Summer Festival (TV series) explained

Genre:	Current affairs, entertainment
Country:	Canada
Language:	English
Channel:	CBC Television
Num Seasons:	1
Runtime:	60 minutes

Summer Festival is a Canadian current affairs and entertainment television series which aired on CBC Television in 1980.

Premise

This series featured various events throughout Canada such as a lobster festival in Prince Edward Island or Edmonton's Klondike Days. Various series hosts were assigned for each Canadian region. On Monday episodes, Geoff Gray-Cobb of British Columbia provided astrology advice.^[1]

Summer Festival replaced The Bob McLean Show between June and September 1980. Executive producer for the series was Nigel Napier-Andrews, whom was also a producer on The Bob McLean Show.

Regional hosts

• Edmonton: Jo Green
• Halifax: Beth Harrington
• Charlottetown: Amanda Hancox
• St. John's, Newfoundland: Shirley Newhook
• Toronto: Riki Turofsky
• Windsor, Ontario: Marilyn MacKay
• Winnipeg: Arvel Gray
• Vancouver: Debra Kaye

Scheduling

This hour-long series was broadcast weekdays at 3:00 p.m. (Eastern time) from 30 June to 5 September 1980.

External links

• Web site: Summer Festival . Blaine . Allan . . 1996 . 7 May 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140311070603/http://www.film.queensu.ca/CBC/Sta.html . 11 March 2014 . dmy-all .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Summer Festival . John . Corcelli . November 2005 . Canadian Communications Foundation . 7 May 2010 .