Le Programme de Paul Taylor

 is the Canadian French (Québécois) co-production of It's the Paul Taylor Program!. The program originally ran from 1987-1994 on and was taped at  in  and then the Durham Studios in.

History
Producer Jacques Pettigrew of was inspired by the Paul Taylor franchise. Hearing the popularity of the show among both Anglophone & Francophone children across inspired him to pursue the rights to produce an Québécois adaptation of the show. He approached Sjoerd Broekhuizen in late 1985, but was initially denied, told that he was only allowed to air the show dubbed. He felt that "putting French words into Anglophone kids' mouths" wouldn't work. Realizing that Sjoerd Broekhuizen was an adopted native of and a supporter of Quebec autonomism and equality, he asked Sjoerd "what if Paul Taylor spoke French too?" This sealed the deal, and under strict guidelines, the show could be produced. One of these guidelines was that the episodes could only be adapted from their Anglophone counterparts, with very few script changes. When the agreement went through, it cost CinéGroupe and Radio-Canada $70,000 per episode to produce (Only $2,000 per episode went to Queen City Productions), making it one of the most expensive television shows produced in at the time.

The producers of the English version liked Pierre Balland's character of Hugo enough that he was added into the original English-language show, as Balland is bilingual. The Francophone Mindy Taylor's actress Judith Kolisch would also perform the Anglophone Mindy Taylor in the Paul Taylor's Musical Magical World Tour and The SuperTaylors Tour live tours.

The episodes shot in Ontario featured regular series castmembers Robert Fauser (who spoke his lines in French using a phonetic script and was dubbed by Jean-Charles Cadieu for when he sang) and Tamitha Cunningham in addition to Park and Fiedorowicz. Wilma Golubic also reprised Mrs. Capitalist, but her voice was dubbed by a Francophone actress due to her heavy Manitoban accent. The Francophone show's actors would watch the Anglophone show's cast members perform a scene, and then would do their version of the same scene.

Videos
Radio-Canada released Le Programme de Paul Taylor VHS tapes in the late 1980s. In the mid-2000s kaboom! Entertainment released some episodes on DVD.

1987-1990

 * Ben Hartikainen Park as Paul Taylor
 * Jacek Fiedorowicz as Ray Taylor
 * Judith Kolisch as Mindy Taylor
 * Élise Lantz as Eloise
 * Pierre Balland as Hugo
 * Jean-Robert Gilliéron as Jean-Robert
 * Carole Cissé as Carole
 * Maël Lémery as Patrick
 * Norbert Motte as Norbert

1991-1994

 * Ben Hartikainen Park as Paul Taylor
 * Jacek Fiedorowicz as Ray Taylor
 * Judith Kolisch as Mindy Taylor
 * Élise Lantz as Eloise
 * Pierre Balland as Hugo
 * Gilles Calvet as Dominic
 * Maël Lémery as Patrick
 * Robert Fauser as Robert
 * Jean-Charles Cadieu as Robert (singing voice only)
 * Tamitha Cunningham as Jolene
 * Carole Cissé as Carole
 * Wilma Golubic (dubbed by Lynnette Tillett) as Mrs. Capitalist
 * Olivier L'Ecuyer as The Genie
 * as Cousin Germain
 * Jean-Pierre Wathelet as Dr. Arklatex