Gallery (TV series) explained
| Genre: | documentary |
| Country: | Canada |
| Language: | English |
| Channel: | CBC Television |
| Num Seasons: | 2 |
| Executive Producer: | Sam Levene |
| Producer: | David Pears |
| Runtime: | 30 minutes |
Gallery is a Canadian documentary television series which aired on CBC Television from 1973 to 1979.
Premise
This series featured various documentaries, taking an approach which was less serious than usual.[1]
Scheduling
This half-hour series was first broadcast on Saturdays at 10:00 p.m. (Eastern) from 19 May to 11 August 1973. It was rebroadcast on Wednesdays at 10:00 p.m. from 10 October to 7 November 1973. The second and final season of original episodes was from 3 January to 4 April 1975 on Fridays at 10:30 p.m. Further rebroadcasts were shown on CBC as mid-year programming in 1977 and 1979.
Episodes
Documentaries featured during the series run included the following:
- Bluegrass Country (Bob Fresco, Max Engel), featuring a music festival in The Ozarks
- The Bricklin Story (Pen Densham, John Watson, Insight Productions), featuring Malcolm Bricklin and his SV-1 automobile
- The Master Blasters, featuring a family-run demolition company
- To Be A Clown (Paul Saltzman), featuring an Ottawa-based clown school
- Whatever Became of Hollywood? (Eric Riisna director), an adaptation of Richard Lamparski's biographies on historic entertainers
- Winning Is The Only Thing (Donald Shebib director), concerning a minor league hockey team in Manitoba
External links
- Web site: Gallery . Blaine . Allan . . 1996 . 7 May 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150114075958/http://www.film.queensu.ca/CBC/G.html . 14 January 2015 . dmy-all .
Notes and References
- Web site: Gallery . John . Corcelli . April 2002 . Canadian Communications Foundation . 7 May 2010 .
