It's the Law
{{Short description|Canadian television series}}
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| genre = legal information
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| writer = Alan King
| director = Tony Partidge
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| presenter = Frank Peddie
Cecil Wright
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| country = Canada
| language = English
| channel = CBC Television
| first_aired = {{start date|1956|5|1|df=y}}
| last_aired = {{end date|1956|6|26|df=y}}
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| runtime = 30 minutes
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| related = A Case for the Court
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It's the Law is a Canadian legal information television series which aired on CBC Television in 1956.
Premise
Legal concepts and information were explained to average Canadians on this series. Each episode featured an explanation of a legal concept followed by its dramatic portrayal as a case. The show then concluded with further discussion of by a member of the Canadian Bar Association which supported CBC's production of the series.
Cecil Wright, the University of Toronto's law dean, joined host Frank Peddie as a series regular. Actors Cec Linder, William Needles, Ed McNamara and Sandy Webster were featured in the dramatic segments.{{cite web | url=http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/programming/television/programming_popup.php?id=724 | first=John | last=Corcelli | date=February 2005 | title=It's the Law | publisher=Canadian Communications Foundation | accessdate=7 May 2010 }}
Scheduling
This half-hour series was broadcast on Tuesdays at 10:00 p.m. (Eastern) from 1 May to 26 June 1956.
References
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External links
- {{Cite web | url=http://www.film.queensu.ca/CBC/I.html | first=Blaine | last=Allan | title=It's the Law | publisher=Queen's University | year=1996 | accessdate=7 May 2010 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100311074247/http://www.film.queensu.ca/cbc/I.html | archivedate=11 March 2010 | df=dmy-all }}
- {{IMDb title|0294114}}
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Category:CBC Television original programming
Category:1956 Canadian television series debuts