Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Monday evenings, for three weeks in July 1973. Aired Saturday nights from July 13 to October 5, 1974.This half hour musical variety show aired three times in 1973 and was so popular with viewers that it was renewed for eight more weeks a year […]
Author: Anne MacLennan
In The South Seas
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Monday nights from September 10 to November 19, 1973.George Woodcock was the writer and narrator of this nine-part series about the South Pacific. Viewers were taken to Fiji, Tonga, Western Samoa, New Caledonia, the New Hebrides and the Gilbert Islands to see what life […]
Impressions
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Sunday afternoons during the summer of 1973.This was a talk show featuring prominent Canadians in the arts or economics. The show featured either Ramsay Cook or John David Hamilton in conversation with such esteemed company as Margaret Atwood, Robertson Davies, Northrop Frye, Sylvia Ostry, […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television Host/Instructor: Howie Meeker A series of instructional programs about the fundamentals of the sport, featuring young players and professionals. Produced by John Spaulding (l973-74) and Ron Harrison (l974-77). Aired weekly, during the hockey season, from September 1973 to March 1977. Written by John Corcelli – […]
How It Happens
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Tuesdays, after school, from October 23 to December 25, 1973. Repeated during the summers of 1974 and 1975.This was a science program for young adults, hosted by Alysia Pascaris and Danny McIlravey, high school students. The series featured 10 episodes, all dedicated to everyday […]
Gallery
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television Sam Levene was the executive producer and David Pears the producer of this series of half-hour documentary films on a wide variety of subjects. Aired – weekly at various times, from May 1973 to April 1975.– repeated in 1977 and 1979. Written by John Corcelli […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television Producer Cameron Graham and writer/director Munroe Scott combined archival footage and photographs with former Prime Minister Lester Pearson’s extensive filmed interview with colleague Bernard Ostry to outline the story of Pearson’s life and career. (Pearson had also published the first of three volumes of memoirs […]
Explorers, The
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired at various times from September 1973 to June, 1976.Leslie Nielsen was the narrator of this half hour program that featured high risk adventurers. Documentary footage was collected from around the world and carefully edited to tell a complete story. Some of the trips included […]
Doug Crosley Show
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Saturday evenings at 7 pm from June 16 to July 21, 1973.Doug Crosley was a singer who first appeared on the Juliette show in the late 1950s. At that time, he was singing standards a la Robert Goulet.This summer music program was produced in Winnipeg […]
Delilah
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Thursday nights from October 4, 1973 to January 3, 1974.This show was a situation comedy that only ran for one season. It was the story of woman named Delilah who moved from the city to operate a barber shop in a small town, thus […]