Canadian programs on CBC Television since its inception (by year of launch)
While this list of national network programs is extensive, it is not necessarily comprehensive. We are grateful to the sources listed below, whose assistance has been invaluable, but we welcome additions both to the list and to the program details section, and corrections where necessary.
Our Foundation does not hold copies of any programs, and it is our experience that very few program series that involved viewer participation were ever made available to the public. Anyone hoping to find a copy of an old show should go to the website of the station/network on which the program appeared, and ask if they can help.
Year
Program Title
1952
1953
1954
A is for Aardvark
Ad and Lib
At Home With John Newmark
Billy O’Connor Show
CBC Concert Hour
Country Calendar
Denny Vaughan Show, The
Dixieland Jazz
Folio
Guess My Story
Haunted Studio
House Party
Howdy Doody
Let’s Go To The Museum
Living
Make a Match
On Camera
On Stage
Pepinot & Capucine
Plouffe Family, The, aka La Famille Plouffe
Vic Obeck’s Parade of Sports
1955
Army Show
Aubrey and Gus
Bim Bam Boom
Cabaret
Cabbages and Kings
Citizens’ Forum
Cross Canada Hit Parade
Crossfire
Dateline
Drama at Ten
Harmony House
Here And There
In The Common Interest
Jackie Rae Show, The
Maggie Muggins
Magic of Music, The
Mr. Fixit
People
Producers’ Workshop
Profile
Riding High
Showtime
Take a Look
1956
1957
1958
1959
Albert’s Place
Anthology
Art In Action
Astronomy Today
Background
Canadian Farmer, The
Chez Helene
Dateline UN
Documentary ’60
Jim Coleman Show, The
Joan Fairfax Show, The
Live a Borrowed Life
Live and Learn
Movies with Manings
Music ’60
Parade
R.C.M.P.
See For Yourself
This Living World
Tidewater Tramp
Town Above, The
Two For Physics
Web of Life
1960
701 (Seven Oh-One)
Caravan
Cariboo Country
Case for the Court, A
Club 6
Come Dance With Us
Disordered Mind, The
Encore
Encounter
Fancy Free
Festival
First Person
Football Huddle
Golf with Stan Leonard
Hatful of Music, A
Inquiry
Jack Kane Show, The
Junior Round-Up
Klondike
Midnight Zone
Minnow On The Say
Mr X In Canada
Music In Miniature
Nature Of Things, The
Outlook
Patty’s Picture House
People In Parties
Presenting Barry Morse
Red River Jamboree
Reflections
Road to Adjustment
Romance of Science, The
Science Magazine
Sit Back With Jack
St.Lawrence North
Stage Door
Swing Gently
Travellin’ Time
Viewpoint
While We’re Young
World of Music, The
1961
Architecture
Camera Canada
Camera West
Canada File
Cross Canada Curling
Diplomatic Passport
Directions In Music
Eyes West
Folk Songs with Ed McCurdy
International Law
Jake and The Kid
Let’s Speak English
Lively Arts, The
Monday Night Special
Music Break
Music of Eric Wild
Pat and Ernie
People and Places
Playdate
Quest (Q is for Quest)
Razzle Dazzle
Sea Songs and Stories
Shoestring Theatre
Sing Ring a Round
Superior Sex, The
Tommy Ambrose Show
Wheelspin
World of Sport
1962
Sunday Music Series
Canada at War
Click
Discovery
Document
Formative Years, The
Friday Island
In View
Let’s Talk Music
Playground
Quintet
Recital
Scarlett Hill
Sightline
Song for You, A
Story Seat
Summer Night, A
Swingalong
Take 30/Take Thirty
Tea Zone
Temps Present
Time for Sunday School
Twenty-Twenty
Up and Coming
Vacation Time
1963
Ballads and Bards
Check-Up
Come Listen Awhile
Forest Rangers, The
Front and Centre
Horizon
Let’s Face It
Luncheon Date
Man in a Landscape
Maurice {Pearson Sings
Men and the Issues, The
Music Hop
Music Stand
Nightcap
Observer, The
Other Man, The
Question Mark
Serial, The
Show from Two Cities, A
Sixties, The
Tales Of The Riverbank
Telescope
Time of Your Life
Time Out For Adventure
Time Out For Music
1964
1965
Bonnie Prudden Show, The
Chorus, Gentlemen
Commonwealth Jazz Club
Compass
Eye Opener
Ferment
French for Love
Generation
Healthier, Wealthier, Wiser?
Human Camera, The
Hymn Sing
Let’s Sing Out
Passport to Adventure
Portrait
Prairie Profile
Public Eye, The
Quebec In English
Reach For The Top
Ron Petty Show, The
Seaway
Sight and Cast
Swing Ding
This Land
Tommy Hunter Show
Too Young
Town Crier
Tween Set
World of Music
Your World
1966
Bill Kenny Show, The
Canada’s Story
Championship Snooker
Chansons
Charlie Had One But he Didn’t Like It, So He Gave It To Us
Cine shorts
Communicate
Eight Stories Inside Quebec
In Person
Lenny Breau Show, The
Life and the Land
Mexico: The
Music Canada
Quentin Durgens, MP
Reluctant Nation
Sounds ’67/’68/’69
Stu Davis Show, The
Summer Sounds ’66
Sunday
This Business of Farming
This Land of Ours
This Week
Through The Eyes of Tomorrow
Twelve For Summer
Twenty Million Questions
Umbrella, The
Vagabond Honeymoon
Wojeck
World of Music, A
1967
Adventure Time
Almanac
As Time Goes By
Barney Boomer
By Invitation
Canada Outdoors
Canadian Film Makers
Centennial International
Choice of Futures, A
Counterpoint
Ed Evanko Show
Expo This Week
Focus
Game of Scouting, The
Gardening With Earl Cox
Hatch’s Mill
Kaleidosport
Klahanie
Man Alive
Modern Canadian Poetry
More Stories from Inside Quebec
Mr. Dress-Up
Music for a Sunday Afternoon
O’Keefe Centre Presents
On The Scene
Other Eye, The
Pavilion
Pick of the Week
Rocket Robin Hood
Seafarers
Sunshine Canada
The Mystery Maker
True North
Up, Up and Away
Way It Is, The
World On Stage, The
1968
A Place of Your Own
Album of History
Audubon Wildlife Theatre
Barris and Company
Canadian Fisherman
Creative Persons
D’Iberville
Five Years In The Life
Fleurs d’Amour
Galloping Gourmet, The
Gilbert and Sullivan
Good Company, The
Group, The
Hits-a-Poppin’
Holiday Canada
La Difference
Man At The Center
Miriam Breitman
Moods of Man
Peggy Neville Show, The
Science and Conscience
Theologo ’67
Toby
Trail Riding Troubadour
Upside Town/Swingaround
Vie Qui Bat, La
Weaker(?) Sex, The
Where It’s At
World of Music
Yesterday and Today
1969
All Around the Circle
Ballades et Chansons
Bananas, The
Cartoon Party
CBC Weekend
Champion
Children’s Cinema
Comedy Cafe
Comparisons
Conquest of Space
Corwin
Crisis of Middle Age
Cross Canada
Grujot and Delicat
Hi Diddle Day
Irish Coffee
It’s Our Stuff
McQueen
Montreal Pops Concerts
New Film Makers
Odyssey
One More Time
Second Look, A
Strange Paradise
Strategy
Sunday At Nine
Thursday Night
Time for Living
Town ‘n’ Country
Treasure Island
1970
Analog
Celebrity Cooks
Collage
Comedy Crackers
Countrytime
Dress Rehearsal
Drop-In
Extra Special People
History Makers
In The Round
Landmark
Manipulators, The
Manitoba 100
Music Album
Music Machine
Music To Remember
Music To See
Ooops!
Restless Wave, The
Sesame Street
Tee to Green
Teleplay
Theatre Canada
This Land
Tuesday Night
Update
VIP
Way Out, A
Wednesday Night Specials
Zut!
1971
Adventures in Rainbow Country
Alan Watts On Living
Alphabet Soup
Canadian College Sport
City Story, A
Country Canada
Diane
Family, The
First Five Years, The
In The Mood
Interview
Irish Rovers, The
Mike Neun Show, The
Mr. Wizard
My Kind of Country
One Northern Summer
Paul Bernard, Psychiatrist
Performers, The
Pick and Choose
Piffle and Co.
Replay
Sunday Best
Swingaround
Talking to a Stranger
Tenth Decade, The
This Is The Law
To See Ourselves
Tommy Banks Show, The
Tommy Tompkins’ Wildlife Country
Vacation Canada
What On Earth
1972
Age of Uncertainty, The
Bandwagon with Bob Francis
Beachcombers, The
Distinguished Canadians
Dollars and Sense
Good Times
Hey Taxi
Images Of Canada
Let’s Call The Whole Thing Orff
Marketplace
Midweek
Newfoundland Holiday
News Profile
Norman Corwin Presents
Of All People
Outside Inside
Professor Moffett’s Science Workshop
Program X
Right On
Ruzicka
Ryan’s Fancy
Suzuki on Science
Technoflash
Their Springtime of Life
To The Wild Country
What’s New
Whiteoaks of Jalna, The
1973
Adieu Alouette
Alan Hamel’s Comedy Bag
Arts ’73/Arts’74/Arts ’75
CBC Drama ’73
Collaborators, The
Country Roads
David Clayton-Thomas Show, The
Days Before Yesterday, The
Delilah
Doug Crosley Show
Explorers, The
First Person Singular: Pearson – The Memoirs of a Prime Minister
Gallery
How It Happens
Howie Meeker’s Hockey School
Impressions
In The South Seas
Inside Canada
It’s a Musical World
Marc’s Grab Bag
Medical Explorers
Mr. Chips
Ms!
Music Machine (Keith Hampshire’s Music Machine)
Newsfile
Payday
Purple Playhouse
Real Magees, The
Some Honourable Members
Stratusfaction
Summer Movies
TGIF
Tomorrow Now
Up Canada
West
Youth Confrontation
1974
Access
Adrienne At Large
Along The Way
Any Woman Can
Applause, Applause
Aquarium
Bagatelle
Barbara Frum
Canadian Cinema
Canadian Film Makers
Ceilidh
Challenge of the Lonely Sky, The
Close To The Earth
Country Sunshine with Myrna Lorrie
Dr. Zonk & the Zunkins
Eye of the Beholder
Fit Stop, The
Flipside
Gene and Jodi
House of Pride
In The Present Tense
Is There Life After Youth?
Jury
Let’s Do It
Naked Mind, The
National Dream, The
Oldtimers, The
Ombudsman
On Location
Opening Night
People of our Times
Performance
Prime Time
Ronnie Prophet Show, The
Skipper & Co.
Stompin’ Tom’s Canada
Such Is Life
Sunspots
Take Time with Noel Harrison
Time To Sing, A
Tommy Makem and Ryan’s Fancy
Valley Sketches
Zoo World
1975
Altogether
Are You Putting Me On?
Bob Switzer Show
Celebration
Coming Up Rosie
Corporation
Down Home Country
Film Fun
Generation
Hard Times
Homemade Jam
In Good Company
Just For Fun
King of Kensington, The
Lady Is a Four Letter Word
Last Wave, The
Look Who’s Here
Moneymakers
On The Evidence
Pacificanada
Peanuts and Popcorn
Quelque Show
Regional File
Science Magazine
Sidestreet
Some Of My Best Friends Are Men
Speaking Out
Spotlight
Sprockets
Stationary Ark, The
Summer of ’75/’76/’77
They’re Playing Our Song
Tommy Common’s It’s a Musical World
Try Out
Vision On
Watson Report, The
World Aquarium
World of Man, The
1976
Beth
Bluff
Careers to Come
Catch a Rising Star
Charcoal Chefs
Children’s Friday Specials
Concerning Women
Concerto
Diane Stapley Show, The
Elaine Grand
Finlay and Company
Flight – The Passionate Affair
Frankie Howerd Show
Friday After School
Front Row Centre
Great Canadian Culture Hunt
Here To Stay
Homemade TV
Ian McLean Show, The
It’s Your Choice
Ninety Minutes Live
One Night Stand
Our Fellow Americans
Peep Show
Pencil Box
Points East, Points West
Sounds Good
Special Assignment
Stay Tuned
Summer Evening
Sunshine Hour, The
Superspecials
Switzer Unlimited
Where The Sky Begins
Wolfman Jack Show, The
Young Chefs, The
1977
Beyond Reason
Bonjour, Bon jour
Canadian Express
Comin’ Up Country
Converging Lines
Crosspoint
Custard Pie
For The Record
Great Canadian Escape, The
Judy and Jim Show, The
Krazy House
Magic Lie, The
Newcomers, The
One Canadian: John Diefenbaker
Passionate Canadians, The
Quarterly Report
Road Show, The
Saturday Night Movies
Something Ventured
Summer Close-Up
Sunday Pops Series
That Maritime Feelin’
The College Game
This Week In Parliament
Worlds Together
1978
55 North Maple
Atlantic Summer
Canada After Dark
Canadian Authors
Canadian Reflections
Canadian Stars
Canadian Superstars
Catch Up
CBC Summer Symphonies
Colombo Quotes
Denny’s Sho
Final Audition
For Kids Only
Gift To Last, A
Grandstand Quarterback
High Hopes
Howard Presents
Memorandum on a Frozen Ark
New Majority
One Of A Kind
Par 27
Quiz Kids
Rare Breed, The
Saturday Sports Special
This Half Hour
1979
Afternoon Delight
Albertans, The
Body In Question, The
CBC Film Festival
Cities
Country Joy
Gerry and Ziz
Great Detective , The
Inventors, The
John Allan Cameron Show, The
Music Of Man, The
People Talking Back
Profiles
Raes, The
Ritter’s Cove
Search For The Stars
Sun Parlour Country
Today From….
W.O.W.
Where Once They Stood
Wicks
Wild Canada
World of Plants, The
1980
1981
CBC Premiere Presentation
CBC Summer Movie Festival
Circus International
Hangin’ In
In Concert
Jack London’s Tales of The Klondike
Just Ask Inc.
Leo and Me
Month of Sundays, A
On Guard For Thee
Piano Alley
Projections
Rovers’ Comedy House, The
Seeing Things
Super Shows
Switchback
Theme and Variations
They All Play Ragtime
Titans, The
Wonderful Grand Band
1982
1984
1987
Codco
Degrassi
On The Road Again
Street Legal
Under The Umbrella Tree
1988
1989
1991
1992
1993
1996
1997
1998
2001
2002
2006
2007
2010
2011
2014
2015
2018
Burden of Truth
The Detectives
In The Making
2020
SOURCES:
- Blaine Allan, Directory of CBC Television Series, 1952-1982
http://www.film.queensu.ca/CBC/Default.html - TV North – by Peter Kenter and Martin Levin
– Publisher – Whitecap Books – IBSN 1-55285-145-X - Cue the Elephant! – by Knowlton Nash
– Publisher – McClelland Stewart Inc. ISBN O-7710-6734-9 - The Microphone Wars – by Knowlton Nash
– Publisher – McClelland Stewart Inc. ISBN O-7710-6712-7 - Here’s Looking At Us – by Sandy Stewart
– Publisher – CBC Enterprises ISBN 0-88794-218-0 - When Television Was Young – by Paul Rutherford
– Publisher – University of Toronto Press ISBN 0-80205-830-2 (Hard) 0-80206-647-X (Paper Back)
Compiled by John Corcelli
Updates by Pip Wedge