The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1962 to 1963 Broadcast Medium: Television Line ‘Em Up joined the CTV schedule in September 1962 as a daytime strip, 3:30pm – 4:00pm weekdays. It was the brainchild of U.S. Screen Gems’ game show whiz producer Dan Enright, and offered contestants the oppportunity to line up matching images on an over-sized ‘one-armed bandit’ slot machine, […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1961 to 1964 Broadcast Medium: Television One of the many game shows to be seen on the new CTV Network in the early years following its launch in October of 1960 was called A Kin to Win. The series was created and produced by Americans Nick Nicholson and E. Roger Muir, who were […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1962 to 1963 Broadcast Medium: Television Johnny Jellybean was a character created for children’s television in the U.S. by comedian Ted Ziegler, who came to Canada in 1962 and hosted and produced the Johnny Jellybean show out of CFCF Montreal. He wore a perennial beanie, and a large bow tie, and […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1962 to 1964 Broadcast Medium: Television This daily half-hour series was hosted by Richard Willis It was for women and about women and was produced before a studio audience. Joan McCormick, as Richard’s Ed MacMahon, introduced each day’s guests, who would be experts in such areas as make-up, cosmetics, hair styling […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1961 to 1965 Broadcast Medium: Television Roy Ward Dickson started life in London, England in 1910 as Richard del Valle.He emigrated to Canada at age 16, and after a varied career which included jobs as farm-hand, chemist, stores manager and teacher, he one day persuaded the Vancouver Sun to publish a […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1961 to 1962 Broadcast Medium: Television This half-hour variety show was shot in the studios of CHAN-TV (rebranded BCTV in 1975) and on location in British Columbia. Studio production numbers, which featured Dal Richards and his orchestra, and vocals by his wife Lorraine McAllister, were interspersed with such scenes as rock […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1961 Broadcast Medium: Television The first network series to be produced by CTV Winnipeg affiliate CJAY (now CKY), this Canadian version of the popular U.S. panel game was hosted by Stewart Macpherson, a local personality who had gained national fame in the U.K., first as a war correspondent and later as […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1961 to 1965 Broadcast Medium: Television One of the earliest Canadian television series to seek public opinions on key issues, Telepoll was hosted by Royce Frith, and featured a weekly guest panel who debated currently hot topics on each program. A preselected group of members of the public were then polled […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1961 to 1962 Broadcast Medium: Television Another of several game shows to appear in CTV’s schedule in its first season, and one of many to come from the Goodson-Todman stable in New York, Showdown was hosted by Hamilton radio broadcaster Paul Hanover. It featured contestants competing to answer general knowledge questions, and the […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1961 to 1962 Broadcast Medium: Television Colorful producer Syd Banks, who was responsible for producing several of CTV’s early shows, gave the nation this weekly compilation of various country music acts taped in different parts of Canada. It was the forerunner of several similarly styled country shows that ran on CTV over many years, […]