The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1980 to 1985 Broadcast Medium: Television Canadian actor/writer/producer Allan Blye and his US partner Bob Einstein developed this zany comedy series for an adult audience on the U.S. Showtime network, and produced a laundered version for CTV. Comedian John Byner was the host, and a strong team of Canadian comedy veterans […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1980 to 1981 Broadcast Medium: Television John Candy tried his hand with this half-hour comedy series after briefly leaving the SCTV crew to go it alone – or with new friends. It was produced for a year in Utah by The Osmonds, and then came to Canada for one more modest […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1980 to 1983 Broadcast Medium: Television When one Alan closed, another opened. When the Alan Hamel Show left CTV’s daytime schedule in the fall of 1980, in came Alan Thicke to replace him with his own one-hour talk show. This talented Canadian actor, writer and songwriter had a very successful three-year […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1979 Broadcast Medium: Television Doug Paulson, later to make a name for himself as the host of CTV’s Thrill of a Lifetime series, was the host of this half-hour panel show, which originated from Edmonton. A celebrity panel, which included such luminaries as Alex Barris and Dinah Christie, was augmented with […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1979 to 1980 Broadcast Medium: Television The success of their local Ottawa Saturday morning series “You Can’t Do That On Television” prompted creators Roger Price and Geoffrey Darby to develop a prime time version of this scurrilously irreverent comedy, which made the CTV schedule three years ahead of “You Can’t Do […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1963 to 1985 Broadcast Medium: Television A late 1950s feature film spawned this television series, first produced for Canadian and U.S. syndication in the early 1960s and then revived by CFTO Toronto for CTV prime time in 1979. As one of many websites for this highly-popular series described it: “It’s the […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1978 to 1988 Broadcast Medium: Television One of the advantages of the CTV affiliates owning their own network was their ability to agree on the creation of blocks of comparatively inexpensive Canadian daytime programming, which not only helped meet their content minimum requirements, but could generate advertising revenue because of the […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1976 to 1978 Broadcast Medium: Television “Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport” was the song that made Australian-born Rolf Harris internationally famous in 1960, and this multi-talented performer was quickly in international demand not just as a singer, but as an artist and comedian. He also played a weird and wondrous instrument […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1978 to 1979 Broadcast Medium: Television Born in Campbellton, New Brunswick, Patsy Gallant was only three when she began singing (in French) with her three sisters at fairs and on radio and TV. The Gallant Singers moved with their family to Montreal when Patsy was ten, but it was not until […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1978 to 1981 Broadcast Medium: Television One of a long line of daytime game shows that graced the CTV schedule in the sixties, seventies and eighties, Mad Dash was livelier than most. Creator/producer Sidney M. Cohen employed his contestants as game pieces on a snakes-and-ladders style game board painted on the […]