Category: CBC Television Network

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Sunday afternoons from June 29 to July 20, 1969. Produced in Vancouver, this 30-minute program was a music show that was recorded in front of a studio audience, and featured pop songs and country hits. The hosts for the short series were Mike Neun and Brian […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Thursday evenings at 8:30 PM from September 11 to December 11, 1969. Ray St. Germain hosted this short lived music/variety show aimed at young adults. Much like most television programming in the late 60s, it failed to sustain any interest from the younger set. But the […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Thursday nights from October 1969 to September, 1970. This series of one hour documentaries featured CBC productions supplemented by imports, mainly from the UK. The executive producers of the series were William Harcourt and Robert Patchell. The production team was made up of Donald […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1973 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Sunday nights from September 1969 to September 1973. This time slot was given this somewhat banal title because a different type of program aired each week. Some weeks it was a comedy special from Wayne and Shuster or a drama, such as The Manipulators. Two […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Monday to Friday at 2PM, from April 1 to October 7, 1969. Robert F. Aaron, who worked for NBC, developed this game show specifically for the CBC. Produced in a large studio, the program featured contestants battling in an elaborate game of ‘darts’. The team that […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Monday to Friday, in the afternoon, from October 1969 to July 1970.This daily half hour soap opera was a bizarre, gothic kind of show more suited to late night viewing than the middle of the day. It was inspired by an American show called […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired during the summer of 1969 and 1970; repeated in 1972. This weekly half-hour music program was produced by Sydney Banks in Montreal. Banks was responsible for Let’s Sing Out and Brand New Scene, both successful variety shows. This show was hosted by Gilbert Price, […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 to 1974 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Thursday or Friday afternoons from February to October, 1969. Returned in the summer of 1974. This was a program featuring original films for children, produced by the CBC and the NFB. Selected titles: Orientation, Sculpt-In, Through a Child Lightly, Great Barrier Reef, Victory over […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Wednesday nights at 10:30 PM from April 23 to June 23, 1969 These seven 30-minute broadcasts represented something of a risk for the CBC: independent film. But it was 1969 and a lot of experimental films were being produced as the technology changed and became more […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1969 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Saturday afternoons during the summer of 1969. During the year of Woodstock, the CBC committed to an 8-week series of concerts featuring the Montreal Symphony Orchestra from Place des Arts in Montreal. They were produced by Radio Canada for the French network, but later aired on […]