The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1968 to 1969 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Monday to Friday at 4 PM from September 30 to December 30, 1968. Aired at 2 PM from January 6 to March 31, 1969. Produced in Toronto and New York, this co-production featured Pamela Mason as host. It was a product of the women’s […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1968 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Tuesdays at 5:30 PM during the summer of 1968. This summer series was produced in Montreal. It featured a mix of nature films and documentaries about animals. Shot on location, the show captured wildlife in its natural habitat. Written by John Corcelli – May, 2005
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1968 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Tuesday to Friday after school, from January to June 1968. Aired Tuesdays and Wednesdays only during the summer of 1968. Based on the Barney Boomer show, and shot in Oakville Ontario, Upside Town was its sequel. It featured many of the same characters in Boomer but the lead […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1968 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Monday afternoons during the summer of 1968. For 13 weeks during the summer of 1968, musician Stu Davis and his son, Duane, used country music and documentary-style filmmaking to tell the story of Canada’s West. Cultural and historical in nature, the show went on the road […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1968 to 1969 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Friday afternoons at 4:30 PM from October 4, 1968 to June 27, 1969. Considered by some critics as the Canadian Gidget, the character of Toby was by all accounts the antithesis of the swinging Sixties. Her dream was to marry her college sweetheart and […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1968 Broadcast Medium: Television Theologo ’67 Aired Sundays at 5 PM from July 20 to August 25, 1968. Held in Toronto and documented the previous summer, CBC aired this short series on the proceedings of the theological Congress meetings. Each half-hour featured a specific subject: Christian Unity, the Church in the […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1968 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Thursday nights from May 23 to July 11, 1968 This short series of 8 programs looked at the effects of technology on society’s values. It included authorities from the world of science and academia and was hosted by Patrick Watson. Many of the featured guests had […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1966 to 1967 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Wednesday evenings from January to June, 1966 and October 1966 to June 1967. The headliner of one of the last 15 minute musical variety shows to air on the network, singer Peggy Neville was one of the stars of Red River Jamboree, broadcast from Winnipeg. The […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1968 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Sunday afternoons from March 3 to June 30, 1968 Produced in Vancouver, this 30 minute program featured the talents of Jim Johnson, singer and guitarist, and Harry Aoki, bass player. The two had a regular radio show dedicated to roots music that was adapted to television […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1968 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Wednesday evenings at 5:30 PM during the summer of 1968. Produced in Winnipeg, Manitoba, this was a half-hour variety show in an unusual time slot. It starred Miriam Breitman, the vocal trio of Don Milne, Henri Enns and Karen Enns, jazz guitarist Lenny Breau and an […]