Championship Snooker Explained

Presenter:	Bill Walker
Narrated:	George Chenier (1966) Gordon Jones (1967)
Country:	Canada
Language:	English
Channel:	CBC Television
Num Seasons:	2
Producer:	Claude Baikie (1966) Rick Rice (1967)

Championship Snooker is a Canadian television series which aired on CBC Television from 1966 to 1967.

Premise

Each episode featured snooker games between two players, recorded in Toronto at the House of Champions and edited for the hour-long time slot.^[1]

Don Maybee and Bob Trodd were the competitors in the debut episode.

Scheduling

The series was broadcast on Saturday afternoons. The first series featured a 26-week tournament, broadcast between 7 May and 26 November 1966.^[2] The second season was broadcast from 13 May to 16 September 1967,

External links

• Web site: Championship Snooker . Blaine . Allan . . 1996 . 23 July 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100325131831/http://www.film.queensu.ca/cbc/Sev.html . 25 March 2010 . dmy-all .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Championship Snooker . John . Corcelli . May 2005 . Canadian Communications Foundation . 23 July 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140728000246/http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/programming/television/programming_popup.php?id=1007 . 28 July 2014 . live .
2. News: Weekend Previews . The Gazette . Montreal . 7 May 1966 . 20 . 23 July 2014 .