[4] Super Dave was first produced in the Glen Warren Studios theatre at CTV Television Network headquarters at CFTO-TV in the Toronto suburb of Scarborough with a live audience.
Super Dave's personal "racetrack" (where he drove a "specialized" race car and crashed) was the Riverside International Raceway in Moreno Valley, California.
Super Dave's signature was to perform outrageous daredevil stunts which invariably went awry and resulted in a number of grievous injuries - usually at the end of each episode.
These included such things as riding inside the hub of a giant yo-yo suspended from a crane (the yo-yo broke free of its string, rolled down a long incline, then off a cliff into a ravine hundreds of feet below) and being flung inside a giant football (the catapult which malfunctioned and "spiked" the football into the platform it was attached to instead of throwing it for distance).
Musical guests on the show included young drummer Jacob Armen, Banig (Josephine Roberto), Veronique Beliveau, Sonny Bono, Liona Boyd, Glen Campbell, Kim Carnes, Ray Charles, Celine Dion, Thelma Houston, Colin James, k.d.
lang, Jerry Lee Lewis, Melissa Manchester, Loreena McKennitt, Bill Medley, Bobby McFerrin, Kenny Rogers, Michelle Wright, Lori Yates, along with musical groups like En Vogue, and Canadian Blue Rodeo, Doug and The Slugs, The Nylons, and The Razorbacks.
Some of the other performers who were featured included classical comedic pianist Mitchell Zeidwig, stuntman Robbie Knievel, ventriloquist Willie Tyler and Lester, ventriloquist Ronn Lucas, ventriloquist Jeff Dunham, sports broadcaster Roy Firestone, juggler Robert Gruenberg, comedic juggler Edward Jackman, talk show interviewer Larry King, juggler Michel Lauziere, tap dancer Savion Glover, impressionist André-Philippe Gagnon, boxer Evander Holyfield, comedian Steve Allen, comic Jenny Jones, talk show host Regis Philbin and the Smothers Brothers, whose variety show Einstein got his start writing for.
Super Dave was accompanied by several recurring characters including: Weekly 30-second promos were produced by Showtime Networks to promote the series.