W5
W5 is a CTV news magazine television series which has aired on the CTV Television Network since 1966. The one-hour Sunday night W5 was renamed CTV Reports for the 1977-78 season with a companion half-hour, also called CTV Reports, on Thursdays replacing Maclear. The Sunday program title reverted to W5 in the 1978-79 season, and the Thursday program was ...
Walk with Kirk
In this fifteen-minute CBC program for young viewers, Kirk Whipper from the School of Physical and Health Education at the University of Toronto took groups of children on tours of workplaces, such as farms, dockyards, hydroelectric power plants, and other industries.
Walter Melon
Walter Melon's occupation was a Hero for Hire. He works alone but sometimes he worked with his partner Bitterbug. When a real comic book, TV or movie character runs into trouble they call Melon to temporarily fill in.
War
This documentary series explores the nature of modern war and the institutions that deal with this dangerous aspect of our world, such as training methods, military society, nuclear weapons, the peace movement and the historical developments that led us to this situation. Furthermore, this series explores them with a basic theme; that war has become fun ...
War Brides
War Brides follows four young women, three British and one German, as they board a train in Halifax and journey to join their new husbands and start new lives in an unfamiliar land. Elizabeth Richardson, Sharry Flett, Sonja Smits and Wendy Crewson star in the title roles. Aired on Sep 20, 1980
War of 1812
The War of 1812 was the war that sealed the destiny of North America. A war unlike any other, it was fought with tomahawks and bayonets amid swarms of black flies in forest clearings and mosquito-infested swamps. Armies lined up 60 feet apart on grassy fields and fired deadly point blank volleys at each other. War canoes travelled 1000 miles in ten days ...
Warm-Up Show with Sean Tweedley, The
Traditionally, life as a warm-up act for television shows has always been a job requiring a great deal of guts which brings no glory. However, this is certainly not the case for Toronto comic Sean Tweedley, who parlayed a warm-up gig for Open Mike With Mike Bullard into a show of his very own. The Warm Up Show combined the taped audience warm-up wit ...
Warp
Warp was a YTV magazine show which covered science fiction, comic books and other forms of underground media. It had bizarre wrap-around segments with fictional characters. The segments focused on the misadventures of a super hero and his sidekick (Phil Guerrero and Paul McGuire) who often drove around in an invisible car.
Watership Down
Heeding the warning of a vision of their old home's destruction, a group of rabbits led by Hazel, his brother Fiver the visionary, the ever inventive doe, Blackberry, and Bigwig, a former member of their old home's military class, go in search of a new home. With the help of new found friends like Kehaar the gull and Hannah the mouse, Fiver's vision lea ...
Waterville Gang
The Waterville Gang was a bunch of underwater puppet characters - Dodger Dolphin, Angel Fish, Sharky Shark, Eloise the Seahorse - and Sergeant Perch of the Perch Patrol. Also on hand were Pearl Van Oyster, Tucker Turtle and Ace Seagull. By the end of the show's run there were an additional three regular characters - Preshus Seal, Randall Harrison Pengui ...
Watson Report, The
The Watson Report expanded its scope beyond the Houses of Parliament into business, the civil service, and other public concerns. It kept a close eye on government, and included a series of interviews with the three major party leaders, Ed Broadbent, Pierre Trudeau, and Joe Clark, during the brief period that Clark's Progressive Conservatives formed the ...
Way It Is, The
The Way It Is aired in the CBC Sunday evening public affairs slot. The Way It Is tried to balance its coverage with some entertainment and music, but it was best known for its earnest, respectable, and solid research and reporting. In addition to short reports in the magazine format show, The Way It Is presented a number of longer documentaries. ...
Way Out, A
Originally a fifteen minute gardening show with Ray Halward, A Way Out later included information on crafts, do-it-yourself repairs and improvements, and outdoor activities.
Way We Are, The
The Way We Are was a CBC anthology series of half-hour dramas/comedies produced by CBC regional broadcasters and private production companies.
Wayne and Shuster in Black and White
A nostalgic and laugh-out-loud look back at the best of Wayne & Shuster. The shows have been culled from the famous duo's black-and-white episodes written and produced from 1954 to 1966. The series is hosted by Frank Shuster.
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 ...
We Don't Knock
We Don't Knock was a fast-paced, breezy, sometimes outrageous, but always good-humoured comedy series with hosts Shawn Thompson and Howard Busgang. They travelled across Canada, interacting with ordinary people in familiar situations to create humorous vignettes.
We Live Next Door
We Live Next Door was a TVO children's series of ten 15-minute episodes enriching the values of a fine neighbourhood: cooperation and harmony. In the series, the human and puppet citizens of a small town go about their lives as they demonstrate various elements of urban life. These subjects include government, law enforcement and basic economics. Wri ...
We Remember Them: Nikiskisinan
This one hour documentary was initiated by the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation near Marcelin, Saskatchewan. This program looks a the significance of having over 50 men and women who volunteered for military service that ulitmately left an indelible footprint on the everyday lives of several generations of Muskeg Lake Band Through poignant interviews of survivin ...
Weaker (?) Sex, The
This CBC talk show responded to the women's movement with British-born Pamela Mason in the interviewer's chair. She confronted male guests from a wide range of fields, not necessarily directly related to issues of sexual politics. The 13-week first season was produced in New York and Toronto, and was syndicated to the States. For the second season, ...