The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Monday to Friday, in the afternoon, from October 1969 to July 1970.This daily half hour soap opera was a bizarre, gothic kind of show more suited to late night viewing than the middle of the day. It was inspired by an American show called […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired during the summer of 1969 and 1970; repeated in 1972. This weekly half-hour music program was produced by Sydney Banks in Montreal. Banks was responsible for Let’s Sing Out and Brand New Scene, both successful variety shows. This show was hosted by Gilbert Price, […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1974 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Thursday or Friday afternoons from February to October, 1969. Returned in the summer of 1974. This was a program featuring original films for children, produced by the CBC and the NFB. Selected titles: Orientation, Sculpt-In, Through a Child Lightly, Great Barrier Reef, Victory over […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Wednesday nights at 10:30 PM from April 23 to June 23, 1969 These seven 30-minute broadcasts represented something of a risk for the CBC: independent film. But it was 1969 and a lot of experimental films were being produced as the technology changed and became more […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Saturday afternoons during the summer of 1969. During the year of Woodstock, the CBC committed to an 8-week series of concerts featuring the Montreal Symphony Orchestra from Place des Arts in Montreal. They were produced by Radio Canada for the French network, but later aired on […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Tuesday nights, for one season, from September 1969 to September 1970. Ted Follows starred as McQueen, a crusading newspaper reporter based in Toronto. It was his job to stand up for the little guy by exposing con men, consumer fraud and bad businesses. The […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Monday evenings at 9 pm during the summer of 1969. Similar in content to The Good Company, produced in Winnipeg, this show also featured a young cast of Canadian talent, only this show featured comedy, music and dance in the true spirit of variety television. The cast […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Wednesday nights from September 24, 1969 to January 28, 1970.Fred Davis was the principal host for this program, broadcast from Julie’s Restaurant on Jarvis Street in Toronto, across the street from the CBC. The idea was to have guests who were raconteurs with amusing […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1976 Broadcast Medium: Television A half-hour, puppet show for children, produced in Ottawa, featured Gertrude Diddle, the craggy and brassy mayor of a town called Crabgrass, who was widely thought to be a satire of Ottawa mayor Charlotte Whitton. She lived in a Victorian house with a beagle named […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Sunday mornings from May to November, 1969 This children’s program was written and produced by Clemence Desrochers. The adventures of a cat (Grujot) and a rabbit (Delicat.) Catchphrase: “C’est comme l’oeuf de Chriiiiiiiiiiistophe Colombe!” Written by John Corcelli – May, 2005