Canadian telly's lack of impact in Britain

[George White]

ITV's Short Story Theatre was mainly Canadian anthology segments - even kids shows like the Bamboo Brush (shown late at night) from CBC kids' Sons and Daughters. Weirdly, some of the eps of Sons and Daughters (including Home from Far) were shown on ITV directly before the Aussie soap of the same name.

[Tarquin]

I really liked Continuum. One of the few North American shows that had a satisfying ending rather than being cancelled, abandonded or "will this do?"

[George White]

BBC1 showed To Give what We Are, the 1974 episode of CBC's Man Alive, a religious program utterly unlike the BBC namesake.

[George White]

ITV showed the CTV coproduction Sidney Sheldon's A Stranger in the Mirror.

CTV showed various C5/SKY REGULAR/video library regular Mary Higgins Clark TVms like Let Me Call You Sweetheart. These began on Canadian cable, with Kim Cattrall, Christopher Lee and Barbara Windsor in the Welsh-made Double Vision (1992), which was then aired on CTV in the later 90s. This got a cable/video release in the UK.

[George White]

Huckleberry Finn and Friends was shown on CHCH and certain CTV stations like CFCF Montreal and CJOH Ottawa. Its main Vancouver airing (where it was made) was on Family Channel

[George White]

Canadian films that premiered on UKTV

The Rowdyman (1972)
The Heatwave Lasted Four Days (1975)
Lions for Breakfast (1975)
Deadly Harvest (1977)
One Man (1977)
Why Shoot the Teacher (1978 - got a theatrical run AFTER being shown on BBC)
Rejeanne Padovani (1977 - got a theatrical run in 1980)
Martha, Ruth and Edie (1988)
On My Own (1992)

Got a video release months before
Highpoint (1982)
Second Wind (1973)

[George White]

British shows shown on Radio-Canada (the quebecois service0)
The Kids from 47A
BIZARRE, BIZARRE (Tales of the Unexpected)
Toumai (Elepehant Boy)
Le Filles du Ciel (Star Maidens)
The Avengers
Declic (Vision On)

Plus
Once Upon A Time... Man/Space
Wickie (Vicky the Viking)

[George White]

CBC TVM the Suicide Murders (1985) on HTV here

[RetroRobot]

Yvonne of the Yukon mate

[ros vulgaris]

I bloody loved ReBoot, me.

Me too. I had one of those 'choose your adventure' books about it.

[ros vulgaris]

CBC deffo had a deal with Granada.

Coronation Street is very popular in Canuckland, I've heard

[George White]

It's become even more popular in the last twenty years or so since they shifted it to primetime.

[George White]

Theodore Tugboat, CBC's Nova Scotian spiritual successor to Tugs/Thomas the Tank Engine (with Mamas and the Papas' Denny Doherty as Ringo), briefly aired on GMTV. Same director in Robert Cardona, but instead of stop motion and trolleys, using remote control boats and shot on video, so it looks bloody awful.

[George White]

CTV it seemed coproduced First Choice/ITV/Showtime's Murder in Space, and then repeated it after its Canadian premiere on First Choice-Superchannel.


Also noticed that RTE, ATV AND UTV showed CBC's the Whiteoaks of Jalna (1972), as well as Thames. ATV aired it in a late night slot. 

RTE also showed Radio-Canada's Monique Maqnicique and Le Temps d'une Paix (RTE showed it alongside Jim'll Fix It), the 1979 Donald Sutherland CBC Bethune (branded asa  'play of the month'), CBC's World About Us segment Voyage to the Sea of Ice, the National Dream, CTV's Primtiive Man specials...

Seems that the newspapers in Canada were always glad to report when one of their shows got bought by Telly Eireann.

[George White]

Channel 4/ITV-adjacent films that showed up on First Choice-Superchannel in Canada
 
Restless Natives
A Private Function
The Dead
Wilt
Arthur's Hallowed Ground
Bellman and True
Britannia Hospital
McVicar
Local Hero
Gregory's Girl
Eat the Peach
Mr Love (FC only)
Fire Maidens of Outer Space


British shows on the short-lived C Channel (1983)
 C Channel
Nicholas Nickleby (c4)
Coral Island (ITV)
Sweeney Todd (PBS/BBC 1982)
Macbeth 79 (Thames)
Children's Film Foundation films

[George White]

ITV regions LIKE ATV, Granada, Southern, Anglia, Westward showed the educational series from CBC, Alphabet Soup (1971-1973) between 1974-1976.  RTE aired it too, knowing their love of anything from the Great White North.
The BBC aired CBC's Classic Curling.

ITV's Fireside Theatre included 'Yesterday was Years Ago' and other eps of CBC's Here to Stay.
The Collaborators (CBC crime series) both series ran on the ITV regions, and were re-run.

I love the fact that the Guardian is convinced that ITV-aired CBS/Warner  Patrick McGoohan drama series Rafferty is Canadian. 'Patrick McGoohan as doctor hero in Canadian drama series', and other billings referring to the series as Canadian. It was set and shot in LA.

Canadian films shown on the BBC back in the day.

The Canadians (1961)
The Drylanders (1963)
Nobody Waved Goodbye (1964)
The Trap (1966)
You Don't Need Pajamas at Rosie's/The First Time (1969)
Mon Oncle Antoine (1971)
The Rowdyman (1972)
A Few Acres of Snow (1972)
The Apprentice of Duddy Kravitz (1974)
Black Christmas (1974)
Dan Candy's Law (1974)
The Heatwave Lasted Four Days (1975)
Lions for Breakfast (1975)
Second Wind (1975)
Welcome to Blood City (1977)
The Uncanny (1977)
Why Shoot the Teacher? (1977)
If Wishes Were Horses (1977)
Skip Tracer (1977)
J. A. Martin, Photographer (1977)
One Man (1978)
Tomorrow Never Comes (1978)
The Silent Partner (1978)
Power Play (1978)
City on Fire (1979)
Murder by Decree (1979)
The Kidnapping of the President (1980)
The Lucky Star (1980)
Agency (1980)
Scanners (1980)
Firebird 2015 AD (1981)
Highpoint (1982)
The Grey Fox (1982)
Strange Brew (1983)
The Dead Zone (1983)
Videodrome (1983)
The Bay Boy (1984)
Heartbreakers (1984)
Keeping Track (1987)
Martha, Ruth and Edie (1988)
Dead Ringers (1988)
Gotham (1988)
Millennium (1989)
Act of Vengeance (1989)
Betrayal of Silence (1989)
On My Own (1992)
Swann (1996)
Harrison Bergeron (1997)

[George White]

 
ITV regions LIKE ATV, Granada, Southern, Anglia, Westward showed the educational series from CBC, Alphabet Soup (1971-1973) between 1974-1976.  RTE aired it too, knowing their love of anything from the Great White North.
The BBC aired CBC's Classic Curling.

ITV's Fireside Theatre included 'Yesterday was Years Ago' and other eps of CBC's Here to Stay.
The Collaborators (CBC crime series) both series ran on the ITV regions, and were re-run.

I love the fact that the Guardian is convinced that ITV-aired CBS/Warner  Patrick McGoohan drama series Rafferty is Canadian. 'Patrick McGoohan as doctor hero in Canadian drama series', and other billings referring to the series as Canadian. It was set and shot in LA.

Canadian films shown on the BBC back in the day.

The Canadians (1961)
The Drylanders (1963)
Nobody Waved Goodbye (1964)
The Trap (1966)
You Don't Need Pajamas at Rosie's/The First Time (1969)
Mon Oncle Antoine (1971)
The Rowdyman (1972)
A Few Acres of Snow (1972)
The Hard Part Begins (1973)
Butley (1973)
The Apprentice of Duddy Kravitz (1974)
Black Christmas (1974)
Rhinoceros (1974)
Dan Candy's Law (1974)
The Heatwave Lasted Four Days (1975)
Lions for Breakfast (1975)
Second Wind (1975)
The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane (1976)
Welcome to Blood City (1977)
The Uncanny (1977)
Leopard in the Snow (1977)
Why Shoot the Teacher? (1977)
If Wishes Were Horses (1977)
Skip Tracer (1977)
J. A. Martin, Photographer (1977)
Deadly Harvest (1977)
One Man (1978)
Tomorrow Never Comes (1978)
The Silent Partner (1978)
Power Play (1978)
City on Fire (1979)
Murder by Decree (1979)
Atlantic City (1980)
The Changeling (1980)
The Kidnapping of the President (1980)
The Lucky Star (1980)
Agency (1980)
Scanners (1980)
Firebird 2015 AD (1981)
Improper Channels (1981)
Highpoint (1982)
The Grey Fox (1982)
The Terry Fox Story (1982)
Strange Brew (1983)
The Dead Zone (1983)
Videodrome (1983)
Running Brave (1983)
The Bay Boy (1984)
The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)
Heartbreakers (1984)
Keeping Track (1987)
Martha, Ruth and Edie (1988)
Dead Ringers (1988)
Gotham (1988)
Millennium (1989)
Act of Vengeance (1989)
Betrayal of Silence (1989)
On My Own (1992)
Swann (1996)
Harrison Bergeron (1997)
[/quote]

ITV
Christmas Martian (1971)

C4
Kings and Desperate Men (1981)

Sky
Coming Out Alive (1980)
Final Assignment (1980)

[George White]

CBC shows in the Halliwell's Teleguide - Adventures in Rainbow Country, Beachcombers, Collaborators, Empire inc, Edison Twins (shown on early satellite station Premiere in UK), Flight into Danger, Hawkeye, Intertel, The Third Testament, Music by Jerome Kern, the National Dream, Quentin Durgens MP (SHOWN ON ITV), Tales of the Klondike, the Whiteoaks of Jalna

Listed on Genome as CBC productions post-1970

On BBC 2
GRAND PIANO with Bolling and Legrand (1989), Onegin (1986),  The Nature of Things - Rivers to the Sea (1989)/Long Point (1984)/Sable Island (80)/Living Arctic (77), Just Another Missing Kid (1984), The Lively Arts - in Performance (1977), World of Ivor Novello (1976), The Fight for Peace (1973), Hansel and Gretel (1972), Music on 2: Where the Unspeakable is Sung: The True Flamenco (1970), The Music of Robert Farnon (1970)

Huggett Family Players (1971), Swan lake (1968), Darwin (1968), True North - The Explorers (1968), Gandhi's India (1968)
BBC1 - Two of a Kind (1979), Iowa Farmer (1976), MAN Alive - To Give what we Are (1974), Private Life of the Harp Seal (1974), Gray Owl (1973), A Royal Spectacular from Canada (1973 - mounties entertain the Queen and Phil the Greek), The Quiet Invasion (1970), Peter Grimes (1970), Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1968)

Dramas - play for Today - Reddick (1970)/Write-Off (1970)/Home (1972), A Bird in the House (1973), Springhill (1973), The National Dream (1974), Sarah (1978), Giselle (1976), Dawson Patrol (1978), Empire Inc (1983), Onegin (1986)

[George White]

CTV showed the 1968 Thames series about Mountbatten, the Persuaders/Protectors/Strange Report/the Firechasers/Department S from ITC, Please, Sir, the Whicker's World about Harold Robbins, National Geographic, the Jackie Stewart Special, the Aussie series the Timeless Land, the BBC series In Search of the Real Che Guevera, Fame, Ken Loach's Wednesday's Child and the Nelson Affair, Frost over Canada, and those CBS Agatha Christie TVMs and Central tv/NBC's Kennedy.
But again, mostly US stuff. Not much docs past the 70s bar the BBC copro Ustinov in Russia.
They were the home of Yorkshire copro Swiss Family Robinson, Due South, the STV copro the Campbells and the Littlest Hobo, and the New Avengers, Night Heat (an ITV late night regular), the Starlost (ditto), ENG (another ITV late night show).

[George White]

ITV showed the CTV in western Canada/Global in the East historical chat show series Witness to Yesterday.

[George White]

The New Misadventures of Ichabod Crane  (1983) and Tales of the Mouse Hockey League (1988) CBC cartoon shown by the BBC.

CBC's Bluetoes, the Christmas Elf (1988) showed on Disney UK.
Johann's Gift (1988), a CBC cartoon was shown on Nickelodeon UK

CTV's Nilus the Sandman (1978) was shown on Nickelodeon UK.

CTV's the Velveteen Rabbit (1985) and The Tin Soldier (1986) was shown by ITV.

CTV's  The Teddy Bears' Christmas (1992), The Admiral and the Princess (1990) and  Happy Birthday Bunnykins (1996) was shown on Disney UK.

The Children's Channel showed CTV's The Teddy Bears' Picnic (1988) and the Railway Dragon (1989).

C4 showed CTV's Tooth Where are You (1991)

BBC showed CTV's The Woman Who Raised a Bear as Her Son (1990).