Category: CTV Television Network

Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1971 to 1972 Broadcast Medium: Television The song was a major hit for Kenny Rogers and the First Edition, and the television series featured the group on a studio-built riverboat, ‘captained’ by comedian Billy Van. The First Edition trotted out hits like “Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town” and “Just […]

Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1971 to 1973 Broadcast Medium: Television Alan Hamel hosted this daytime strip panel show, in which a panel of three women celebrities faced an unfortunate male guest – also a celebrity – and dumped on him for some perceived slight to their femininity. Owing something to the 1950s panel show Leave […]

Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1971 to 1977 Broadcast Medium: Television The plough, the fish, the camel, the cobra and the curling leaf were all stars of this CTV series – and all were among the various yoga moves and positions which were demonstrated to viewers by an exceptionally lithe Kareen Zebroff, host of this series. […]

Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1970 to 1975 Broadcast Medium: Television The half-hour series that started out in September 1970 as Nashville North (q.v.) in 1970 morphed via being Nashville Now to finally being named after the host, Ian Tyson, when the 1971-72 season started. The show played 9:30 – 10:00pm on Tuesdays under that title […]

Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1971 to 1974 Broadcast Medium: Television One of the more elaborate daytime strip game shows to be seen on CTV, Anything You Can Do was a timed contest (shades of Beat the Clock) between two teams of three, men versus women, who competed in a series of physical and often messy […]

Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1971 to 1972 Broadcast Medium: Television There was a U.S. show of this title in syndication in the U.S. in 1971. and it is assumed that this was a Canadian version of that series. The format had pairs of contestants (minor stars in the U.S. version) viewing film clips, and they […]

Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1970 to 1971 Broadcast Medium: Television An unsuccessful precursor to Jeanne Beker’s sparkling Fashion TV series on CITY, Wild Whirl of Fashion only lasted one season as a daytime strip before spinning into the ground. It played in 1970-71 as a five-day-a-week strip on CTV, being delivered to stations 8:30-9:00am but […]

Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1970 to 1971 Broadcast Medium: Television U.S. producer Don Reid created a very successful game show called College Bowl, in which American universities competed against one another in a general knowledge quiz. Reid’s format had sufficient unique elements for him to be able to copyright them, in addition to the program […]

Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television Although this series has made it into more than one list of the worst Canadian television shows ever, 20-20 hindsight may have done it some injustice. When CTV was under fire for doing no Canadian drama production at all, suddenly in 1970 there in the schedule was […]

Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1970 to 1976 Broadcast Medium: Television Sports Beat made its debut on the Network in September 1970, to occupy the Wednesday evening time slot that had in the two previous seasons been occupied by half-hour variety shows. The presence of Wednesday Night Hockey in the CTV schedule frequently meant that an […]