Arts '73, Arts '74 and Arts '75 was a Canadian television series which aired on CBC Television between March 8, 1973 and June 22, 1975. The show was hosted by Helen Hutchinson, Sol Littman and Pat Patterson
Some of the featured people included painter A.Y. Jackson, radio producer Andrew Allan, painter Jack Chambers, film historian John Kobal, tapestry maker Tamara Jaworski and composer Marek Norman.
Arts was a newsmagazine which featured items and guests from the subject of arts including visual, literary and performing arts in Canada and international.
Bluff was a Canadian television game show hosted by Mike Darrow which aired on CBC Television on Wednesday evenings at 7:30 between October 6, 1976 and April 27, 1977. Produced by Riff Markowitz and co-ordinating producer was Jack Budgell.
Celebrity comedians were part of a panel who told tall tales and a contestant had to guess which was true.
Crossword Quiz was a Canadian gameshow which aired on CBC Television December 26, 1952 to June 30, 1953. Gameshow moderator Kim McIlroy provided crossword puzzle-style clues to James Bannerman, Ralph Allen, editor of Maclean's magazine, and two guest panelists. Morley Callaghan replaced McIlroy as moderator on March 20, 1953.
Underdogs is a 2006 Canadian television series spin-off from Marketplace. Host Wendy Mesley brings together three people, the underdogs, who have a consumer complaint to help them win their way against three companies of Canada.
Steven and Chris is a Canadian television talk show, which debuted on CBC Television on January 14, 2008. The show is hosted by Steven Sabados and Chris Hyndman, formerly of the home renovation show Designer Guys, who host celebrity guests and talk about topics ranging from entertainment, cooking, fashion, health and home decor.
Sabados and Hyndman are both openly gay. Despite being a longtime couple off-screen, they did not publicly acknowledge their relationship until 2008.
On March 10, 2009, CBC announced that the show was put on hiatus due to the network's budget cuts. It concluded on April 15, 2009 and continued in reruns in its usual timeslot.
The show returned on December 10, 2009 with a prime time holiday special, and regular new episodes began on January 4, 2010.
The show debuted in syndication in the United States through Program Partners in the fall of 2010. It began airing exclusively on Live Well Network in fall 2011.
It's a Living is a Canadian reality television series broadcast on CBC Television. In the series, Peter Jordan, the host, tries all sorts of jobs, from the mundane to the unusual, that belong to different Canadians. The series is currently shown on bold, a Canadian digital television station.
It's a Living was produced at CBWT in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Years of Hope and Anger is the 16th episode of the dramatic documentary television series, Canada: A People's History.
The episode first aired on CBC Television on November 11, 2001. As with the rest of the series, the story was told by the people involved and included a great sense of drama. This episode covered Canadian History from 1964 to 1976, despite the fact that some of the events in the earlier chapters occurred in the years preceding 1964. Due to the nature of the time period, the visuals used included photos, filming of indirect objects and archival recordings. Most of the words were recorded by voice actors, while some of the words were spoken by the figures themselves, and a few among this number were in the French language, with English subtitles.
Some of the main themes in this episode included Quebec sovereignty movement, the challenging of the status quo and the effects of progress. Special attention was placed on the possibilities of the era. The Vignettes and Chapter descriptions support this.
Carica-Tours was a weekly half-hour Canadian television series hosted by artist Jack Derr who illustrated story tours of different countries. The show was broadcast from Montreal.
Alphabet Soup is a Canadian children's television series which aired on CBC Television between October 5, 1971 and December 4, 1973. Each week, Trudy Young, Marc Stone, Lynn Griffin and puppet Arbuckle the Alligator would invite a guest who would talk about a subject beginning with a letter of the week.
Occasional guest Mavis Kerr joined the team when Lynn Griffin became ill.
"In an Uncertain World" is the 17th episode of the dramatic documentary television series Canada: A People's History.
The episode first aired on CBC Television on November 18, 2001. As with the rest of the series, the story was told by the people involved and included a great sense of drama. This episode covered Canadian history from 1976 to 1990, but most of the chapters were not in chronological order. Due to the nature of the period, the visuals used included photos, filming of indirect objects and archival recordings. It is the only episode to use predominantly archival colour footage with a few exceptions. Most of the words were recorded by voice actors, while some of the words were spoken by the figures themselves, and a few among this number were in the French language, with English subtitles.
Some of the main themes in this episode are the Quebec sovereignty movement, the demanding for change among groups of people and the new economic changes. Special attention was placed on the uncertainties of the era.
General Motors Theatre was a Canadian television anthology series, which ran on CBC Television under its various titles from 1953 until 1961. First transmitted under the sponsored title on October 5, 1954, a new 60-minute drama would be presented each week. As suggested by the title, the programme was sponsored by the General Motors automobile company. It was effectively the same series as the unsponsored CBC Theatre, which had run its first season from December 1, 1953 to April 20, 1954, with General Motors becoming title sponsor for the second season.
The series was a breeding ground for writing and directing talent such as William Kotcheff, Donald Jack and Arthur Hailey. One of Hailey's plays for the strand, Flight into Danger, was later remade as the feature film Zero Hour!, and was also screened by the BBC in the United Kingdom. It was a major factor in General Motors Theatre producer — and CBC Supervisor of Drama — Sydney Newman moving to work in the UK, where he later worked on and created antho
Home Fires was a Canadian television drama series, which aired on CBC Television from 1980 to 1983. It was a family saga set in Toronto during World War II, and took its name from the expression "keep the home fires burning".
The cast included Gerard Parkes, Kim Yaroshevskaya, Wendy Crewson, Peter Spence and Booth Savage.
Aubrey and Gus is a Canadian children's television series which aired on CBC Television between September 26, 1955 and June 18, 1956.
Aubrey is a puppet raccoon who has a boy's voice so his family cannot understand him. He becomes friends with a boy named Guys and together they search for Aubrey's raccoon voice.
Audubon Wildlife Theatre is a Canadian documentary television series which aired on CBC Television between April 1968 and June 1974. The series presented wildlife footage filmed by many contributors including award winner Dan Gibson and others such as Jack Carey, Wilf Gray, Edgar Jones, William Jahoda, John D. Bulger and Walter Berlet.
Bim Bam Boom is a Canadian children's television series which aired on CBC Television between November 18, 1955 and January 13, 1956. The show featured three clowns, named Bim, Bam and Boom, who told fairy tales and performed. The clown Boom was a human actor played by John Allen. Bim and Bam were puppets controlled by Kitty Dutcher and voiced by Rosemary Malkin and Sam Payne.
In Opposition was a Canadian television sitcom, which aired on CBC Television in 1989. The show lasted only a single season.
It starred Kathleen Laskey as Karen Collier, a rookie Member of Parliament, who represented the fictional riding of Moncton—Macquedewawa for the also-fictional Dominion Party of Canada. The show also starred Lawrence Dane as her party leader, Damir Andrei as a caucus colleague, and Jennifer Dale as Collier's neighbour Mary Margaret McCarthy.
The show was the CBC's second unsuccessful attempt to create a politically themed sitcom, following 1987's Not My Department.
Ombudsman was a Canadian television programme which sought to investigate and resolve disputes between people and government or business systems. When the series began, government ombudsman offices were only available in a few Canadian provinces. The initial Ombudsman episodes began mid-season in January 1974 and were broadcast fortnightly, sharing its Sunday night time slot with In the Present Tense. Beginning with the fall 1974 season, CBC aired the series most weeks.
Lawyer Robert M. Cooper was the program's host until 1979 when he shifted his attention to film production. Kathleen Ruff was his successor in the final season. By the time CBC cancelled the series, nearly all Canadian provincial governments had opened ombudsman offices.
A Gift to Last is a CBC Television Christmas special broadcast in 1976, a subsequent family drama series that ran from 1978–1979, and a stage play based on the pilot episode.
In both the special and series, Gordon Pinsent portrayed North-West Mounted Police officer Sgt Edgar Sturgess.