For those who are thinking hmmm the frantics sounds familiar you might be familiar with our sketch boo.
The frantics four on the floor.
Full episode of 4 on the floor the cbc television series starring the frantics that ran for one season of 13 episodes in 1986.
Long before 22 minutes kids in the hall and codco the canadian broadcasting corporation wet it s sketch comedy feet with the frantics four on the floor.
A skit from the 1988 show 4 on the floor starring canadian comedy troupe the frantics.
Four guys from canada who decided to use their super humour powers for good rather than evil.
In 1981 they were given a weekly radio slot on the cbc radio show variety tonight then hosted by vicki gabereau in the summer of 1982 they were the summer replacement for the royal canadian air farce they got their own permanent time slot in the fall of 1983.
The tv series contained a lot of new material plus a lot of the best sketches the frantics had done on their radio series.
The frantics made their mark initially in canadian radio.
I did a search a couple of weeks ago after being inspired by the mississauga show and discovered that there was a very clever fellow who ripped all 13 of the 4 on the floor episodes off of the dejaview channel when dejaview now tvtropolis was broadcasting them last year and set up a torrent.
Crudely made simplistic plotlines were made into genuinely laugh a second sketches with the incomparable talents of peter rick paul and dan.
Their big break was in 1981 when they were given a regular slot on the cbc radio show variety tonight the following year they got their own series frantic times which began as a brief summer replacement for the royal canadian air farce but eventually graduated to its own permanent slot.
Give them a blast.
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Changing a tire how to answ.
The frantics is a canadian comedy troupe consisting of paul chato rick green dan redican and peter wildman.
It was a co production of the cbc and telefilm canada.
With peter wildman rick green paul chato dan redican.
Full episode of 4 on the floor the cbc television series starring the frantics that ran for one season of 13 episodes in 1986.
By the time it went off the air in 1984.
Heavy metal shop was originally a sketch done on their early 80s ra.
Official frantics website still together after 40 years accept no substitutes.
The group formed in 1979.