Category: CBC Television Network

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Saturday nights, before hockey, from September 18, 1971 to May 20, 1972This half hour comedy/variety show was the last of a series of attempts by the CBC at sketch comedy and satire that included Comedy Cafe, Comedy Crackers and Zut! The only actor to […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television A series of historical documentaries, outlined the development of the country’s cultural and social history. Produced in consultation with Ramsay Cook. Aired weekly – at various times, from March 1972 to March 1974.– repeated during the summer of 1977 and 1979. Written by John Corcelli […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Thursday nights during the summer of 1972.Terry David Mulligan was the star of this situation comedy about a university student who wins the taxi license to an Austin Mini in a Scrabble game. The co-star was Bill Reiter,  who played a variety of different […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Tuesday nights during the summer of 1972.This half hour music/variety show was produced in Winnipeg with Catherine McKinnon, guitaristJim Roberts and The Family Six. The latter group were six brothers and sisters from the Dandeneau family of Fisher Branch, Manitoba.Dave Shaw led the orchestra […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television A program about business, labour and finance, produced in Toronto and presented by Gordon Jones. The show’s executive producers were John Lackie (l972-74) and Doug Lower (l974-75). Aired Sundays 1:00-1:30 p.m.EST, October 1972 to June 1975; weekly. Written by John Corcelli – April, 2002

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Sunday afternoons from April 30 to June 4, 1972; aired Monday nights from June 12 to August 21, 1972.This talk show featured Canadians of prominence in a variety of fields from the arts to politics. John David Hamilton was the host and interviewer. The […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired: October 1, 1972 to April 1991 on Sunday evenings, later on Wednesday evenings. One of the most popular CBC dramas, with comic overtones, featured the small town exploits of a group of competitive seafarers who try to salvage logs that drift on to the […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Thursday nights from September 1972 to June, 1973. Repeated during the day, in the spring of 1975.Bob Francis hosted this musical program dedicated to the Big Band era. It succeeded In The Mood with Jack Duffy, but was more adventurous musically speaking. Contemporary arrangements […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Monday nights from March 28 to June 20, 1972. This hour-long series of 13 episodes was hosted by John Kenneth Galbraith, economist, Harvard University professor and advisor to President John F. Kennedy. The program was about economics and it was a bold production from […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television A panel show that featured unusual and mysterious objects and inventions. Host: Warren Davis. Panelists: Mavis Kerr, Peter Hesky, Walter Kenyan, Franz Russell, Peter Swan, Sybil Turnball, Molly Watson, William Withrow and T. Culyer Young. Based on an l950s CBC show, Who Knows. Produced by […]