YTV RON OLIVER SHOW / YTV HITS / OLIVERS TWIST

 

This program aired on YTV in the late 80's. It started out as a Music Video program - YTV Hits hosted by Ron Oliver. It then became a, I believe, a hour long weekly show, entitled the Ron Oliver Show. This had music videos, as well as various comedy sketches and person on the street interviews. Eventually the show became entitled Olivers Twist.

Steve provies us this information on the progression of the show and on Ron Oliver:

YTV Hits, which later became the Ron Oliver Show, which was same show, same host, same format, same Gantz puppet named "Ralph the Happy Contest Goose", just I think YTV Hits started in September 1988 and ran until September 1989, when it was replaced by YTV Rec Room for a year, before they brought YTV Hits back with the
newer title of the Ron Oliver Show, which ran for another year, and then YTV took the clips with Ron Oliver from both incarnations of the show and packaged them in a cheapie late-night show called "Oliver's Twist". Ron Oliver has had a career mostly behind the camera, directing episodes of shows like The Chris Isaak Show, Queer As Folk
(US), Are You Afraid of the Dark?, and, currently, Romeo (the kid sitcom with rapper L'il Romeo, which is filmed in Vancouver). He was also one of the people who provided the voice of Snit on the Zone during the P.J. Phil Guerrero years.


 

 

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