
The series
Super Dave is a Canadian/American variety show starring and hosted by the fictional character Super Dave Osborne. It ran from 1987 to 1991 on Showtime in the US and the Global Television Network in Canada. Super Dave was spun off from the sketch comedy series Bizarre, which featured Bob Einstein in recurring roles, including Super Dave. Super Dave made his first appearance on the 1972 TV series The John Byner Comedy Hour. Einstein then regularly played the character on the short-lived 1976 variety show Van Dyke and Company starring Dick Van Dyke.
Episodes
Season 1 · 13 episodes · 1987
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Episode 127 Nov 198730m
Ultimate Slam Dunk
Super Dave is late for his new show but his car arrives performing handbrake turns. Super attempts to open his show with a question period. Ray Charles sings "They Can't Take That Away From Me". At the Super Dave Memorial Sports Arena, the…
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Episode 24 Dec 198730m
Lip Synching Concert Area
Super Dave interviews a woman in the audience who dubiously claims to have had Elvis Presley's baby, and a woman who claims to be carrying Warren Beatty's child. Jenny Jones performs standup comedy. Super Dave originally plans to play "Veh…
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Episode 311 Dec 198730m
Vehicle Safety Centre - Buckle Up
At the Super Dave Confidence Training Area, Super Dave, accompanied by Donald, receives the "Man of the Year" award from the Academy of Human Performance. Robert Gruenberg juggles a chainsaw, an egg, and an apple. Kathy Walker and Bill Rob…
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Episode 418 Dec 198730m
Super Ride Straight To Hell
Super Dave attempts to do a comedy sketch with Cynthia Belliveau and John Hemphill entitled "Plastic Surgery to Celebrity's Pets" in which Super plays the Doctor. The Smothers Brothers Tom and Dick sing a lively Spanish tune, but Tom screw…
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Episode 525 Dec 1987
Poundacise
Bernie Rothman from the International Television Video Association presents Super and Donald with a triple platinum award for his exercise tape. Super Dave gets the stuffing beat out of him by the Canadian Giant in his new "Poundacise" vid…
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Episode 61 Jan 1988
Vehicle Safety Centre - Bump And Rob
A press conference at the Municipal Court House reveals that Super Dave is bringing Time magazine to court for accusing him of being a frivolous spender. A news report comes on regarding the death of a famous Elvis Impersonator, and many f…
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Episode 78 Jan 198830m
Animal Training Centre
Super Dave gets an audience volunteer to demonstrate a new television camera, which turns out to be a camera that's worn on the volunteer's butt. Pandemonium ensues when Super uses the camera to field questions from the audience. Liberty S…
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Episode 815 Jan 198830m
Happy Birthday, Super Dave
At the Super Dave Confidence Training Area, Robert Gruenberg juggles three machetes. The Nylons sing "Kiss Him Goodbye". Comedian Stan Marvin performs a monologue in which he tells tall tales while onscreen subtitles roughly denounce him. …
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Episode 922 Jan 198830m
Prayer Tower
Super opens the show by thanking his fans for their support and shows the video from BIZARRE of him lip-synching "9 to 5" by Dolly Parton. Steve Allen wants to play the piano, but Super Dave pressures him to play "Soap Opera Mad Libs" inst…
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Episode 1029 Jan 198830m
Tri-athalon
Mike Walden announces that Super Dave is going to attempt to break the tri-athalon record! Matt Fundal from the "Super Dave Hula Hoop School" performs hoop tricks. Super begins the course by swimming, while Fuji Hakayito follows in his boa…
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Episode 115 Feb 1988
Test Site
Super plays "Meet the Audience" where he talks to audience members and asks what they do, including a humorous pair who play armpit music, and a unlikely looking woman who just became a mother. Ronnie Hawkins, the head of the "Super Dave R…
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Episode 1212 Feb 198830m
Invisible Wall
Super Dave makes a passionate stand against the colourization of old black and white films. A dance act is planned with "The Christopher Dancers", but as only one of them shows up, Super dismisses him. KD Lang sings "Angel With a Lariat". …
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Episode 1319 Feb 198830m
Chapel
Super Dave talks to Leo Thompson, a "Kiss Doctor" who improves people's lives simply by kissing them. He tries it on audience members and it seems to work, but when he tries it on Super Dave, the Super one is less than pleased! Super Dave …

