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F/X: The Series
Based on the feature movies "F/X" comes a hour-long action show F/X: The Series, a mix of illusion and reality. The show centeres around Rollie Tyler (Cameron Daddo), who fights against his unsuspecting crooks and is mostly a lot stronger and smarter than them with his skills and knowledge.
The show is mostly described as a mix of Mission: Impossible ...
Fables of La Fontaine
French producer Marc Gaudart was responsible for this series of fifteen minute fables with animal characters, based on stories by the 17th century poet La Fontaine. The films employed the talents of animals from the farm of Lorna Jackson in Mount Albert, Ontario. Gaudart set the animals--most the small, relatively tame kind, such as parrots, frogs, cats ...
Fabulous Festival
Fabulous Festival consisted of thirteen half-hour programs done on location at the Vancouver Children's Festival. Al Simmons, as a warm, innovative and funny clown, acted as host to take the audience on an eventful series of tours. They met many of the performers in the Festival; they took in the music and variety acts, and joined in with the audiences ...
Fabulous World of Skiing, The
The Fabulous World of Skiing was a reincarnation of the 1962-1964 series "Ski School". It was a half-hour CBC show that presented skiing in ten countries, including Canada, the U.S., Chile, Norway, and Austria.
Family Brown Country
The Family Brown made its early appearances in the Ottawa Valley, and by 1970 had begun to tour across Canada, performing in clubs, at fairs, and in concert. It was seen 1972-85 on a nationally-syndicated TV series (initially 'Call It Country,' then 'Country Way,' and 'Family Brown Country'). The show originated from CJOH-TV, Ottawa.
Family Circle, The
Patrick Watson was the producer of this Sunday afternoon series of half-hour programs for the CBC, although the films that were broadcast came from Crawley Films and the National Film Board. The program examined the development and behaviour of children, through film and discussion. The program often included discussions with Joyce Wry and Donald Ritch ...
Family Court
Family Court was a hybrid of a soap opera and an effort in public service. The daily half-hour broadcast dramatized court cases, and concerned conflicts and how they could be worked out in the family court system. Unlike the continuing narratives of daytime dramas, the stories tended not to stretch longer than two or three episodes. The regular characte ...
Family of Strangers
While researching her family history for a much needed operation, Julie learns that she is in fact adopted. She then goes on a search to find her real birth parents.
Family Passions
The core families are the Hallers from Germany and the McDeers from Canada. Both families are in the automobile industry. Family Passions takes us behind the scenes in ther automotible industry and gives us a glimpse of the people who work in it and and the secrets that have a potential to destroy it. A new car called "the genises" is the key to the fut ...
Family Pictures
Family Pictures was a CBC anthology series of half-hour dramas about contemporary family relationships. The dramas were produced in various CBC regional production centres.
Family, The
The Family was a CBC series of 4 one-hour dramas on different issues in contemporary family life. The Stranger Was Me (a boy's experiences in a rural foster home) You And Me (the conflicts in a young couple where the man and woman have separate commitments and desires that keep them from funcionting as a traditional family) Forever Amok (a pr ...
Famous Jett Jackson, The
Jett is the star of a popular action show called "Silverstone" but when he decides he wants to spend more time with his sheriff father, wise grandmother, and best friend J.B., the entire show relocates from L.A. to his North Carolina hometown. However, a normal life is far from what Jett gets. J.B. has to deal with the fame surrounding his buddy and scr ...
Famous Jury Trials
Based on a previous American drama, Famous Jury Trials starred real-life brothers Donnelly Rhodes and Tim Henry as a legal brother act. The series was pitched by CTV as "documentary dramas based on celebrated Canadian courtroom cases running daily in serial form for a week or two per trial." Rather, the series was heavily criticized for not being au ...
Fantastica
Tom Kneebone was the host of this half-hour children's series, which utilized black-light imagery with puppets and all the animated gimmicks later utilized so effectively by the famous People Players of Toronto. The series played in various time periods on CTV affiliate stations for two seasons, from 1973 to 1975.
Farmer on Trial
A wide variety of facts about farming, about the farmer's role in the economy, and about the prospects for the future of agricultural enterprise were presented in dramatic form in four half-hour telecasts written by Charles E. Israel. The series comprised of 4 half-hour programs.
Fashion Television
Fashion Television is a fast-paced magazine show with music, fashion videos, and interviews with the top designers of the world. Hostess Jeanne Beker travels to L.A., New York, Paris, Tokyo, Milan - wherever the forefront of fashion happens to be.
Fashion Television began when Moses Znaimer, CITY-TV's head honcho, wanted to make use of the fashion vi ...
Favourite Songs
Favourite Songs was a somewhat offbeat 30-minute cartoon anthology, where the histories of such popular songs as "O Christmas Tree" and "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" were recounted in a highly fanciful fashion.
Feature of the Week
This Sunday morning series presented one hour films, such as Angela, The Moody Arctic Expedition, Driftwood (presented over two weeks), King of Kings, and Thunder Rock.
Feelin' Good
Produced in Regina by the CBC, Feelin' Good was a daily half-hour on physical fitness, with Judi Osborne.
Femme Nikita, La
Section One, a clandestine anti-terrorist organization, fakes the death of a jailed, convicted murderer and, believing her twin assets of beauty and ability to kill will make her a valuable new operative, trains her in the fighting skills necessary to succeed in her new job. The new operative, code-named 'Josephine', proves to be somewhat less ruthless ...