This picture provides a behind-the-scenes look at the filming of Butternut Square in 1966. The show starred Ernie Coombs, who played Mr. Dressup, before the character would go on to become one of the best known-names in children's programming. Read More »
Posted on Nov 1, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Bob Homme starred in the popular children's television program, The Friendly Giant, from 1958-1985. In the 15-minute show, Homme played the giant, Friendly, who lived in a huge castle and was friends with Rusty the Rooster and Jerome the Giraffe. Read More »
Posted on Nov 1, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Children's program Razzle Dazzle aired between 1961 and 1966 and featured Howard the Turtle as the star of the show. Howard would often tell jokes, known as "groaners". The show was hosted by Michele Finney and Al Hamel. Read More »
Posted on Oct 30, 2011 6:00:00 AM
This image shows the village set from The Friendly Giant. Bob Homme starred in the popular children's television program, The Friendly Giant, from 1958-1985. In the 15-minute show, Homme played the giant, Friendly, who lived in a huge castle.
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Posted on Oct 29, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Adrienne Clarkson, Moses Znaimer and Paul Soles pose for a Take 30 photo shoot in the 1960s. Take 30 was afternoon TV for homemakers, but it assumed women's interests went beyond recipes and child rearing. Read More »
Posted on Oct 28, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Lloyd Robertson, Toby Tarnow and Tom Kneebone appear in the summer of 1962 on the CBC Television series Vacation Time. The summer replacement series aired during the summer months in the place of regular children's programming that was on hiatus. Read More »
Posted on Oct 21, 2011 6:00:00 AM
In a 2009 episode of Battle of the Blades, Kurt Browning took to the ice in hockey skates for a special guest performance set to Frank Sinatra's Luck Be A Lady, choreographed by regular judge Sandra Bezic. Read More »
Posted on Oct 20, 2011 6:00:00 AM
For 32 years, Ernie Coombs played Mr. Dressup and opened the doors to a world of imagination when he lifted the lid on his famous Tickle Trunk and shared in the antics of his faithful puppet friends Casey and Finnegan. Read More »
Posted on Oct 19, 2011 6:00:00 AM
This ad from December 1970 shows The National anchors of the time Lloyd Robertson and George Finstad. The two anchors brought viewers "up to the minute reports from the CBC's world-wide web of newsrooms and correspondents," the ad states. Read More »
Posted on Oct 13, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Gordon Lightfoot made a guest appearance on The Tommy Hunter Show in 1981. Lightfoot and the band performed Shadows and Old Dan's Records. The Tommy Hunter Show air from 1965-1992 and featured Canadian and international country and western music stars. Read More »
Posted on Oct 12, 2011 6:00:00 AM
A highly respected senior journalist, Joan Donaldson was the founding head of Newsworld responsible for the development and operation of the network. Read More »
Posted on Oct 11, 2011 6:00:00 AM
The Ron James Show is now in its third season. James has established himself as a uniquely Canadian, poetically charged stand-up comedian. Read More »
Posted on Oct 10, 2011 6:00:00 AM
While Royal Canadian Air Farce's knack for send-ups of politicians, pundits, and plebeians alike kept audiences laughing out loud for almost four decades, the troupe's own story has gone untold. Until now. Read More »
Posted on Oct 10, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Rick Mercer goes bungee jumping in Whistler, B.C., with Man in Motion Rick Hansen on an episode of the Rick Mercer Report. Read More »
Posted on Oct 8, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Panel member Gordon Sinclair, Pierre Berton, Betty Kennedy and host Fred David pose in front of CBC-TV Studio 4 in Toronto to promote Front Page Challenge. Read More »
Posted on Oct 7, 2011 6:00:00 AM
N'udu (Richard Yearwood) and JoJo (Grace Lynn Kung) do some important work the lab in an episode of InSecurity. The action comedy premiered in 2011. Read More »
Posted on Oct 6, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Hockey Night In Canada has been a national institution since 1952, when Foster Hewitt's familiar "Hello, Canada!" ushered hockey fans into the era of television. HNIC has since become the longest running and most influential sports program in Canadian history. Read More »
Posted on Oct 5, 2011 11:03:45 AM
From left, Walter Wicks, Glen Sarty and Byron MacMillian work on-location for an episode of Country Calendar. Read More »
Posted on Oct 5, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Reach for the Top pitted Canada's brightest high school students against each other in a question and answer game. Topics that ranged from the classics to popular culture, from history to mathematics Read More »
Posted on Oct 4, 2011 6:00:00 AM
CBC News foreign correspondent Adrienne Arsenault readies to tape a segment for The National while in Sri Lanka in 2007. Read More »
Posted on Oct 3, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Cameraman Wilf Fielding works on a CBC Television set in 1952. Read More »
Posted on Oct 2, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Preston Manning makes a guest appearance on Royal Canadian Air Farce. Manning made four guest appearances on Air Farce - one where he famously cackled about how he loved that word "Refoooooorm". Read More »
Posted on Oct 1, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Al Waxman shows off the lining of his blazer in the Sept. 28, 1976 episode of the King of Kensington. The popular series aired on CBC Television from 1975-1980. Read More »
Posted on Sep 30, 2011 6:00:00 AM
A technician works on the boards in a control room for CBC News in Toronto. Read More »
Posted on Sep 29, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Set designers work on the sophisticated canal structure being used in the Twelfth Night production aired on CBC Television in 1964. Read More »
Posted on Sep 28, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Johnny Wayne performs in a sketch on the Nov. 16, 1969 episode of the Wayne & Shuster show. Read More »
Posted on Sep 27, 2011 6:00:00 AM
He adored Arrowroot cookies, Barbra Streisand and animals. He abhorred sunlight, the stage and airplanes. Eccentric, genius, solitary, head-strong, hypochondriac, virtuoso... all describe Glenn Herbert Gould, one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century. Read More »
Posted on Sep 27, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Staff work in the control room during the filming of a 1965 episode of This Hour Has Seven Days. The often controversial newsmagazine ran on CBC Television from 1964-66. Read More »
Posted on Sep 26, 2011 6:00:00 AM
A camera readies to film a model of a scenic backdrop for the television series of Blackfoot Country, which aired from 1954-1958. Read More »
Posted on Sep 25, 2011 6:00:00 AM
The cast of Royal Canadian Air Farce, Kids in the Hall and Brent Butt performed a doughnut shop sketch on the All-Star Comedy Homecoming. Read More »
Posted on Sep 24, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Harry Forestell on the set of CBC News: Morning in 2007. The Toronto studios are in the 4th floor newsroom of the CBC Broadcast Centre in downtown Toronto. Read More »
Posted on Sep 23, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Jack Medhurst goofs around while still in costume on the set of Look Ma, I'm Human. The musical satire aired on CBC in November 1957. Read More »
Posted on Sep 22, 2011 6:00:00 AM
The cast and crew of Julius Caesar shoot in Woodbridge, Ont., in 1966. Based on the William Shakespeare play, the movie starred Budd Knapp as Caesar. Read More »
Posted on Sep 21, 2011 6:00:00 AM
On Sept. 25, 2011 legendary pianist Glenn Gould would've marked his 79th birthday. To commemorate this anniversary, CBC will release a comprehensive DVD collection - Glenn Gould on Television: The Complete CBC Broadcasts. Read More »
Posted on Sep 20, 2011 1:24:16 PM
Singer Jann Arden makes a guest appearance on the Royal Canadian Air Farce in 1997 to fire the Chicken Cannon with Col. Stacey, played by Don Ferguson. Read More »
Posted on Sep 20, 2011 6:00:00 AM
This April 1959 issue of the CBC Times features a Glenn Gould cover story. The article highlights the career of the young Canadian concert pianist, who at 25 was already in such demand, he was scheduled to play 65 concerts by the end of the season. Read More »
Posted on Sep 18, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Chef Jonathan Chovancek gives away healthy groceries in Taylor, B.C., as part of Village on a Diet. The 2011 documentary series chronicles the progress of a village that has vowed to lose a literal ton of weight in three months. Read More »
Posted on Sep 17, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Beyond Reason provided a psychic take on Front Page Challenge. Armed only with a birth chart, a handwriting sample and a personal possession, the panel tries to guess the identity of hidden guests. Read More »
Posted on Sep 17, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Most shows were filmed before live audiences in the early days of television. Here the camera and sound crew record a puppet show on the Wayne & Shuster Hour in 1958. Read More »
Posted on Sep 15, 2011 2:01:32 PM
22 Minutes has been a long-time favourite by CBC viewers. So many will be surprised to find out the beloved series was never meant to go beyond six episodes. "22 Minutes was never supposed to be a series," says original cast member Rick Mercer. "It's one of the few TV shows were there wasn't any mechanism in place for it to become a series." Read More »
Posted on Sep 13, 2011 2:51:02 PM
Cameraman Walter Wicks films with a Auricon 1200 camera. Auricon cameras used 16 mm film in a single system to record sound-on-film. Read More »
Posted on Sep 13, 2011 6:00:00 AM
An elaborate camera system was brought inside a small arena to shoot part of Hockey: A People's History. Read More »
Posted on Sep 12, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Tommy Hunter participates in a special performance marking CBC's 25th anniversary. Hunter starred on The Tommy Hunter Show, which initially aired on radio before moving to television in 1965-1992. Read More »
Posted on Sep 11, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Monitors in the studio display the on-air action at CBC News: Morning in 2007. Anchor Harry Forestell is in the studios in Toronto while correspondent Adrienne Arsenault reports from the London bureau. Read More »
Posted on Sep 10, 2011 6:00:00 AM
CBC staff push a camera along a specially built track at one of the event events at the 1976 Montreal Olympics. The coverage was the most ambitious project the CBC had ever tackled up to that point. Read More »
Posted on Sep 9, 2011 6:00:00 AM
John Morgan appears as Mike from Canmore on an episode of Royal Canadian Air Farce. Mike was known for his slow and bewildered statement of "I'm Mike .... from Canmore". Read More »
Posted on Sep 8, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Front Page Challenge was on the air from 1957-1995. It was television's longest-running game show and became an axiom of Canadian television. The series featured a panel trying to guess a news story by asking a hidden guest a series of questions. Read More »
Posted on Sep 8, 2011 6:00:00 AM
George Stroumboulopoulos interviews a flood-affected family at an internally displaced person camp in Larkana, Pakistan. Read More »
Posted on Sep 7, 2011 6:00:00 AM
A cameraman gets up to his waist in water during the filming of the Magnificent Gift. The 1970 documentary looked at the founding of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1670. Read More »
Posted on Sep 6, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Steven Sabados and Chris Hyndman host the successful talk show Steven and Chris.
The dynamic duo chats about topics ranging from entertainment to home decor. Read More »
Posted on Sep 4, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Newfoundland funnyman Shaun Majumder tries out a tractor for an episode of Shaun's Great Adventure. Read More »
Posted on Sep 3, 2011 6:00:00 AM
A cameraman stands on a platform to film the final day of the 1959 royal tour during the presentation of the Colours to the navy on Citadel Hill in Halifax. Read More »
Posted on Sep 2, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Martin Lavut goes up the steps on the elaborate set of the 1960 production of the Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. Read More »
Posted on Sep 1, 2011 6:00:00 AM
It's a brave new world for TV, and the CBC is at the forefront. The Canadian broadcaster is part of Our World, the first global broadcast via satellite. Read More »
Posted on Sep 1, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Ann MacMillan talks on the phone at CBC's London bureau in 2007.MacMillan has served as the managing editor of the bureau since 1981. Read More »
Posted on Aug 31, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Roddy goes up a ladder to help Hammy decorate the house for a party in the children's program Tales of the Riverbank. Read More »
Posted on Aug 30, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Cameraman Blake Connor films an Argus Airplane flypast as Singalong Jubilee films at Greenwood Arm Forces Base in Nova Scotia in 1969. Read More »
Posted on Aug 26, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Deedee, Rooney and Moe Doodle are the Doodlebops - young musical sensations with loads of enthusiasm, tonnes of talent and oodles of energy. Read More »
Posted on Aug 24, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Rube Hornstein gives the forecast on the first edition of Newsday in Halifax. Read More »
Posted on Aug 22, 2011 6:00:00 AM
David Suzuki is an award-winning scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster who explains the complexities of the natural sciences in a compelling and easily understood way. He is celebrating his 75th birthday this year too. Read More »
Posted on Aug 22, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Mallory (Jessica Amlee) watches as Ty (Graham Wardle) cares for his and Amy's orphaned foal in a 2009 episode of Heartland. The series began airing in 2007. Read More »
Posted on Aug 21, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Peggy Nairn sits in a control room at CBC's former Church Street studios. Nairn was one of CBC's first female television producers in the 1950s. Read More »
Posted on Aug 20, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Sitara Hewitt and Zaib Shaikh appear as their characters Rayyan Hamoudi and Amaar Rashi on Little Mosque on the Prairie. Read More »
Posted on Aug 19, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Mamma Yamma is a yam with two passions - food and music. From her now famous kitchen in the heart of urban Toronto, Mamma uses food as a springboard for learning. Read More »
Posted on Aug 18, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Bob Homme, gives a glimpse of his private life, allowing a music session to be photographed in his home with his wife Esther, children and dog. Read More »
Posted on Aug 17, 2011 6:00:00 AM
As k.d. lang's music career was just beginning to take flight, she was also working as a member of the regular guest cast on Country West, which aired on CBC in 1986. Read More »
Posted on Aug 17, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Mick Jagger performs at the April 25, 1965 Rolling Stones concert at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto. The band was featured on the Music Hop on CBC Television that week. Read More »
Posted on Aug 16, 2011 6:00:00 AM
This sketch was created by costume designers working on Royal Gambit. It shows the design of a costume to be worn by the Henry VIII character. Read More »
Posted on Aug 16, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Civil rights leader Martin Luther King makes a guest appearance on the CBC Television program Sunday on April 16, 1967. Read More »
Posted on Aug 15, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Rick Mercer gets his 'Celebrity Tip' from Canadian author Margaret Atwood in a 2005 episode of the Rick Mercer Report. Read More »
Posted on Aug 14, 2011 6:00:00 AM
This season preview flyer was produced for the 1967-68 season, advertising the television programming that was scheduled to be available on CBC. Read More »
Posted on Aug 14, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Children's entertainer Fred Penner appears on Mr. Dressup with Ernie Coombs. Read More »
Posted on Aug 13, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Bill Cosby stops by Take 30 to chat with host Paul Soles in 1969. During the interview, with a cigar in hand, Cosby describes the pitfalls of sudden fame and professes a love for Air Canada. Read More »
Posted on Aug 13, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Peter Mansbridge served as Knowlton Nash's substitute anchor on The National. In 1987, Nash voluntarily gave up his position as anchor after Mansbridge was reportedly being recruited by a U.S. network. Read More »
Posted on Aug 12, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Winnipeg band, The Guess Who, worked as the house band of CBC-TV's Let's Go for two years beginning in 1967. They performed on a May 1968 CBC Show of the Week special, hosted by one of the CBC's first bona fide stars - Juliette. Read More »
Posted on Aug 12, 2011 6:00:00 AM
This ad was included CBC's final report on its coverage of the 1978 Commonwealth Games, which were held in Edmonton. The fluorescent orange and blue shirt, known as the "pizza shirt", was also worn by CBC employees during the Montreal Olympics in 1976. Read More »
Posted on Aug 11, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Howard the Turtle lays lifeless as his puppeteer John Keogh and actress Michele Finney take a break to check the script on the set of Razzle Dazzle in November 1963. Read More »
Posted on Aug 10, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Harry Forestell readies to film a segment in 2007 while working in CBC's London bureau. He has worked as a journalist for more than 20 years. Read More »
Posted on Aug 8, 2011 6:00:00 AM
This collection of memories was put together during the CBC's 50th anniversary in 1986. The document, entitled Behind the Scenes: Pioneers and Performers, stories of 12 individuals who worked with CBC during its early days of television of radio. Read More »
Posted on Aug 7, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Rick Mercer's tightly scripted two-minute rants see him speaking directly into the camera about a current political issue. They quickly became a signature segment on 22 Minutes. Read More »
Posted on Aug 4, 2011 6:00:00 AM
This advertisement ran in January 1969. It promotes public affairs programming on CBC Television and features the personalities and hosts from several of CBC's major shows of the era, labeling them as The Informers. Read More »
Posted on Aug 4, 2011 6:00:00 AM
A 15-year-old Michael J. Fox played Jamie on the CBC sitcom Leo and Me. The series focused on the misadventures of Jamie and his uncle Leo - with Leo using his charm and Jamie using his quick-mind to keep ahead of too much trouble. Read More »
Posted on Aug 3, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas play the characters of Bob and Doug McKenzie. The fictional Canadian brothers appeared on SCTV's third season on CBC. Read More »
Posted on Aug 2, 2011 6:00:00 AM
The Forest Rangers was the first Canadian television show produced entirely in colour. The show focused on a group of Junior Rangers who take over an abandoned fort near the village of Indian River in northern Ontario. Read More »
Posted on Aug 2, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Since the mid-1970s, Nancy Wilson has interviewed Canada's leading politicians, key international political players and a long list of celebrities. She started at CBC on The Journal and has since hosted many programs on CBC Newsworld and CBC News Now. Read More »
Posted on Aug 1, 2011 6:00:00 AM
An elaborate set up is used to be able to film this walking interview for Country Calendar. Country Calendar began in 1954 and remained on CBC for 54 years. Read More »
Posted on Jul 31, 2011 6:00:00 AM
CBC News chief correspondent Peter Mansbridge works on a computer while on-location in Afghanistan. Read More »
Posted on Jul 30, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Glenn Anderson and Isabelle Brasseur perform in the first season of CBC Television's Battle of the Blades at Toronto's historic Maple Leaf Gardens in 2009. Read More »
Posted on Jul 29, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Arcade Fire band members Win Butler, Regine Chassagne and Richard Parry appear on CBC's QTV in 2010 ahead of the release of their third studio album. The award-winning Montreal-based band came to prominence after they released their 2004 album Funeral. Read More »
Posted on Jul 29, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Puppeteer Judith Lawrence poses with her beloved characters, Casey and Finnegan. Read More »
Posted on Jul 28, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Music Hop was aimed at young Canadians and featured singers, dancers and instrumentalists on the program five days a week from Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal and Halifax. Read More »
Posted on Jul 28, 2011 6:00:00 AM
You think of Lorne Michaels and you think of Saturday Night Live. But Michaels got his start on CBC. The producer, writer and comedian was born in Toronto (born Lorne Lipowitz) and graduated from the University of Toronto in 1966 before beginning his career as a broadcaster on CBC Radio. Read More »
Posted on Jul 27, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Mystery guest Eleanor Roosevelt towers above Front Page Challenge panelists Gordon Sinclair, Toby Robins, Pierre Berton and guest panelist Marguerite Higgins. Read More »
Posted on Jul 26, 2011 6:00:00 AM
This CBC test pattern card was used in the early days of black and white television. Test patterns are typically broadcast at times when the transmitter was active but not program was being broadcast. Read More »
Posted on Jul 26, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Neil Macdonald began his career with CBC in 1988. He worked on Parliament Hill and also been a correspondent in the Middle East and Washington. Read More »
Posted on Jul 25, 2011 6:00:00 AM
The Reverend Jim Bevel, a key member of the civil rights movement, speaks with Georgia Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon Calvin Craig as interviewer Robert Hoyt looks on. Read More »
Posted on Jul 23, 2011 6:00:00 AM
This advertisement for The Nature of Things with David Suzuki was used in the late-1970s. The Nature of Things began airing in 1960 and became The Nature of Things with David Suzuki in 1979. Read More »
Posted on Jul 21, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Film editor Bob Murphy used the Moviola. The Moviola was invented in 1924 as a device to allow film editors to view film while editing. Read More »
Posted on Jul 20, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Norman Jewison is an Oscar-winning director, who is considered a laureate of the film lens. He is a fierce supporter of the Canadian film industry. But younger moviegoers may have forgotten that before becoming a maverick director, Jewison cut his teeth in television at the CBC. Read More »
Posted on Jul 20, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Jean Chretien and Pamela Wallin meet their alter egos played by Roger Abbott and Luba Goy on a 1997 episode of Royal Canadian Air Farce. Read More »
Posted on Jul 19, 2011 6:00:00 AM
A Journey Back focuses on the story of a Holocaust survivor Jack Garfein, a New York off-Broadway producer who is brought back to his hometown in Slovakia for the first time and then to the Auschwitz and Birkenhau death camps in Poland to discover his past. Read More »
Posted on Jul 19, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Before becoming known as a sportscaster and a co-host of Marketplace, Tom Harrington was Kinda Kountry on CBC-TV. Harrington sang as a backup singer on the St. John's production that was co-hosted by his sister. Read More »
Posted on Jul 18, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Hockey Night in Canada began broadcasting on CBC Television in 1952. In the 1950s, the telecast join a game in progress at 9 p.m. ET. Read More »
Posted on Jul 17, 2011 6:00:00 AM
A Manual for the Script Assistant was produced in 1955 with the script assistant at CBC Television in mind. The first few pages lay out what the newbie script assistant can expect on the set and what role they'll have to play. Read More »
Posted on Jul 17, 2011 6:00:00 AM
CBC first commissioned Anne of Green Gables to be made into a television film in 1956. The musical was based on Lucy Maud Montgomery's beloved novel. Read More »
Posted on Jul 16, 2011 6:00:00 AM
A cameraman follows after a skater while filming for the 2006 documentary, Hockey: A People's History. Read More »
Posted on Jul 15, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Jim Morrison and the Doors appeared on Rock Scene Like It Is in October 1967. It represents the Doors only Canadian television appearance. Read More »
Posted on Jul 15, 2011 6:00:00 AM
This is an early advertisement for Mr. Dressup on CBC Television. Mr. Dressup was produced by CBC Television from 1967-1996. The show aired every weekday morning and featured Ernie Coombs as Mr. Dressup, who guided children through a series of songs, stories, crafts and imagination games. Read More »
Posted on Jul 14, 2011 6:00:00 AM
James Doohan is often remembered for his role of chief engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott on the U.S. series Star Trek. But before becoming Scotty, Doohan had a long resume of CBC roles. Read More »
Posted on Jul 13, 2011 9:00:00 AM
The Newsroom was an award-winning comedy series that aired on CBC Television for three seasons, beginning in 1996. Read More »
Posted on Jul 13, 2011 6:00:00 AM
This graphic was used in a 1991 episode of Front Page Challenge. Deborah Grey, the first Reform candidate to earn a seat in the House of Commons, was the guest on Feb. 8, 1991 episode. Read More »
Posted on Jul 12, 2011 6:00:00 AM
A multi-layered coverage map of CBLT was included in 1959 marketing material sent out to potential advertisers. CBLT - or CBC Toronto - includes to operate, serving the city and its outlying areas. It is the oldest television station in Ontario and the second oldest in Canada. Read More »
Posted on Jul 10, 2011 6:00:00 AM
In parade of comic voices, Robin Williams has the studio audience at CBC-TV's 90 Minutes Live in stitches in this 1978 clip. Even when he settles into the guest's chair for a chat with host Peter Gzowski, Williams can't turn off his shtick. Read More »
Posted on Jul 9, 2011 2:08:35 PM
Paul Shaffer and Ashley MacIsaac perform with Rita MacNeil in a 1996 episode of Rita & Friends. The series ran on CBC from 1994-1997 as a variety show that featured many musical artists. Read More »
Posted on Jul 8, 2011 6:00:00 AM
June Sampson, moderator Elwy Yost and Gayle Gerber appear on panel-game show, The Superior Sex, on June 29, 1961. Read More »
Posted on Jul 7, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Ernie Coombs does a drawing while filming an episode of Mr. Dressup. Mr. Dressup was produced by CBC Television from 1967-1996. Read More »
Posted on Jul 4, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Paul Martin turns the camera on Rick Mercer while filming a segment for the Rick Mercer Report. Mercer visited the then-prime minister at 24 Sussex in Ottawa in 2005. Read More »
Posted on Jul 3, 2011 6:00:00 AM
The crew works to film a scene for Canada: A People's History. The 17-episode, 32-hour documentary series aired on CBC Television from October 2000 - November 2001. Read More »
Posted on Jul 2, 2011 6:00:00 AM
CBC reporters gather at the farewell dinner for Queen Elizabeth in 1959. During the 45-day tour the Queen visited every province and territory and made her first live appearance on Canadian television. Read More »
Posted on Jul 1, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Donna Lajeunesse and Tamara Fifield are bid farewell by the top 4 finalists contending for the coveted role of Maria von Trapp in the musical The Sound of Music. Read More »
Posted on Jun 29, 2011 6:00:00 AM
July 1, 1958 marked a major milestone for CBC as the completion of the microwave network made Canada the country with the longest television network in the world. Just 31 years after a radio broadcast was heard across the country, the technological wonder - known as the "electronic skyway" - was sending television signals from coast-to-coast in just a 1/50th of a second. Read More »
Posted on Jun 28, 2011 9:44:59 AM
Bruno Gerussi and Robert Clothier play the characters of Nick Adonidas and Relic on the Beachcombers. The popular series aired on CBC Television from 1972-1990. Read More »
Posted on Jun 28, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Mary Walsh in full costume for the character of Marg, Princess Warrior. Walsh was part of the original cast of This Hour has 22 Minutes, where she debuted the character of Marg Delahunty. Read More »
Posted on Jun 26, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Puppeteer and voice actor Rod Coneybeare works with Jerome the Giraffe on the set of the Friendly Giant. Coneybeare also portrayed Rusty the Rooster in the long-running children's series. Read More »
Posted on Jun 25, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Colin Mochrie (left) and his real-life pal guest star Wayne Brady take a photo break in full-costume ahead of a 2005 shooting of an episode of Getting Along Famously. Read More »
Posted on Jun 24, 2011 6:00:00 AM
Space Command was CBC Television's first dramatic series. The science fiction adventure series aired in 1953-54 and featured life on the fictional space station of XSW1. Read More »
Posted on Jun 23, 2011 6:00:00 AM
In this 1975 photo, Al Waxman goofs around in Kensington Market while taking a break on-location in the Toronto production of the King of Kensington. The popular series aired on CBC Television from 1975-1980. Read More »
Posted on Jun 22, 2011 6:00:00 AM
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