How did this show come to be? Well it was simple as the success of the low budget Saturday morning local TV show on CJOH-TV "You Can't Do That On Television" prompted creators Roger Price and Geoffrey Darby to create a prime time version of this children's sketch comedy show but sadly it's cult appeal wasn't big enough to meet the network's prime time audience expectations and only 14 episodes were made and then the plug was pulled on the show.

Ruth Buzzi from "Laugh-In" suddenly became a regular on WTYO as YCDTOTV ceased it's airing when the pilot episode of WTYO aired on May 12, 1979 on a Saturday morning as it ran for an hour showing a live audience and Trooper came all the way from Vancouver to support the show performing three of their songs.

Then, when fall came around the show ran for a half hour long starting on September 18, 1979 and was produced for CTV at CJOH-TV in Ottawa and aired every Tuesday night at 7:30 pm all across Canada but during December of 1979 was the last of it's airing and didn't make the cut when the 1980-81 schedule was announced.

Also, like it's sister show YCDTOTV, there was the green slime event at times whenever someone said "I don't know" (Only on two episodes that happened though) as well as Christine "Moose" McGlade hosting the show and had the same sets too plus some of the same skits from YCDTOTV were used in WTYO but what was better is that they had Canadian musical guests on the show each week (Unfotunately it was an odd combination nevertheless).
Plus, there was an episode called Fan Letters as there were some skits of the kids at summer camp and it showed an early character of Barth (Played by Les Lye) in the episode as he was the cook for the summer camp and in the fall of 1981 YCDTOTV (Basically season 3 of the series as WTYO was considered season 2) aired again on TV on Saturday mornings and the character Barth was introduced on the show at his gross out burger restaurant and the show was getting grosser and grosser each season because the series was becoming Americanised and kids down there loved gross comedy but the show became more of a success on Saturday mornings and was more watched with Americans that Nickelodeon bought the rights to the series over CTV and eventually the series ran every weekday after school till 1987.

Then a youth channel in Canada came on TV in 1988 and WTYO aired in re-runs for one season along with YCDTOTV but YCDTOTV was more watched as more episodes were made and then close to summer time in 1989 they had a contest to viewers that a new shooting was to be made of the series if they named the 5 characters Les Lye played in the show and would win a flight down in Ottawa to watch a shooting for a new season as it was taped through the summer of that year and aired in the fall on YTV.