteful jokes about being adopted and a scene where a character named Lance Pervert says "Damn it!" On YTV in Canada, this episode airs and has the "Damn it!" bleeped out.
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By what name was You Can't Do That on Television (1979) officially released in India in English?
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