The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1975 to 1976 Broadcast Medium: Television It may have been the perceived attraction of the word Celebrity in the title that prompted CTV to give this series a prime time slot in addition to playing it as a daytime strip, but neither the quality of the celebrity names nor the game […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1975 to 1978 Broadcast Medium: Television Songs like “Roses Are Red”, “Blue on Blue” and “Blue Velvet” put U.S. performer Bobby Vinton in the Hit Parade in the early 1960s, but it was his return to the record charts in the 1970s with My Melody of Love which caught the attention […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1974 Broadcast Medium: Television One regular feature of CTV program committee meetings in the 1960s and 1970s was the competition between affiliates to have their programs picked up by the network. Each year, several of the major stations would produce pilots ‘on spec’ in the hope that the other stations would […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1975 to 1977 Broadcast Medium: Television This talented Cape Breton singer first showed up in the CTV schedule in May 1975 with his self-titled show, which formed the third in the Trilogy series of variety half-hours that CTV played on Sundays at 6:30pm in the 1974-75 season – the others being […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1974 to 1977 Broadcast Medium: Television Leading documentary film-maker Michael Maclear was hired by CTV in 1974 to host his own eponymously titled documentary half-hour series. His style of personal journalism, plus a generous budget, enabled him to travel the world to cover whatever stories took his fancy. He had established […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1974 to 1975 Broadcast Medium: Television With a strong cast – Chris Wiggins, Diana Leblanc, Heather Graham, Mickey O’Neill and Michael Duhig – and excellent writing, this half-hour CTV series showed great promise, but succumbed to budgetary problems after building quite a respectable audience. Johann Wyss’s famous book was faithfully recreated […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1974 to 1975 Broadcast Medium: Television Although Canadian television writer/producers Allan Blye and Chris Bearde were able to take their CBC-honed talents to Hollywood and prosper in the late 1960s, they never missed an opportunity to bring U.S. productions to Canada, where production costs were less, and where they knew just […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1974 to 1975 Broadcast Medium: Television Game shows had been a staple of the CTV daytime program schedules from the network’s inception in 1961, but by 1974 their appeal had diminished to a point where CTV was losing audience to talk shows and soap operas on other networks and stations. He […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1974 to 1975 Broadcast Medium: Television With what would now be regarded as a politically incorrect title, this Canadian Hee-Haw country music look-alike unfortunately did not have the staying power of its antecedent. The efforts of host Blake Emmons, and the resident cast of Monica Parker, Linda Renhoffer, Valri Bromfield, John […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1974 to 1976 Broadcast Medium: Television In an attempt to put a comedic spin on Canada’s ‘two solitudes”, the plot-lines of Excuse My French revolved around the lives of French-Canadian waitress Marie-Louise, played by Lisa Charbonneau, and her anglo husband Peter Hutchins, played by Stuart Gillard. Paul Berval and Earl Pennington […]