- Delilah (TV series)
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Delilah Genre situation comedy Written by Bryan Barney Directed by Ron Meraska
Jack SampsonStarring Terry Tweed
Miles McNamara
Barbara HamiltonCountry of origin 
CanadaLanguage(s) English No. of seasons 1 No. of episodes 13 Production Producer(s) David Peddie Running time 30 minutes Broadcast Original channel CBC Television Original run 4 October 1973 – 3 January 1974 Delilah is a Canadian situation comedy television series which aired on CBC Television from 1973 to 1974.
Contents
Premise
Delilah marked the CBC's first situation comedy in prime-time, having aired its previous sitcom Toby in daytime.[1]
Delilah (Terry Tweed) moves out of the city and becomes a small community's first female barber. Her barbershop was intended to be given to her younger brother Vincent (Miles McNamara), but he must first graduate from school.
Other series characters include Delilah's Aunt Peggy (Barbara Hamilton, the town's newspaper editor T.J. (Eric House), family friend Franny Tree (Peter Mews), Frances (Kay Hawtrey), Mavis (Joyce Gordon) and Isabel (Paulle Clark).[2]
Production
Delilah was recored before a live studio audience. Six of the episodes were written by Bryan Barney under script editor Jean Templeton.[1]
Scheduling
This half-hour series was broadcast on Thursdays at 9:00 p.m. (Eastern) from 4 October 1973 to 3 January 1974.
Reception
The series generally received poor reviews and negative audience reception. It was cancelled after a single 13-episode season.[1] Delilah was one of several CBC flops during the early 1970s, including Corwin and McQueen, the product of inferior creativity.[3] However, CBC's next sitcom, King of Kensington, fared much better and became a multi-year success.[1] Toronto Star television critic Jim Bawden declared the series as "Worst Canadian Sitcom", declaring the scriptwriting to be "appalling" and discovered an absence of laughter from the audience when he attended a taping of an episode.[4]
References
- ^ a b c d Miller, Mary Jane (1987). Turn Up the Contrast - CBC Television Drama Since 1952. Vancouver: UBC Press / CBC Enterprises. pp. 125, 133–135. ISBN 0-7748-0278-2.
- ^ Corcelli, John (August 2005). "Delilah". Canadian Communications Foundation. http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/programming/television/programming_popup.php?id=1192. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
- ^ Miller, Mary Jane (1987). Turn Up the Contrast - CBC Television Drama Since 1952. Vancouver: UBC Press / CBC Enterprises. p. 228. ISBN 0-7748-0278-2.
- ^ Bawden, Jim (10 October 1992). "Roasting turkeys". Toronto Star: p. SW4.
External links
- Allan, Blaine (1996). "Delilah". Queen's University. http://www.film.queensu.ca/CBC/Dan.html. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
- Delilah (TV series) at the Internet Movie Database
Categories:- CBC network shows
- 1973 Canadian television series debuts
- 1974 Canadian television series endings
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