The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1954 to 1955 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Wednesday nights at 9:30 from October 1954 to September 1955, then on Monday evenings in October 1955. Like many of the early television shows, this 30 minute variety show was sponsored by Lever Brothers. It was a version of The Big Revue, on a smaller scale. […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1954 to 1958 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Saturday nights for two seasons, 1954/55 and 1955/56, then on Monday nights from October 1956 to September 1958. This 30 minute program succeeded CBC Playbill as the principal series for half-hour drama and comedy designed to encourage Canadian writers to provide content.Some of the notable plays […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1954 to 1955 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired every two weeks from November 1954 to February 1955. This game show was produced in Montreal and ran every other week, alternating with House Party. The game matched a panel of four people, two of whom were married and the other two who were single. They […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1954 to 1955 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired at various times in the evening slot, from May 1954 to July 1955. Elaine Grand hosted this program that focused on issues important to women.Her success on the public affairs show, Tabloid, gave her the chance to host her own program. While the bulk of the […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1954 to 1956 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Tuesdays at 5 pm. during the school year 54/55 and again in 55/56. Robert MacNeil, later a U.S. network news correspondent and co-host of PBS’s The MacNeil-Lehrer Report, hosted this half-hour children’s broadcast from the National Museum in Ottawa. Programs included items about native people, animals […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1954 to 1959 Broadcast Medium: Television In autumn l954, the CBC built its own Doodyville in a Toronto studio.The show’s host was Timber Tom, a forest ranger played by James Doohan and Peter Mews. Clarabell was actually Alfie Scopp, and Larry Mann played Cap’n Scuttlebutt. Toby Tarnow played Pan, Caryl McBain was Princess […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1954 to 1955 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Tuesday nights from October 1954 to February 1955 A 30 minute talk show, it ran every other week, alternating with What’s My Line or Make A Match. Guests were introduced over film or still photographs, and then host Michele Tisseyre interviewed them in a setting appropriate […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1954 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Thursday nights in the summer of 1954 Originally shot as a pilot for a future program, the CBC went ahead and produced this variety show as summer series. The show took place in the studio used for the The Big Revue, but the production values were minimal: […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1954 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Friday evenings during the summer of 1954. This program was a precursor of Front Page Challenge. Produced in Toronto, the show featured a chairman and four guests, one of whom had played a part in a recent news story. The three panelists had to guess, through a […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1954 to 1959 Broadcast Medium: Television Host: Clyde Gilmour [1958-59]A one hour or ninety minute, sustaining program, Folio followed Scope and preceded Festival as the network’s flagship program for quality drama and musical performance. Aired weekly from 1954 to 1959. Written by John Corcelli – April, 2002