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Friendly Giant, The

Bob Homme, as the good-natured Friendly Giant, introduces children to books and helps them see how these can answer their questions and enrich their everyday living. Puppets Jerome the Giraffe and Rusty the Rooster, a good story, a bit of music and relaxed conversation and laughter, make up each 15-minute program. From 1958 until 1985, Homme wrote an ...

Original Airdates1958-1985

TypeSeries

SCTV

SCTV was unlike any other comedy series on the air. What SCTV did for the most part was satirize television itself. Using the premise of a fictitious network, it mimicked existing media stars and no-talents from networks to the local backwater UHFs. The SCTV Network had its own talk shows and parodies of everything on television ranging from musical var ...

Aka: Second City Television; SCTV Channel; SCTV Network

Original Airdates1976-1984

TypeSeries

Beachcombers, The

The Beachcombers, in production for 19 years, was the longest running drama series in Canadian television history. This series chronicles the adventures of a professional lumber salvager and his friends in British Columbia, Canada as they try to live their lives while preventing the local pest, Relic, from ruining it. The documentary "Welcome Back t ...

Original Airdates1972-1990

TypeSeries

Hilarious House of Frightenstein, The

The Hilarious House of Frightenstein was a Canadian children's television series which was produced by CHCH-TV. It was syndicated to television stations across Canada and the United States. A quirky sketch comedy series, the show's cast included Billy Van, Fishka Rais, Guy Big, Mitch Markowitz, and Julius Sumner Miller. Van, in fact, played the vast ...

Original Airdates1971

TypeSeries

Wok with Yan

In Wok with Yan, chef Stephen Yan demonstrated how to cook oriental dishes with a wok. A kind of Galloping Gourmet of the 1980s, Yan achieved notoriety for his energy and ebullience and for the bad puns on the word, "wok," printed on his apron.

Original Airdates1980- ?

TypeSeries

Mr. Dressup

Ernie Coombs hosted this simple format TV show as Mr. Dressup. With his puppet friends, originally Casey and his dog Finnegan, he taught pre-school subjects with games, music and simple activities. To add to the fun, Mr. Dressup would always open up his tickle trunk that contains any costume for any role he wants. Mr. Dressup emerged from an earlier ...

Aka: Mr. Dress-Up

Original Airdates1967-1996

TypeSeries

Just Like Mom

Just Like Mom was a game show built on a child-mother relationship. Viewers wrote in requesting the opportunity to participate from all parts of Canada. Producer Paul Burford said that the source of the request was usually the child. The show was originally hosted by Stephen Young and Catherine Swing. Executive producer Fergie Olver later took over host ...

Original Airdates1980-1987

TypeSeries

Canada Vignettes

Canada Vignettes from the National Film Board of Canada were a staple throughout the late 70's and 80's. The vignettes varied in length from between 30 seconds to 5 minutes and touched a wide variety of Canadian history and present-time topics.

Original Airdates1977-?

TypeShort

King of Kensington

Larry King owned and operated a variety store in Toronto's crowded, multicultural Kensington Market. In the tradition of the television comedy series, most of the action took place in one or two sets, principally King's store and attached house. Larry was a portly, garrulous fellow whose business was everyone else's business. He ran the shop with his wi ...

Original Airdates1975-1980

TypeSeries

Forest Rangers, The

The Forest Rangers took place in and around a village called Indian River, but the real focus of the story was an abandoned fort that had been taken over by the Junior Rangers. The fort was their headquarters, where they set up their ham radio, and helped keep watch for forest fires and other conservational offences. They ran up against not only poacher ...

Aka: Les cadets de la forêt; Razzle Dazzle with the Forest Rangers

Original Airdates1963-1966

TypeSeries

Wayne and Shuster Show, The

Wayne and Shuster started their regular appearances on CBC television with The Wayne and Shuster Hour in October 1954, and have provided comedy that ranged from clever and literate to god-awful corn, at a rate of one show a month in the beginning, reduced to four shows a season in later years. Exact titles for their shows have varied: The Wayne and Shus ...

Aka: Wayne and Shuster Hour, Wayne and Shuster Comedy Hour

Original Airdates1954-1990

TypeSeries

Harrigan

Harrigan was a half-hour show written, produced and hosted by Barry Dale. Beginning in 1969, it aired locally out of CJOH-TV in Ottawa for 2 seasons before moving to CKWS-TV in Kingston. There, it aired locally for another 2 or 3 seasons before being syndicated across Canada. Harrigan was a 209-year-old leprechaun who sang, danced, told stories and p ...

Original Airdates1969-1985

TypeSeries

Pig and Whistle, The

Set in a studio recreation of a British pub, Pig and Whistle starred British actor/singer John Hewer as the host of an inn that featured resident singers, dancers and an orchestra, plus guests, with members of the public forming the invited audience at tables round the room. Toronto singer Kay Turner was the barmaid, and the Carlton Show Band were regul ...

Aka: Pig 'n' Whistle; Pig & Whistle

Original Airdates1967-1977

TypeSeries

Live It Up!

Live It Up! was a Canadian healthy living and consumer awareness television program, which aired nationally on CTV from 1978 to 1990. Live It Up! featured a mix of serious consumer-affairs topics and lighter consumer topics, mostly delivered in a tongue-in-cheek style. Regular segments included the Watchdog, a man whose face is never shown while tes ...

Original Airdates1978-1990

TypeSeries

North of 60

Beginning in December, 1992, North of 60 brought the world of Native Canada into the homes of city and suburban residents. It was a hugely successful series for CBC throughout the country, but especially so in the North, where small towns would nearly come to a standstill on Thursday evenings to watch the show. Set in the fictional town of Lynx River ...

Original Airdates1992-1998

TypeSeries

Zig Zag

Zig Zag was a children's series produced by BCTV in Vancouver. The show went on to take several different formats and hosts, but probably the most popular version was hosted by Bill Reiter and Rick Ducommun who played Biff and Bart respectively. Biff and Bart were previously only seen a few minutes per episode (hidden among the segments hosted by Terry ...

Original Airdates1979-1987

TypeSeries

Galloping Gourmet, The

The Galloping Gourmet, a half-hour, weekday show, was the most popular cooking show of its time. It had originated on Australian television, and then moved to Canada, with Ottawa's CJOH-TV as its production base. Graham Kerr demonstrated the preparation of dishes that were exotic, but affordable and accessible. The key to the show's popularity, howev ...

Original Airdates1968-1972

TypeSeries

Littlest Hobo, The

Roaming through British Columbia in search of adventure and occasional stopping places made the Littlest Hobo a Canadian vagabond. The Littlest Hobo starred London, the great German Shepherd dog. All the filming was done in Canada. Metropolitan scenes were shot in major cities and northern B.C. provided the remote settings. Hobo lived up to his name, ...

Original Airdates1963-1965

TypeSeries

Bizarre

Bizarre is the title of this series because bizarre is the word for it- not to mention its star, John Byner, who charges full tilt through a weekly half-hour of sketches, one-liners and blackouts on a host of bizarre subjects. They include Allan Blye and Bob Einstein, a Phil Donahue-type interview with the world's first trisexual; the Godfather's presid ...

Original Airdates1980-1985

TypeSeries

Four on the Floor

In this 13-week CBC comedy series, famed comedy troupe the Frantics brought their radio and stage sketch comedy to television for the first time. Regular features on the series included the adventures of Mr. Canoehead, monologues by Mr. Interesting, computer games created by Paul Chato and music video spoofs. The series was later sold to the Showtim ...

Aka: 4 on the Floor; The Frantics

Original Airdates1986

TypeSeries