Author: Anne MacLennan

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1998 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired weekly from March 2, 1998 to April 6, 1998. This half hour comedy series featured Greg Thomey as small-town talk show host Ernie Post. Along with his sidekick, Charles the Chef (Richard Donat), Ernie welcomed guests to explore a number of themes that affected people’s daily lives. […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1998 to 2005 Broadcast Medium: Television Set in Vancouver, Da Vince’s Inquest was a one-hour series that ran on the CBC for 91 episodes between 1998 and 2005. It depicted the exploits of Dominic Da Vinci,  a crusading coroner, whose character was based on that of real-life Vancouver coroner Larry Campbell.   […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1997 to 1999 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired twice a week at various times, from October 1, 1997 to November 23, 1999 This half-hour children’s program featured Sharon, Lois & Bram; three of the most popular kids performers in Canada. It was set at a fictional television station operated by the threesome […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1997 to 2000 Broadcast Medium: Television A soap opera/drama, set in the Toronto community of Riverdale. The series was created  byYan Moore, one of the producers of Britain’s Coronation Street, and was produced by Stephen Sohn and Linda Schuyler for Epitome Pictures Inc., in association with the CBC.  94 half-hour episodes were produced.  The series premiered […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1991 to 2006 Broadcast Medium: Television Steve Smith plays the part of outdoorsman Red Green in this highly successful comedy show produced in association with CBC. The weekly 30-minute program debuted on CBC in 1997, after starting on CHCH in 1991 and later moving to Global, and offered such ever-popular segments […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1997 to 2001 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Friday nights from September 11, 1997 to June 21, 2001. [Repeated during the summer] Film critics Brian Johnson and Liz Braun originally hosted On The Arts from 1991 to 1994. David Gilmour hosted the program from 1994 to 1997, but various changes to the […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1997 to 2006 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired weekly from 1997 to 2006 This hour long documentary series borrowed its ideas from A&E’s Biography program. This series featured co-productions with CBC and offered viewers a cross-section of Canadian biographies from business, politics, sports and the Arts. It often featured interviews with the […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1997 to 2004 Broadcast Medium: Television A weekly 30 minute program about different occupations in Canada, featuring Peter Jordan who tries his hand at a variety of jobs such as a truck driver, ballet dancer; helicopter test-pilot, and speed skater. The program was based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It debuted in 1997 […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1997 to 1999 Broadcast Medium: Television Pilot aired October 26, 1997. Five more episodes aired weekly from March 10, 1999 to April 7, 1999. [Repeated in 2000] This half-hour comedy was about Dooley Gardens, the oldest indoor hockey rink in St. John’s Nfld.,  run by supervisor Marilyn Benoit (Mary Walsh) and […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1997 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Sunday nights from January 19, 1997 to February 16, 1997 This five part series of one-hour programs was a co-production of CBC and BBC. It was led by Mark Starowicz who brought As It Happens to radio and The Journal to television. This series was a […]