Category: CBC Television Network

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1954 to 1955 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Monday evenings from February to September 1954; Wednesday evenings from October 1954 to September 1955. Host Vic Obeck covered hockey, football and baseball among other sports and outdoor activities. Produced in Montreal, regular contributors included Marilyn Bell on water safety and fitness with Lloyd Percival Written by […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1954 to 1959 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired weekly at the following times on CBC November 1954 to May 1955            Thursdays 8:00-8:30 November 1955 to May 1956            Fridays 10:00-10:30 November 1956 to May 1958                Fridays 8:30-9:00November 1958 to May 1959              Fridays 9:30-10:00 Based on the novel by Roger Lemelin, this was a weekly drama about the life […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1952 to 1955 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Sunday afternoons at 5:30 PM for two seasons January to June 1954 and September 1954 to June 1955. A 30 minute puppet show for children, originating at CBC Montreal, and first broadcast in French on September 7, 1952. The English version debuted in January of 1954. Like most […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1954 to 1955 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Wednesday nights at 9:30 from October 1954 to September 1955, then on Monday evenings in October 1955. Like many of the early television shows, this 30 minute variety show was sponsored by Lever Brothers. It was a version of The Big Revue, on a smaller scale. […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1954 to 1958 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Saturday nights for two seasons, 1954/55 and 1955/56, then on Monday nights from October 1956 to September 1958. This 30 minute program succeeded CBC Playbill as the principal series for half-hour drama and comedy  designed to encourage Canadian writers to provide content.Some of the notable plays […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1954 to 1955 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired every two weeks from November 1954 to February 1955. This game show was produced in Montreal and ran every other week, alternating with House Party. The game matched a panel of four people, two of whom were married and the other two who were single. They […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1954 to 1955 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired at various times in the evening slot, from May 1954 to July 1955. Elaine Grand hosted this program that focused on issues important to women.Her success on the public affairs show, Tabloid, gave her the chance to host her own program.  While the bulk of the […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1954 to 1956 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Tuesdays at 5 pm. during the school year 54/55 and again in 55/56. Robert MacNeil, later a U.S. network news correspondent and co-host of PBS’s The MacNeil-Lehrer Report, hosted this half-hour children’s broadcast from the National Museum in Ottawa. Programs included items about native people, animals […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1954 to 1959 Broadcast Medium: Television In autumn l954, the CBC built its own Doodyville in a Toronto studio.The show’s host was Timber Tom, a forest ranger played by James Doohan and Peter Mews. Clarabell was actually Alfie Scopp, and Larry Mann played Cap’n Scuttlebutt. Toby Tarnow played Pan, Caryl McBain was Princess […]

Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1954 to 1955 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Tuesday nights from October 1954 to February 1955 A 30 minute talk show, it ran every other week, alternating with What’s My Line or Make A Match. Guests were introduced over film or still photographs, and then host Michele Tisseyre interviewed them in a setting appropriate […]