CBC Television Series, 1952-1982
by Blaine Allan
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THE IAN McLEAN SHOW
Sat 7:00-7:30 p.m., 3 Apr-10 Apr 1976
This musical variety show, which originated in Edmonton, was on the air for two
weeks.
Tue 10:00-11:00 p.m., 21/28 Mar 1972
Wed 9:30-10:30 p.m., 21 Feb-28 Mar 1973
Mon 10:00-11:00 p.m., 18 Feb-25 Mar 1974
Sun 8:00-9:00 p.m., 17 Jul-11 Sep 1977 (R)
Sun 4:00-5:00 p.m., 15 Jul-12 Aug 1979 (R)
Images Of Canada, a series of historical documentaries, outlined the
development of the country's cultural and social history. Produced in
consultation with Ramsay Cook, the series started with only two programs in
l972. The first, The Craft Of History, produced by George Robertson, involved
Donald Creighton, Arthur Lower, Michel Brunet, talk with Cook about the
influence of Canada's past on its present, and about historians' interpretation
of the past, and their consequent influence. The second, directed by Tovell,
concerned the architecture and history of the Parliament Buildings, and was
called The Folly On The Hill.
In addition to repeating these two programs, the second season added four new
productions. In Heroic Beginnings, Donald Creighton examined eleven historic
sites across the country from a Viking settlement on the east coast to Dawson
City in the west. Carol Myers prepared The Magic Circle, on New France from
l600 to l867. Ties That Bind examined the history of the Atlantic region, and
was directed by John Labow. The fourth new broadcast, called Peace, Order, and
Prosperity, and directed by Carol Myers, examined Upper Canada from l776 to
l900.
The third season repeated the previous season's four new programs, and added
two more, on the Prairie region and on British Columbia to round out the series
portrait of Canadian history. Both directed by Myers, they were titled The
Promised Land and Splendour Undiminished.
Two programs, finished in 1976, completed the view of the country. Spirit In A
Landscape: The People Beyond, directed by Carol Myers, provided a profile of
the Innuit people and of the north. In Journey Without Arrival: A Personal
Point Of View From Northrop Frye, Frye offered ideas on the landscape and
consciousness of Canada that have been exemplified in the nation's art.
The one hour programs were later brokeninto half-hour segments and slotted into
the schedule for Canadian School Telecasts.
Sun 5:30-6:00 p.m., 23 Jun-23 Sep 1973
A summer series, each week of Impressions featured Ramsay Cook or John David
Hamilton in conversation with a prominent Canadian. Guests in 1973, which had
eleven programs, included writers Margaret Atwood, Robertson Davies, and
Northrop Frye, economist and head of Statistics Canada Sylvia Ostry, filmmaker
Allan King, president of the National Farmers Union Roy Atkinson, and Guy
Rocher, Chairman of the Canada Council.
The second series, which ran nine weeks, concentrated on figures from Quebec
culture, including fiddler Jean Carignan, filmmaker Claude Jutra, writer and
filmmaker Hubert Aquin, Georges-Henri Levesque, the founder of Laval
University, and Quebec's former social affairs minister Claude Castonguay, and
Marie-Andre Bertrand.
The producer of Impressions was Judith Walle, and the executive producer Ain
Soodor.
Various Days and Times, 8 Jul-16 Sep 1981
Wilks and Close Associates prepared this series of concerts taped at the
Ontario Place Forum over the summer of 1980, which the CBC aired at varied
days--though usually Wednesday evenings--and times over the next summer.
Performers included Judy Collins, Maynard Ferguson, Murray McLauchlan, Chick
Corea, Dizzy Gillespie, Sergio Mendes, the Good Brothers, Dan Hill, Peter Tosh,
Rita Coolidge, and the Travellers.
Mon/Wed/Fri 7:00-7:30 p.m., 22 Sep 1975-9 Jan 1976
Mon 7:00-8:00 p.m., 12 Jan-31 May 1976
In Good Company was a magazine-style entertainment and information show,
produced in Toronto by Bob Gibbons. The host was Hana Gartner, with reporters
and contributors such as Rod Coneybeare, Ben Wicks, Ruthie Lunenfeld, and, with
topical satire, Don Ferguson and Roger Abbott of the Royal Canadian Air Farce.
John Kastner also produced hidden camera segments for the show.
Sat 10:15-11:00 p.m., 17 Dec 1966-6 May 1967
Sat 10:30-11:00 p.m., 13 May-17 Jun 1967
Sat 10:30-11:00 p.m., 16 Sep-7 Oct 1967
Sat 10:15-10:45 p.m., 14 Oct 1967-11 May 1968
In Person filled the Saturday night slot between the end of the hockey game and
the start of the national news. A musical variety show, its regulars were a
big band led by Jimmy Dale, a vocal group called the In Singers, writer Allen
Blye, and choreographer Andy Body. Each week, a different host introduced
guest entertainers from Canada and elsewhere. Hosts included Tommy Common,
Alex Barris, Don Francks, Wally Koster, Doug Crosley, and Gordon Pinsent, shows
featured such guests as Dave Broadfoot, Joh Hendricks, Aubrey Tadman, Flip
Wilson, the Staccatoes, Cy Leonard and, Billy Meek.
For the 1967 fall season, producer Mark Warren aimed to open up the show's
concept with more one-person performances, book and music shows, and by getting
out of the studio more often. He also hired Al Hamel as the show's regular
host, and signed a range of topline Canadian guests, including Ian and Sylvia,
Gordon Lightfoot, Rich Little, Tommy Ambrose, and Jack Duffy. Writers for the
show were Peter Mann, Gerry O'Flanagan, and Alfie Scopp. During the summer of
l967, a number of programs were taped at Expo '67 for broadcast the following
year.
Thu 10:30-11:00 p.m., 4 Jan-18 Mar 1968
Original title for Man At The Centre (q.v.).
Sun 11:30-11:45 p.m., 6 Feb-17 Apr 1955
Tue 7:30-7:45 p.m., 19 Jul-20 Sep 1955
Sat 6:30-6:45 p.m., 2 Jun-1 Jul 1956
Sun 1:00-1:15 p.m., 20 May-27 Jun 1956
In The Common Interest was a film series hosted by Vincent Tovell, the CBC's
correspondent at the United Nations, and was produced by the CBC in cooperation
with the U.N. The fifteen minute reports concerned social conditions in
different countries throughout the world. The summer 1955 series included
programs on Thailand, Ethiopia, and Indonesia. The 1956 series covered such
subjects as efforts to raise the standard of living in areas of Asia, Africa,
the Middle East, and Latin America; UNICEF's services for mothers and children
in Asia; the fight against malaria; the values of nuclear energy; and the
people on staff at the U.N.
Thu 9:00-9:30 p.m., 16 Sep-30 Dec 1971
Thu 7:30-8:00 p.m., 6 Jan-31 Mar 1972
Thu 9:00-9:30 p.m., 6 Apr-13 Apr 1972
Thu 7:30-8:00 p.m., 20 Apr-29 Jun 1972
Sat 10:30-11:00 p.m., 13 Jul-14 Sep 1974 (R)
In an age of rock 'n' roll, the CBC attempted to appeal to an older, middlebrow
audience with In The Mood, a musical variety show devoted to big band music and
swing. Jack Duffy, the comic actor who had once been a featured singer for the
Tommy Dorsey organization, was the show's host, and Guido Basso led a band made
up of Toronto studio musicians. In the first show, Duffy introduced special
guests Tex Beneke and the Modernaires, and the program was devoted to music in
the style of the Glenn Miller Orchestra, with interviews and film about the
music and the times. Subsequent programs featured a guest musician who gave
each show a focus. In The Mood was directed by Athan Katsos, and produced and
written by Garry Ferrier and Aubrey Tadman.
Sun 10:30-11:00 p.m., 13 Jan-17 May 1974
Alternating on a week by week basis with The Ombudsman, In The Present Tense
was a magazine-style, international public affairs program, which dealt with a
single subject each week. The programs included a wide variety of interview
subjects to discuss the problem at hand. The seven shows covered the following
subjects: the treatment or coverup of embarrassing international incidents,
with the examples of the United States government's involvement in the Middle
East and Spain; the energy crisis and the petroleum industry; the relations of
the U.K., its government, and its coal mining industry; the characteristics and
effects of inflation; international economic disparities and their effect on
the world food supply; the confrontation of the right and the left in French
electoral politics; and the views of Israelis on war and peace. For maximum
currency, the program was recorded on videotape only a matter of hours before
air time. The executive producer was Ralph Thomas. The producer of In The
Present Tense was Martyn Burke, with Michael Callaghan, and with contributing
producers Peter Kappele in London and Ken Johnson in Ottawa. Angela Fritz,
Valerie Ross, and David Reisman were researchers, and Jan Cuchman, who also
worked on The Ombudsman, directed. Hosts for the show were Paul Rush and
Jennifer Davis.
Sun 2:00-2:30 p.m., 19 Apr-28 Jun 1970
An afternoon show, broadcast for ten weeks in the spring of 1970, In The Round
described the show's set. Singer and comic Mike Neun was the host for this
informal musical variety program, with other regulars Carol Hunter and the Doug
Parker Quartet. The program was produced by Ken Gibson at CBC Vancouver.
Mon 10:00-10:30 p.m., 10 Sep-19 Nov 1973
A series of nine, half-hour films, In The South Seas was produced by Gordon
Babineau of CBC Vancouver, and written and narrated by George Woodcock. The
crew, which included William Brayne on camera and Norman Rosen on sound,
travelled to Fiji, the New Hebrides, Tonga, Western Samoa, the British Solomon
Islands, New Caledonia, and the Gilbert Islands to explore the legends,
traditional ways of life, and the contemporary state of things in the islands
of the South Pacific. The series derived from Woodcock's research for a
then-unpublished book; he later published South Sea Journey (Toronto:
Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1976).
Mon 5:00-5:15 p.m., 12 Nov 1956-24 Jun 1957
Aimed at children up to eight years of age, In The Story Book presented classic
tales by such writers as the Brothers Grimm, J.M. Barrie, Hans Christian
Andersen, and Lewis Carroll in dance and pantomime, choreographed by Heino
Heiden and narrated offscreen by CBC announcer Steve Woodman. Actor and writer
Ann Fafoutakis adapted the stories, and Roger Racine produced the fifteen
minute broadcast at CBC Montreal.
Fri 8:00-8:30 p.m., 12 Sep 1952
Fri 8:30-9:00 p.m., 19 Sep-24 Oct 1952
The opening broadcast of In Town Tonight covered a fashion show staged by
Eaton's, with announcer Elsa Jenkins, especially for the CBC's first attempt at
on-the-spot television reporting. Produced by Sydney Newman, who later
developed such immediate reports of current events on Graphic, In Town Tonight
provided actualities and interviews with personalities visiting the city.
Mon 10:30-11:00 p.m., 15 Oct 1962-6 May 1963
Starring Nathan Cohen, entertainment editor of the Toronto Star and, until
l960, host and moderator of Fighting Words, In View presented interviews,
discussions, and documentaries on the arts and, in particular, literary
culture. The opening program examined television, and featured Sir Harry
Pilkington, who had recently been involved in producing a report on television
broadcasting in the U.K. The producers promised future reports on the magazine
industry, on the book publishing industry through examination of a best-seller,
on the priminence of the paperback book, and on contemporary status symbols.
In the middle of the New York newspaper strike, the program also featured an
interview with A.H. Raskin, the New York Times's chief labour reporter.
Don MacPherson produced In View, a half-hour broadcast, which appeared on the
schedule when Festival ran for sixty minutes instead of an hour and a half.
Mon 10:30-11:00 p.m., 26 Dec 1960-22 May 1961
Tue 10:00-10:30 p.m., 3 Oct 1961-27 Mar 1962
Tue 10:30-11:00 p.m., 8 May-26 Jun 1962
Tue 10:00-10:30 p.m., 2 Oct 1962-26 Mar 1963
Tue 10:30-11:00 p.m., 2 Apr-
Mon 10:00-10:30 p.m., 30 Sep 1963-27 Jul 1964
Contemporary to Close-Up and a direct precursor to This Hour Has Seven Days,
Inquiry was a significant attempt by the CBC to inject bite and flair into its
coverage of national affairs. The half-hour broadcast was produced in Ottawa
by Patrick Watson and hosted initially by Davidson Dunton, former chairman of
the CBC and then president of Carleton University. The first season included a
three part report on national defence, as well as individual programs on income
tax, censorship, and the press and Quebec separatism. The next season
continued coverage of the Quebec situation, and provided reports on atomic
energy in Canada, air pollution, and the isolation of new Canadians. By the
third season, the CBC had expanded the program's budget by a quarter and the
show took on more responsibility for coverage of international events as well
as national affairs.
Inquiry's attitude was pointed, did not shy away from controversy, and
frequently included a satirical edge. In a Maclean's review, Peter Gzowski
commended Dunton for the clarity of his writing and the sharp and pertinent
quality of his questions Maclean's, and added, "[Watson and Dunton] are not
above using showmanship to make their points either. A program on national
security was introduced by an announcer saying, 'If you have not been cleared
as a security risk, you are not allowed to watch this show. Turn off your
set.' The opening shot on a show dealing with how to get government action was
of the Peace Tower. As an announcer's voice droned, 'Ten-nine-eight. . . ' the
tower shot out flames from its roots and, apparently, took off into the
stratosphere" (9 March 1963). Warner Troyer worked for the Inquiry crew as a
story editor and writer. He produced film features for the show and joined
Dunton onscreen to develop the two-on-one form of interview that became the
norm on Inquiry.
Dunton left the show when he was appointed by Prime Minister Pearson to the
Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism. Fitting the reasons for
his departure, Watson decided to try to hire a bilingual Francophone to fill
Dunton's place. After two videotaped interviews that were later aired--one
with Quebec Justice Minister Claude Wagner--then-McGill University law
professor, later Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was asked to take the job. When
he declined, Watson asked another McGill faculty member, history professor
Laurier LaPierre. LaPierre and Watson, along with other members of the Inquiry
team, including producer Roy Faibish, formed the nucleus of the Seven Days unit
the year after Inquiry ended its run.
As the show's title card made clear to any uncertain viewer, Inquiry was
pronounced "Inqui'ry."
Mon 7:30-8:00 p.m., 16 Jul-30 Jul 1973
Sat 10:00-10:30 p.m., 13 Jul-5 Oct 1974
A musical variety show from Winnipeg, Inside Canada originated as a series of
three, half-hour compendiums of comic sketches and music on Canadian subjects,
and was offered to local stations to fit into their own schedules in summer
l973. The response to the show was favourable enough that eight more episodes
were ordered to be aired on the network the next summer. The four original
performers--Jim Martin, Diane Stapley, Ruth Nichol, and Pat Rose--had worked
together in a Winnipeg production of Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living
In Paris. CBC producer Dave Robertson saw the production and kept the troupe
together for the first series. In the second series, Brent Carver replaced Jim
Martin. Pat Withrow was the show's writer, and Dean Regan choreographed the
musical numbers.
Interlude, a half-hour of popular music from Winnipeg, featured singer Maxine
Ware and an orchestra conducted by Eric Wild.
Thu 9:00-10:00 p.m., 18 Sep-6 Nov 1980
Coordinated by John L. Kennedy, The International Comedy Hour was a selection
of comedy programming from Canadian, U.S. and British television.
Sun 5:30-6:00 p.m., 27 Aug-1 Oct 1961
The CBC prepared a series of six, half-hour programs on the subject of laws
between nations. The programs dealt with the trials of war criminals at
Nuremberg; the Intarnational Court of Justice; the questions of individual
rights and responsibilities, specifically the war trials question of the
soldier's right to refuse an order contrary to international laws; the issues
of intervention by one country in another's domestic conflicts, with the
examples of Hungary, Cuba, and the Suez; and the relations of international
laws to territorial rights over the seas and rivers. The questions that the
programs addressed reflected a genuine concern over whether international laws
and legal practice held any real strength, or whether they bent and broke under
pressure from strong national interests.
Each program entailed a presentation of the problem and a panel discussion.
Panelists included Judge John Read, formerly a Canadian representative to the
International Court of Justice; Major-General Guy Simonds; Wolfgang Friedman of
Columbia University; Harvard law professor John Hazard, formerly assistant to
the prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials; and Canadian law professors R. St. John
Macdonald of the University of Western Ontario, Maxwell Cohen of McGill, Yves
Morin of the University of Montreal, Dean Curtis of the University of British
Columbia, and Norman MacKenzie, president of UBC.
Various Days and Times, 11 Jul 1961-18 Aug 1971
The International Television Federation consisted of broadcasting organizations
from four countries: the CBC from Canada, Associated Rediffusion from the
U.K., Westinghouse Broadcasting and National Educational Television and Radio
from the U.S.A., and the Australian Broadcasting Commission. They shared
documentary programming in an attempt to provide viewers with a wider view of
contemporary world affairs, The CBC broadcast the programs, on the average one
a month, at varying days of the week and times of day. Over the years,
Canadian contributions to the reciprocal agreement included Forty Million
Shoes; Beryl Fox's and Douglas Leiterman's documentary on racial relations in
the southern U.S., One More River; Three Men, on three Secretaries-General of
the United Nations, produced by Vincent Tovell; Men For Others, also produced
by Tovell, on the actions of religious thinkers with regarde to modern social
problems; Science And Conscience, on ethics and values in biological research,
produced by Jack Sampson; Audubon, a profile of the naturalist, produced by
James Murray; and The Well-Known Stranger, a documentary on the brain, produced
by Vincent Tovell. In November 1963, too, CBC Vice-President E.S. Hallman was
named chairman of Intertel.
Mon 10:30-11:00 p.m., 23 Aug-20 Sep 1971
Sun 2:00-2:30 p.m., 16 Apr-23 Apr 1972
For this hilf-hour program, John David Hamilton interviewed Rev. James
Mutchmor, Senator Grattan O'Leary, law professor and poet F.R. Scott, Senator
Therese Casgrain, Claude Bissell, Arthur Lower, and O.M. Solandt. Ain Soodor
produced the show, the title of which was changed to Distinguished Canadians.
Tue 7:30-8:00 p.m., 9 Jun-30 Jun 1953
Sat 1:30-2:00 p.m., 15 Sep-29 Dec 1979
Produced in Vancouver by Al Vitols, and featuring Bob Fortune, this half- hour
program on Canadian inventors and inventions was circulated to network stations
on regional exchange.
Wed 10:30-11:00 p.m., 24 Sep 1969-28 Jan 1970
The CBC gathered a group of articulate CBC types, sat them around a table and
fed them at a restaurant called Julie's on Jarvis Street in Toronto, right
across from the CBC, and let them sit around and talk with each other while the
videotape rolled, and made a CBC television show called Irish Coffee. Whether
the idea for this show arose out of similar discussions at the Four Seasons
bar, also across the road from the CBC, or from the CBC types' growing
antipathy for the food served in the CBC cafeteria, no one knows for sure.
Duties as the party's and the show's host rotated among fPaul Soles, Bill
Walker, Fred Davis, and Paul Kligman. "Their" guests included Toronto media
types such as David Cobb, Ben Wicks, Alexander Ross, Peter Worthington, Ray
Sonin, Andrew Allan, and Anna Cameron. Des Hardman produced this informal talk
show.
Mon 7:30-8:00 p.m., 5 Apr-
Thu 9:00-9:30 p.m., 17 May-9 Sep 1971
Mon 7:30-8:00 p.m., 20 Sep 1971-26 Jun 1972
Thu 9:30-10:00 p.m., 6 Jul-14 Sep 1972
Mon 7:30-8:00 p.m., 18 Sep 1972-18 Jun 1973
Thu 9:00-9:30 p.m., 28 Jun-13 Sep 1973
Fri 7:30-8:00 p.m., 21 Sep 1973-14 JUn 1974
Thu 9:00-9:30 p.m., 21 Jun-
Sun 7:30-8:00 p.m., 8 Sep 1974-21 Dec 1975
Sun 7:30-8:00 p.m., 7 Mar-12 Sep 1976 (R)
A musical group composed mostly of relatives, the Irish Rovers were all born in
Ireland, emigrated to Canada, and achieved hit parade success with a recording
of Shel Silverstein's fable of Noah's ark and "The Unicorn." Faced with having
to fill six weeks of the season after the cancellation of The Mike Neun Show,
CBC Vancouver producer Ken Gibson developed a show for the quintet. The Irish
Rovers were Will, George, and Joe Millar, on banjo and tinwhistle, guitar, and
electric bass, respectively, and all on vocals, Wilcil McDowall on acoordion,
and portly front man Jimmy Ferguson on vocals.
In addition to musical performances by the band and their guests, before a
studio audience, the program included comic sketches. The show demonstrated an
awareness of the popularity of the Rovers' modern, often homogenized renditions
of traditional music to a middle-of-the-road television audience, and the
potential attractions of a playful group of young to middle-aged Irishmen among
children. Most programs included a segment in which the Rovers--particularly
Will Millar, the band's leader, his brother George, and Ferguson, the group's
mugging, comic foil--dressed in leprechaun costumes and were chromakeyed into a
set that appeared oversized.
For the first few years, the production remained in the Vancouver studios;
later in the show's run, in 1974, the Rovers went on location to such places as
Banff, and the CBC also sent them to Ireland for a musical tour of their
homeland.
Mon 10:00-10:30 p.m., 14 Oct-4 Nov 1974
Mark Blandford produced this series of four, half-hour programs on the
transitions and changes that people go through in middle age. The show's
catalyst was Daniel J. Levinson, a psychologist from Yale University. The
format of the production was an encounter session at a Quebec resort in which
twelve people between the ages of thirty-eight and fifty participated. In the
sessions that the programs document, people talk about the choices they
confronted in middle age and the changes in career, attitude, or way of life
that they made or did not make as a result.
Thu 5:15-5:30 p.m., 23/30 Jan 1958
This fifteen minute show, travel films for children, ran for only two weeks.
Thu 8:00-8:30 p.m., 21 Jun-6 Sep 1973
Wed 8:30-9:00 p.m., 13 feb-27 Mar 1974
Tue 7:30-8:00 p.m., 7 Jan-1 Apr 1975
Canadian singer Tommy Common and Irish singer Tommy Makem alternated as hosts
of this musical variety show produced by Ken Gibson in Vancouver. The show
featureed homogenized folk music, performed by the hosts, their guests, and the
usual vocal group, this time called Sweet Majac.
Mon 9:00-9:30 p.m., 30 Jun-8 Sep 1969
CBC producer and director Dave Thomas followed up The Good Company (q.v.) with
another search for young talent to be packaged in a half-hour variety format.
Thomas planned to loosen the format of the earlier series to allow individual
shows to have their own focus, whether comedy, music, or dance. The group of
performers, who included several members of the original Good Company, such as
Pat Coulter and the new show's choreographers, Judi Richard and Malcolm Gale,
were also divided into smaller working units to be featured on the show.
Members of the troupe included Alan Thicke, the talented singer-songwriter Dee
Higgins, Bill McKeown, Brian Russell, Vera Biloshisky, and Sandy Crawley, who
had the extraordinary pleasure of introducing the show's theme song, "Stuff,"
written by the series senior writer Mark Shekter. The staff writers, billed as
all in their teens or early twenties, were Bob Ezrin, who later became one of
rock music's major producers, Rick Sanders, Cliff Jones, and Maribeth Solomon.
Jim Pirie was musical director, and used arrangments by Doug Riley, Rick
Wilkins, and the show's vocal coach, Vern Kennedy.
Tue 10:00-10:30 p.m., 1 May-26 Jun 1956
The CBC produced It's The Law in cooperation with the Canadian Bar Association
to demonstrate the law to Canadians as it would arise in everyday life. Each
show consisted of three parts: an introduction to the principle under
consideration, a dramatization, and a discussion with a member of the Bar
Association of the case and its implications. The first four shows, written by
Alan King, concerned the rights of a citizen when arrested, the respective
rights of a seller of goods and the purchaser, the duty of a witness to
testify, and the question of whether a lawyer should defend someone he or she
thinks is guilty as charged.
The show's host was Frank Peddie, who appeared with Cecil Wright, Dean of Law
at the University of Toronto. The show was planned by Eric Koch and David
Walker, who was the show's producer. The studio director was Tony Partidge,
and performers appearing in the show included William Needles, Ed McNamara,
Sandy Webster, and Cec Linder.
Four years later, the CBC produced A Case For The Court, a very similar show,
also in cooperation with the Canadian Bar Association, and also written by Alan
King.
Mon-Fri 5:00-5:30 p.m., 5 Apr-
Mon-Fri 4:00-4:30 p.m., 13 Sep 1976-5 Sep 1977
A television adaptation of the parlour game, "Dictionary," It's Your Choice
featured Juliette and Don McGill as regular team captains and Bill Lawrence and
the moderator. Each team tried to trick the other about the real definition of
an obscure word. Unlike many such game shows on CTV or on private networks in
the United States, the CBC show did not involve ordinary people as
participants. Celebrities, such as Carol Robinson, Gary Lautens, Jerry
Salzberg, and Ray Staples joined Juliette and McGill to play the game in teams
of three. Don Brown produced the daily series. Don McGill died in July
l976.
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IT'S YOUR CHOICE
The Ian McLean Show
