Theatre Canada
Theatre Canada, subtitled Canadian Short Stories, is a Canadian dramatic television series which aired on CBC Television in 1970.
Premise
This series adapted various Canadian fictional works for broadcast.CBC management originally intended to combine this series with the experimental production Program X to form a common Theatre Canada series despite the radically different concepts of each production. However, the Dominion Drama Festival intended to rename itself Theatre Canada and objected to CBC's plan. Theatre Canada was subtitled Canadian Short Stories. This series aired Thursday evenings until December 1971 when its time slot began carrying Program X.
Scheduling
This half-hour series was broadcast on Thursdays at 9:00 p.m. from 17 September to 10 December 1970.Episodes
- 17 September 1970: "Very Special Shoes", featuring Barbara Hamilton and Jodi Farber
- 24 September 1970: "In Exile", featuring Chris Wiggins
- 1 October 1970: "Postcard", featuring Linda Goranson
- 8 October 1970: "In The Promised Land", featuring Vladimir Valenta
- 15 October 1970: "Rigmarole", featuring Donnelly Rhodes and Margot Kidder
- 22 October 1970: "Father And Son", featuring Len Birman and Patricia Collins
- 29 October 1970: "Something for Olivia's Scrapbook", featuring Tudi Wiggins
- 5 November 1970: "The Mariposa Bank Mystery", featuring David Brown, Tedde Moore and Mavor Moore
- 12 November 1970: "God's Sparrow", set in World War I
- 19 November 1970: "A Token Gesture"
- 26 November 1970: "Some Are So Lucky", featuring Jackie Burroughs and Michael Tait
- 3 December 1970: "The Magic Hat", featuring Gordon Pinsent and Louise Marleau
- 10 December 1970: "Roberta And Her Robot", featuring Anne Collings, Jack Creley, and Dinah Christie