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Rolf Harris Show, The

Australian-born Rolf Harris, versatile at comical spoofing, dancing and playing strange "down-under" instruments, took centre stage in his own unique half-hour comedy-musical produced in Vancouver at CTV's local affiliate, BCTV. Harris welcomed top name performers from fields afar to join in the anything-goes antics on the show.

Original Airdates1976-1978

TypeSeries

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.

Original Airdates1974-1978

TypeSeries

Backstretch

Florence Patterson and Sneezy Waters star in this four-part miniseries set in a small Ontario town on the harness-racing circuit. Marge Aylesworth struggles to keep her racing track from being taken over by a renegade driver and a ruthless racing secretary. A teenage would-be thief is the unlikely hero who joins forces with the owner to save the track a ...

Original Airdates1983-1984

TypeMiniseries

Ritter's Cove

Karl Ritter was an elderly pilot whose procrastination over a medical examination lost him his licence to fly. He was forced to hire Kate Ashcroft as his replacement to keep his single airplane aloft and his transport business afloat. The stories generally revolved around the antagonism and mutual respect of the older man, set in his ways and his sexual ...

Original Airdates1980-1981

TypeSeries

New Adventures of Pinocchio, The

Canadian actors and technicians cooperated with Japanese puppetry experts to produce this Pinocchio cartoon series for television. The Pinocchio series was made with stringless puppets, a technique popular in Japan but which was unknown on this side of the Pacific. Dentsu Advertising Agency of Tokyo provided the puppet sequences, but the voices are ...

Original Airdates1962

TypeSeries

Alan Hamel's Comedy Bag

Alan Hamel's Comedy Bag was a variety series that stressed blackouts and slapstick comedy. Taped in Montreal, the half-hour program featured guests from the US, and was primarily aimed at the US market.

Aka: Comedy Bag

Original Airdates1972-1973

TypeSeries

Alan Hamel Show, The

The Alan Hamel Show was described as "an afternoon visit with the top names in show business, literature, sports, science, journalism and politics." One regular gimmick: an instant opinion-poll meter. It was produced in Vancouver.

Aka: The Al Hamel Show

Original Airdates1976-1980

TypeSeries

All Around the Circle

All Around the Circle was a half-hour musical variety summer series, produced in St. John's, and occasionally other parts of Newfoundland. By featuring Newfoundland music on television - especially at a time when the medium was dominated by shows and films from central Canada and the United States - Circle helped legitimize the music for many viewer ...

Original Airdates1967-1979

TypeSeries

Sidestreet

Sidestreet succeeded The Collaborators as the CBC's main drama series and moved away from the violence of the typical police show with protagonists who were community service officers instead of ordinary detectives. Sidestreet concentrated on issues such as blockbusting, strikebreaking, rape, poverty, and the problems of the elderly in the city, instead ...

Original Airdates1975-1978

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

Mr. Piper

Mr. Piper consisted of 39 half-hour programs in which Alan Crofoot introduced 4 segments each program. For Teletune he narrated a fantasy story, illustrated with graphics; Port of Call presented films about children and events in other lands; Bag of Tricks featured magic, performed by Crofoot; and Animal Farm told stories with a cast of characters that ...

Aka: Mister Piper

Original Airdates1963-1965

TypeSeries

Pencil Box Theatre

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

Range Ryder and the Calgary Kid

Range Ryder and the Calgary Kid in the Adventures of the Dinosaur Badlands aired as part of CBC's anthology series for children, "One of a Kind." Range Ryder and his sidekick the Calgary Kid (a young Mike Myers) performed nation-saving derring-do as they battled against the forces of nature and evil to foil the nefarious scheme of Mayor Morgan.

Original Airdates1978

TypeShort

Radisson

This series appeared on television sets in French and in English in 1957. The majority of episodes were about incidents in exploration, and relations with the Indian tribes. Interestingly enough, the details of everyday life were sometimes dealt with at length, including the construction of a winter shelter, hunting beaver, and the navigation of the ...

Aka: Tomahawk

Original Airdates1957-1958

TypeSeries

Sonny and Cher Nitty Gritty Comedy Hour, The

CTV co-produced this one-hour special in 1970 with a view to it going to series. A series it became, but produced at CBS Studios, and not with CTV. In this special, Sonny and Cher joked, sang and danced their way through the program, joining Sandy Baron, Suzanne Charny, Billy Van, Jerelyn Homer and Dr. Joyce Brothers for a spoof on the battle of the ...

Original Airdates1971

TypeSpecial

Seaway

Using the exciting background of the St. Lawrence Seaway and parts of the Great Lakes served by overseas shipping, this Canadian-produced adventure series was the first hour-long film drama series to be produced in Canada. Both English and French speaking performers were in the all-Canadian cast. Seaway starred Stephen Young as Nick King, a troublesh ...

Aka: Entre Ciel et Terre

Original Airdates1965-1966

TypeSeries

R.C.M.P.

True stories gleaned from the files of the colourful Royal Canadian Mounted Police were featured on the series, R.C.M.P. For the first time in history, adventures of the red-coated "Mounties" were seen on television. The series was based on the adventures of a three-man detachment of Mounties based at the village Shamattawa. Members of the detachment ...

Aka: Royal Canadian Mounted Police; RCMP

Original Airdates1959-1960

TypeSeries

One of a Kind

One of a Kind was a CBC anthology series of half-hour documentaries and special programs for children, which ran during the winter of 1978. The series included The Mitt; Range Ryder and the Calgary Kid in the Adventure of the Dinosaur Badlands; Another Kind of Friendship; and Monsters and Other Scary Things.

Original Airdates1978

TypeSeries

This Business of Farming

CBC television, in cooperation with the Ontario Department of Agriculture and Food, produced several series of documentaries on the current state of farming. In 1966, the programs were Growing Feed for Livestock; Feeding Livestock; and Managing the Livestock Barriers. The 1967 programs were Soils and Good Soil Management; Farm Machinery and Management T ...

Original Airdates1966-1969

TypeSeries

Friday Island

Friday Island was a fictional Gulf island off Canada's west coast, and was the setting for this adventure series from CBC Vancouver. Friday Island followed the adventures of the Granger family from Ottawa who, while holidaying on the island, decide to establish a lodge there. Grandpa and Aunt Sophie lived with the Grangers, and Archie and Annabelle r ...

Original Airdates1962-1963

TypeSeries