The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1991 to 1994 Broadcast Medium: Television Christopher Plummer was the star attraction of this one-hour CTV drama series, and with Simon McCorkindale as his sidekick they held Counterstrike together for a tidy three-year run. Plummer played Alexander Addington, a very wealthy Canadian who hired a private group to free his kidnapped […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1990 to 1992 Broadcast Medium: Television Each week, this imaginative children’s series took a single topic – Air, Television, Volcanoes, Energy, Computers and Robotics were typical subjects covered – and tried to answer all the questions which one might expect kids to ask about that subject. Host Richard Zurawski was the […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1984 to 1995 Broadcast Medium: Television The Canadian Young Naturalist Foundation formed the Owl Children’s Trust in 1975, and in 1976 it launched Owl Magazine, a science and nature discovery magazine, which quickly gained a circulation of 25,000 and continued to grow. Eventually, in 1985, a TV series based on the […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1990 to 1991 Broadcast Medium: Television Starring Winston Rekert, Neon Rider was a series about a former University of Toronto professor and one-time alcoholic, now a best-selling author on teenage misbehavior, who created a camp for wayward teenagers on a ranch in the Rockies. A Vancouver youth organization (which was based loosely […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1990 to 1993 Broadcast Medium: Television Electronic News Gathering, the shooting of news stories on tape instead of film, provided the initials for this series’ title. E.N.G. was set in a fictitious Toronto television station’s newsroom, and explored the lives of the staff of the station as they covered the dramatic […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1989 to 1995 Broadcast Medium: Television Shirley Solomon raised an occasional eyebrow, along with CTV’s ratings, when she hosted her own one-hour daily show on CTV. This often controversial, sometimes confrontational series came within a whisker of being picked up for broadcast on the US ABC Network, but ABC changed their […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1989 to 1991 Broadcast Medium: Television This half-hour daytime strip series was a precursor of the popular 2002 prime time series Doctor Phil, in that it too addressed problems in human relationships, which were then commented on and solutions suggested by Dr. Don Dutton, a Social Psychology Ph.D. Each of the […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1989 to 1993 Broadcast Medium: Television Set in the 1880s, this half-hour drama series told the tales of a U.S. Marshal and a North West Mounted Police Corporal who enforced the law in the mythical town of Pemmican, which straddled the US/Canada border between Alberta and Montana.John H. Brennan played the […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1988 to 1989 Broadcast Medium: Television Details about this CTV daytime strip series might just as well themselves be strictly confidential, for all the information we have been able to dig up. This weekday morning half-hour played daily 10:30 – 11:00am on the Network in the 1988-89 season, but information on the […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1988 to 1990 Broadcast Medium: Television Born as a local program on CTV’s Regina affiliate CKCK, Puttnam’s Prairie Emporium found its way into the Network’s Saturday morning children’s program block in the fall of 1989. A rare contribution from a prairie affiliate, Puttnam’s quickly developed a small but highly enthusiastic following […]