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Frantic Times was a half-hour radio show on CBC that ran from 1981 to 1984 featuring The Frantics and guest performers. The idea behind Best of Frantic Times was to take the best of the 120 episode, 1000 plus sketches that were originally broadcast and turn them into a series of podcasts. We did not…

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    • Aug 18, 2017 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 32m AVG DURATION
    • 30 EPISODES


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    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2017 31:23


    Featuring: All Forms of Creationism, Last Two People On Earth (4), Glazed Donuts, Quennel: Split-Up, Mrs. Sarnicky: Dessert Topping, Ti Kwan Leap (original), Ski Conditions, You’re Going To Um…, Math Prostitutes, Major Tom Song. The final episode of Season One. Looking forward to Season Two of Best of Frantic Times Podcast.

    Best of Frantic Times 29

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2017 32:55


    Featuring: Great Giant Titans: Mozart, Disorganized Crime, Last Two People on Earth (3), Royal Fight, Philip Shave, Edit the Commandments, Death for Jobs, Christmas Help, Nazi Paraphernalia Song.

    Best of Frantic Times 28

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2017 31:10


    Featuring: Chipmunks Have No Ears, Fired Nun, Video Banking, Statue of Liberty, Polly Wants A Cracker, Lalonde on the Spot, Racist Car, Lousy Weather, Piano Lesson, Gregorian Scat, Meat Song.

    Best of Frantic Times 27

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2017 31:14


    Featuring: Mrs. Sarnicky: Ice Cream, Kid’s Driving Record, Waiting Room Doctor, Pain, Glorious Pain, Jacques Cousteau Pool, Password Poets, You Know What I Hate?, Loan Shark Heart Break, Dance of the Seven Lids, Last Two People On Earth (2), Funeral for a Fit Man, Suicide Watch: Hamlet, The Blues Song.

    Best of Frantic Times 26

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2017 31:22


    Featuring: Some Weather We’re Having, Wallaby: Canadians In Space, Part-Time Messiah, Go On Without Me, Canadian Secret Service, Boot Camp, Didya Barf, Business Meeting / Sex Letters, Pitiful Car Ad, Avalanche Movie, Senior Surfers Song.

    Best of Frantic Times 25

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2017 34:57


    Featuring: Fishing With Live Bait, Pesky Seals, Mr. Liar’s Bible, Brook Shields, Philosophical Domestic Dispute, Singalong Song, Lovers, Christmas Dinner Song, Suicide Watch – Crank Calls, Rock & Roll Heaven Song.

    Best of Frantic Times 24

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2017 31:08


    Featuring: Outgrossing, Last Two People, Cheerleaders Explain Physics, Unsympathetic Song, Oh Shut Up, Hitler, Lottery Winner, Gospel of Despair Song

    Best of Frantic Times 23

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2017 31:29


    Featuring: Fred Head Hallucination, Allan Smith – Halloween, We Asked Mrs. Westheiser, Cabinet Shuffle Song, Religious Cult, Principal and the Strap, Executive Artist, Not My Car, Roll Call, Ban The Hammer , I’m Following You Song

    Best of Frantic Times 22

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2017 32:25


    Featuring: Todd Booster – Destination Mars, Newton Travel Agent, Get Cut Off In Mid Sentence, Something’s On Henry (song), Filming Phil’s Death, Hurricane Arthur, Exercise For Fat People, Freudian Slip, Mrs. B (song)

    Best of Frantic Times 21

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2017 34:21


    Featuring: Sarnicky Headaches, Message from Phil 0ne, Sherriff Plaque Store, Bike Weld-O-Matic, Decency League, Erotic Memoirs, Michael The Fish Song, Message from Phil Two, Neck Massager, I Bought The Company, Punk Square Dance, Bride of Frankenstein, Ford Commercial, Rhyming Dictionary Song, Message From Phil Three

    Best of Frantic Times 20

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2017 32:24


    Featuring: Boyd's Detention, It Was the Railroad, Unexplainablistic- Life after Death, Starting Today Song, The Hunted, This is the City, Kid Galoise- Rover Gang, Law Firm, I can Hardly Wait Song

    Best of Frantic Times 19

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2017 35:03


    Featuring: Mr. Canoehead (the first one), If Anyone Knows any Reason, Sherlock Holmes' Easiest Case, Flop House Floor Show, Derelict Love Song, Outlawed Books, Fruit Flies Talk, Operation, Buffalo Parts, Suicide Watch-Boring Man, Spider Love Song

    Best of Frantic Times 18

    Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2017 35:12


    Featuring: Test was Positive, Yelling at a Loaf of Bread, Defining the Relationship, Canadian Wildlife-Worms, Herbie the Hindu Hermit Song, Bill Smith-Lineup, Christmas Post Office, Valentine's Card, Vague Director, Buster POW, Stooba and Son, Murdering Folks Song

    Best of Frantic Times 17

    Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2017 34:51


    Featuring: Mrs. Sarnicky-Cake, Reach for the Bottom, Gold Gold Gold, Hardware Sex Shop, Grasshopper People from France, Co-worker's B.O., Pick a Card, Sex Manual, Yugoslavia Song

    Best of Frantic Times 16

    Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2017 34:03


    Featuring: Allan Smith-Jam Sandwich, Dynamite Salesman, Gigilos, Bill from Bala-Aren't You?, Suicide Watch-Cars, Just Like I Planned It, I Found the Right Song

    Best of Frantic Times 15

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2017 34:44


    Featuring: Heaven is for Presbyterians, Turtles v.s. the Islanders, The Meal, Skateboarder Interview, Impossible Show-offs, Buster Pule Abusive Co-pilot, Odd Things, Butcher's Heart Song

    Best of Frantic Times 14

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2017 31:44


    Featuring: Mrs. Sarnicky-Coffee, Boyd's Camping, Suicide Watch (ep1), The Prince William Song, Kid Gauloise, Jason Evaluation, Just Like I Planned It, Grade Three Song.

    Best of Frantic Times 13

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2017 33:55


    Featuring: You Were Speeding, Biting on Tinfoil, Not So Famous Last Words, Brockville Monster, Satan's Choice, Mensa Love Song

    Best of Frantic Times 12

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2017 33:11


    Featuring: The Show Must Go On, Mrs. Sarnicky (BIF), Rent-A-Witness, USS Iowa, Model Train Song

    Best of Frantic Times 11

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2017 29:41


    Featuring: Mr. Canoehead, Todd Booster, John the Baptist, Telephone Repairman, Army Career, Unedited Shakespeare, Boyd's Bomb Shelter, Can I Have your Furniture Song

    Best of Frantic Times 10

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2017 30:57


    Features: Car Noises, Unexplainableistic UFOs, Telling Someone They'll Live, If Food Could Talk, Post Office Update, Nobody Likes Me Song

    Best of Frantic Times 09

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2017 32:24


    Features:  Reach for the Top, Sports Hotline, Renaissance Warehouse, Non-Denominational Church, Waiting Detective, Mimico Song

    Best of Frantic Times 08

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2017 31:48


    Featuring: Mrs. Sarnicky-Soap, Duncan Mike Ted Jeff-Street Signs, Overweight Advice, Mother Theresa's Pudding Cup, Deprogramming Mother, Sidewalk Jerry, Behavioural Psychology, My Lovely Lovely Body, Eistein Song.

    Best of Frantic Times 07

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2017 31:35


    Featuring: Bala, Canadian Wildlife-Parking Lot, Heroin Class, Affair of the Lawn, Animal Survival, Telltail Hats, How to Write a Song Song

    Best of Frantic Times 06

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2017 33:11


    Featuring: Roman Numerals, Mr. Canoehead, Lonely Guy in a Room, Bad Barbershop Quartet, Vincent Van Gogh, Parlez Francais Tout la Time Song

    Best of Frantic Times 05

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2017 31:06


    Featuring: Drag Racing Commercial, Lakeworth Hohner – Brooke Shields, Last Will and Testament, Planning A Cake Store, Bush`s Brick, 1:47Suicide Watch – Beautiful Girls, Sarnicky – Peanut Butter, Quennel’s Mom, One Damn Saxophone Song.

    Best of Frantic Times 04

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2017 30:33


    Featuring: Talking Down A Pigeon, Robert Service’s Weather Forecast, Really People, Gallop Poll, Smack Toothpaste, Barbie and I, Taping of Show Warning3, House of Picky People, Sex and Health, Going Home Alone Song.

    Best of Frantic Times 03

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2017 32:45


    Featuring: Woman in Space, Seal Hunter (Canadian Wildlife), Quennel Joker, Normal to Be Gay, Bill Smith Streetcar, Ben Vanue Song, Dragon Slayer, Frantic Times News (Dec 31 1981), King of Marvin Gardens, Medical Warehouse, Teddy the Kielbasa Song.

    Best of Frantic Times 02

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 3, 2017 30:57


    Featuring: Mail Order Bride, Mrs. Sarnickey Toilet Paper, Lincoln Heckler I, New Secretary (with intro), Smokey’s Revenge, Lincoln Heckler II, Suicide Watch: wrong number, Atheist Hymn, Lincoln Heckler III, Furniture Wars, Chemistry of Love Song.

    Best of Frantic Times 01

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 25, 2017 29:47


    This is episode 1 of the Best of Frantic Times. FT was a half-hour radio show on CBC that ran from 1981 to 1984. The idea behind Best of Frantic Times was to take the best of the 120 episode, 1000 plus sketches that were originally broadcast and turn them into a series of podcasts. We did not want this to be a trip down memory lane, though there will be a some of that, but a reintroduction to a show that is still funny today. Have fun. Welcome to the Best of Frantic Times. The Frantics are a Canadian comedy troupe featuring Paul Chato, Rick Green, Dan Redican and Peter Wildman. Featuring: Human Race, Students Run Parliament, Give Her Someone Better, Buster Café, Deal With The Devil (with intro), Not So Famous Last Words, Backstabbing Family, Hire A Student, Gardening Fight , CDN Wildlife – Dead Animal On Road, Heavy Metal Shop Song.

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