This Hour Has 22 Minutes is a weekly Canadian television comedy that airs on CBC Television. Launched in 1993 during Canada's 35th general election, the show focuses on Canadian politics, combining news parody, sketch comedy and satirical editorials. Originally featuring Cathy Jones, Rick Mercer, Greg Thomey and Mary Walsh, the series featured satirical sketches of the weekly news and Canadian political events. The show's format is a mock news program, intercut with comic sketches, parody commercials and humorous interviews of public figures. The on-location segments are frequently filmed with slanted camera angles. Its full name is a parody of This Hour Has Seven Days, a CBC newsmagazine from the 1960s; the "22 Minutes" refers to the fact that a half-hour television program in Canada and the U.S. is typically 22 minutes long with eight minutes of commercials. Jones and Walsh had previously worked together on the sketch comedy series CODCO, on which Thomey sometimes appeared as a guest. Mercer had been a notable young writer and performer on his own, touring several successful one-man shows of comedic political commentary.
This Hour Has 22 Minutes (Season 4)
Episode 64 0.0
Air date: 1996-09-30
Episode 65 0.0
Air date: 1996-10-14
Overview: Segments include: - Princess Diana's video scandal - The new Liberal whip - Marg Delahunty talks with Donovan Bailey - Babe Bennett on sex changes - The Right Answer - Heritage Minute: The Sea-Doo - Streeter: Can a Bank Change? - To spank or not to spank? - The Campbell File - Dakey Dunn and Margaret Atwood
Episode 66 0.0
Air date: 1996-10-21
Overview: Segments include: - Preston Manning's ""Fresh Start"" - The ""22 Minutes"" Curriculum Guide - Joe Crow on Brian Tobin - Pope John Paul II out of hospital - Marg Delahunty's Parliamentary Pajama Party - ""Overcurrents"" with Wendel Mesley - Streeter: Careers - Canada's first Hooters restaurant - ""Sex with Lou""
Episode 67 0.0
Air date: 1996-10-28
Overview: Segments include: - Union shutdown of Toronto - Mad cow disease - Arctic parks - Rockin' at the Rodeo: Same-sex line dancing - Dakey Dunn on exercise - ""Marketplace A1C 2F2"" - Streeter: Empty Preston - Hackers enter the CIA website - Association of People Named Blaine
Episode 68 0.0
Air date: 1996-11-04
Overview: Segments include: - Lucien Bouchard tries to revive Quebec's economy - J.B. Dickson on assignment in Washington D.C. - Mrs. Enid on dating - Scientists discover a new planet - Tony Costello and ""No You Can't!"" - Streeter: Democracy, American-Style - Mrs. Tomorrow - News for Dogs
Episode 69 0.0
Air date: 1996-11-11
Overview: Segments include: - Preston Manning finds three replacement MPs - Ross Perot's post-election plans - Ozone hole sets record - The Multicorp investigation - Streeter: Impressions of Washington - ""22 Minutes in the Woods"" - ""Canada's Funniest Home Videos""
Episode 70 0.0
Air date: 1996-11-18
Episode 71 0.0
Air date: 1996-11-25
Episode 72 0.0
Air date: 1996-12-02
Episode 73 0.0
Air date: 1996-12-09
Episode 74 0.0
Air date: 1996-12-31
Episode 75 0.0
Air date: 1997-01-20
Episode 76 0.0
Air date: 1997-01-27
Overview: Segments include: - Clinton's inauguration - Lloyd Axworthy goes to Cuba - Dakey Dunn on a nookie-free existance - Streeter: Canada's Manifest Destiny - Sexual harrassment in the workplace - Hockey Notebook - The Campbell File
Episode 77 0.0
Air date: 1997-02-03
Overview: Segments include: - An apology to the banks - Marg Delahunty on hospitals - ""Money Matters!"" - Streeter: Teflon Jean - The Sphinxler Sisters - Adolescent Notes - ""Definitely Not the Women's Network"" - ""Birding""
Episode 78 0.0
Air date: 1997-02-10
Episode 79 0.0
Air date: 1997-02-24
Episode 80 0.0
Air date: 1997-03-03
Overview: Segments include: - Eaton's files for bankruptcy protection - Quebec's trade dispute - The first man on the Pill - Babe Bennett - ""Man Talk"" - Election Watch '97 - Jerry Boyle

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