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The Sonny and Cher Show was the quintessential American variety show in the 1970s. It was filmed at CBS Television City in Hollywood.

But there were more Canadians putting the show together than Americans.

The credits on a 1971 episode of The Sonny and Cher Show list writers Bob Arnott and Paul Wayne, executive producers/writers Chris Bearde and Allan Blye, assistant producer Garry Blye, musical director Jimmy Dale, production assistants Danny Mann and Larry Robins, and cast members Murray Langston, Billy Van, Jack Duffy, Ted Ziegler, and Peter Cullen.

That’s four Canadian writers, three Canadian producers, one Canadian musical director, two Canadian production assistants and five Canadian actors.

Comedy writer Paul Wayne has his own YouTube channel where he has posted several bootleg episodes of Excuse My French, a cheap yet clever sitcom concerning Canadian language politics.

It was done for CTV in 1974-1975 and had a modicum of success.

Pardon My French (1974-1976) was a Canadian sitcom that ran for two seasons on CTV.  It was created by the Canadian comedy writer Paul Wayne who spent several years writing for American sitcoms like Bewitched, The Andy Griffith Show, My World and Welcome to It and All in the Family.