The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Wednesday nights from April 7 to May 26, 1971. This half hour program featured stories about outdoor activities. It was hosted by John Foster, who with his wife Janet produced their own series of travel films for CBC and syndication. This show suffered from […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired at various times, from January to December, 1971. Repeated from February 1972 to June 1974. This short series of 13 half hour programs featured Tommy Tompkins, outdoorsman and environmentalist. The series was repeated several times on the network, and broadcast both in afternoon time slots, aimed […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television A music/variety program produced in Edmonton, Alberta. Host: musical virtuoso, pianist, composer, and bandleader, (subsequently a Canadian Senator) Tommy Banks. Written by Colin McLean and produced by Don McRae. Aired – weekly, in primetime, from December 1971 to January 1974.– repeated summer of 1974. Written […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television A series of half-hour film dramas, the program was a reinvented version of Theatre Canada. Producer David Peddie . Aired – weekly, in prime time, from September 1971 to December 1973.– repeated summer of 1975. Written by John Corcelli – April, 2002
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television A panel show that explored unusual laws in Canada and other parts of the world. Host: Paul Soles [1971], Austin Willis [1972-1976]. Panelists: Julie Amato [1976], Bill Charlton [1971-1976], Susan Gay [1971-1972], Susan Keller [1972-1975], Madeleine Kronby [1971], Dini Petty [1971], Hart Pomerantz [1971-1976] and […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Wednesday nights from October 27 to December 22, 1971. Repeated Sunday nights in 1972 and during the summer of 1976. This series of one-hour programs chronicled the history of Canada from 1957 to 1967, Canada’s Centennial year. It was produced by Cameron Graham, who […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Wednesday nights from November 24 to December 15, 1971. This series of four one hour dramas were adaptations from a BBC series of the same name. The stories examined the life and times of a middle class family, each from the perspective of one […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired at various times from 1967 to 1970. This ten minute segment of Upside Town was a television quiz for Grade 7 students in the Toronto region. It was expanded to a full half-hour in the spring of 1968 and pitted students against other students, […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Sunday afternoons during the summer, from 1971 to 1976.This regular time slot featured repeats of CBC productions from the public affairs department, as well as drama, science and agriculture.The executive producer of the series was William Harcourt. Written by John Corcelli – September, 2005
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Saturdays at various times, from April 1971 to April, 1974.For three seasons, the CBC produced this sports talk show and tried to find an audience. Unfortunately, the broadcast times changed too often for viewers to watch it regularly.Tom McKee and CFL veteran Russ Jackson […]