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Roger Damon Price (born 1941) is a retired British television producer, director and writer active in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. He has created children's television series in all three countries.

For other people with the same name, see Roger Price (disambiguation).

Roger Price
Born
Roger Damon Price

1941 (age 80–81)
NationalityBritish
OccupationTelevision producer (now retired)
Years active1966–1995
Notable workThe Tomorrow People, You Can't Do That On Television

He created the children's science fiction series The Tomorrow People,[1] Junior Points of View, the British children's sketch variety shows You Must Be Joking! (1974-1976), Pauline's Quirkes (1976) (both of which had Flintlock as their house band) and You Can't Be Serious (1978) for Thames Television, the American sketch comedy Don't Look Now,[2][3] co-created the pilot episode UFO Kidnapped, the teen sketch comedy Turkey Television and the Canadian sketch comedy You Can't Do That on Television,[4] which became hugely successful on Nickelodeon in the United States.

He collaborated with other producers including Geoffrey Darby and Geraldine Laybourne, the latter of whom would go on to become president of Nickelodeon. He is now retired from the industry and lives in Canada.

It was on You Can't Do That on Television where Darby and Price created and started dumping green slime, which has become an icon of Nickelodeon.[5]


Writing credits


Production Notes Broadcaster
Jackanory
  • "The Wish Horse" (1966)
 BBC1
The Governor & J.J.
  • "A Day in the Life" (1970)
 CBS
Koska and His Family
  • Television film (1973)
 NBC
The Tomorrow People
  • 68 episodes (1973–1979)
 ITV
You Must Be Joking!
  • "Episode #2.1" (1976)
 ITV
The Kallikaks
  • "You Auto Buy Now" (1977)
  • "Swami, How I Love Ya" (1977)
 NBC
You Can't Do That on Television
  • 143 episodes (1979–1990)
 CTV, Nickelodeon
Don't Look Now
  • 5 episodes (co-written with Geoffrey Darby, 1983)
 PBS
Whatever Turns You On
  • 15 episodes (co-written with Geoffrey Darby, 1979)
 CTV
UFO Kidnapped
  • Feature film (co-written with Geoffrey Darby, 1983)
 Nickelodeon
Turkey Television
  • 6 episodes (co-written with Geraldine Laybourne, 1985)
 Nickelodeon
The Tomorrow People
  • 25 episodes (1992, 1994–1995)
 ITV

Awards and nominations


Year Award Work Category Result Reference
1987 CableACE Awards Turkey Television Children's Programming Special or Series - 9 and Older (with Geoffrey Darby and Adam Bernstein) Nominated

References


  1. TV Zone Special 05 (1992)(The Seventies)(NS2011).
  2. "The Evening News - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  3. "'Don't Look Now' for Kids". Daily News. 21 September 1983. p. 60. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  4. "The hit TV show Canada ignores". Newspapers.com. The Ottawa Citizen from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. 24 August 1985. p. 39. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
  5. "When Slime Ruled the World: The Making and Tasting of Nickelodeon's Green Goo". Food & Wine. Retrieved 21 February 2020.

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