The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1977 to 1978 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Friday nights from November 1977 to April, 1978. This hour long series was about successful Canadians in various disciplines: business, tourism or the Arts. The narrator was Arthur Hill. The show profiled Joseph Armand Bombardier, inventor of the snowmobile; Charleen Kopansky who helped create […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1977 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Saturday nights from May to October, 1977. This summer series aired between hockey seasons with Canadian, British and Hollywood motion pictures. The Canadian titles included, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Fighting Men, Wings in the Wilderness, Lies My Father Told Me and Goldenrod. Some of these […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1977 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Friday nights, for four weeks, from June 3 to June 24, 1977. This musical variety series replaced the Tommy Hunter Show for four weeks. The hour long show was hosted by Colleen Peterson and Rick Neufeld. Neufeld led the Prairie Dog Band. Guests included Ian Tyson, […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1977 to 1982 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired on various days and times, usually four times a year, from September 1977 to September, 1982. This 90 minute public affairs program was aimed at issues of national interest. It usually aired four times a year. Barbara Frum hosted the program. The subject matter […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1977 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired in two parts, October 26, 1977 and November 2, 1977. Repeated March 22, 1981 as a special. This two-part documentary, which aired as one program in 1981, was a dramatic reconstruction of the life and death of Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven. It was presented by […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1976 to 1977 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Wednesday evenings from October 6 1976 to January 6, 1977. In 1974, veteran MP and former Prime Minister of Canada John Diefenbaker began a series of filmed interviews about his political life. From the 9 hours of footage, came this television memoir in 13 […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1977 to 1979 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Sunday nights, at various times, from November 1977 to March 1979. repeated in the spring of 1980. This series of seven hour long films chronicled Canada’s history with immigration. It was produced by Neilsen-Ferns and commissioned by the Imperial Oil Company to commemorate its […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1977 to 1979 Broadcast Medium: Television W.O. Mitchell invented the title for this series of half-hour stories for children, and introduced the programs. CBC producers across the country contributed to the series, which was organized by Don. S. Williams (l977) and David Peddie (l978-79). Aired Wednesdays 4:30-5:00 p.m., winters of 1977-1979. […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1977 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Wednesday nights from January 12 to February 23, 1977.This program featured a different comedy show each week. It was made up of six pilots that never aired again. The first two were written by members of the Royal Canadian Air Farce and directed by George Bloomfield. […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1973 to 1977 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Monday nights in August of 1973. Aired Friday nights during the summer of 1977.Judy Ginn and Jim Walchuk were a brother and sister team that had their own show on two different occasions.The first series was part of a set of programs from the […]