Gallery (TV series)

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Gallery
Genredocumentary
Country of originCanada
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons2
Production
Executive producerSam Levene
ProducerDavid Pears
Running time30 minutes
Original release
NetworkCBC Television
Release19 May 1973 (1973-05-19) –
4 April 1975 (1975-04-04)

Gallery is a Canadian documentary television series which aired on CBC Television from 1973 to 1979.

Premise

This series featured various documentaries, taking an approach which was less serious than usual.[1]

Scheduling

This half-hour series was first broadcast on Saturdays at 10:00 p.m. (Eastern) from 19 May to 11 August 1973. It was rebroadcast on Wednesdays at 10:00 p.m. from 10 October to 7 November 1973. The second and final season of original episodes was from 3 January to 4 April 1975 on Fridays at 10:30 p.m. Further rebroadcasts were shown on CBC as mid-year programming in 1977 and 1979.

Episodes

Documentaries featured during the series run included the following:

  • Bluegrass Country (Bob Fresco, Max Engel), featuring a music festival in
    The Ozarks
  • The Bricklin Story (Pen Densham, John Watson, Insight Productions), featuring Malcolm Bricklin and his SV-1 automobile
  • The Master Blasters, featuring a family-run demolition company
  • To Be A Clown (Paul Saltzman), featuring an Ottawa-based clown school
  • Whatever Became of Hollywood? (Eric Riisna director), an adaptation of Richard Lamparski's biographies on historic entertainers
  • Winning Is The Only Thing (Donald Shebib director), concerning a minor league hockey team in Manitoba

References

  1. ^ Corcelli, John (April 2002). "Gallery". Canadian Communications Foundation. Retrieved 7 May 2010.

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