This series featured satire and music sketches on topical issues in the news and society with regular performers Bonnie Brooks, Jean Christopher (until 1965), Alan Hamel, Vanda King (after 1965), June Sampson and Billy Van.
The Rubber Band was the series' musical quintet, featuring Guido Basso who often performed in segments with the other regulars.
[1] The series also featured interviews, serious and not, with famous guests as well as a soap opera parody, "Flemingdon Park", "A cesspool of desire in the heart of suburbia", named after a suburban Toronto neighbourhood.
Montreal Gazette television critic Bernard Dubé described the series as "wild, corny, raunchy, lively and irreverent".
[3] Roy Shields, a Toronto columnist, panned the series as "the worst TV show in the world.