The Unnaturals (TV series)

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The Unnaturals is an American television sketch comedy series that ran on HA! and later CTV, the channels that later became Comedy Central. [1] It aired between 1989 and 1991. The four stars were Tim Blake Nelson, Paul Zaloom, John Mariano and Siobhan Fallon Hogan. [2] Music was by Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo. [3]

Directors were Eric Heffron and Iain Paterson, [2] and the writing staff included Nelson, Bob Kushell, Diane Burroughs and Joseph Gutierrez and Steve Slavkin. [2] It was produced by Bell Media and HA!. [2]

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