Holiday Ranch Explained

Runtime:	60 minutes
Producer:	Loyd Brydon Bob Jarvis
Starring:	Cliff McKay Frannie Wright
Country:	Canada
Num Seasons:	5
Network:	CBC

Holiday Ranch was a Canadian television country music–themed variety program airing on the CBC from 1953 to 1958.^{[1] [2]} The show initially aired on weeknights and then moved to a weekly Saturday night schedule before Hockey Night in Canada.^[3]

The set of the series was a ranch house and the plot featured a set of regulars who visited the ranch each week. The production cost was approximately $5000 per episode.^[4]

The show was considered among the most popular in 1950s Canadian television.^[5]

References

1. Web site: Holiday Ranch. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160312011832/http://www.tvarchive.ca/database/17268/holiday_ranch/details/. 2016-03-12. 2020-10-09. TVArchive.
2. Web site: Corcelli. John. April 2002. Holiday Ranch. 2020-10-10. History of Canadian Broadcasting. Canadian Communications Foundation.
3. Web site: Allan. Blaine. 1996. Holiday Ranch. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150205051731/http://www.film.queensu.ca/cbc/Hob.html#Holiday%20Ranch. 2015-02-05. 2020-10-10. CBC Television Series, 1952-1982.
4. Book: Rutherford, Paul. When Television Was Young: Primetime Canada 1952-1967. University of Toronto Press. 1990. 978-1-4426-8333-4. Toronto. 205. 244767015.
5. Web site: Sangster. Dorothy. 1956-06-09. The most baffling show on television. 2020-10-09. Maclean's. en-US.