The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1974 to 1989 Broadcast Medium: Television Jim Perry took over from Bob McLean as host of this half-hour word game series in its second year, and was still with it when it ended fourteen years later. Celebrity guests paired with contestants drawn from viewer applicants to solve clues by choosing letters, […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1974 Broadcast Medium: Television As each new popular music craze came along in the sixties and seventies, and variety shows could still potentially draw big audiences, CTV could usually be relied upon to see if they could get on the bandwagon with a half-hour series featuring the new ‘in’ sound. Banjo […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1973 to 1974 Broadcast Medium: Television The success of their previous offerings, The Fabulous Sixties and Here Come The Seventies (q.v.), prompted producers Philip Hobel and Douglas Leiterman to pitch yet another series to CTV for the 1973-74 season, this time focusing on the more unpredictable future, and what might lie […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1973 to 1974 Broadcast Medium: Television When this one-hour series hit the CTV airwaves in September 1973, there were high hopes that this would mark a significant break-through into the international market for a Canadian program. The marquee value was substantial: its star was Keir Dullea, fresh from his success in […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1973 to 1974 Broadcast Medium: Television Thunder Bay’s Bobby Curtola was a highly successful pop singer in the 1960’s, with hits like Hand In Hand With You (1960) and Fortune Teller (1962) already under his belt while he was still in his teens. In 1964 he became a spokesman for Coca […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1973 to 1975 Broadcast Medium: Television U.S. game show producers Roger Muir and Nick Nicholson were among the few who found a way to use playing cards successfully in a television game show context, with Pay Cards, in which contestants played against one another to build poker hands. U.S. game show host […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1973 to 1975 Broadcast Medium: Television Tom Kneebone was the host of this half-hour children’s series, which utilized black-light imagery with puppets and all the animated gimmicks later utilized so effectively by the Famous People Players of Toronto. The series played in various time periods on CTV affiliate stations for two […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1972 to 1976 Broadcast Medium: Television CTV was often somewhat unjustly referred to as ‘the Game Show Network’ in its early years, but its daytime schedule certainly relied on this inexpensive form of entertainment to combat the strong allure of the U.S. soap operas which ruled and still rule so many […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1972 to 1973 Broadcast Medium: Television Len Carlson, Franz Russell, Julie Amato, Sid Brown and Donna Miller were some of the Canadian actors who provided the voices for a fishy bunch of underwater puppet characters who made up the Waterville Gang – Dodger Dolphin, Angel Fish, Sharky Shark, Eloise “Frenchie” the […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1972 to 1974 Broadcast Medium: Television The Canadian series that never was, the Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour played on both CBS and CTV from 1972 through 1974. Its gestation was a one-hour Canadian produced special, The Sonny and Cher Nitty Gritty Comedy Hour, which CTV co-produced in 1970 with US […]