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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 is usually the child. The show was jointly hosted by Fergie Olver and Catherine Swing. They introduced three mothers who were asked questions su ...

Original Airdates1980-1987

TypeSeries

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

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

SCTV

The basic premise of SCTV is that it is the television station for the city of Melonville. Rather than broadcast the usual TV rerun fare, the business, run by the greedy Guy Caballero who sits in a wheelchair only for respect, puts on a bizarre and humourously incompetent range of cheap local programming. 1) 1976-77 (Global, 30 mins, "Second City T ...

Aka: Second City Television; SCTV Channel; SCTV Network

Original Airdates1976-1984

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

Street Cents

In this series, the teen hosts of the show explore consumer issues concerning teens in the form of product tests, answering viewer consumer questions, showcasing teen entrepreneurs and environmental initiatives, examining advertising claims and identifying rip offs. Interspersed in each episode are comedy sketches that help illustrate consumer issues wh ...

Original Airdates1989- 2006

TypeSeries

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

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

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

Huckleberry Finn and His Friends

Huckleberry Finn and His Friends was a TV series documenting the exploits of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, based on books by American writer Mark Twain. The series was made up of 26 episodes, filmed in 1979. This was the only filmed version of the Twain classic to cover every episode in the original novel.

Original Airdates1981-1982

TypeSeries

Edison Twins, The

Join teen-aged science whizzes Tom and Annie Edison as they meet the challenges of everyday life with just the right combination of humour, courage, curiosity and scientific know-how. The Edison twins share more than a birthday; each has a special gift for solving problems. That's very lucky, since their daily adventures always seem to lead them to a pr ...

Original Airdates1983-1986

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

Degrassi High/Degrassi Jr. High

Degrassi High / Junior High was set in Toronto, and focused on the lives of teenage students. The characters were realistic and dealt with real life issues auch as sex, drugs, dating, pregnancy, rock and roll, and much more. The actors looked like real people, not models. This added to how realistic Degrassi was. Degrassi Junior High ran for three se ...

Original Airdates1987-1991

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

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

Trivia Company

Trivia Company was a half-hour trivia game show that took place on the streets of CKCO-TV's large coverage area. Off-the-wall host Johnnie Walters tested the public's trivia knowledge on the streets and let viewers participate via telephone. Trivia Company first aired in the early to late 1980's on CKCO-TV in Kitchener as a Monday to Friday morning s ...

Original Airdates1983-1994

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

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

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