The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1980 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Friday nights from February 29 to April 11, 1980. This hour long music program was hosted by Guido Basso, long time jazz trumpetplayer and band leader. Jazz Canada was specifically produced tofeature the best in Canadian talent in a casual setting. Since Jazz isan improvised musical form, […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1980 to 1983 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Sunday nights from November 1980 to November 1983. This weekly one-hour drama took place in Toronto during World War II.It was about the Lowe family, whose patriarch was a family doctor.While the war raged on, many characters were only known by the lettersthey sent […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1980 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Wednesday nights for three weeks, from March 12 to March 26 1980. This short series of 90-minute dramas was based on the stories ofMorley Torgov from the book of the same name. It was about growing upJewish in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario. The stories were adapted […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1980 to 1981 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Friday nights for two seasons from September 1980 to November1981. This half hour sit-com took place in the 1920s during prohibition. Itwas the story of May Lamb, owner of a Montreal night club staffed by anodd assortment of employees. The staff included a bootlegging chef, acigarette […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1980 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Thursday nights from January 17 to December 13, 1980. This half-hour public affairs program, origjnally just called Decision, was produced in Montreal. It was specifically designed to be a regular political discussion on the subject of potential Quebec independence. In 1976, the Parti Quebecois, led by Rene Levesque, […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1980 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Sunday nights from January 6, 1980 to February 17, 1980. This program was made up of hour-long adventure dramas, all produced in various regions of Canada. Some of the titles included: Paid Vacation, written and directed by Ralph Thomas and produced by Vivienne Leebosh; Northern Lights, written by […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1980 to 1981 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Sunday nights at 9PM from September 21 to November 2, 1980; repeated from May 31 to July 12, 1981 in the same time slot. This was a series of seven hour-long documentaries about Canada’s business elite. It was narrated by Patrick Watson, and was based on the […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1980 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Saturday evenings in the Spring of 1980. This13 week series of half hour programs featured Al Oeming, awildlife conservationist on the road to save rare animals, mostly inCanada’s North. A typical episode would featuring Oeming locating andtrapping rare animals and endangered species for his Alberta Game […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1979 to 1980 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Saturday mornings from April to September, 1979; May to August, 1980.This half hour science program was an introduction to horticulture and was produced in Calgary by Peter D. Marshall. The host was Tineke Wilders, the Dutch “plant doctor” who travelled to conservatories, solariums, nurseries […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1979 to 1988 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired on various nights from November 26, 1979 to March 4, 1981.Repeated at various times from 1981 to 1988. This 13-episode series of programs was produced by John and JanetFoster, who created the very popular show To the Wild Country. Thisseries took the Fosters to […]