The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1975 to 1977 Broadcast Medium: Television This talented Cape Breton singer first showed up in the CTV schedule in May 1975 with his self-titled show, which formed the third in the Trilogy series of variety half-hours that CTV played on Sundays at 6:30pm in the 1974-75 season – the others being […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1974 to 1977 Broadcast Medium: Television Leading documentary film-maker Michael Maclear was hired by CTV in 1974 to host his own eponymously titled documentary half-hour series. His style of personal journalism, plus a generous budget, enabled him to travel the world to cover whatever stories took his fancy. He had established […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1974 to 1975 Broadcast Medium: Television With a strong cast – Chris Wiggins, Diana Leblanc, Heather Graham, Mickey O’Neill and Michael Duhig – and excellent writing, this half-hour CTV series showed great promise, but succumbed to budgetary problems after building quite a respectable audience. Johann Wyss’s famous book was faithfully recreated […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1974 to 1975 Broadcast Medium: Television Although Canadian television writer/producers Allan Blye and Chris Bearde were able to take their CBC-honed talents to Hollywood and prosper in the late 1960s, they never missed an opportunity to bring U.S. productions to Canada, where production costs were less, and where they knew just […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1974 to 1975 Broadcast Medium: Television Game shows had been a staple of the CTV daytime program schedules from the network’s inception in 1961, but by 1974 their appeal had diminished to a point where CTV was losing audience to talk shows and soap operas on other networks and stations. He […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1974 to 1975 Broadcast Medium: Television With what would now be regarded as a politically incorrect title, this Canadian Hee-Haw country music look-alike unfortunately did not have the staying power of its antecedent. The efforts of host Blake Emmons, and the resident cast of Monica Parker, Linda Renhoffer, Valri Bromfield, John […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1974 to 1976 Broadcast Medium: Television In an attempt to put a comedic spin on Canada’s ‘two solitudes”, the plot-lines of Excuse My French revolved around the lives of French-Canadian waitress Marie-Louise, played by Lisa Charbonneau, and her anglo husband Peter Hutchins, played by Stuart Gillard. Paul Berval and Earl Pennington […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1974 to 1989 Broadcast Medium: Television Jim Perry took over from Bob McLean as host of this half-hour word game series in its second year, and was still with it when it ended fourteen years later. Celebrity guests paired with contestants drawn from viewer applicants to solve clues by choosing letters, […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1974 Broadcast Medium: Television As each new popular music craze came along in the sixties and seventies, and variety shows could still potentially draw big audiences, CTV could usually be relied upon to see if they could get on the bandwagon with a half-hour series featuring the new ‘in’ sound. Banjo […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1973 to 1974 Broadcast Medium: Television The success of their previous offerings, The Fabulous Sixties and Here Come The Seventies (q.v.), prompted producers Philip Hobel and Douglas Leiterman to pitch yet another series to CTV for the 1973-74 season, this time focusing on the more unpredictable future, and what might lie […]