The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1966 to 1967 Broadcast Medium: Television This half-hour music show was yet another from prolific producer Syd Banks’ stable. It featured folk music performers of the calibre of Oscar Brand and The Womenfolk, and played on CTV for one year on Tuesdays at 9:30pm in the 1966-67 season. Any additional background […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1965 to 1967 Broadcast Medium: Television Jim Perry, a guitar-playing folk singer who was soon to become a familiar face to CTV viewers as host of the Miss Canada Pageant, was the first host of this half-hour daytime strip game show. It required contestants to listen to and decipher phonetic versions […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1965 to 1967 Broadcast Medium: Television Under the sole sponsorship of British-American Oil, Musical Showcase was a combination of game show and variety musical, with contestants in the studio competing to win major prizes – including cars, boats, houses, furniture and jewelry – for their ‘air partners’ who had ‘turned in […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1965 to 1966 Broadcast Medium: Television The year and the then-current popularity of go-go dancing provided the title for this half hour series, which was hosted by Toronto DJ Mike Darow and featured Robbie Lane and his Disciples doing remarkably skilful recreations of current record hits, while four lithe dancers cavorted […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1964 to 1979 Broadcast Medium: Television One of the early charade shows on Canadian television, It’s Your Move was hosted by Hamilton radio broadcaster Paul Hanover, with Nick Hollinrake as the often very funny announcer. It pitted pairs of contestants against one another in timed contests to guess answers that were […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1964 to 1965 Broadcast Medium: Television A smash hit series on British commercial television in the Fifties and Sixties, Double Your Money in its Canadian version didn’t travel the Atlantic too well. Starring Hughie Green, born in Montreal but a resident of England for most of his life, the program was […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1964 to 1968 Broadcast Medium: Television US country music singer Carl Smith came to Canada to host this weekly half-hour of both domestic and US country music performers doing their thang, with resident performers The Maple Creek Boys, Diana Leigh, Chuck Stewart, Cy Anders and Jean Carignan. Syd Banks produced the […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1963 to 1964 Broadcast Medium: Television At the start of the 1963-64 season, CTV had two half-hour Roy Ward Dickson game shows in its prime time schedule, Take a Chance (in its third year) and this one, which – like many of Roy’s shows – took advantage of his encyclopaedic knowledge […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1963 to 1967 Broadcast Medium: Television This half-hour weekly public affairs show was chaired by CTV newscaster Ab Douglas, and featured a representative from each of the four political parties of the day – Conservative, Liberal, New Democrat and Social Credit – answering barbed questions from the host. The unique feature […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1963 to 1967 Broadcast Medium: Television Oscar Brand was the host of this series of concerts taped at various universities in Canada, with Canadian and U.S. guests including Gale Garnett (before she added the middle name Zoe) and the Tarriers, David Campbell and Eric Anderson. The series debuted in the fall […]