Pencil Box Theatre was a half-hour program for children produced in Ottawa, featuring stories written by children. Productions involved a wide range of techniques, including puppets, mime, masks, and animation. Actors performed in black limbo sets and were electronically keyed into cutout sets representing the creation of schoolchildren. Many of the sto ...
Aka: Pencil Box
Original Airdates1976-1979
TypeSeries
Good Rockin' Tonite was a Friday night music program produced in Vancouver, featuring music videos, in-depth interviews, contests and countdowns of the week's most popular singles and albums. The original host, Terry David Mulligan, conceived the program with producer Ken Gibson, who was behind the CBC's last rock-music effort in the '60s, (Let's Go) wh ...
Aka: Good Rockin' Tonight
Original Airdates1983-1993
TypeSeries
The Ian Tyson Show was a half-hour CTV music series which was known as Nashville North in its first season. Ian's wife Sylvia and the band Great Speckled Bird were regular performers. Up to three Canadian and American guest stars performed on each show, including Anne Murray, Waylon Jennings, Stompin' Tom Connors, Gordon Lightfoot, Willy Nelson, Bruce C ...
Aka: Nashville North
Original Airdates1970-1975
TypeSeries
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
Mom P.I. was a CBC comedy/drama following the adventures of Sally Sullivan, who figured to make a few extra bucks by helping private investigator Bernie Fox solve cases. Rosemary Dunsmore starred as Sally, the intuitive, single mother of two pre-adolescents working as a waitress in a Vancouver cafe. Stuart Margolin played the hard-nosed, time-warped pr ...
Aka: Mom, P.I.
Original Airdates1990-1992
TypeSeries
Homemade TV, a CBC kid's series, featured four great entertainers-improvisers: Larry and Fred Mollin, Phil Savath and Barry Flatman. It was contemporary humor and satire with sight gags, adventure stories, and it was creative, imaginative and witty with the outstanding talents of the dynamite quartet. There were take-offs on well-known movies eg: Ricky ...
Aka: Homemade Television
Original Airdates1976-1977
TypeSeries
A popular children's program produced by Helene Roberge for Radio-Canada, Nic And Pic was dubbed for the English language CBC network beginning in 1975. Nic and Pic were two puppet mice operated by Pierre Regimbald and Michel Frechette. They found adventures as they travelled in their balloon to exotic, far-off locations, such as China, Scotland, and th ...
Aka: Nic and Pic, Nic et Pic
Original Airdates1975-1976
TypeSeries
Coming Up Rosie was a situation comedy series for pre-teens. The half-hour programs aimed at eight to 12-year-olds had developed into family-viewing serialized comedy. The regular cast members were seasoned revue performers. Rosemary Radcliffe played Rosie Tucker; Barry Baldaro was Dudley Kightshade, her assistant. They produced documentary films for the school board, out of Zonk Productions at 99 Sumach Street. While Rosie was making low-budget films, she involved (and got involved with) the other tenants on the floor — Dan Hennessey, playing Ralph Oberding, the Neva-Rust Storm Door salesman; Catherine O'Hara as Myrna Wallbacker of the Ding-A-Ling Answering Service; John Candy as Wally Wypyzpychwk of Sleep-Tite Burglar Alarms; and John Stocker as Dwayne Kramer, the elevator operator and general-man-about-thebuilding. The series evolved out a previous series, Dr. Zonk and the Zunkins. The programs contained take-offs on other TV series — The Night Stalker, M.A.S.H., Ellery Queen and Mary Tyler Moore, Welcome Back Kotter, among others. There were programs that were takeoffs on game shows, and a melodrama with Dudley playing Sherlock Holmes.
Original Airdates1975-1976
TypeSeries
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
