Something
Else was a one-hour game show
produced locally at CJOH-TV in Ottawa, Ontario,
Canada in the winter of 1981. It went live every
Saturday morning from Studio D.
The show
tried to marry simple plots around game shows,
much like the link sets on YCDTOTV. There were
also games with prizes for the studio audience
and the call-in contestants, much like the live
YCDTOTV shows in 1979. Quickly, the show plots
were axed and the program changed to just a full
hour of games and a local high school garage
band, which performed each week.
Christine
McGlade was credited as producer, and
Roger Price and Geoffrey Darby oversaw and
directed the show. Christine, along with YCDTOTV
alums Kevin Somers, Lisa
Ruddy and Jono Gebert
rotated as hosts of the program. The show also
featured a local disc jockey -- a woman from CHEZ
106 in Ottawa. The show was very inexpensive to
make, and the production was usually done in half
a day. They would rehearse in the morning, go
live and then wrap.
According to
Darby, there were a couple of call-in games were
a member of the studio audience would compete
against someone on the phone at home. Prizing was
actually substantial, including Sony Walkmans and
assorted gift certificates.
As the season
progressed, many kids in the audience came
dressed in full costumes in order to get noticed
so they would be chosen to be selected to come
down and take part in the games. Darby explains
that the whole show "sort of turned into the
kind of things one once saw on Let's
Make A Deal. We didn't expect that
at all."
Reportedly,
there were 10 episodes made, and the program only
last one winter before the cast and crew went
back to producing YCDTOTV again. Again, Darby
explains, "The show was based upon giving
work to the kids who we wanted to keep honed in
craft while we started work on the next season of
You Can't Do That On Television."
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