BS: Obscure Canadian TV shows...

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure Canadian TV shows...
From: Metchosin
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 12:08 PM

Because our reception was better for channels out of Washington State, as children, we spent far less time tuned into the CBC.

The most significant event I remember watching on the CBC, when I was was small, was the blasting of Ripple Rock. It was really impressive, although, I'm really glad they used dynamite instead of the nuclear bomb, as originally intended, to remove the navigation hazard. I've often wondered how many salmon and killer whales were found floating in Seymour Narrows and surrounding waters after the blast. They didn't show that. It was the largest non-nuclear explosion in history.

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure Canadian TV shows...
From: Metchosin
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 12:29 PM

You can still see Ripple Rock go up courtesy of the good old CBC.

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure Canadian TV shows...
From: Little Hawk
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 12:42 PM

Wow! What a classic piece of oldtime Canadiana. Yes, that was the way it was when I was a boy...black and white TV and those wonderfully formal sounding CBC broadcasters bringing the news to the nation.

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure Canadian TV shows...
From: bobad
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 01:04 PM

Bankley, I remember those early TV days as you describe - manually tuning the antenna to get WPTZ from Plattsburg. Do you remember Bird Berdan the Weatherman, after doing the weather he would run off, don a costume and return to introduce the Friday night scary movie on Chiller Theater, occasionally arriving a bit late and missing his cue. I was always reminded of him by Joe Flaherty doing Count Floyd on SCTV.

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure Canadian TV shows...
From: GUEST,Obie
Date: 29 Nov 07 - 04:06 PM

"It was the largest non-nuclear explosion in history." (peacetime)
Not so, as that dubious honour belongs to the Halifax Explosion but that was wartime.

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure Canadian TV shows...
From: bankley
Date: 30 Nov 07 - 04:24 PM

yeah Bobad, I remember, Berdan well, he did a lot of double shifts at that station, good sense of humour....... kinda like Dave Patrick at CJSS in Cornwall... Dave would sometimes show up with a black eye, dressed like a gangster... wearing shades.. Champ Champagne played some guitar and sang, McGowan did his bit.... that staion didn't last long... no surprise

What about "Rope Around the Sun" with Stu Davis, and later Stu Phillips or vice-versa... the two Stus... good singers

Subject: RE: BS: Obscure Canadian TV shows...
From: Bob the Postman
Date: 30 Nov 07 - 09:41 PM

The Ripple Rock footage brought back memories--and a half-memory. I half-remember that Mom finally talked Dad into buying a TV so we could all watch the Ripple Rock Explosion, without having to humble ourselves by imposing on friends or neighbours who did have the Box. In them days, in that place, the TV didn't come on until about 3:00 in the afternoon. It seems to me that Ripple Rock was smithereened outside normal broadcast hours and our local station had to fire up early so we could tune in.