- Nursery School Time
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Nursery School Time Genre children's Country of origin Canada Language(s) English No. of seasons 6 Production Producer(s) Thomas Knight (1958-1959)
Rena Elder (1959-1961)
Dennis Spence (1961-1962)
Denyse Adams (1961-1962)Running time 15 minutes Broadcast Original channel CBC Television Original run 21 January 1958 – 31 May 1963 Nursery School Time is a Canadian children's television series which aired on CBC Television from 1958 to 1963.
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Premise
This series featured entertaining and educational topics for pre-school children. It was produced by the CBC's School Broadcast Department which made program plans and recommended reading lists available to parents.
Production of the first run from January to April 1958 was shared between Toronto and Winnipeg, hosted by Teddy Forman and Shirley Knight respectively. Hoppy, a rabbit puppet, was featured on the Toronto episodes. After receiving positive feedback from this initial run, Nursery School Time was renewed for a full season that September. The Toronto segments with Forman and Hoppy were retained with the addition of Smokey, an actual cat. Production from Winnipeg was discontinued in favour of segments from Montreal hosted by Madame Fon Fon (Claudine Vallerand, from Radio-Canada), Mr. Dick (a beaver puppet) and Miki (an actual dog).[1][2]
Madame Fon Fon was replaced by Madeleine Arbour for the Montreal episodes in 1958. In Toronto, Forman was replaced by Toby Tarnow for the 1961-1962 season.
Scheduling
This 15-minute series was broadcast as follows:
Days Time Season run Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays 3:45 p.m. 21 January to 17 April 1958 Weekdays 2:45 p.m. 29 September 1958 to 29 May 1959 Weekdays 2:15 p.m. 13 October 1959 to 29 April 1960 Weekdays 2:15 p.m. 17 October 1960 to 30 June 1961 Weekdays 2:15 p.m. 2 October 1961 to 29 June 1962 Weekdays 2:15 p.m. 15 October 1962 to 31 May 1963 References
- ^ "Today's TV Previews". The Gazette (Montreal): p. 9. 30 September 1958. http://news.google.ca/newspapers?id=k4wxAAAAIBAJ&pg=4456,5647448. Retrieved 20 August 2010.
- ^ Corcelli, John (April 2002). "Nursery School Time". Canadian Communications Foundation. http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/programming/television/programming_popup.php?id=14. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
External links
- Nursery School Time at CBC Digital Archives
- Allan, Blaine (1996). "Nursery School Time". Queen's University. http://www.film.queensu.ca/CBC/New.html. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
- Nursery School Time at the Internet Movie Database
Categories:- CBC network shows
- 1958 Canadian television series debuts
- 1963 Canadian television series endings
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