Ok, I never heard of him, so I did an internet search.
He must be in his late 40s now.
The owner of a construction company in Topeka
A freelance writer in Oregon
A cycling enthusiast in England.
A salesman for a steel company in Vancouver.
A banker in Luxembourg.
A student in Heidelberg
A designer at the Greenheck Fan Company in Wausau, Wisconsin.
I'm not sure which is our Ben, but this one is cute.
Nice abs, but too young to be the right Ben, unless this photo was taken 20 years ago,
This is the salesman from Vancouver. Apparently he used to be a model.
A football player shirtless in the rain.
More after the break.
This is John Schneider, star of The Dukes of Hazzard, not Ben Schreiner.
Colby Keller, a blogger, artist, and gay porn star. He does look sort of like a grown-up Ben Schreiner.
Drew Roy, an Alabama actor known for Falling Skies.
See also: You Can't Do That on Television
As a gay pre-teen in the mid 80's I had a major crush on all the boys on YCDTOTV. Unfortunatlty Ben was never one of the boys to be shackled against the dungeon wall while shirtless like the other boys were
ReplyDeleteBen did have at least one hunky scene on YCDTOTV. I remember he was in the school library to check out a book about childhood development. He wanted to compare the book's photos to his body to see if he was developing as fast as he should. Suddenly the librarian is very upset, then camera pulls back and we see Ben's shirtless back as he is facing the librarian with the sex e ed book in his hands. The joke is that they are implying that Ben is standing there stark naked because he forgot to go home before beginning to compare his body to the sex ed photographs in the book.
DeleteDon't forget Ben's slime scene where he kept his head facing up the entire time!
DeleteI remember those days of Nickelodeon. (If you didn't live near a TV station, you had cable.) Back then, they had a lot of retro (Danger Mouse, Dennis the Menace) and foreign (You Can't Do That On Television, David the Gnome) shows and retro foreign shows (The Tomorrow People).
DeleteSpecial Delivery was interesting. Actually, my first experience with the Degrassi franchise was watching Kids of Degrassi Street in Special Delivery. (The more famous spin-off was filmed in an actual middle school...on Queen Street.) They also had a White Shadow episode, plenty of 70s after school specials...I suppose Special Delivery was great for the localization industry.
By the way, I remember a show about a prince of Neptune? But the details are hazy.
I think of that as the Golden Age of Nick. Because it would be replaced by Dan Schneider; I'm sure you've heard of recent controversy surrounding him?
Ben did appear on the torture rack on Season 5, episode 13. Titled "Clubs." As in the previous episode, "Ambition," from 1984,he's sporting some very short shorts.
DeleteReply to Anon from 04/05/18... the "prince of Neptune" show you're thinking of is probably The Adventures of the Little Prince, a Japanese anime series from 1978 dubbed into English. (FWIW, the planet was named B-612.) One of many early anime series aired by Nick in the '80s and early '90s in the pre-Nicktoons era, along with Mysterious Cities of Gold, Adventures of the Little Koala, and Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics to name a few. - Chris
DeleteThe Ben Schreiner from YCTOTV graduated from Northern Secondary School in Toronto in 1989 so he would be around 45 or 46 now. He was a software developer in the Bay Area of Northern California, before moving south to the Palm Springs area in 2016, where he bought and renovated a mid-century house (told you he was gay), before selling it earlier this year and moving to Phoenix.
ReplyDeleteIf it's true that Ben is gay that would be the second former cast member from YCDTOTV known to be part of the LGBT community. The first is Patrick (Pat) Mills, who was on the show at its very end in 1989-90 and is a playwright as well as actor.
DeleteAs I remember right, he was cast as a goody-goody type. They wrote him as more babyish than the others, lugging around a teddy bear and such. No beefcake unless one counts a rare out of character bit he did where he's heading outside in an oversized shirt and bare legged. When 'Mom' asks him if he's got on clean underwear, he bratily tells her he's not wearing ANY underwear and yanks up his shirt to Flash his... swimtrunks. Must've been quite a relief to the guy after all the cutesy-wutesy stuff.
DeleteLet's Lunch link for Ben:
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Two semi-hunky scenes, actually. The scene described earlier was on the 'Body Parts' episode. The other, on the 'Clubs' episode, had him and another boy, Eugene, at a summer camp apparently naked and trying to cover themselves with some sort of plastic thing that looks like a deflated liferaft. Their camp counselor explains the camp was just purchased by a nudist club so the boys are forced to partake in the naturist lifestyle. He mentions the benefits: It promotes good health, they'll get good all-over suntans, and it'll keep them from sneaking over to the girls camp.
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