The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 1988 to 2000 Broadcast Medium: Television Shot on location on the Kingston Peninsula in New Brunswick, Blue Rainbow was a half-hour children’s series that promoted how life was exciting, wonderful and worth exploring through song, storytelling and puppetry. Producer Lutia Lausane also played a variety of characters including Mama Gaia, Lil, Tina and Willie. […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 1988 to 1992 Broadcast Medium: Television Ray St. Germain, a Winnipeg Métis country music entertainer, hosted this half-hour of country and western entertainment that included bluegrass, Native and Métis music as well as standard country fare. Showcasing local, national and international talent, Big Sky Country was taped at various locations throughout Manitoba and […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 1987 to 1995 Broadcast Medium: Television Hosted by Al Dubois, this game show was based on contestants trying to unscramble vanity licence plates into popular words or slogans for cash and merchandise. The show was produced primarily for the USA network, but also ran on Global Television for three years. It was hard […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 1987 to 1990 Broadcast Medium: Television Winston Rekert played former top agent V. H. Adderly in Covert Operations for ISI (International Security and Intellgience). Relegated to a desk job after losing a hand after being tortured by enemy spies, he wore a trademark black leather glove over his artificial hand. Adderly, however, continued […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Medium: Television This series profiled naturalists and wildlife cinematographers who share a deep love and respect for our environment and our wildlife. Episodes included a profile of cinematographer Dan Gibson, the late filmmaker Bill Mason, retired University professor Kirk Wipper whose lifelong passion for canoes led to studies of Canada’s early fur […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 1986 to 1993 Broadcast Medium: Television An unusual show – and an ingeniously inexpensive piece of programming – that featured a night-time walk through Toronto streets with the camera providing the point-of-view. This show had a mesmeric quality about it, and was probably most viewed by insomniacs trying to get back to sleep. Only […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 1987 Broadcast Medium: Television Rival reporters Amanda Reed (Dorothy Parke) and Jason West (Booth Savage) write for CrimeWorld magazine, scaring up stories while denying their attraction for each other. Other characters included publisher Nicholas Broderick (Paul Burke), his secretary Cleo (Heather Smith), researcher Al Pendleton (Clark Johnson), and the receptionist (Mung […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 1985 to 1991 Broadcast Medium: Television Hosted by Mike Darrow, this game show was based on one by the same name from the U.S. A huge number of contestants for a game show, 15, tried to win a chance at the podium to answer a riddle from someone else in the group of […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 1983 to 1986 Broadcast Medium: Television In this animated series, Inspector Gadget was a bumbling detective that tried to fight criminals with his unusual machine-like appendages that included extendable claws, propellers, springs and other devices. His main nemesis was Dr. Claw, the evil director of enemy agency MAD (Mean and Dirty). Inspector Gadget was […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 1983 to 1992 Broadcast Medium: Television A Canadian/British co-production had host Barry Morse sitting in a library, surrounded by old books that he referred to as he introduced a variety of strange but true stories. While some were presented as being of the supernatural kind, many stories were barely strange at all, according […]