First Performance
{{Short description|Canadian television series}}
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First Performance is a Canadian dramatic television series which aired on CBC Television from 1956 to 1958.
Premise
These short series of television plays were produced as a promotion for Canada Savings Bonds.{{cite web | url=http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/programming/television/programming_popup.php?id=716 | first=John | last=Corcelli | date=February 2005 | title=First Performance | publisher=Canadian Communications Foundation | accessdate=7 May 2010 }}
Scheduling
The first season of this 90-minute series was broadcast on Wednesdays at 10:00 p.m. (Eastern) during October 1956. The second season (1957) aired Thursdays at 9:30 p.m., also during the month of October. The final 1958 season was broadcast Tuesdays 9:30 p.m. in October, with the last broadcast on 4 November 1958.
Episodes
=1956 season=
- 3 October 1956: Time Lock (Leo Orenstein producer; Arthur Hailey writer)
- 10 October 1956: O'Brien (Melwyn Breen producer; Joseph Schull writer), a comedy
- 17 October 1956: Black of the Moon (David Greene producer; Leslie MacFarlane writer)
- 24 October 1956: The Discoverers (Ronald Weyman producer; Mac Rosenfeld and George Salverson writers)
=1957 season=
- 3 October 1957: Seeds of Power (Arthur Hailey writer), starring Katherine Blake, Lloyd Bochner, John Drainie and Patrick Macnee
- 10 October 1957: Ice on Fire (Len Peterson writer)
- 17 October 1957: Cousin Elva (Stuart Trueman book, Leslie MacFarlane adaptation), starring Araby Lockhart, Alexander Webster and Helene Winston
- 24 October 1957: Janey Canuck (Byrne Hope Saunders book, Lister Sinclair adaptation), starring Katherine Blake and Lloyd Bochner
=1958 season=
- 7 October 1958: Panic at Parth Bay (Harvey Hart producer; Lester Powell writer), starring Frances Hyland, Leslie Nielsen, Alexander Webster, Hugh Webster, Leslie Yeo and Louis Zorich
- 21 October 1958: The Man in the House (Adrian Waller producer; Marcel Dubé writer; Ivor Barry translation), starring Collette Coutois, Gratien Gélinas, Germaine Giroux, Clement Latour and Ovila Legaré
- 4 November 1958: The Man Who Caught Bullets (Mario Prizek producer; Mavor Moore writer), starring Everett Sloane
References
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External links
- {{Cite web |url=http://www.film.queensu.ca/CBC/Fab.html |first=Blaine |last=Allan |title=First Performance |publisher=Queen's University |year=1996 |accessdate=7 May 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100311085754/http://www.film.queensu.ca/cbc/Fab.html |archivedate=11 March 2010 |df=dmy }}
- {{IMDb title|0929663}}
Category:CBC Television original programming
Category:1956 Canadian television series debuts
Category:1958 Canadian television series endings