This Hour Has 22 Minutes - Season 4 Episode 1 : Episode 64
This Hour Has 22 Minutes is a weekly Canadian television comedy that airs on CBC Television. Launched in 1993 during Canada's 35th general election, the show focuses on Canadian politics, combining news parody, sketch comedy and satirical editorials. Originally featuring Cathy Jones, Rick Mercer, Greg Thomey and Mary Walsh, the series featured satirical sketches of the weekly news and Canadian political events. The show's format is a mock news program, intercut with comic sketches, parody commercials and humorous interviews of public figures. The on-location segments are frequently filmed with slanted camera angles. Its full name is a parody of This Hour Has Seven Days, a CBC newsmagazine from the 1960s; the "22 Minutes" refers to the fact that a half-hour television program in Canada and the U.S. is typically 22 minutes long with eight minutes of commercials. Jones and Walsh had previously worked together on the sketch comedy series CODCO, on which Thomey sometimes appeared as a guest. Mercer had been a notable young writer and performer on his own, touring several successful one-man shows of comedic political commentary.
- Eps. 1 : Episode 641996-09-30
- Eps. 2 : Episode 651996-10-14
- Eps. 3 : Episode 661996-10-21
- Eps. 4 : Episode 671996-10-28
- Eps. 5 : Episode 681996-11-04
- Eps. 6 : Episode 691996-11-11
- Eps. 7 : Episode 701996-11-18
- Eps. 8 : Episode 711996-11-25
- Eps. 9 : Episode 721996-12-02
- Eps. 10 : Episode 731996-12-09
- Eps. 11 : Episode 741996-12-31
- Eps. 12 : Episode 751997-01-20
- Eps. 13 : Episode 761997-01-27
- Eps. 14 : Episode 771997-02-03
- Eps. 15 : Episode 781997-02-10
- Eps. 16 : Episode 791997-02-24
- Eps. 17 : Episode 801997-03-03