The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1973 to 1974 Broadcast Medium: Television When this one-hour series hit the CTV airwaves in September 1973, there were high hopes that this would mark a significant break-through into the international market for a Canadian program. The marquee value was substantial: its star was Keir Dullea, fresh from his success in […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1973 to 1974 Broadcast Medium: Television Thunder Bay’s Bobby Curtola was a highly successful pop singer in the 1960’s, with hits like Hand In Hand With You (1960) and Fortune Teller (1962) already under his belt while he was still in his teens. In 1964 he became a spokesman for Coca […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1973 to 1975 Broadcast Medium: Television U.S. game show producers Roger Muir and Nick Nicholson were among the few who found a way to use playing cards successfully in a television game show context, with Pay Cards, in which contestants played against one another to build poker hands. U.S. game show host […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1973 to 1975 Broadcast Medium: Television Tom Kneebone was the host of this half-hour children’s series, which utilized black-light imagery with puppets and all the animated gimmicks later utilized so effectively by the Famous People Players of Toronto. The series played in various time periods on CTV affiliate stations for two […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1972 to 1976 Broadcast Medium: Television CTV was often somewhat unjustly referred to as ‘the Game Show Network’ in its early years, but its daytime schedule certainly relied on this inexpensive form of entertainment to combat the strong allure of the U.S. soap operas which ruled and still rule so many […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1972 to 1973 Broadcast Medium: Television Len Carlson, Franz Russell, Julie Amato, Sid Brown and Donna Miller were some of the Canadian actors who provided the voices for a fishy bunch of underwater puppet characters who made up the Waterville Gang – Dodger Dolphin, Angel Fish, Sharky Shark, Eloise “Frenchie” the […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1972 to 1974 Broadcast Medium: Television The Canadian series that never was, the Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour played on both CBS and CTV from 1972 through 1974. Its gestation was a one-hour Canadian produced special, The Sonny and Cher Nitty Gritty Comedy Hour, which CTV co-produced in 1970 with US […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1971 to 1973 Broadcast Medium: Television Produced at CTV’s Montreal affiliate station CFCF-TV, Puppet People was hosted by Jerry Layne, produced and directed by Sidney Cohen, and featured puppets and children in a quiz show based on mini comedy sketches acted by puppets. The puppets were created by Don Keller; the […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1972 to 1974 Broadcast Medium: Television Not to be confused with a British series of the same title, which was the predecessor of The Avengers, Police Surgeon started life under the title Dr. Simon Locke, the name of the lead character. It was produced in Canada for U.S. syndication, and after […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1972 to 1973 Broadcast Medium: Television Screen Gems was a U.S. television production and distribution company that was probably the first such organisation to take significant advantage of the fact that production costs were much cheaper in Canada than below the border. They produced many shows in Canada, initially in Vancouver, […]