Saturday Night Movies Explained

Genre:	feature film
Country:	Canada
Language:	English
Channel:	CBC Television
Num Seasons:	1
Runtime:	120 minutes

Saturday Night Movies is a Canadian film television series which aired on CBC Television in 1977.

Premise

Various feature films from Canada and other nations were presented during this time, as Saturday night replacement programming between hockey seasons.^[1]

Scheduling

This normally two-hour series was broadcast on Saturdays from 8:30 p.m. from 28 May to 1 October 1977.^[2]

• 28 May 1977: Goldenrod
• 4 June 1977: Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• 11 June 1977: The Man Inside
• 18 June 1977: Love Among the Ruins
• 25 June 1977: I Will Fight No More Forever
• 2 July 1977: Wings in the Wilderness
• 9 July 1977: Guys and Dolls
• 16 July 1977: Wuthering Heights
• 23 July 1977: Sudden Fury
• 30 July 1977: (pre-empted for music special, The Magic Flute)
• 6 August 1977: The Bishop's Wife
• 13 August 1977: Between Friends
• 20 August 1977: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
• 27 August 1977: Brethren
• 3 September 1977: Hans Christian Andersen
• 10 September 1977: Second Wind
• 17 September 1977: The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
• 24 September 1977: The Fighting Men (8 p.m.)
• 1 October 1977: Love is a Long Shot (9 p.m.)

External links

• Web site: Saturday Night Movies . Blaine . Allan . . 1996 . 7 May 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100109114332/http://www.film.queensu.ca/cbc/S.html . 9 January 2010 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Saturday Night Movies . John . Corcelli . September 2005 . Canadian Communications Foundation . 7 May 2010 .
2. Television listings, The Gazette, The Leader-Post; May–October 1977