I'm not sure, but I will say this for him - he's regularly on both CFRB and AM640 with segments about "long lost" Canadian history facts. So he does get some exposure on the media. Personally, I think your collections are far superior. 

For those who've never visited, Retrontario is perhaps the best site for the preservation of especially Toronto and Ontario TV from the past. There is some absolutely amazing stuff on its YouTube site. 

I never like or give any credibility to any list like this.  It's way too subjective.
Give me real, meaningful numbers like the biggest songs of the year based on sales and radio play.
 

One show that falls under the radar is Rick Mercer's Made In Canada which was really well done, quite funny and lasted five seasons on CBC.  And it was all about TV.  Mr. Dressup number one??   Please... 

I like Brioux's list...he understands and appreciates the brilliance and humour of Party Game which was way ahead of it's time.  Funnier and much more adult than other game shows of that era.

newsguy1 wrote:

I too root for SCTV as being number one.
Mr. Dressup just can't be because it had a limited audience of children.
But how can you not mention "The Beachcombers" or "The Littlest Hobo" in this list?
I am not counting game shows or panel shows Otherwise I would list, "Front Page Challenge" or "Reach For The top."
I think variety shows should also be included.
When I was a child my parents and grandparents never missed an episode of "Juliette" or "Don Messer's Jubilee."
 

'The Littlest Hobo' may be the worst TV show ever made.

Yeah, I know "The Littlest Hobo" was a low budget very corny show, but there was a sort of innocent sweetness to it that children really took to.
I know I did, and my parents watched the show with me making it a family event.
Also when I was about 7 years old the show was made in my neighborhood in the Shaugnessy area of Vancouver.
It was a huge thrill for us kids to see a TV show come to town.

 

Any list without "The Trouble With Tracy" is incomplete.

I think it would be funny if someone were to update the classic SCTV opening credits, throwing TODAY's TV's out the window...  

Paul Jeffries wrote:

Peter the K wrote:

Walter wrote:

'The Littlest Hobo' may be the worst TV show ever made.

Which version?

There was more than one?

PJ

Yes there was. There was a syndicated version that used to run in the 60s, made between 1963-1965 in the U.S.. That's the one I remember as a kid, especially the theme song, which I have never forgotten and which you can hear below. The other one was made for CTV between 1979 and 1985.

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I remember watching the original series as a kid. However, I don't remember the theme song at all. Unlike the relentlessly cheerful Forest Rangers theme which to me is an earworm.

1966 / 67  Morning "trifecta" for kids on CBLT...

10:00am     "Chez Helene"  w/ Louise and her hair ribbons,,,,

10:15am     "Friendly Giant"  (my brother liked Rusty, I thought the castle was inside our TV)

10:30am     "Mr. Dressup"

(I even remember the slide of new Toronto City Hall which CBLT aired during sign on...  as a young kid in Oakville, I always thought it was a picture of a submarine... oh well, it was preschool).