Titans (Canadian TV series) explained

Director:	Tom O'Neill
Starring:	Patrick Watson
Country:	Canada
Language:	English
Executive Producer:	Moses Znaimer
Producer:	Lisa Smith
Related:	Witness to Yesterday

Titans is a Canadian docudrama series that was produced for the 1981/82 season by CBC and Citytv (Titans Television Limited). The shows premise revolves around staged interviews conducted by Patrick Watson with an actor who portrays a historical figure, conceptually similar to Watson's earlier series, Witness to Yesterday.

The program began as a summer series on CBC Television starting 3 July 1981.^[1] And its initial run ended on 25 September 1981. A second run of the series aired from 18 April to 22 August 1982.

Guest actors

Following are some of the historical persons featured in the series, with the actors who portrayed them:^[2]

• Napoleon – David Calderisi
• Nefertiti – Marilyn Lightstone
• Galileo – Chris Wiggins
• Queen Elizabeth I – Frances Hyland
• Stephen Leacock – W. O. Mitchell
• Nostradamus – Len Birman
• Confucius – John Neville
• Albert Einstein – John Marley
• Billy Bishop – Cedric Smith
• George Sand – Andrea Martin
• Alexander Graham Bell – Patrick Watson

See also

• Meeting of Minds – a similar interview series produced by Steve Allen

References

1. News: Titans recycles a good TV idea . Rick . Groen . . 3 July 1981 . 17 .
2. Web site: Tidewater to Tzigane (includes Titans) . . Directory of CBC Television Series . Blaine . Allan . 2008-05-12 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924012750/http://www.film.queensu.ca/CBC/Tid.html . 24 September 2015 . dmy-all .

External links

• TVArchive.ca: Titans