Category: CBC Television Network

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1977 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Friday nights at 9 pm from May 6 to 27, 1977. This short-lived country music program was produced in Halifax by Jack O’Neil. It featured music by local performers including Tim Daniels, Julia Lynn, Vic Mullin’s Meadowgreen, and guests. Written by John Corcelli – July, 2005

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1977 to 1980 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Thursday nights from September 1977 to April 1979; Friday nights during the summer of 1980.This one hour music variety show featured new talent from different parts of Canada. Many of the shows were hosted by established acts such as Ryan’s Fancy in St. John’s, […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1977 to 1978 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired weekday mornings from September 1977 to May 1978. Repeated during the summer of 1978. This 15-minute program was aimed at preschool children and was more of an entertainment show than an educational program. The program was bilingual, in French and English, but not was […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1977 to 1980 Broadcast Medium: Television Beyond Reason orginated as a summer replacement for Front Page Challenge. Host: Allen Spraggett . A panel show based on the contemporary interest in psychic phenomena. The panelists included astrologer Geoff Gray-Cobb of Vancouver, clairvoyant Irene Hughes of Chicago, palmist Marcel Broekman of New York, […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1976 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Wednesdays, after school, from October to December, 1976. Repeated in 1977 and 1978.This half hour cooking show featured Mme Jehane Benoit, one of the most popular chefs in television. Mme. Benoit had published a very popular book about Microwave cooking, but this show was more of […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1976 to 1977 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Tuesday nights from October 5, 1976 to September 13, 1977. This half hour musical variety series was hosted by one of the most popular American DJs of the 1960s, Wolfman Jack. [aka Bob Smith]. Jack’s popularity soared with his voiceover appearances in American Graffiti, […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1976 to 1979 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Thursday nights during the summer of 1976. Repeated Monday to Friday afternoons for two weeks in October, 1978. Repeated Sunday afternoons from April to August, 1979. This series of 13 half hour programs dramatized the development of flight. It was originally produced by Radio-Canada […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1976 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Monday to Friday nights, from January 5 to June 25, 1976. This short commentary program, produced by Trina McQueen, immediately followed The National and took the place of Viewpoint. Each night a different reporter would comment on a news story of their own, either national or […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1976 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired weekdays, at noon, in August of 1976.This hour long talk show replaced The Bob McLean show for one month, after CBC’s coverage of the Montreal Olympics came to a close. It was hosted by Bob Switzer, long time broadcaster and interviewer based in Vancouver.This show offered […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1976 to 1981 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Sunday or Monday nights, at various times, from 1976 to 1981. This big budget program was the idea of Jack McAndrew, then head of CBC variety. He oversaw the production of high quality television music shows, featuring Canada’s best known artists. The series featured […]