The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Sunday afternoons from April 30 to June 4, 1972; aired Monday nights from June 12 to August 21, 1972.This talk show featured Canadians of prominence in a variety of fields from the arts to politics. John David Hamilton was the host and interviewer. The […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired: October 1, 1972 to April 1991 on Sunday evenings, later on Wednesday evenings. One of the most popular CBC dramas, with comic overtones, featured the small town exploits of a group of competitive seafarers who try to salvage logs that drift on to the […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Thursday nights from September 1972 to June, 1973. Repeated during the day, in the spring of 1975.Bob Francis hosted this musical program dedicated to the Big Band era. It succeeded In The Mood with Jack Duffy, but was more adventurous musically speaking. Contemporary arrangements […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Monday nights from March 28 to June 20, 1972. This hour-long series of 13 episodes was hosted by John Kenneth Galbraith, economist, Harvard University professor and advisor to President John F. Kennedy. The program was about economics and it was a bold production from […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television A panel show that featured unusual and mysterious objects and inventions. Host: Warren Davis. Panelists: Mavis Kerr, Peter Hesky, Walter Kenyan, Franz Russell, Peter Swan, Sybil Turnball, Molly Watson, William Withrow and T. Culyer Young. Based on an l950s CBC show, Who Knows. Produced by […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Wednesday nights from April 7 to May 26, 1971. This half hour program featured stories about outdoor activities. It was hosted by John Foster, who with his wife Janet produced their own series of travel films for CBC and syndication. This show suffered from […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired at various times, from January to December, 1971. Repeated from February 1972 to June 1974. This short series of 13 half hour programs featured Tommy Tompkins, outdoorsman and environmentalist. The series was repeated several times on the network, and broadcast both in afternoon time slots, aimed […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television A music/variety program produced in Edmonton, Alberta. Host: musical virtuoso, pianist, composer, and bandleader, (subsequently a Canadian Senator) Tommy Banks. Written by Colin McLean and produced by Don McRae. Aired – weekly, in primetime, from December 1971 to January 1974.– repeated summer of 1974. Written […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television A series of half-hour film dramas, the program was a reinvented version of Theatre Canada. Producer David Peddie . Aired – weekly, in prime time, from September 1971 to December 1973.– repeated summer of 1975. Written by John Corcelli – April, 2002
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television A panel show that explored unusual laws in Canada and other parts of the world. Host: Paul Soles [1971], Austin Willis [1972-1976]. Panelists: Julie Amato [1976], Bill Charlton [1971-1976], Susan Gay [1971-1972], Susan Keller [1972-1975], Madeleine Kronby [1971], Dini Petty [1971], Hart Pomerantz [1971-1976] and […]