The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1968 to 1969 Broadcast Medium: Television Singing star Catherine McKinnon had been long overdue for her own featured series when CTV signed her to headline River Inn, another in a series of musical-variety half-hours which the network introduced in the mid-1960s to feature Canadian performers and meet its Canadian content requirements. […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1968 to 1969 Broadcast Medium: Television Toronto newsman and interviewer Norm Perry hosted this half-hour investigative journalism series, first as a local program on CFTO-TV Toronto and later as a CTV network daytime strip. It only lasted one season, but Perry re-emerged several years later on the network as co-host of […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1968 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television Screen Gems Canada were one of the most successful U.S. based production companies who took existing program formats and made deals to produce Canadian versions for stations and networks north of the border. CTV picked up several of these series, of which Doctor’s Diary was […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1967 Broadcast Medium: Television First seen on CTV in the fall of 1967, Question Period returned to the air in the fall of 2001, having taken a four-year hiatus at the end of the 1996-1997 season. The series’ hosts were Bruce Phillips, Pamela Wallin and latterly CTV Ottawa Bureau Chief Craig […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1967 to 1977 Broadcast Medium: Television Set in a studio recreation of a British pub, Pig and Whistle was an example of the kind of musical programming that CTV did so well for many years. It starred British actor/singer John Hewer as Mine Host of an inn that featured resident singers, […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1967 to 1968 Broadcast Medium: Television This public affairs series appeared in the CTV schedule for one year, 1967-68, at 10:30pm on Mondays. Regrettably, no information on host, content etc. has come to light, and any recollections by visitors to this site would be welcomed with gratitude. Written by Pip Wedge – February, […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1967 to 1968 Broadcast Medium: Television The comedy team of Ted Ziegler and Peter Cullen starred in this Saturday morning half-hour, which yet again demonstrated Ziegler’s ability to create programs which entertained children, but which gave their parents something to enjoy too. Along with the broad slapstick, there was always some […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1966 to 1967 Broadcast Medium: Television Devised, or so the credits said, by bandleader Sammy Kaye, Words and Music was a daytime strip game show which asked contestants to identify people, places or things through a series of words and musical clues. For example, “Sport you might enjoy here” would be […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1966 Broadcast Medium: Television W5 made its debut on CTV in the fall of 1966, and was still in the network’s schedule 50 years later. But while W5 had become without doubt the longest-running weekly prime time public affairs program in North America, there is one little-known fact. When Michael Maclear took over the […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1966 to 1983 Broadcast Medium: Television During the early days of CTV, the affiliates did a certain amount of their own cooperative Canadian programming, which was circulated by what was known as a tape “bicycle”. This was not the physical method of delivery, but a reference to the way the tapes […]