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Art of Cooking
Art of Cooking was a cooking show produced by Champlain Productions and hosted by chef Pol Martin out of Montreal. It aired locally before airing nationally on CTV for one season.
Profile
Profile was a weekly Friday night TV talent show, produced by CKOS-TV in Yorkton, Saskatchewan. The program featured local talent and a wide variety of music styles, from rock n' roll to folk music and choral groups. Also featured on the show was ethnic music, Ukrainian folk music and dancing. Hosting duties usually fell to the senior broadcaster on sta ...
Colonel Loonar
Colonel Loonar, a rousing rocketeer, provided a fantastic fallout of high shooting humour and fun to young viewers in the early 1960's. This simple-minded spaceman packed a rocketfull of jokes, outer space stories, cartoons and gags and an odd collection of some of the funniest characters in show business.
Produced at CFCN-TV in Calgary, Len Carlson ...
Something Else
When Stan (The Man) Johnson was dropped as the Maritime host of CBC-TV's Switchback, he and his sidekick Rufus the dog were hired by MITV (Maritime Independent Television Service), to produce Something Else, a half-hour children's talk show similar to Switchback. The program aired on Saturday and Sunday, and interestingly enough, ran opposite Switchback ...
Canada 101
Canada 101 was a black and white public affairs program on CTV where issues of national importance were debated and discussed. The program aired for one season on Monday nights.
A Singin'
This CTV series, originally titled "A Singing With The Womenfolk," was hosted by the folk group, The Womenfolk. The program featured many different styles of music, from gospel to folk, to opera, and eventually was retitled to A Singin'. It was hosted at the end of its single season by Eddie Hazell.
Spectrum
Spectrum was a half-hour CTV public affairs series which probed man and his world, how he acts, what he thinks. As title implied, the series moved over a wide area of contemporary interests, from pop art to drama, from satire to documentary. It threw an objective spotlight on people, events, facts and ideas, searching for meaning in a changing world a ...
Late Knight
Late Knight was a local late-night talk show out of CFCN-TV in Calgary. Guests were mainly athletes, musicians and locals of note. The show aimed to be a Jack Parr-style program but it had a small budget and very few celebrities coming through town. Host Eddie Hunter welcomed Rolf Harris to the show on one occasion.
Head Hunter Show, The
The Head Hunter Show was a live, ad libbed program from CFCN-TV in Calgary. It was the first children's show in Calgary, pre-dating even the long-running Buckshot Show. On this Monday to Friday show, kids between 6 and 13 would perform, tell jokes and celebrate birthdays. It normally ran for an hour, but many times it ran longer to ensure the station wo ...
Dear Aunt Agnes
Agnes Peabody was a lovable 65-year-old eccentric who moved in with her pre-teen nephew and teenage niece while the children's divorced parents were off pursuing careers in far-flung locales. The show was designed for eight to 12 year olds with a conscious effort to create a non-traditional family situation in which children are given the responsibil ...