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Let's Go
Let's Go was a daily CBC Television entertainment series aired during the 1967-1968 season, featuring musical guests. It was the successor to Music Hop, and the show's title was taken from the Vancouver segment of Music Hop. Each day's episode featured local talent from a different city, moving across the country from east to west: Halifax, Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg and Vancouver. Anne Murray appeared on the Halifax show, before she achieved huge popularity with "Snowbird". The Winnipeg show was hosted by Chad Allan, the former frontman for The Guess Who. The Guess Who, fronted by Burton Cummings, played as the house band in Winnipeg.
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0Let's Go
Let's Go was a daily CBC Television entertainment series aired during the 1967-1968 season, featuring musical guests. It was the successor to Music Hop, and the show's title was taken from the Vancouver segment of Music Hop. Each day's episode featured local talent from a different city, moving across the country from east to west: Halifax, Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg and Vancouver. Anne Murray appeared on the Halifax show, before she achieved huge popularity with "Snowbird". The Winnipeg show was hosted by Chad Allan, the former frontman for The Guess Who. The Guess Who, fronted by Burton Cummings, played as the house band in Winnipeg.
0Witness
Witness is a Canadian documentary television series which was broadcast from 1992 to 2004. Various independently produced documentaries were introduced by host Knowlton Nash.
0The Hart and Lorne Terrific Hour
The Hart and Lorne Terrific Hour is a Canadian television variety show that aired on CBC Television in 1970 and 1971. It was part of Sunday At Nine, a CBC anthology that included documentaries, dramas, and "light entertainment", both domestic and imported. The show starred Hart Pomerantz and Lorne Michaels. The show mixed comedy sketches with musical guests, in a format similar to Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, the show that Michaels was working on before returning to Canada to star in his own show.
0Yam Roll
Yam Roll is a Canadian animated television series created by Jono Howard and Jon Izen airing on CBC Television in Canada, produced by March Entertainment. The series was first broadcast on February 6, 2006. It can be viewed on Saturday at 10:00am and 10:17am on local CBC channels as well as ABC2 and HBO Asia. The show premiered on November 20 on Cartoon Network's online video service. Yam Roll shows can currently be seen on the web at http://ilaugh.com/, as well as on Hulu.
0Music Hop
Music Hop is a Canadian music television series which aired on CBC Television from 1963 to 1967.
0Junior Television Club
Junior Television Club was a Canadian children's television news magazine series. It was broadcast on CBC Television from Vancouver, British Columbia between May 1, 1957 and June 26, 1957. On June 12, 1957, the show featured ten-year-old Kim Campbell, who later became Canada's first female Prime Minister. The show aired Wednesdays at 5 PM.
0The John Allan Cameron Show
The John Allan Cameron Show was a Canadian television variety series produced by CBC Television in Halifax from 1979 to 1980, with repeat episodes airing until 1982. This was the second national television series featuring host John Allan Cameron. His previous series, John Allan Cameron, was broadcast on private network CTV in 1975 and 1976.
SketchCom
SketchCom was a 1998 Canadian television comedy series, created by Roger Abbott and Don Ferguson of the Royal Canadian Air Farce. The series aired on Monday evenings, 7:30 pm in most time zones. The first of the series' 13 episodes aired 5 October 1998 and aired most weeks until early 1999. Different sketch performers were featured in each episode. CBC did not renew SketchCom for the 1999-2000 television season. Program funding included contributions from Bell Canada's Broadcast and New Media Fund and the Canadian Television Fund.
0Garage Matches
Garage Matches is a Canadian serial drama television series that follows the competitors as they compete head-to-head against each other for the title of Garage Matches Champion. Each episode typically features a variety of exciting, daring, shocking, disgusting, and most importantly, entertaining competitions. The show is produced by GR Productions and airs on the CBC Network in Canada. In August 2007 it was announced that Garage Matches will continue for a second season. The second season will consist of 10 episodes, running weekly uninterrupted by repeats.
0Daily Tips for Modern Living
Daily Tips for Modern Living is a six-episode comedy television series which aired across Canada in 1998 on CBC Television. Greg Thomey portrayed Ernie Post, a caricature of a lifestyle program host. The show was conceived as a satire of Martha Stewart Living, with up to six sketches per episode. The half-hour programs were produced by Salter Street Films in mid-1997 at Halifax, Nova Scotia. Writers for the show were Mark Farrell, Christian Murray, Tim Steeves and Greg Thomey. Matt Gallagher was the series director.
0Butternut Square
Butternut Square was a Canadian children's television series which aired on CBC Television between October 19, 1964 and February 10, 1967. The cast featured Ernie Coombs as Mr. Dressup and Fred Rogers as Mister Rogers, both of whom would follow with their own landmark television series. "Butternut Square" was a show designed for young viewers and featured a variety of segments aimed at entertaining and educating children. The program included storytelling, music, puppetry, and educational segments, often focusing on imaginative play and interactive elements to engage its audience. The show aimed to stimulate creativity, encourage learning, and entertain children through a mix of fun activities and storytelling. Although specific details about individual episodes might vary, the overall emphasis was on fostering a sense of wonder, creativity, and learning in its young viewers.
0The Greatest Canadian Invention
The Greatest Canadian Invention is a television mini-series originally aired on CBC Television. It is a spiritual sequel to The Greatest Canadian. It began with people voting online which invention they considered the greatest Canadian invention. The show is a two-hour special, hosted by Bob McDonald, that premiered on 3 January 2007 at 8:00 EST.
0School's Out
School's Out is a 1992 Canadian television movie featuring the characters of the popular Degrassi Junior High and Degrassi High series. The production was filmed during the summer of 1991 and premiered on CBC Television January 5, 1992. Originally, the movie was intended to be the series finale of the entire Degrassi saga, but in 2001, the franchise was revived with a new series, Degrassi: The Next Generation.
0The Second City's Next Comedy Legend
The Second City's Next Comedy Legend was a summer reality show that aired on Canada's CBC Television in 2007. Contestants improvise and create characters for their chance to win a spot on the Second City Canadian Touring Company. Judges are Joe Flaherty, Mick Napier, Dave Thomas and Elvira Kurt and the show is hosted by Trish Stratus. Current Second City Toronto performers Matt Baram, Paul Bates, Anand Rajaram and Naomi Snieckus act as mentors. The show is co-executive produced by Second City CEO Andrew Alexander and producer Morgan Elliot. Auditions for the 2007 show took place March 20 in Vancouver, March 24 in Calgary, March 27 in Halifax and April 4 in Toronto. The show premiered on July 10, 2007.
0CBC News: The Scene
CBC News: The Scene is a Canadian entertainment news program on CBC Television and CBC Newsworld. It airs a two-minute weekday wrap on CBC News Network and local CBC newscasts, and a half-hour Weekend Scene edition airs on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays on CBC News Network. The show is hosted by journalist Jelena Adzic.
0Beyond Reason
Beyond Reason was a television quiz show seen throughout Canada from 1977 to 1980. Programmes featured a group of experts from various paranormal specialties attempting to find the identity of hidden visitors, resembling a combination of Front Page Challenge, What's My Line? and The Amazing World of Kreskin. This CBC Television series was recorded in Winnipeg. Hosts for most of the series run were journalist Allen Spraggett and CBC announcer Bill Guest. These hosts were replaced by Paul Soles in the show's final episodes.
0Front Page Challenge
Front Page Challenge is a Canadian panel game about current events and history. Created by comedy writer/performer John Aylesworth and produced and aired by CBC Television, the series ran from 1957 to 1995.
0Don Messer's Jubilee
Don Messer's Jubilee was a television folk musical variety show produced at station CBHT in Halifax, Nova Scotia and broadcast by CBC Television nationwide from 1957 until 1969. Taking its name from band leader and fiddler Don Messer, the half-hour weekly program featured Messer and his band "Don Messer and His Islanders", as well as a guest performer. The show followed a consistent format throughout its years, beginning with a tune named "Goin' to the Barndance Tonight", followed by fiddle tunes by Messer, songs from some of his "Islanders" including singers Marg Osburne and Charlie Chamberlain, the featured guest performance, and a closing hymn. It ended with "Till We Meet Again". The series began 7 November 1957 as a regional program limited to CBC's Nova Scotia and New Brunswick stations. On 7 August 1959, CBC stations throughout Canada carried the show as a summer replacement for Country Hoedown's Friday evening time slot. That fall, Don Messer's Jubilee became a regular season CBC series as of 28 September 1959, becoming a Monday night fixture until its final 1968-1969 season when it returned to the Friday evening timeslot. Outside of Hockey Night In Canada, in the mid-1960s Don Messer's Jubilee was the #1 show in the country, earning higher ratings than even the imported CBS variety show, The Ed Sullivan Show. The guest performance slot gave national exposure to numerous Canadian folk musicians, including Stompin' Tom Connors and Catherine McKinnon.
0On the Road Again
On the Road Again is a Canadian television series which aired from 1987 until 2007. Wayne Rostad was the program's host for its entire run. The series consisted of interview and documentary segments from various Canadian locations. CBC cancelled the series in January 2007, citing declining ratings and the network's rethinking of regional production policies.
Straight Up
Straight Up is a popular but short lived Canadian television series produced by Back Alley Films. Although critically acclaimed, the show only ran for 13 episodes on CBC Television from 1996 to 1998. Set in Toronto, the show dealt with the gritty problems of teenagers living in an urban environment. Rather than focusing on a core group of principal characters, each episode would typically feature a different set of the ensemble teenage cast. Initially, although the character relationships were intertwined, each episode would feature a self-contained plot usually involving only a few of the characters. However during the second season, there was a continuing story arc involving a murder over multiple episodes. Although Straight Up only lasted for two seasons, it spawned the spin off series Drop the Beat which followed the characters of Jeff and Dennis as DJs at a campus radio station.