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THE JACK KANE SHOW to JUST MARY The Jack Kane Show Mon 8:30-9:00 p.m., 26 Sep 1960-3 Apr 1961 Jack Kane and his Music Makers had starred in the half-hour variety shows, Music Makers '58 and Music Makers '59 from 1957 to 1959. The next year, that show expanded to a full hour and ran every other week under the title Music '60. For the 1960-6l season, the CBC returned the show to its original format of a weekly half-hour. The production also returned to a more modest scale that stressed the music of the band and its members in smaller combos, and of featured vocalist Sylvia Murphy. Kane also introduced guest performers, such as singers Steve Lawrence and Andy Williams, who appeared on the first two shows of the season. The singers and musicians played to a Toronto studio audience. The show was written by Bernie Rothman, and produced by Bill Davis, though the first two programs in the series were produced by Stan Harris, because Davis was ill. Jack London's Tales Of The Klondike Sun 8:00-9:00 p.m., 16 May-7 Jun 1981 Fri 8:00-9:00 p.m., 14/21/28 May and 16 Jun 1982 (R) William Macadam's Norfolk Communications produced this series of six, one hour dramas based on the stories of Jack London. The tales included The One Thousand Dozen, directed by Peter Rowe and starring Neil Munro; In A Far Country, with Scott Hylands and Robert Carradine; Scorn Of Women, starring Eva Gabor; The Unexpected, with John Candy and Cherie Lunghi; Finis; and The Race For Number One. Orson Welles narrated the stories. The Jackie Rae Show Jackie Rae starred in a musical variety show, which also featured the Grads, a vocal quartet, Jack Kane and his orchestra, and comic and writer Frank Peppiatt. The program's flexible format allowed it to be produced both in the CBC's Toronto studios or, occasionally, in a different location. Guests included Canadian performers, including the cast of "Salad Days," a production at the University of Toronto's Hart House, but often the show strove to attract audiences with high- powered, name guests from the United States, such as Eydie Gorme, Don Cherry, and Dorothy Collins. Jake And The Kid Tue 8:30-9:00 p.m., 4 Jul-19 Sep 1961 Tue 9:30-10:00 p.m., 23 Jun 1963 W.O. Mitchell's stories of hired hand Jake, his friend the Kid, a twelve year old boy, and the citizens of Crocus, Saskatchewan, had appeared in the pages of Maclean's magazine since 1942 and had been a popular feature on CBC radio from l949 to 1954. A natural subject for CBC television, already known to appeal to the Canadian public, the stories were tied up when Mitchell became involved in long negotiations for a U.S. television series to have starred Burgess Meredith and Brandon de Wilde as the title characters. After the deal fell through, The National Film Board announced that it planned to produce twenty-six episodes of Jake And The Kid, which the CBC would air in two thirteen week series, and optioned one story to produce as a pilot for the series. John Drainie was cast as Jake, the character he had played on radio, and Tony Haig as the Kid (whose radio voice had been Aileen Seaton's). The only story from the series to appear from the NFB studios was "Political Dynamite," a tale of social conflict over the issue of Sunday curling. It was released in 1962 and aired on the CBC on 23 June 1963. In the meantime, however, the CBC produced its own Jake And The Kid for thirteen weeks in the summer of 196l, starring Murray Westgate as Jake, Rex Hagon as the Kid, and Frances Tobias as Ma. The producers of the series were Ronald Weyman and David Gardner, and the executive producer was Raymond Whitehouse. The same year, Macmillan of Canada published Mitchell's Jake And The Kid stories in book form. Jalna See The Whiteoaks of Jalna. Jazz Canada Fri 11:45-12:45 p.m., 29 Feb-18 Apr 1980 Sun 4:00-5:00 p.m., 6 Jul-3 Aug 1980 Hosted by trumpet player Guido Basso, Jazz Canada featured studio concerts from Vancouver, Toronto, and Halifax with the country's top jazz musicians. The minimal sets and live-to-tape production techniques stressed the quality of the musical performances instead of conventional production values for a musical television show. Jazz Canada showcased such players as the Moe Koffman Quintet, one of the incarnations of Phil Nimmons's big band, called Nimmons 'n' Nine Plus Six, the Don Thompson Trio, guitarist Ed Bickert, Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass, the Kathy Moses Quintet, the Jim Galloway Band, Paul Horn, the Tommy Banks Orchestra, the salsa band Manteca, Aura Rully, Doug Riley, Sam Notto, Sonny Greenwich, Brian Browne, Pat LaBarbara, the Russ Little Band, the Humber Band, the Harvey Silver Band, the Frank Falco Trio with Eugene Amaro, singer and trombone player Big Miller, Fraser MacPherson, Skip Beckwith, Bobbi Sharron, Doug Mallory, Herb Marshal, and Ron Small. The program was coordinated by Jim Guthro, and produced by Jack Budgell, Bob Gibbons, and Ain Soodor in Toronto, Patsy MacDonald in Vancouver, and Eleanor Lindo in Halifax. Jazz With Jackson Sat 8:00-8:30 p.m., 10 Jan-3 Oct 1953 Wed 7:30-8:00 p.m., 7 Oct 1953-14 Apr 1954 Sat 9:00-9:30 p.m., 2 Jul 1955-24 Sep 1955 A half-hour of music with a big band, pianist Cal Jackson, host Dick MacDougall, and their guests, Jazz With Jackson alternated in a Saturday evening slot with The March Of Time until mid-June 1953, when it started a weekly run. Norman Jewison produced. Jeunesse Oblige Tue 5:30-6:00 p.m., 29 Sep 1964-22 Jun 1965 The Montreal segment of the 1964-65 Music Hop (q.v.) series of popular music shows, Jeunesse Oblige starred Jean-Pierre Ferland in 1964 and Pierre Lalonde in 1965. The Jim Coleman Show Fri 10:45-11:00 p.m., 4 Sep 1959-24 Jun 1960 On this fifteen minute broadcast for late Friday evenings, produced by Ty Lemburg, Toronto sportswriter Jim Coleman presented sports news and interviewed sports personalities. The Joan Fairfax Show Mon 8:30-9:00 p.m., 6 Jul-31 Aug 1959 Mon 10:00-10:30 p.m., 14 Sep-4 Oct 1959 Sun 7:30-8:00 p.m., 25 Oct 1959-17 Jul 1960 Singer Joan Fairfax starred in her own musical variety show, complete with all- woman orchestra, in the summer of 1959, and the program moved to a Sunday evening slot for the regular season in the autumn of that year. The half-hour program proved very popular, attracting an estimated two and a quarter million viewers. In a Saturday Night article, Marcus Van Steen compared the success of the Fairfax show to that of Don Messer's Jubilee, and judged that "the naive and warmhearted sincerity of Miss Fairfax shines through the slick and alien polish that the producer has sought to impose on the show" (23 July 1960). Singers the Van Dorn Sisters joined Fairfax regularly on her broadcasts, which also featured guests such as Norman Brooks and Bill Butler, Ken Steele, jazz pianist Marian McPartland, dancers Irene Apine and Jury Gotschalks and Tink Robinson and Bernie Boyde, and singers Roger Doucet, Wally Koster, and Allan Blye. Alan Lund choreographed the show, which Bill Davis and Don Hudson produced during the summer season and Len Casey produced for the regular run. The John Allan Cameron Show Fri 9:00-9:30 p.m., 29 Jun-7 Sep 1979 Wed 7:30-8:00 p.m., 8 Oct-10 Dec 1980 Mon 7:30-8:00 p.m., 3 Aug-7 Sep 1981 (R) Mon 7:30-8:00 p.m., 26 Apr-3 May 1982 (R) An engaging performer with an infectious sense of humour, John Allan Cameron, from Cape Breton Island, played traditional and contemporary music on fiddle and twelve-string guitar and sang with an incurably nasal twang. In addition to music by himself and his guests, the show featured comic sketches written on the premise of Cameron's desire to be a sports hero or a Hollywood star. In the first season, he competed with boxer Trevor Berbick, hockey players Eddie Shack and Errol Thompson, football player Tony Gabriel, swimmer Nancy Garapick, tennis player Don Fontana, basketball player Brian Heaney, karate champion Jim Maloney, and track star Debbie Van Kikebelt. In the 1980 series, the sketches cast Cameron as characters from Hollywood, such as an Errol Flynn-like swashbuckler, Robin Hood, Charlie Chaplin, a Valentino-style sheik, and the Phantom of the Opera. Each program also featured "news from home" with comics Hughie and Allen. Generally, Cameron fared better musically, with concert segments taped at Mount Saint Vincent University's Seaton Auditorium, with guests such as Bruce Cockburn, Valdy, Mason Williams, the Good Brothers, Will Millar of the Irish Rovers, fellow Nova Scotian Denny Doherty, blues legends Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Chicago singer and songwriter Steve Goodman, Roger Whittaker, Murray McLauchlan, Ian Tyson, Tom Rush, Ronnie Prophet, and Tom Paxton. The backup musicians, called the Cape Breton Symphony, were led by bass player Skip Beckwith, the show's musical director, and included Paul Mason on piano, George Herbert on guitar, Don Palmer on flute and saxophone, Tim Cohoon on drums, and Wilfred Gillis and John Donald Cameron on fiddles.