Roger Damon Price (born 1941) is a

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former

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, director and writer active in the

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, and the

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. He has created

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in all three countries. He created the children's

science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive ...

series ''

The Tomorrow People ''The Tomorrow People'' is a British children's science fiction television series created by Roger Price. Produced by Thames Television for the ITV Network, the series first ran from 30 April 1973 to 19 February 1979. The theme music was c ...

'', ''

Junior Points of View ''Points of View'' is a long-running British television series broadcast on BBC One. It started in 1961 and features the letters of viewers offering praise, criticism and observations on BBC television programmes of recent weeks. History ''Poin ...

'', the British children's sketch variety shows ''You Must Be Joking!'' (1974-1976), '' Pauline's Quirkes'' (1976) (both of which had

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as their

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) and ''You Can't Be Serious'' (1978) for

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, the American

sketch comedy Sketch comedy comprises a series of short, amusing scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long, performed by a group of comic actors or comedians. The form developed and became popular in vaudeville, and is ...

Don't Look Now ''Don't Look Now'' ( it, A Venezia... un Dicembre rosso shocking, lit=In Venice... a shocking red December) is a 1973 English-language film in the thriller genre directed by Nicolas Roeg, adapted from the 1971 short story by Daphne du Mauri ...

'', co-created the pilot episode ''

UFO Kidnapped ''UFO Kidnapped'' is a 1983 Nickelodeon production created by Roger Price and Geoffrey Darby. It was originally going to be a series and although the pilot aired on Nickelodeon, the series was not picked up. It used many of the cast members fro ...

'', the teen sketch comedy ''

Turkey Television ''Turkey Television'' is a Canadian teen sketch comedy originally aired on Nickelodeon. The show was created by Roger Price and Geraldine Laybourne at the request of Nickelodeon in response to the popularity of ''You Can't Do That on Television ...

'' and the Canadian sketch comedy ''

You Can't Do That on Television ''You Can't Do That on Television'' is a Canadian sketch comedy television series that first aired locally in 1979 before airing in the United States in 1981. It featured pre-teen and teenage actors in a sketch comedy format similar to that of ...

'', which became hugely successful on

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in the United States. He collaborated with other producers including

Geoffrey Darby Geoffrey Darby (born April 15, 1953) is a media executive, television producer, director, and writer. He was the co-creator of children's sketch comedy ''You Can't Do That on Television'' and was a writer and director for the show's first five se ...

and

Geraldine Laybourne Geraldine Laybourne (''née'' Bond; born May 19, 1947) is an American entrepreneur and former TV executive. She worked at Nickelodeon from 1980 until 1996, when she became the president of Disney-ABC Cable Networks (including Disney Channel). She ...

, the latter of whom would go on to become president of Nickelodeon. He is now retired from the industry and lives in

. 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.

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