Gallery (TV series)

Gallery
Genre	documentary
Country of origin	Canada
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	2
Production
Executive producer(s)	Sam Levene
Producer(s)	David Pears
Running time	30 minutes
Release
Original network	CBC Television
Original release	19 May 1973 – 4 April 1975

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.

External links

• Allan, Blaine (1996). "Gallery". Queen's University. Retrieved 7 May 2010.