The Punk Look and Something Else

Posted by Christine McGlade at 5/24/2007 9:11 PM
Categories: TV trivia
I only post this (likely too long) tome on hair, since Shane asked in a recent comment about the punk look.  Let me explain.  At some point in the 1980's, we had the chance to produce a pilot for Disney, called Bear Rapids.  Roger Price wanted me to look different, so I got the go-ahead to cut my hair.  This led to the much-hated (by me) wig years.  Apparently, at one point, I took the wig out to the CJOH parking lot and ran it over with my motorcycle.  This is fodder for another post, and will require some research, since I don't remember doing this and may well have been in some kind of psychotic rage at the time.  But I digress.

Since the hair was cut, and the wig was bought, no one seemed to have a problem with me doing what I had always wanted to do: subject my head to all manner of interesting dye jobs in an effort to look ever-more punky.  During this time, we also produced a local Ottawa game show called "Something Else", and, well, here's the picture:



Note the snazzy letraset job I did myself on the actual photo.  Very 80's...post modern, I would venture to suggest.  That's Geoffrey Darby in the picture with me.

Something Else was a crazy, completely meaningless show.  It was as if a television station manager took some 17 year old kid and told her "here's an hour on Saturday morning: do whatever you like, just don't swear too much". 

Hang on-that's EXACTLY what it was.  We took every aspect of the classic "Game Show" model and threw it in there: live audience of kids?  sure!  heck, let's take a page from Let's Make a Deal, and have them show up in costume!  Phone-in contests, free stuff...and if that wasn't enough, we even had bands.  Yes, musical, performing, bands.  More on Something Else in a future post.  If I can manage it, I may even be able to upload some audio from one of our first bands, the Bop Trash Cats, a rockabilly ensemble composed of a few of my buddies from high school.  It was short-lived, but a ton of fun!

 

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