title: Marketplace

status: ReturningSeries

Season 36

title: New Home Nightmares

overview: Think you’re safe from problems when you buy a new home? Think again Dave Prosser and Sylvia Potter bought their brand new home just three years ago, for a few hundred thousand. It was supposed to be their dream home, but instead they’re living a new home nightmare.

title: New Home Nightmares

title: The Secret History of Cars

overview: Thinking of buying a used car? You’re not alone. In this slowing economy, people are looking to save cash whenever and wherever they can.

title: The Secret History of Cars

title: Generation Cellphone

overview: Can cellphone use cause brain tumors? It’s a question that everyone has wondered about, yet there still isn’t a clear answer.

title: Generation Cellphone

title: Miracle Makers or Money Takers

overview: Ailing Canadians are spending up to $200 a session in clinics and even buying the $20,000 "miracle" machine called the EPFX for home use. It's name is as intriguing as its health claims. For those suffering with a serious illness, they are desperate for a miracle cure.

title: Miracle Makers or Money Takers

title: Easy Money

overview: Marketplace investigates a company called BIM (Business in Motion) that claims big returns once you buy in. BIM's main product is the UltraLife Club, a travel package that promises vacation deals. Attend a presentation and you're pitched a membership for $3,200 and are told you can earn thousands in commissions by becoming a distributor and selling to others.

title: Easy Money

title: How Not To Win 500000

overview: Who doesn't want to win $500,000? That’s why so many Canadians are playing the Reader’s Digest sweepstakes. But now some of those people feel confused by the sweepstakes' marketing.

title: How Not To Win 500000

title: Credit Card Catch

overview: You might find you're paying for something known as "credit balance insurance." Depending on your credit card, it could be called "BalanceProtector" or "Account Protector," but the idea is the same: for a fee, credit balance insurance promises to cover your monthly minimum credit card payments in case of loss of income to due job loss or extreme illness.

title: Credit Card Catch

title: The Trouble With Fake Guns

overview: In a split second, do you think you could tell the difference between a real or an imitation gun? Imagine if that gun were pointed in your direction in what could be a life-or-death situation.

title: The Trouble With Fake Guns

title: 7 Sins Of The Marketplace

overview: Marketplace has seen it all when it comes to bad service, unsafe products and schemes. Over the years, we’ve seen companies come up with all kinds of tricky ways to separate customers from their cash. We call them the seven sins of the marketplace; a list of how companies try to reach into your wallet.

title: 7 Sins Of The Marketplace

title: How Not To Buy A Puppy

overview: We’ve all heard puppy horror stories about sick dogs from bad breeders. But many pet stores promise problem-free dogs from first-rate breeders.

title: How Not To Buy A Puppy

title: Lawless Loans

overview: Need a loan? As the economy continues to shrink, banks are becoming more and more reluctant to approve new loans — especially if your credit rating is less than stellar.

title: Lawless Loans

title: Power of Persuasion

overview: Like any commodity, electricity and natural gas prices go up and down with the markets. In some provinces, you have a choice when it comes to who will supply your power - a public or a private utility. Ontario and Alberta have deregulated both utilities, and in Manitoba and B.C., you can pick your natural gas provider.

title: Power of Persuasion

title: The Price Cut Promise

overview: Thinking of renovating your home? As resale prices and new home construction drops due to the recession, more and more people are staying in the homes they have and trying to improve upon them.

title: The Price Cut Promise

title: Season 36

Season 37

title: Grow-Op Cover Up

overview: Erica Johnson and contractor Mike Holmes reveal a new twist on home inspectors: more Canadians are buying houses that were formerly used as marijuana grow-ops.

title: Grow-Op Cover Up

title: GPS Distraction - Busted: Shingles

overview: Convenience over safety? Marketplace conducts a first of its kind test in Erica Johnson's investigation into GPSs.

title: GPS Distraction - Busted: Shingles

title: Road to Rich Dad

overview: The pitch is how to get rich, or is it how to get ripped off? Erica Johnson investigates who's getting rich off Rich Dad.

title: Road to Rich Dad

title: Magic in a Bottle?

overview: Erica Johnson investigates one of Canada's largest diet companies, Herbal Magic.

title: Magic in a Bottle?

title: Canada's Worst Cellphone Bill

overview: Wendy Mesley investigates the story behind huge bills many Canadians rack up from using their cellphones.

title: Canada's Worst Cellphone Bill

title: Who's Minding the Store? - Busted: Cord Blood Banks

overview: Erica Johnson reveals the newest way thieves are stealing your credit and debit card numbers.

title: Burning Question - The Debt Trap

overview: Firefighters know there's one thing that can help save lives in a fire, so you'll be surprised to learn this one thing is still missing in thousands of buildings across Canada. Also: Erica Johnson investigates a new wave of so-called American-style non-profit charities offering debt advice to Canadians.

title: Burning Question - The Debt Trap

title: Stretching the Truth? - Busted: Lysol

title: Stretching the Truth? - Busted: Lysol

title: Something's Fishy - Busted: Easyhome

overview: It's labelled halibut, but can you count on it? When you buy fish are you getting what you pay for? Erica Johnson goes fishing for answers.

title: Something's Fishy - Busted: Easyhome

title: Something's Fishy - Busted: Easyhome

overview: Has your home insurance rate gone up? Wendy Mesley reveals it could be connected to your credit score.

title: Something's Fishy - Busted: Easyhome

title: Season 37

Season 38

title: Big Gym Ripoff

overview: How gym membership contracts affect Canadians and how some gyms are run.

title: Big Gym Ripoff

title: Cure or Con?

overview: Investigating homeopathy, the fastest growing alternative health practice in Canada.

title: Cure or Con?

title: Incredible Shrinking Products

title: Incredible Shrinking Products

title: Spinning a Pill

overview: Investigating the oral contraceptive Yasmin.

title: Spinning a Pill

title: Clean Water Dirty Tricks

overview: Investigation of the sale of door-to-door water purification systems in Canada.

title: Clean Water Dirty Tricks

title: Hitting the Roof

overview: Investigating the world of shady roofers with contractors Mike Holmes.

title: Hitting the Roof

title: Superbug in the Supermarket

overview: Investigating the link between the animals we eat and our resistance to antibiotics.

title: Superbug in the Supermarket

title: Crash and Burned

overview: Tom Harrington investigates what insurance companies don't want you to know.

title: Crash and Burned

title: Back on the Case

overview: We follow up on some of our favourite stories. See what's changed, and who's been busted since we "Busted" them.

title: Back on the Case

title: Debt Collector Dread

overview: Debt collectors: their business can be ferocious. But when they cross the line, can you count on the rules to protect you? Erica Johnson investigates.

title: Debt Collector Dread

title: Canada's Worst Cell Phone Bill: The Sequel

overview: Taking another look at Canada's cellphone industry.

title: Lousy Labels

overview: The labels say 'organic' and 'natural' -- but are they really? Erica Johnson separates the truly green products from the 'greenwashed' -- products that look green, but really aren't -- in our top ten countdown of lousy labels.

title: Lousy Labels

title: Won't Get Fooled Again

overview: For the first time ever, Marketplace will be running the scams instead of exposing them.

title: Won't Get Fooled Again

title: Season 38

Season 39

title: Canada's Worst Customer Service: Store Edition

overview: 'Marketplace' launches our 39th season with a special one-hour episode that takes on Canada's major store chains.

title: What FX?

overview: Marketplace puts COLD-FX to the test, and discovers that there may be more clever marketing than proven science at the heart of their success. Host Erica Johnson also reveals where the processing of this "Proudly Canadian" product takes place, and speaks with company insiders who reveal a dirty secret.

title: What FX?

title: Trouble For Rent

overview: In "Trouble for Rent," Tom Harrington meets tenants of a national rental company and uncovers a disturbing history of unhealthy homes, poor maintenance and corporate callousness. On hidden camera we hear what tenants are told when shopping for a new apartment and with the help of experts we put apartments to the test. What we find is troubling so we go looking for answers from the people at the top.

title: Trouble For Rent

title: The Toilet Paper Chase

overview: Marketplace's Tom Harrington wants to find out what's behind one prominent eco-logo. He tracks down a popular toilet paper brand found in Canadian supermarkets to its source, the New Brunswick forest from where it comes, and discovers the answers aren't always clear cut.

title: The Toilet Paper Chase

title: Lousy Labels: Health Hype

overview: In this year's Top 10 countdown of Lousy Labels, Erica Johnson finds the truth behind the latest buzzwords on food packaging. It will make you think twice before filling up your shopping cart.

title: Lousy Labels: Health Hype

title: Snake In The Grass

overview: Tom Harrington reveals the story of how, for many unwilling clients, Canada's largest lawn care company has become a more invasive pest than the ones they promise to get rid of. What do you do with a lawn care outfit that won't take no for an answer? Marketplace exposes their over the top tactics, and we speak with an insider who worked for the company.

title: Snake In The Grass

title: Recruitment Rip-Off

overview: Tom Harrington exposes the aggressive practices of a job search marketing firm -- one that acts more like a recruitment agency. While this firm does have all sorts of clients, it seems to specifically target new Canadians, charging them for services and information widely -- and freely -- available. "Recruitment Rip-Off" takes us inside the operation, and includes heartbreaking testimony from the victims.

title: Recruitment Rip-Off

title: Framed

overview: The materials in them are downright cheap. Even crafting the lenses is hardly labour-intensive. So why are prescription eyeglasses so darned expensive? Tom Harrington focuses in on the outrageously high price of spectacles. In this eye-opening report, we test recent changes in retail and regulation, to see if anyone's offering a better deal.

title: Framed

title: When The Repairman Knocks

overview: You've got a problem with something in your home, and you need it fixed -- fast! But who do you call? And who can you trust? We put home service trades-people to the test, in a house wired up with hidden cameras. We watch them while they work on what should be a fairly simple repair job -- only to get charged for unnecessary work.

title: When The Repairman Knocks

title: Tripped Up

overview: Going on vacation? Think travel health insurance is going to protect you if something goes wrong?Marketplace exposes an industry that's set up to fail -- convoluted medical questionnaires that can trip people up, travel agents on hidden camera giving dangerous advice, and travelers left on the hook for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Watch what happens when Erica Johnson goes looking for answers from a multi-million dollar industry that "regrets your claim is denied.

title: Tripped Up

title: Dirty Hospitals

overview: Canada has the highest rate of hospital acquired infections in the developed world, and Canada's consumer watchdog wants to know why. Erica Johnson puts hospital cleanliness to the test, and finds a mess that is making you sick. With hidden cameras, including Canada's first hidden camera glo gel test, insider interviews and expert opinions, Marketplace uncovers why people in Canadian hospitals are too often getting sicker instead of better.

title: Dirty Hospitals

title: The Busted Edition

overview: Co-hosts Erica Johnson and Tom Harrington report on shocking claims and shoddy services that drive Canadians crazy. It's an hour of television that will have the country shouting, "You're Busted!" at their TV sets. Anti-viral tissue claims, bank fees, outrageous markups at a national car service chain, cable and phone service charges, fast-food marketing spin, extended warranty fine print -- even charities and government watchdogs get "busted" by Marketplace in this wide-ranging exposé.

title: The Busted Edition

title: Season 39

Season 40

title: Lousy Labels: Home Edition

overview:
"They're on your bedding, your kitchenware, and the cleaning products you use: labels claiming products are ""non-toxic"", ""biodegradable"" and include ""natural ingredients."" But are these common household products really as eco-conscious - or as safe - as you think?

Erica Johnson investigates so-called ""green"" household products, putting them to the test, and uncovering surprising truths about some popular brands. She counts down ten products which deserve a Lousy Label for their claims to be greener and safer."

title: Lousy Labels: Home Edition

title: When The Repairman Knocks: Pools

overview:
"Marketplace is back at it again, putting home repairmen to the test. We're wiring up homes with hidden cameras, rigging a simple, everyday household problem, to find out if repairmen we invite in can figure it out. Turns out, not every repairman can diagnose the problem.

This week, we wade into the world of backyard pools. In the pool business any type of handyman could show up. How would you know if they're really doing a good job? Can you trust them to fix your problem? Is your money well spent? Or will you be sunk? When it comes to testing pool repairmen, Marketplace didn't find much depth."

title: When The Repairman Knocks: Pools

title: Fighting for Fido

overview:
Thousands of dogs are ill or dying across North America and it's been going on for years. No one can say what, exactly, made the dogs sick. But owners say they fed their dogs a seemingly harmless product: a popular chicken jerky treat.

There are warnings on both sides of the border about the treats, which are made in China and marketed by some of the biggest pet food companies. But there is no definitive link between the treats and the illness. And there have been no recalls.

Tom Harrington is on the trail of the mysterious illness, putting the treats to the test, and asking questions about a product that is not regulated in Canada. We ask: when things go wrong, who is fighting for Fido?

title: Fighting for Fido

title: Getting Squeezed

overview:
"Buying a new car can be a gamble: you could end up landing a lemon. So what happens if you buy a faulty car that just can't be fixed?

After hearing from car owners across the country who claimed they bought a lemon, Erica Johnson goes searching for answers. She discovers just how difficult it is for owners to get help - from dealerships and from automakers.

And she reveals a possible solution on the other side of the border: lemon laws that protect owners from getting squeezed when something goes wrong.

Plus - Erica Johnson takes a closer look at Apple's latest smartphone. Is it as consumer-friendly as it claims? Check out this week's Busted!"

title: Getting Squeezed

title: Too Good To Be True

overview:
"In four decades of Marketplace, we've come across a lot of products - and a lot of pitchmen - that proved to be too good to be true.

We're revisiting three of the most outrageous stories, and the people behind them: from an outrageous inventor pitching a $20,000 electronic cure-all; to guarantees of a job in a troubled economy; to a juice marketed as a miracle in a bottle.

Where are they now?"

title: Too Good To Be True

title: Money Where Your Mouth Is

overview:
"When it's time to get our teeth checked, most of us trust our dentist to determine the treatment plan and how much it will cost. They are the experts, aren't they?

Co-host Erica Johnson puts dentists to the test: how does one know for sure what work needs to be done and how much it should cost? We reveal that dentists themselves can't even agree.

In Money Where Your Mouth Is, we send a researcher with hidden cameras to 20 different dentists in Toronto and Vancouver. We want to know: what treatments are recommended for her pearly whites? We discover a wide variation in treatments and costs. It seems dentistry is not that black and white after all -- there are various shades of grey. Marketplace wants to know why -- to get answers for the millions of Canadians who visit their dentist every year."

title: Money Where Your Mouth Is

title: High Steaks

overview: "Is the steak you buy as safe as you think? We're taking a sharp look at a little-known process which could affect what you eat. It's a common industry practice that makes steaks and roasts tender, but critics say it can also make beef more susceptible to bacterial contamination. Tom Harrington puts beef to the test, shows you the risks, and reveals what you're not being told."

title: High Steaks

title: Pump Fiction

overview:
"The price for premium gas blends is as much as 15 cents more per litre than regular gas. Gas companies make the pitch that premium's better for your car.

While it's true that some car makers recommend putting premium fuel in their high-end models, what about most of us who drive regular cars?

Marketplace takes on Canada's big gas station chains and asks whether Canadians are being misled into paying millions more at the pumps than they need.

It's the Marketplace gas challenge: Premium vs. Regular. You won't believe what we find out"

title: Pump Fiction

title: The Dirt on Hotels, Part 1

overview:
"Marketplace puts six of the largest hotel chains in Canada to the test.

We're investigating the cleanliness of Canadian hotels - in the most comprehensive test of its kind, ever. This month, we'll reveal the risks you don't see - and what you can do about them."

title: The Dirt on Hotels, Part 1

title: The Dirt on Hotels, Part 2

overview:
"Last week's investigation of hotel cleanliness got Canada talking last week. Now, we're digging deeper - testing how well chains are maintaining their hotels.

We reveal some of the most surprising results yet, and what the companies could be doing to clean up their act and protect their guests."

title: The Dirt on Hotels, Part 2

title: When The Repairman Knocks: Garage Doors

overview:
"What happens when you give shady repair companies a second chance?

Last season we put garage repair companies to the test - and some of them tried to rip us off. Now we're putting them to the test again. We want to know: have they changed their ways?"

title: When The Repairman Knocks: Garage Doors

title: Burned

overview:
"Tom Harrington investigates flame retardants in our homes and reveals the toxic chemicals used to prevent or slow down the spread of fire may be making us sick, and may not be as effective as you think.

From blood tests to fire tests to hidden camera, Marketplace is putting flame retardants in the hot seat. We want to know: are you getting burned?"

title: Burned

title: To Catch A Telemarketer

overview: This week on Marketplace: telemarketers from hell. We're out to catch them breaking the rules. We go undercover half a world away, inside a call centre that might be calling you.

title: To Catch A Telemarketer

title: When The Repairman Knocks: Air Ducts

overview: This time, we're testing air duct cleaners; yup air ducts... the things that carry hot and cold air from your furnace through your house. Watch what happens when the duct cleaners discover our hidden cameras and we discover they're better at cleaning wallets than air ducts.

title: When The Repairman Knocks: Air Ducts

title: Busting The Banks

overview:
"Are you frustrated with banking fees?

Marketplace reveals three sneaky ways the banks fatten their profits at your expense.

We also give one family a financial makeover and reveal easy money-saving tips."

title: Busting The Banks

title: Back On The Case

overview:
"We revisit two stories, and see what happened after the Marketplace bust.

Dirty Hospitals: have they kept their promise to clean up?

Clean Water, Dirty Tricks: Are they still spouting the same old scam?"

title: Back On The Case

title: Price Tag Confidential

overview:
"What they don’t want you to know about prices

You've sent us e-mail after e-mail asking why things cost as much as they do.

It's a mission that people behind the prices don't want us to take. But we're choosing to accept it.

Marketplace investigates shocking secrets about pricey cosmetics, the massive mark-up on hearing aids and the real reason we pay more than Americans for everything."

title: Price Tag Confidential

title: Who's Watching the Kids?

title: Who's Watching the Kids?

title: Mike Holmes: Home Ripoffs

title: Mike Holmes: Home Ripoffs

title: The Great Salt Shakedown

title: The Great Salt Shakedown

title: Hospital Parking Pain

overview:
"We investigate the costs of parking at hospitals in Canada, find who's really making money off those lots and how it's affecting ordinary Canadians.

In many cases, people told us that high hospital parking rates are keeping them from visiting loved ones or cause them to skip their own appointments. The cost and the stress doesn't belong in our health care system, one doctor said.

“Parking fees are a penalty for having a disease,” says cancer specialist Dr. Bob Winston. “It seems like an unfair tax on my patients.”

Do high hospital parking rates keep you from your appointments? Should we pay for hospital parking at all?"

title: Hospital Parking Pain

title: The Busted Edition

overview:
"We're on the trail of false claims, rounding up big names with their hands in your pockets. We're cracking five cases that will have you yelling, ""You're Busted!""

Has Air Canada come through on its promise to improve punctuality? And is that high-end Kobe beef you're paying for actually Kobe beef? Tom Harrington and Erica Johnson are on the case."

title: The Busted Edition

title: What’s The Deal?

overview:
"If a deal sounds too good to be true... then it probably is.

We delve in Dealfind, the largest Canadian-based e-retailer. It claims to offer unbeatable deals... so why are so many people not getting what they paid for?

How can it offer a $299 service for just 24 bucks? Many Canadians are finding it can't.

""I'm beyond angry,"" says one Dealfind customer. Find out why in What's The Deal?"

title: What’s The Deal?

title: Season 40

Season 52

title: Truckload of Trouble

overview: Trucking is the lifeline of Canada's economy, and as the country faces a shortage of drivers, Marketplace uncovers shocking details about how some unqualified new recruits are finding their way onto our roads.

title: Truckload of Trouble

title: Fast-food chains serving up halal food with a side of misinformation, expired certificates

overview: Some of Canada's most popular restaurants serve halal food, but a Marketplace investigation finds that many chains fail to answer basic questions about the halal food they serve or provide evidence to back up their certification claims.

title: Stolen in Seconds: Why aren't carmakers doing more?

overview: Marketplace compares some of Canada's most stolen vehicles to the same makes and models sold in the U.K. and reveals how the same cars sold overseas have additional security features that aren't provided in Canadian cars.

title: Access Denied: Back on the Case

overview: From staff training to boarding procedures and the availability of lift equipment, Marketplace puts Air Canada to the test again with the help of Paralympian Brock Richardson.

title: Access Denied: Back on the Case

title: Lousy labels on popular products

overview: Revealing how much ginger is really in Canada Dry's Ginger Ale; the "made from real ginger" claim was taken off of American cans after class action lawsuits there.

title: Lousy labels on popular products

title: Episode 6

title: A company profiting from a boy's illness

overview: A collage of Marketplace investigations comes together when a father finds his disabled son's story being used to sell a bogus product that claims to remove everything from pesticides to bacteria, including E.coli, from food.

title: Cause for Paws: The rising cost of pet care

overview: Marketplace reveals the growing number of vet clinics being bought up by corporations across the country and reveals how those takeovers are driving up cost of care across Canada.

title: Exposing The Celebrity Sell: Home Edition.

overview: Celebrities including Mike Holmes and former CFL player Graeme Bell make the pitch for renovations and custom home builds done right but a long list of customers with home build and reno nightmares shows that even though they make the pitch to trust them, there is little accountability when things go wrong.

title: Sale or Fail?

overview: Marketplace tracks sale items at popular stores for more than six months, revealing false discounts, and some products that are advertised on big sales days, but are actually cheaper during other times of the year.

title: Sale or Fail?

title: The Changemakers: Your  voice, our fight

overview: Marketplace reveals the investigations have led to change.  From removing unsafe products from store shelves to changing government and company policies, we take viewers on a journey of some of our most memorable and meaningful moments. Reporter: Charlsie Agro

title: Turning up the Heat

overview: Marketplace investigates the murky world of home heating deals to reveal how consumers who sign up for savings are getting surprises instead, locked into onerous loans that come with broken promises of rebates, energy savings and free service – as calls grow for better consumer protection.

title: Turning up the Heat

title: Gaming the System

overview: Marketplace investigates how much information you're giving away when playing mobile games, and where that information ends up.  We uncover the methods app developers use to keep kids playing for as long as possible – and expose loopholes in the laws meant to protect children's privacy.

title: Gaming the System

title: Episode 14

overview: Whether it is a slick scam, misleading marketing claim, a product that could put your health at risk, or maddening customer service, Marketplace has got your back.

Season 53

title: Plastic Alternatives: Eco-Friendly or Eco-Fiction?

overview: An investigation into "greenwashing claims" to expose the truth behind products like paper straws and compostable cups, revealing that many "sustainable" alternatives may not be much better for the environment.

title: The Sextortion Network

overview: Marketplace exposes an overseas network of scammers targeting and blackmailing teens, with the team creating fake social media profiles to investigate the business behind the operation

title: The Sextortion Network

title: The Fraud Factory

overview: Revealing the inner workings of an investment scam using fake ads to rob Canadians of money and hope.

title: The Fraud Factory

title: Tba

title: Tba

title: Investigating Dr. TikTok

overview: The episode is about an investigation into 200 of TikTok's most popular health videos, uncovering a troubling trend where misinformation is widespread and thriving, particularly concerning alleged miracle treatments for cancer and autism

title: Investigating Dr. TikTok

title: 6. Deception at the Dealership

overview: An undercover spot check at car dealerships reveals misleading advertising for some of Canada’s biggest brands. We reveal how buyers could be charged hundreds of dollars extra, despite the promise of an all-in price.

title: 6. Deception at the Dealership

title: 7. Canada’s Worst Commute

overview: Marketplace drives into traffic jams plaguing cities across Canada to crown the country’s worst commute, as we reveal the true cost of congestion and the solutions that aren’t moving anywhere thanks to a lack of political will.

title: 7. Canada’s Worst Commute

overview: Marketplace is a Canadian television series, broadcast on CBC Television. Launched in 1972, the series is a consumer advocacy newsmagazine, which shows investigative reports on issues such as product testing, health and safety, fraudulent business practices and other news issues of interest to product and service consumers.

title: Marketplace

character: Investigative journalist

original_title: Marketplace


title: The Chief

status: Ended

overview:
The Chief is a Canadian call-in show on CablePulse 24, in which Torontonians can talk to the chief of the Toronto Police.

The show was create to mimic the popular show The Mayor (TV series), which also premiered on CablePulse 24.

title: The Chief

original_title: The Chief

original_language: en


title: America's Next Muppet

status: Canceled

overview:
America's Next Muppet was a planned six-episode mini-series, which ABC announced in 2005 it was purchasing. The mini-series was going to be produced by The Jim Henson Company for Disney, and was going to be a direct parody of America's Next Top Model. The show was going to feature many famous Muppet characters, such as Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, and Gonzo in a reality TV-show spoof, holding a talent contest to find the next Muppet to add to their famous group.

In October 2005, ABC ordered 1 full script, and 5 episode outlines for review before giving the final go-ahead. The show was scheduled to air in the summer of 2006, but was put on hiatus without airing due to budget cuts.

title: America's Next Muppet

title: America's Next Muppet

original_title: America's Next Muppet


title: Dadı

title: Dadı

original_title: Dadı


title: Celebrity Overhaul

overview:
Celebrity Overhaul is a reality television show on Australia's Nine Network in which celebrities undergo a rigorous exercise and diet regime aimed at improving their fitness and health. These are coordinated by two personal trainers and a medical doctor. Hosted by Deborah Hutton, there have been two seasons, one each in 2004 and 2005.

The celebrities were:

⁕Merv Hughes - cricketer

⁕Paulini Curuenavuli - singer

⁕Rowena Wallace - actress

⁕Kate Fischer - model/former actress

⁕Ita Buttrose - journalist/businesswoman

⁕Phil Burton - singer

⁕Fabio Lanzoni - model

⁕Trevor Butler - reality show contestant

⁕Melissa Bell - actress

⁕Nova Peris-Kneebone - athlete

⁕Peter Phelps - actor

⁕Dr John Tickell - television presenter/doctor

Channel Nine spun another show from Celebrity Overhaul, known as Overhaul which followed a similar format except with regular people from Australia.

title: Celebrity Overhaul

original_title: Celebrity Overhaul


title: O.S.S.

Season 1

title: Operation Powder Puff

overview: Operation Powder Puff is a 1957 short film directed by Robert Siodmak.

title: Operation Powder Puff

job: Director

department: Directing

type: Crew

title: Operation Foulball

overview: Operation Foulball is a 1957 short film directed by Robert Siodmak.

title: Operation Foulball

title: Operation Fracture

title: Operation Fracture

title: Operation Tulip

title: Operation Tulip

title: Operation Orange Blossom

title: Operation Orange Blossom

title: Operation Death Trap

title: Operation Death Trap

title: Operation Pay Day

title: Operation Pay Day

title: Operation Blue Eyes

title: Operation Blue Eyes

title: Operation Sweet Talk

title: Operation Sweet Talk

title: Operation Pigeon Hole

title: Operation Pigeon Hole

title: Operation Flint Axe

overview: Operation Flint Axe is a 1957 short film by Robert Siodmak.

title: Operation Flint Axe

title: Operation Love Bird

title: Operation Love Bird

title: Operation Big House

title: Operation Big House

title: Operation Sardine

title: Operation Sardine

title: Operation Yo-Yo

title: Operation Yo-Yo

title: Operation Yodel

title: Operation Yodel

title: Operation Firefly

title: Operation Firefly

title: Operation Firefly

title: Operation Firefly

title: Operation Eel

overview: Operation Eel is a 1957 short film directed by Robert Siodmak.

title: Operation Eel

title: Operation Barbecue

title: Operation Barbecue

title: Operation Blackbird

title: Operation Blackbird

title: Operation Post Office

title: Operation Post Office

title: Operation Newsboy

title: Operation Newsboy

title: Operation Chopping Block

title: Operation Chopping Block

title: Operation Dagger

title: Operation Dagger

title: Operation Meatballs

title: Operation Meatballs

title: Season 1

overview:
O.S.S. was a Buckeye Productions and Associated Television co-produced wartime television drama series.

It ran for 26 half-hour monochrome episodes during the 1957-1958 season and was distributed by ITC Entertainment and networked in the United States by ABC.

The series followed the adventures of Frank Hawthorne, an agent with the American Office of Strategic Services, who operated behind Nazi lines in occupied France.

title: O.S.S.

job: Producer

department: Production


title: Talking Footy

overview: Talking Footy is an Australian rules football chat show appearing on the Seven Network.

title: Talking Footy

original_title: Talking Footy


title: Read All About It!

type: Poster

title: The Coach House

overview: Derek Norris, the uncle of 11-year-old Chris Anderson, has been missing for the last seven years.  By his instructions, Uncle Derek is presumed dead.  He has willed the Coach House in the village of Herbertville to Chris for any worthwhile purpose.  Chris, along with friends Lynne and Samantha (Sam), enter the Coach House and immediately sense things are not normal.  The most welcome signs are from Uncle Derek's inventions: a talking video screen named Theta (which displays words on her screen) and a robotic typewriter named Otto.  Both Otto and Theta give Chris a pre-programmed warning from Uncle Derek, who implores Chris with the task of uncovering a terrible conspiracy taking place in Herbertville.

title: The Coach House

title: The Stranger

overview: Duncan O'Reagan, a security agent, enters the Coach House to ask Chris, Lynne and Sam a few questions.  One of them gives a false explanation to validate the will: they tell O'Reagan that they will set up a newspaper.  The idea becomes practicable to the kids.  As reporters, no one will suspect they are trying to uncover the details of the conspiracy.   But O'Reagan is picking up details of his own.  As Chris and his friends are setting up their primitive equipment, Sam and Lynne are mysteriously whisked out of the Coach House.  Theta must explain to Chris that the evil Duneedon has transported the girls to a different galaxy.

title: The Stranger

title: The Problem Pit

overview: Lynne and Sam find themselves on a planet in the galaxy Trialviron.  The galaxy's ruler, a mystic head named Duneedon, feigns an apology for whisking them away.  He tells them to enter a chamber for retransport.  Instead, Lynne and Sam find themselves in The Problem Pit.  To escape, they have to solve a series of word puzzles.  The last puzzle, which Lynne must solve herself, seeks five verbs that mean ""Move in circular orbit.""

title: The Problem Pit

title: The Accidental Visitor

overview: Lynne and Sam return unharmed to the Coach House.  Together with Chris, they decide the first edition of their newspaper should tell the girls' story as a science-fiction adventure.  (This, despite a note transported to the Coach House that implores them not to mention Duneedon to anyone.)While Chris is off to run an errand for the paper, a story character magically transports itself to the Coach House.  Stricken with amnesia, she demands Lynne and Sam to tell her who she is.

title: The Accidental Visitor

title: The First Edition

overview: Chris, Lynne, and Sam feel they have enough material to launch what they call The Herbertville Chronicle.  As a last-minute addition, Chris introduces a history section.  His reference book is

title: The First Edition

title: The Stolen Message

overview: Duncan O'Reagan commends the kids for a good first edition of The Herbertville Chronicle.  Later, O'Reagan slips into the Coach House, where a message is transported to him.  Chris and Sam interview O'Reagan in a successful attempt to steal that message.  Back at the Coach House, they learn, from both the message and their interview notes, that O'Reagan is not a security guard after all.  He is, in fact, one of several agents Duneedon has employed to carry out the conspiracy.

title: The Stolen Message

title: Strange Discoveries

overview: Ann Blake, a Herbertville Town Councillor, stops by the Coach House to commend the kids on The Herbertville Chronicle.  Chris and Sam look with suspicion as Councillor Blake donates a copy of The Official History of Herbetville, 3rd Edition as an aid to their historical column.  A more receptive Lynne wants to join the Councillor on her daily routine.   Chris spends his spare time refining an advertisement for a less-than-spectacular blender that seeks exposure in The Chronicle.Sam approaches him with what appears to be a discrepancy: Their historical article on the Edwards family was based on Early Country Travels.  But in The Official History of Herbetville, 3rd Edition, the family name is Don Eden.Councillor Blake tells Lynne about the recent controversy surrounding the ownership of King's Park, a principal gathering place in Herbertville.  Before they part ways, Councillor Blake invites Lynne to see the Mayor.  One look and Lynne recognizes that the Mayor of Herbertville is actuall

title: Strange Discoveries

character: Ann Blake

type: GuestStar

title: 'Tis Magic

overview: Chris, Lynne, and Sam reconvene at the Coach House to compare and review what they already know about the conspiracy and postulate reasons.  While Sam is off on an errand, Lynne and Chris encounter Merlin the Magician, who has transported into the Coach House.  He tells them of the legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.  When Chris and Lynne ask for Merlin's help to reach the galaxy Trialviron, he gives them a word clue, which turns into a star.  Chris and Lynne trace the star's path and disappear.

title: 'Tis Magic

title: Rhyme Time

overview: Chris and Lynne materialize in The Poet's Pocket.  Operating the word organ is a friendly poet, Dr. Crystal Couplet, who speaks entirely in rhyme.  All three share in haiku writing.  Once Chris and Lynne explain the nature of their visit, Dr. Couplet shows them where to go: The Place of Change.  Within a hodgepodge of books is The Official History of Herbertville, 1st Edition.  But to reach The Place of Change, Chris and Lynne must make up a limerick.

title: Rhyme Time

title: The Place of Change

overview: Lynne and Chris find themselves in The Place of Change.  They discover that The Official History of Herbertville, 1st Edition credits the Edwards family as one of the founding families of Herbertville.  But Duneedon has circled the name ""Edwards"" and included a note: ""Change this to Eden.""    Duneedon then uses his powers to trap Lynne and Chris in the book.  They escape when Sam, back in the Coach House, opens to the same page in the 3rd Edition.Sam informs the others that they can have the second edition of The Herbertville Chronicle published on a real printing press, but only if they finish quickly.  Chris submits a second chapter to ""The Duneedon Adventure.""  Lynne offers to provide the first line of a limerick and allow readers to flesh up the rest.

title: The Place of Change

title: Voices in the Park

overview: The second edition of the Chronicle is printed.  Its cover story is about Duncan O'Regan, with the headline asking, ""Who Is This Detective Working For?""  While distributing the paper, Lynne encounters two stage performers at King's Park.  They are among several raising the need to keep the park.  To this end, they are holding a special performance.  Lynne joins them in rehearsing a scene from The Wizard of Oz.   Later on, Lynne encounters an octagenarian man, Mr. Walker, who remembers a fire in Herbertville that burned down the manor home of the Don Edwards family.  Many people who have lived under Mayor Eden question Mr. Walker's memory, but Lynne knows he is telling the truth.  What they lack is proof.

title: Voices in the Park

title: An Evil Pirate

overview: The kids know Duneedon is leading a conspiracy to change the history of Herbertville, but they have very little evidence to go by.  And that very little evidence is lost soon after Captain Hook materializes in the Coach House.  With Chris and Sam watching from afar, Duncan O'Reagan secretly returns to the Coach House to steal Early Country Travels, the kids' only proof of the conspiracy.  Before leaving, O'Reagan is surprised to see Captain Hook, who questions the contract agreement Duneedon had drawn up with O'Reagan.  Will he get his fair share once the conspiracy works?

title: An Evil Pirate

title: Seek and Speak

overview: Someone leaves the cover to The Official History of Herbertville, 1st Edition for Chris and Sam.  A note gives them directions to find the contents of the book (or so it seems).   Lynne returns to an empty Coach House on a mission.  She has been asked to deliver a speech in favor of King's Park for the Herbertville Historical Society.  Theta and Otto, maintaining their posts at the Coach House, coach Lynne as she strives to put her feelings down in an organized fashion.   Chris and Sam, meanwhile, follow the directions to the letter.  They wind up in an abandoned factory.  No contents of the book are waiting for them, but Duneedon and his agents are.   Chris and Sam learn that Duneedon has forged a document about the ownership of King's Park.  It is instrumental to the conspiracy.

title: Seek and Speak

title: Closer to the Truth

overview: Lynne stops by the house of Mr. Walker, who shares his memories as a soldier and as a firefighter.  Councillor Ann Blake is there as well, and it is at this moment that Lynne tells the truth about Duneedon and his spectacular conspiracy.Both Lynne and Councillor Blake go to the Town Hall to compare their records with an old newspaper article that Mr. Walker supplied about the Edwards family.  Chris and Sam, who have escaped from the factory, join up with them in search of the forged document Duneedon slipped into the Town Hall records.At the Town Hall, Chris and Sam uncover the document.  It states that King's Park had been donated by Don Eden to the Town of Herbertville, and that after 70 years, the park would revert to any living members of the Eden family, of which Duneedon poses in his guise as the Mayor.  But why does Duneedon want King's Park?

title: Closer to the Truth

title: Time for Action

overview: While another edition of the Chronicle is prepared for publication, the kids devise what they think will be a failsafe plan.  Duneedon, in the guise of the Mayor, must attend the Herbertville Historical Society meeting, at which Lynne will give her ""Save King's Park"" speech.  While the meeting takes place, Chris makes a daring return to the abandoned factory to find the original document on King's Park.At the factory, Chris relays, through walkie-talkie to Sam at the Coach House, that King's Park was donated forever to Herbertville by Don Edwards.  He is about to read another document, but Duneedon, made aware of Chris's presence at the factory, kidnaps him.   Duneedon reveals to Chris that King's Park has a large quantity of veronium, the source of his power back on Trialviron.

title: Time for Action

title: To the Rescue

overview: Chris sends a message to Lynne and Sam, telling them he is trapped on Trialviron's Planet of Maze.  Another book character â€“ this time the Genie from Aladdin's lamp â€“ helps the girls to Trialviron, but not bvefore mixing up a few basic homonyms.

title: To the Rescue

title: Pictures in Your Mind

overview: Lynne and Sam revisit Trialviron, paying a visit to Dr. Crystal Couplet.  She provides a map to the girls to help them through the Planet of Maze.   Once on the Planet of Maze, Lynne finds a note from Chris.  He has attempted to escape the Maze.

title: Pictures in Your Mind

title: The Planet of Maze

overview: Chris has discovered his missing Uncle Derek in the Planet of Maze.  They return to the starting point of the Maze just moments after Lynne and Sam arrive.  With the map in hand, the kids pilot their space cart through the maze, answering a succession of word and story puzzles along the way.

title: The Planet of Maze

title: Special Edition

overview: Everyone is back at the Coach House.  Uncle Derek, rescued at last, explained that he had introduced Duneedon to the people of Herbertville as ""Mr. Don Eden.""  That made it harder for Duneedon to gain control of King's Park and the quantity of veronium needed to take over the Earth.An inspector from another village has begun to arrest those involved in the conspiracy.  (One of these agents is tricked into transporting himself to Trialviron.)  Mr. Walker's contemporaries have turned up other old books and newspapers that prove that the Edwards family, not Eden, settled Herbertville.The conspiracy is broken in a special edition of the Chronicle, with the large headline: ""DUNEEDON â€“ THE TRUTH.""Only one question remains: Where is Duneedon?

title: Special Edition

title: The Showdown

overview: A defeated Duneedon returns to the Coach House.  He tries one more attack on those who had exposed the conspiracy, singling out Theta and Otto, before the kids return.  It is apparent Duneedon wants to give them more than congratulations.  ""We will meet again,"" he says, ""and next time I will not be defeated so easily!""Duneedon escapes to Trialviron, leaving the post of Herbertville mayor empty.  Councillor Ann Blake has decided to run for the job.  It is the vehicle that persuades Chris, Lynne, and Sam to continue publishing The Herbertville Chronicle.

title: The Showdown

title: Season 1

Season 2

title: The Anniversary

overview: It's been a year since The Herbertville Chronicle was first printed.  Among the gifts Chris, Lynne, and Sam receive for the occasion is Uncle Derek's new invention: a two-way unit that projects words and stationary images.  Chris and Sam go off to the countryside to try out this device when they hear strange noises.  They spot a boy quavering, dropping something â€“ and disappearing.

title: The Anniversary

title: Back in Time

overview: Chris and Sam rush to the place where a boy had just disappeared and discover interesting artifacts.  One is a map of Upper Canada (present-day Ontario).  The other is a compass on which is inscribed ""To Tecumseh/From Brock.""  When Chris and Sam point the compass north, the strange noises emerge again.  Together they are transported to Fort George, a Canadian fort during the War of 1812, in the headquarters of Sir Isaac Brock.

title: Back in Time

title: General Brock

overview: Chris and Sam come face-to-face with General Brock.  He has just won a major battle over the Americans in the War of 1812.  Chris and Sam introduce themselves, explaining they are looking for a boy from their own time.  General Brock explains the boy has been taken captive by another Canadian regiment.The General signs an order for the boy's release, which Chris and Sam take north to Queenston.

title: General Brock

title: Journey to Queenston

overview: Lynne has been kept abreast of Chris and Sam's whereabouts through their two-way word-transmission system.  She understands the plan to rescue the boy from the present day.  An aide to Tecumseh leads Sam and Chris on the trek north towards Queenston.   Along the journey, Chris loses General Brock's order for the boy's release.  They devise a new plan involving another central Canadian figure in the war, Laura Secord.Lynne, meanwhile, has been researching the War of 1812 through books written by both Canadians and Americans.  She tries to warn Chris and Sam that the Americans are planning to invade Queenston.

title: Journey to Queenston

character: John Norton

title: Death at Dawn

overview: Chris and Sam carry out their new plan to rescue the boy from their own time.  They escape just as the Battle of Queenston takes place.  General Brock rides to them with his blessing.   Chris and Sam, along with their newly-found friend, figure out how to return to their own time.  They inform Lynne to go to the fields and turn the priceless compass to point south.  Lynne does as instructed, and all of them are reunited in the present day.  There, they learn what happened to General Brock at the Battle of Queenston.

title: Death at Dawn

title: A Plea for Help

overview: Alex is now helping Lynne to prepare the next edition of The Herbertville Chronicle.  It will feature stories on General Brock and other figures from the War of 1812.  Before they are finished with the paper's layout, Alex and Lynne discover that the story of Cinderella is being erased.  Cinderella calls out for Lynne and Alex to journey to Book World.  After a trail of blank pages leads them to a crossroads, Lynne and Alex venture to where the villains roam.

title: A Plea for Help

character: The Book Destroyer

title: Where Villains Roam

overview: Lynne and Alex encounter the Evil Queen and Mirror from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.  Both insist that the Book Destroyer is only after the villains.  When Lynne and Alex argue that this doesn't make sense, the Evil Queen and Mirror launch into a song filled with words that hint to danger in stories.   The Book Destroyer then erases Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.  Once again, Lynne and Alex search for clues, this time in a forest.  There they run into the Big Bad Wolf from Little Red Riding Hood, who is apprently erased as well.

title: Where Villains Roam

title: An Evil Smile

overview: Alex and Lynne follow a trail to Dracula's castle.  Once there, Dracula informs them that conflict is essential to a good story.   The Book Destroyer erases Dracula, and in his wake, Lynne and Alex find a note from another book character.  They follow that note to the Book Destroyer's cave.

title: An Evil Smile

title: The Book Destroyer

overview: Lynne and Alex encounter the Book Destroyer.  She is bent on wiping out villains and conflict from all books.  But Lynne suggests that the Book Destroyer herself is a characterâ€“a character from a most uneventful book.  Confronted with the truth, Lynne and Alex offer the Book Destroyer a new life: The Herbertville Chronicle would run a contest in which readers would make a new plot for what had been a boring book.   Once Alex and Lynne return to their world, they find Sam crestfallen.  She and her family are leaving Herbertville.

title: The Book Destroyer

title: Problems

overview: Sam informs the others that she will be moving to Victoria, British Columbia, but they will not sell their house in Herbertville.  The Herbertville Chronicle readies a want ad, informing that the house can be leased.   Outside, a middle-aged author named Rita is trying to start a children's book.  She is getting nowhere, prompting Sam to chide Rita for not understanding what problems children go through.

title: Problems

title: The Final Day

overview: Chris and Lynne want to keep in touch with Sam, but Rita dissuades them from a preposterous scheme.  Sam needs to make her own friends at her new home in Victoria, British Columbia.

title: The Final Day

title: A New Beginning

overview: Sam's departure is the lead story in The Herbertville Chronicle.  Before she leaves, Sam receives a surprise: Rita has decided to write a children's book about a girl who must leave her friends.  It is indeed a beginning, rather than an end.   Later in the day, Rita suggests that a story idea Chris thought was his own, is based on The Shooting of Dan McGrew.  (And I hope I've spelled that correctly.  If not, you can enter the correct spelling by hitting ""Contribute"" on the Synopsis.)

title: A New Beginning

title: Many Different Stories

overview: Chris has returned from the library with many story poems.  Using elements from all the books, he, Lynne, and Alex concoct a story of their own to fool Rita.  While Chris and Lynne run off to tell their story, Alex daydreams a dramatization of The Shooting of Dan McGrew.  (And I hope I've spelled that correctly.  If not, you can enter the correct spelling by hitting ""Contribute"" on the Synopsis.)

title: Many Different Stories

title: The Remarkable Mr. Wetherby

overview: It's August, and with Alex at summer camp, Lynne and Chris must run the Chronicle alone.  Their biggest trouble is finding a lead story.  But a ghost provides them with more than a lead story.  The note which he leaves, advises Lynne and Chris to write a mystery story.   Lynne and Chris have a mystery of their own: who is this ghost?  After a bit of research, they discover he is Mr. Wetherby, former principal of a local elementary school.  He has decided to move in with Lynne and Chris to help run the Chronicle.

title: The Remarkable Mr. Wetherby

title: One Ghost Too Many

overview: Mr. Wetherby is posing a problem for Chris and Lynne.  He wants to help them in every aspect of writing.  Alone, he sings his disappointment on being alone during summer vacations.  It's the pointer Chris and Lynne use to convince Mr. Wetherby he is needed at the school.

title: One Ghost Too Many

title: The Force

overview: It's December, and the Chronicle staff receive a letter from Sam.  She is expecting to visit Herbertville while her father is attending a meeting there.  Sam provides Lynne, Chris, and Alex with a selection of poems that satirize famous styles of Carl Sandberg and others.   But before long, a power surge rips through Otto and Theta, disabling them into reading and typing, ""Come with speed/Your help we need.""  It's an urgent message from Dr. Couplet, who briefly informs Lynne and Chris that the Trialviron galaxy is about to explode.

title: The Force

title: Choices

overview: Alex, Chris, and Lynne think of every possible contingency that could develop in their efforts to help the people of Trialviron. Alex and Chris are transported to The Poet's Pocket, where Dr. Couplet shows the sun revolving around the galaxy is about to explode.  She warns them that the transporter in The Coach House must be turned on if the galaxy's populace is to escape.   Alex and Chris tell Duneedon they will help, but they make certain demands. Most of all, they demand that Duneedon be the first to be transported to the unpopulated galaxy Zeberon. But that would mean having to negotiate with Tritan, the Emperor of the Galaxy Trivia and Duneedon's enemy.

title: Choices

title: The Ambassadors

overview: Chris and Alex travel to the lair of Emperor Tritan, who seems to be speaking in antiquated language.  To stay on good terms, Chris and Alex overuse clichÃ©s themselves, prompting Tritan to allow the people of Trialviron to pass through his galaxy en route to Zeberon.   But Duneedon is not content to go anywhere except Earth.  While he is alone, he instructs a duplicate to take his place at the transporter.  Chris, Alex, and Lynne feel relieved when they learn the trek to Zeberon was a success.  Little do they knowâ€¦

title: The Ambassadors

title: Trapped!

overview: Dr. Couplet does not want to leave her life's work on the doomed galaxy Trialviron, but Chris and Alex talk sense into her.  They leave The Poet's Pocket in the nick of time.   All the residents of Trialviron have transported to the Galaxy Zeberron, except one: Duneedon.  He quickly traps Chris, Alex, and Lynne in a last-ditch effort to return to Earth.  Before he is transported, though, Emperor Tritan sends a power surge that destroys Duneedonâ€“and all the transporter equipment.  It appears Alex, Chris, and Lynne are about to die as the countdown to Trialviron's destruction nears zero.

title: Trapped!

title: Final Moments

overview: Chris, Lynne, and Alex resign themselves to their doom on Trialviron, which would occur but for two events.  One is that the countdown to Trialviron's destruction passes before an explosion can occur.  The other is Sam's return to The Coach House a few days ahead of time.  Theta and Otto quickly tell Sam to activate the transporter, and she saves Alex, Lynne, andâ€“just as the destruction of Trialviron is completeâ€“Chris.   The next day is not as comparatively peaceful as one would like.  Everyone is arguing over which story should go where in the holiday edition of The Herbertville Chronicle.  Theta and Otto inform everyone that order must serve the day.  Thus Chris chairs a meeting at which everyone allows for his or her story to appear in an orderly fashion.   As a final gesture, Sam shows everyone a copy of A New Beginning, which she co-wrote with Rita over the past five months.

title: Final Moments

title: Season 2

overview: Read All About It! was a Canadian educational television series that was produced from 1979 to 1983 by TVOntario that aired during the early to mid-1980s; It also aired in repeats in the 1990s. It starred David Craig Collard as Chris, Lydia Zajc as Lynne, Stacey Arnold as Samantha, and Sean Hewitt as Duneedon, ruler of the galaxy Trialviron. In the second season Michael Dwyer joined the cast as Alex. The main goal of the show was to educate viewers in reading, writing and history. Each episode ran for approximately 15 minutes. Eric Robertson composed the music for the show.

title: Read All About It!

title: Read All About It!

character: Dr. Crystal Couplet

type: Cast

character: Duneedon / Mayor Don Eden

character: Lynne Davis

character: Chris Anderson

character: Samantha Nikos

character: Theta / Cinderella / Mistress Maze

character: Alex Tanner

original_title: Read All About It!


title: The $64,000 Question

type: Backdrop

status: InProduction

key: xwXemhEagec

name: $64000 Question Game Show Intro Video Clip

site: YouTube

type: Trailer

Season 1

title: Thelma Farrell, Redmond O'Hanlon

title: Thelma Farrell, Redmond O'Hanlon

title: Redmond O'Hanlon

title: Redmond O'Hanlon

title: Redmond O'Hanlon, Catherine Kreitzer

title: Redmond O'Hanlon, Catherine Kreitzer

title: Catherine Kreitzer

title: Catherine Kreitzer

title: Catherine Kreitzer

title: Catherine Kreitzer

title: Catherine Kreitzer, Gino Prato

title: Catherine Kreitzer, Gino Prato

title: Gino Prato

title: Gino Prato

title: Gino Prato

title: Gino Prato

title: Gino Prato

title: Gino Prato

title: Gino Prato

title: Gino Prato

title: Gloria Lockerman

title: Gloria Lockerman

title: Gloria Lockerman, Richard McCutcheon

title: Gloria Lockerman, Richard McCutcheon

title: Myrtle Power

title: Myrtle Power

title: Myrtle Power

title: Myrtle Power

title: Myrtle Power

title: Myrtle Power

title: Myrtle Power, Patrick Keough

title: Myrtle Power, Patrick Keough

title: Myrtle Power, Patrick Keough

title: Myrtle Power, Patrick Keough

title: Episode 18

title: Alvin Kershaw, Patrick Keoug

title: Alvin Kershaw, Patrick Keoug

title: Patrick Keoug, Alvin Kershaw

title: Patrick Keoug, Alvin Kershaw

title: Alvin Kershaw, Don Self

title: Alvin Kershaw, Don Self

title: Alvin Kershaw, Don Self

title: Alvin Kershaw, Don Self

title: Episode 23

title: Episode 24

title: Episode 25

title: Joyce Brothers

title: Joyce Brothers

title: Joyce Brothers, Stanley Skeens

title: Joyce Brothers, Stanley Skeens

title: Stanley Skeens

title: Stanley Skeens

title: Mabel Morris

title: Mabel Morris

title: Mabel Morris

title: Mabel Morris

title: Ezio Pinza

title: Ezio Pinza

overview: The $64,000 Question is an American game show broadcast from 1955–1958, which became embroiled in the scandals involving TV quiz shows of the day. The $64,000 Challenge was its popular spin-off show.

title: The $64,000 Question

character: Host

character: Announcer

character: Assistant

character: Substitute Host

job: Executive Producer

job: Associate Producer

original_title: The $64,000 Question


title: Telemiracle

overview: Telemiracle is a telethon organized by the Kinsmen and Kinettes in Saskatchewan, Canada for the benefit of the Kinsmen Telemiracle Foundation. Initially broadcast on both CTV and CBC affiliates in Saskatchewan, it is now broadcast, commercial-free, exclusively on the province's CTV affiliates. Generally broadcast the first weekend of March, the 37th edition took place in Saskatoon on March 2 and 3, 2013.

title: Telemiracle

original_title: Telemiracle


title: Aswamedham

overview:
Aswamedham was a reverse quiz program in Kairali TV, a Malayalam channel, in the format of twenty questions. This program, anchored by "Grandmaster" G. S. Pradeep, has entered the Limca Book of Records for the reaching 500 episodes. The second part of the program was started in November 2005 in Kairali TV. At one point, the Aswamedham set featured galloping horse on a rotating pedestal.

The Tamil channel Vijay TV aired the Tamil version of the program starting June 2006 under the name Grandmaster with Pradeep as the anchor. Aswamedham also refers to a drama written in the same name by Thoppil Bhasi.

title: Aswamedham

original_title: Aswamedham


title: The Disney Afternoon

overview:
The Disney Afternoon was a created-for-syndication two-hour television programming block which aired from September 10, 1990, until August 29, 1997. At that time, Disney decided to retire the name and continued to run a 90-minute syndicated block until 1999. The Disney Afternoon was produced by The Walt Disney Company, with distribution through their syndication subsidiary, Buena Vista Television. Before and after its cancellation, the shows in the block were rerun both on Disney Channel and on Toon Disney. Starting on October 2, 1995, four of the shows were rerun on the Disney Channel as a two-hour programming block called "Block Party" which aired on weekdays in the late-afternoon/early-evening. Currently, the only Disney Afternoon shows that still air in the United States are The Lion King's Timon and Pumbaa which airs on Disney Junior and Gargoyles which airs on Disney XD; however, several of the block's shows are available on DVD in the United States.

The Disney Afternoon's two-hour block was broken up into four half-hour segments, each of which contained a cartoon series. As each season ended, the first cartoon shown in the lineup would typically be dropped, and a new one added to the end. The Disney Afternoon itself featured unique animated segments consisting of its own opening and "wrappers" around the cartoon shows shown.

title: The Disney Afternoon

original_title: The Disney Afternoon


title: Scarlett Hill

overview:
Scarlett Hill was a Canadian soap opera first broadcast on the CBC Television in October 1962. This was the first daytime soap opera produced for Canadian television, although it was based upon an American radio drama created by Robert Lindsay.

The series focused on the residents of a boarding house, and starred John Drainie, Ed McNamara, Gordon Pinsent, and Beth Lockerbie.

The series was syndicated to the United Kingdom, Australia and the US and ran until 1964.

title: Scarlett Hill

title: Scarlett Hill

overview:
Scarlett Hill was een Canadese soapserie die voor het eerst werd uitgezonden op de CBC Television in oktober 1962. Dit was de eerste soapserie overdag die voor de Canadese televisie werd geproduceerd, hoewel deze gebaseerd was op een Amerikaans radiodrama gemaakt door Robert Lindsay.

De serie concentreerde zich op de bewoners van een pension en speelde John Drainie, Ed McNamara, Gordon Pinsent en Beth Lockerbie.

original_title: Scarlett Hill


title: From a Bird's Eye View

title: The Difficult Passenger

overview: It's a bad hair day for the girls but things go from bad to worse when Mr. Beauchamp tells them that a passenger has complained about their conduct.

title: The Difficult Passenger

title: Der Verehrer

title: Never Put It In Writing

overview: When Millie overhears Mr. Beauchamp's monologue to a pesky fly he is stalking, she misinterprets it as confirmation that her and Maggie are getting the boot!

title: Never Put It In Writing

character: Commissionaire

title: Wife Trouble

overview: Millie has to deal with a fractious married couple - he's a laid back Englishman and she's a fiery Italian with a jealous streak!

title: Wife Trouble

title: Die Ersatzfrau

character: Gina

character: Charles

character: Sir Albert

character: Butler

character: Rosa

character: Hotel Clerk

character: Riviera Waiter

character: Cable Boy

title: Millie's Moveable Feast

overview: A dinner for Mr. Beauchamp causes confusion - particularly for Millie!

title: Millie's Moveable Feast

title: Die Schlagertexter

title: Hate-In

overview: Maggie decides that she's had enough of men, while Millie's gentleman friend is proving just that - the perfect gentleman. Until he meets Maggie, that is...

title: Hate-In

character: George Lemon

title: Home Is Where Your Heart Is

overview: Due to a change in the flight schedules, Millie and Maggie are being split up. Millie stays where she is but Maggie has to move to Liverpool!

title: Home Is Where Your Heart Is

character: Spinks

character: Connie Desmond

title: Nobody Sleeps On A Honeymoon

overview: Millie takes pity on a pair of distressed newlyweds and offers them the use of her hotel room.

title: Nobody Sleeps On A Honeymoon

title: Family Tree

overview: Millie is surprised that Maggie has forgotten their anniversary - they both started working for Mr. Beauchamp exactly one year ago.

title: Family Tree

character: Hilda Tuttle

title: Highland Fling

overview: The girls' unemployed neighbour is driving them to distraction, so they try to find him some gainful employment.

title: Highland Fling

character: Fred Arnott

character: Lord MacBracken

title: I, Too, Was A Novice

overview: Millie has to contend with an exceptionally nervous trainer, who's more than a little accident prone!

title: I, Too, Was A Novice

title: Russian Roulette, Millie Style

overview: Millie finds herself sharing the international limelight when she has an encounter with a Russian athlete.

title: Russian Roulette, Millie Style

title: All In A Day's Work

overview: Uncle Bert's sanguine demeanour is given a bit of a pasting when he finds a notorious lothario in Millie's bathroom.

title: All In A Day's Work

character: Greg Phillips / Burton Phillips

title: Hurricane Millie

overview: Maggie fancies an Irish songwriter who happens to be a bit of a charmer. When he slips off without paying his bill they track him down to Monte Carlo.

title: Hurricane Millie

character: Tim O'Donovan

title: Sicilian Affair

overview: Millie and Maggie help an Italian friend, but find themselves embroiled in a family feud.

title: Sicilian Affair

character: Hotel Proprietor

character: First Vespucci

character: Tall Undertaker

title: Witness For The Persecution

overview: Mr. Beauchamp finds himself in a Spanish jail after Millie and Maggie aid an suspected fraudster.

title: Witness For The Persecution

title: The Matchmakers

overview: Uncle Bert is hanging around the flat and generally being a pest - he's been there for a week and shows no sign of moving.

title: The Matchmakers

title: Season 1

overview:
From a Bird's Eye View is a 1970 ATV and ITC Entertainment co-produced sitcom. In the United States it aired on NBC, which had originally ordered the series as an entry in the 1969-70 TV season but pushed it back to the 1970-71 season as a mid-season replacement.

The series followed two International Airlines stewardesses, a scatterbrained Briton and a savvy American, as they flew the London-European routes. The series ran for 16 25-minute colour episodes.

The series was not a big success in either the UK or the US, but ITC re-used the format for the Shirley MacLaine series Shirley's World. That show also flopped, but ran to one more episode than From a Bird's Eye View.

title: From a Bird's Eye View

title: Mädchen in den Wolken

character: Clive Beauchamp

character: Millie Grover

character: Maggie Ralston

character: Uncle Bert Quigley

character: Ms. Fosdyke

original_title: From a Bird's Eye View


title: Bonkers!

overview:
Bonkers! was an ATV variety show, distributed by ITC Entertainment in the United States for syndication during the 1978-79 television season, and later airing in 1979 in the United Kingdom.

Starring Bob Monkhouse and the Hudson Brothers - Bill, Brett and Mark - the show featured sketches, guest stars and musical numbers from the chorus dancers known as The Bonkerettes. Whilst not a big hit for ATV, it gained a cult audience in the United States where it was compared to Saturday Night Live.

After four episodes the show was curtailed in the UK by the 13-week long ITV strike of 1979 and did not reappear when the network restarted broadcasts; however, production for syndication continued and 24 episodes in total were made.

title: Bonkers!

original_title: Bonkers!


title: Sabai Sabai Sesame

overview: Sabai Sabai Sesame, or Happy Happy Sesame in English, is the Cambodian version of the popular U.S. children's series Sesame Street. It debuted 13 December 2005 on Educational Television Cambodia, produced in association with Sesame Workshop, through a grant from the United States embassy.

title: Sabai Sabai Sesame

original_title: Sabai Sabai Sesame


title: Cannonball

name: Cannonball  "Fall out" Original air date Feb 23 1959

type: Clip

title: The Runaway Truck

overview: This pilot episode sets the premise: ""Cannonball"" is the adventures of 2 truck drivers who haul freight across the highways of the United States and Canada.  The main character is Mike Malone; providing the family atmosphere are his wife Mary, and his son Butch, and his daughter Ginny.  Mike's truck-drivin' buddy is Jerry Austin.  This episode, Mike has to stop a runaway truck.

title: The Runaway Truck

character: Ginny Malone

title: Pills

overview: Truck drivers doing long hauls often use caffeine pills to stay alert.  The highway patrol puts out a warning that some truckstops are selling stay-awake pills that can be real killers.  When Mike and Jerry turn a bottle of this stuff over to the authorities, it leads to the breakup of this dangerous pill racket.

title: Pills

character: Taylor

title: Willy

overview: Mike and Jerry pick up a hitchhiker named Willy who has gotten into trouble.

title: Willy

title: Sights on Safety

overview: When Mike and Jerry are under pressure to deliver a load in a big hurry, a near-accident makes them learn that they must keep their Sights on Safety.

title: Sights on Safety

title: The Iron Lung

overview: Mike and Jerry deliver a cargo consisting of an iron lung to help a polio patient.

title: The Iron Lung

title: The Big Ambulance

overview: Mike Malone loves truckstop food, and has meals and snacks on a long haul.  When Mike gets some stomach pains, Jerry thinks it's just indigestion.  But it turns out to be more serious, and Mike winds up taking a trip in an ambulance.

title: The Big Ambulance

title: Hostage

overview: Mike and Jerry intercede when a hostage is taken at a truckstop, and diffuse what could turn out to be a dangerous situation.

title: Hostage

title: Small Cargo

overview: Mike and Jerry are taking some freight on a long haul, but when they look in the back of their truck they find out they've also got some small cargo-- 2 frightened youngsters as stowaways.  It seems they're running away from their uncle, who is on the wrong side of the law.  Mike makes sure their evil uncle never hurts the kids again.

title: Small Cargo

title: The Green-Eyed Monster

overview: Jerry is just like one of the family at Mike Malone's house.  But since Jerry is more like a buddy to Mike's kids Butch and Ginny, while sometimes Mike has to be a strict father, Mike begins to feel his kids like Jerry better than him.  However, everything's fine by the end of the show, and they're all one big, happy family again.

title: The Green-Eyed Monster

job: Writer

department: Writing

character: Mary Malone

character: Butch Malone

character: Harry Butler

title: Moose Hunt

overview: There are some funny complications when Mike and Jerry are trucking during moose hunting season.

title: Moose Hunt

title: Shock

overview:
There's a new parts manager for C & A Transport: Ben Handley.  Mike and Jerry wind up taking Ben along on a run; Ben doesn't seem to know much about trucks or mechanics, and he seems to have an alcohol problem.  But when they come across a bad traffic accident on the road, Ben Handley gives first aid to the injured motorist-- long ago, Handley had been a doctor.  Later, Mike gets Handley a job as a C & A company doctor.

[goof: it would help make the show more authentic if the doc knew how to pronounce the word ""defibrillator"" correctly.]

title: Shock

title: Nitro Haul

overview: Mike and Jerry have a dangerous load this time, nitro glycerin to be used by a fuel company drilling for oil.

title: Nitro Haul

title: The Girl at Joe's Place

overview: While out on the road doing a long haul, Mike and Jerry stop at Joe's place for coffee.  Mike is a happily married man, but Jerry is single and looking.  Jerry falls for the pretty waitress, May, and they become romantically involved.  But Jerry doesn't know that May has a past that she is not telling him about.

title: The Girl at Joe's Place

title: The Attack

overview: When Mike and Jerry haul some valuable cargo, they find themselves under attack by some would-be hijackers.

title: The Attack

title: Sauce for the Goose

overview:
Mike and Jerry wind up hauling some high-powered fuel for an airplane called the Flying Goose.

[Airplanes named ""Goose"": Eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes once had his Hughes Aircraft Company make the ""Spruce Goose""-- the largest wood-constructed and the largest wingspan airplane ever built. Originally designed in 1942, it was powered by 8 Pratt & Whitney 3,000 horsepower engines. Howard Hughes piloted the Spruce Goose on its only flight: Nov. 2, 1947, in Long Beach Harbor, Los Angeles.]

title: Sauce for the Goose

title: Mark Time

overview: A fellow truck driver at C & A, Frank Peters, is going through a rough time-- first his son died, and then his wife left him.  This causes him to miss work, and not do a good job when he does work.  When Frank gets fired, and C & A assigns his freight to Mike Malone, Frank blames Mike for his problems.  But Mike's son Butch tells Frank how Mike helped him all he could, and covered for him at work; it was Frank's poor job performance that got him canned.  Frank decides to accept responsibility for his own actions, and turns his life around.

title: Mark Time

title: The Dog

overview: Mike and Jerry find a stray dog on the road and try to find its rightful owner.

title: The Dog

title: Butch

overview: Mike's son Butch has been getting some poor grades in school.  Mike has to be strict with him.  Later, they patch things up and Butch says he wants to be a trucker when he grows up.

title: Butch

title: Fallout

overview:
Mike has a really hot load to haul this week: radioactive Iridium-192, which is used principally in industry, to detect small cracks in large metal pipes pumping liquids.  The stuff is potentially deadly if it fell out of the protective lead box it's in.  Mike delivers the load in good condition, and on time.

[scientific note: Iridium-192 is a radioisotope with a half-life of 72 days.  So after 72 days, only 1/2 is still radioactive; after another 72 days, only 1/4; then 1/8th, and so on.]

title: Fallout

title: The Necklace

overview: When a valuable necklace turns up missing, Mike and Jerry retrace their route to find out who could have taken it.

title: The Necklace

title: Undercover

overview: Mike can't believe it when Jerry is accused of stealing on the job, and gets fired.  Even stranger is the fact that Mike can't get any explanations from the managers at C & A, or Jerry himself.  Mike does some investigating, and finds out Jerry is really working undercover to catch the ones who have been stealing freight from C & A.

title: Undercover

title: Nanette

overview: An old girlfriend of Jerry's, named Nanette, shows up and wants to get together with Jerry again.

title: Nanette

title: Big Buck

overview: Big Buck Harris is an independent trucker, and they are sometimes at odds with the truckers from C & A.  Big Buck is also an incorrigible practical joker.  After Big Buck puts one over on Mike and Jerry, they decide to get even-- and it's Mike and Jerry who get the last laugh.

title: Big Buck

title: The Little Old Man

overview: When Mike and Jerry come across a little old man on the road, it turns out he has a past that surprises both of them.

title: The Little Old Man

title: Marooned

overview: When Mike and Jerry's truck breaks down in a desolate region of Canada, they find themselves marooned.

title: Marooned

title: Lil's Place

overview: There are many welcome truckstops along the highways, but when Mike and Jerry pull into Lil's place, a surprise awaits them.

title: Lil's Place

title: Vendetta

overview: Mike Malone served in the military during WWII.  Mike had to discipline one of his men who kept shooting at enemy soldiers after they had already surrendered.  Now a sailor who fits the description of that guy is looking for Mike, and it seems he might be out to settle an old score.

title: Vendetta

title: The Girl Reporter

overview: When a new girl reporter for the newspaper wants to do a story on truckers, Mike and Jerry wind up getting unwanted publicity.

title: The Girl Reporter

title: The Has-Been

overview: Mike and Jerry pick up a hitchhiker on the road; the guy is big, like a wrestler.  When they have a meal at a truckstop, they run into a boxer, and find out the hitchhiker is a former boxer himself.  The boxer calls the hitchhiker a has-been, and challenges him to a fight.

title: The Has-Been

title: Flying Dutchman

overview: Mike and Jerry have a valuable load to haul this time: fur pelts.  To make matters worse, there's a gang of thieves on the road.  No sooner do they start their long haul, than there's a bullet in one of the 18 wheels on their rig.  Mike and Jerry fight a treacherous gang and road hazards, but as always deliver the haul in good condition and on time.

title: Flying Dutchman

title: Roadeo

overview: In order to show off their skills, just like cowboys have a Rodeo, truck drivers have a Roadeo.  Mike has already won the annual competition twice, and this year he wants Jerry to enter.  Mike believes it's not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game.  However, not everyone believes in sportsmanship; one of the contestants is only interested in winning the prize money, and will stoop to sabotaging the other trucks in order to win.

title: Roadeo

title: Trip to Buffalo

overview: Mike and Jerry make a scenic haul through Niagara Falls and wind up in Buffalo, New York.

title: Trip to Buffalo

title: Wild Party

overview: In a change-of-pace episode, Mike and Jerry haul some equipment for a band, and after the gig a wild party ensues.

title: Wild Party

title: Ginny

overview: Mike Malone puts the pedal to the metal to get home in time for Ginny's 10th birthday.

title: Ginny

title: Racket

overview: Mike and Jerry always have a steady paycheck by working for C & A trucking.  One day they find out how rough some independent truckers have it, they learn of a crooked racket trying to exert protection money from them.  Mike and Jerry work with the independent truckers to put the racketeers out of commission.

title: Racket

title: Driving School

overview: After Jerry gets a couple of traffic tickets, and has a near-miss on the road, he is faced with having to take driving school.

title: Driving School

title: Eye Witness

overview: Mike and Jerry become eyewitnesses to a killing.  They are determined to testify in court as to what they saw-- but in the meantime, Mike and Jerry wind up on the hit list of the gangsters.  Mike and Jerry finally testify, and put the entire gang behind bars.

title: Eye Witness

title: Snake Eyes

overview: Some unscrupulous businessmen want Mike and Jerry to haul gambling equipment for them, but their scheme turns up snake eyes: a loser.

title: Snake Eyes

overview: The Cannonball TV show was a 30 minute Canadian adventure/drama series that aired on CBC and in syndication in the U.S. It was about the lives of truckers Mike Malone and Jerry Austin as they moved freight throughout Canada and the United States.

overview:
Followed the adventures of Mike Malone and Jerry Austin as they drove trucks across the US and Canada for the fictitious C&A Transport Company Ltd.

"Cannonball" was a half-hour family drama featuring truckers Mike Malone and Jerry Austin hauling freight across Canada and the U.S.A. Paul Birch and William Campbell portrayed the main characters, with Canadian actors Beth Lockerbie, Beth Morris, Steve Barringer, Howard Milsom, and others in supporting roles.

title: Cannonball

character: "Cannonball" Mike Malone

character: Jerry Austin

character: Mary Malone (Mike Malone's wife)

character: Ginny Malone (Mike Malone's teenage daughter)

character: Butch Malone (Mike Malone's son)

character: Harry Butler (Freight Dispatcher)

original_title: Cannonball


title: The Fifth Quarter

overview:
The Fifth Quarter was an Australian rules football television program screening on Network Ten on 27 March 2004.

Beginning in the 2004 season, the show was a review show focusing on the Australian rules football football competition, AFL. Following each game on Saturday night, two hosts go through the weekend's events so far in the games played and also topical matters that have appeared during the week. Early in the show's life the two hosts were solely Michael Christian and Andrew Maher, however, since 2008 the show has been hosted on a rotating basis, whereby one of Maher and Christian hosts alongside one of Network Ten's other football commentators, such as Luke Darcy, Robert Walls, Malcolm Blight and Tom Harley. They also conduct interviews with players and coaches after the match. Players to be interviewed include Cheynee Stiller and Gary Ablett, Jr. and coaches include Brett Ratten, Mark Harvey and Jade Rawlings. Before becoming senior coach of the Brisbane Lions, Michael Voss was a regular on The Fifth Quarter.

In 2006, the show was merged into Network Ten's Saturday night AFL coverage, still hosted by Christian and Maher but not listed as a separate program.

title: The Fifth Quarter

original_title: The Fifth Quarter


title: Survivor

title: Episode 1

title: Episode 2

title: Episode 3

title: Episode 4

title: Episode 5

title: Episode 6

title: Episode 7

title: Episode 8

title: Episode 9

title: Episode 10

title: Episode 11

title: Episode 12

title: Episode 13

title: The Final

title: The Final

Season 2

title: Panama: Episode 1

title: Panama: Episode 1

title: Panama: Episode 2

title: Panama: Episode 2

title: Panama: Episode 3

title: Panama: Episode 3

title: Panama: Episode 4

title: Panama: Episode 4

title: Panama: Episode 5

title: Panama: Episode 5

title: Panama: Episode 6

title: Panama: Episode 6

title: Panama: Episode 7

title: Panama: Episode 7

title: Panama: Episode 8

title: Panama: Episode 8

title: Panama: Episode 9

title: Panama: Episode 9

title: Panama: Episode 10

title: Panama: Episode 10

title: Panama: Episode 11

title: Panama: Episode 11

title: Panama: The Final

title: Panama: The Final

title: Panama: The Final Results

title: Panama: The Final Results

overview:
Survivor is a British reality television show that was broadcast on the ITV network for two series from 2001 to 2002. It is adapted from the original U.S. show of the same name and first launched in May 2001 with huge promotion and hype from the network and tabloid newspapers. The prize for the winner was £1 million.

The show only ran for two series before being axed; many viewers believed it was a knock-off of American excesses. It was generally considered a failure in the ratings, even though it was watched by more viewers than other reality shows at the time, including Big Brother.

title: Survivor

original_title: Survivor


title: High Q

overview: High Q is the name of various local television quiz shows broadcast throughout the United States. While the formats vary, all featured two or three teams representing high schools from the station's coverage area, which would compete against each other by answering questions over subjects taught in school. Similar shows have been produced by many local stations under other names.

title: High Q

original_title: High Q


title: Muchmusic VJ Search

overview: VJ Search is the title of a reality television program aired on Canadian music video TV station MuchMusic. A new series is created every few years and the main point is to find a new MuchMusic VJ to join the current list of MuchMusic personalities.

title: Muchmusic VJ Search

original_title: Muchmusic VJ Search


title: The Pop Factory

overview:
The Pop Factory is a music and media complex in Porth, Rhondda, South Wales. It has given its name to a Welsh TV show.

It was founded by Emyr Afan and his wife Mair Afan.

The Pop Factory was a converted soft drinks factory, formerly belonging to the "Welsh Hills" brand. The pop factory was situated in the Thomas and Evans building. Thomas and Evans, were both buried in the Rhondda, also owned Bronwydd House and Porth Park. It was officially opened by Tom Jones in 2000, by smashing a bottle of dandelion and burdock against its walls.

The weekly shows were broadcast by ITV Wales. The show had been presented by Steve Jones and liz Fuller. There was also a Welsh language show, Sesiwn Hwyr, broadcast by S4C.

In 2008 the show disappeared with no official reason given and no new series have been screened.

The Pop Factory is also the studio home of local musical entrepreneur Rob Reed of Magenta fame.

title: The Pop Factory

original_title: The Pop Factory


title: Automaniac

Season 1

title: Gangster Cars

title: Gangster Cars

title: Moonshine Cars

title: Moonshine Cars

title: Super Cars

title: Super Cars

title: Muscle Cars

title: Muscle Cars

title: Death Cars

title: Death Cars

title: Lowriders

title: Lowriders

title: Cop Cars

title: Cop Cars

title: Pickups

title: Pickups

title: Ridiculously Large Engines

title: Ridiculously Large Engines

title: Hot Rods

title: Hot Rods

title: Season 1

overview: Automaniac was a TV show hosted by former professional wrestler Bill Goldberg. In each episode, Goldberg told the story of a particular type of vehicle: its origins, its designers, etc. The show aired on Wednesdays at 11 PM EST/10 PM CST on The History Channel and was canceled in August 2005.

title: Automaniac

original_title: Automaniac


title: More to Life

overview:
More to Life was a daily afternoon television show produced and broadcast by TVOntario. The show first premiered in 1997. The first host was Maureen Taylor. In the final years, it was hosted by Mary Ito, while Karen Horsman substituted on some occasions.

The final episode of More to Life aired on Friday, June 30, 2006.

On June 29, 2006, the Ontario government announced that TVOntario would be undergoing a major overhaul. Amongst the shows to be cancelled were Studio 2, VOX, and More To Life.

title: More to Life

original_title: More to Life


title: The Karen Dunbar Show

title: Episode 1

type: Still

overview: Karen Dunbar returns after her phenomenal success in ""Chewin' The Fat"" with her brand new sketch show. Sketches in this show include: the ""Ned"" family, success in bed, a russian Anne Robinson and a very twisted Shakira song called ""This is my ar*e - it's not yours, it's mine"".

title: Episode 1

title: Episode 2

overview: Sketches included: Almost Angelic (Destiny Child's ""Indepent Woman"" was sang), The Dummy Sketch, Karen Dunbar dancers and Dr. Hambone's ""Proving Proverbs"".

title: Episode 2

title: Episode 3

overview: Sketchs included: ClichÃ© Cops, Powerful Posh Women, Speak-out-loud hairdressers, The Dummy Sketch and Dr Hambone's ""Proving Proverbs"".

title: Episode 3

title: Episode 4

overview: Sketches included: Cliche Cops, Speak Out Loud Hairdressers, Almost Angelic, The Dummy Sketch and a new sketch: ""Up Yer Maw!"".

title: Episode 4

title: Episode 5

overview: Sketch's include: The one-liner soap, ClichÃ© Cops, Almost Angelic and the Over-Excited Police Recruit.

title: Episode 5

title: Episode 6

overview: In the last episode of the season, Karen Dunbar finishes the show With Dr. Hambone's Proving Proverbs, Almost Angelic personal advertisment, The Dummy Sketch, Russian Anne Robinson, Mis-reading Signals, Mr Materson and Miss Dacey, Desparate Caroline, ""Taxi!"", ClichÃ© Cops and Almost Angelic gives her final performance of the year.

title: Episode 6

title: Season 1

Season 2

title: Episode 1

overview: This episode sees Karen on a bouncing ball, reclining in a limo and being very wicked with cakes.

title: Episode 2

overview: This episode includes Ned's fighting dogs, the return of the terrifying t-shirt mums and a pair of peeved pigeons.

title: Episode 3

overview: Shoeless Josie stumbles on a busker, cabaret act Almost Angelic go wild in the country, and the talking pigeons contemplate a tasty snack.

title: Episode 4

overview: Soar high with Fly Scotland airways, and sink low with an ill-considered condolence card.

title: Episode 5

overview: This episode includes a pointy present, a grass-cutting stunt spectacular, and the best way to fertilise grass in a public park.

title: Episode 6

overview: Featuring Dreena the Cleaner, Almost Angelic and the best morris-dancing troup in Scotland.

Season 3

title: Episode 1

overview: Sketch show with an array of comic characters and situations

title: Episode 2

title: Episode 3

title: Episode 4

title: Episode 5

title: Episode 6

Season 4

title: Episode 1

overview: Dreena the cleaner makes light work of a business guru, Big Peg decides charity begins at home and Almost Angelic tinkle the ivories in an all-night piano bar.

title: Episode 2

title: Episode 3

title: Episode 4

title: Season 4

overview: The Karen Dunbar Show was a television comedy sketch show that aired on BBC One Scotland, starring the popular Scottish comedian Karen Dunbar. It was produced by BBC Scotland.

title: The Karen Dunbar Show

original_title: The Karen Dunbar Show


title: Victory by Design

Season 1

title: Jaguar

overview: This is a definitive show for lovers of thoroughbred Jags. All the important milestone competition and production cars are here. Among the important cars featured are the first XK120 to win a significant race (with Stirling Moss driving), the most original and authentic surviving Le Mans-winning D-Type, the oldest surviving E-Type (chassis 003), the first race-winning E-Type (chassis 005), the last E-type ever made, the prototype racing E-Type, the E2A, the unique XJ13 and Lister Jaguar Coupe, the Le Mans winning XJR-9 and the last Jaguar supercar, the XJ220 and its competition sister, the XJ220C.

title: Jaguar

title: Aston Martin

overview: Like others in the “Victory by Design” series, the Aston Martin show is a must for those who love the marque, featuring the milestone cars that helped make Aston Martin such a charismatic name on the race tracks of the world, from the early cars of Lionel Martin through to the present day. The programme features some of the earliest examples such as the Speed models, like the “Red Dragon” and “Black Car” and the important cars from the David Brown era including the Le Mans winning DBR1 regarded by many as the most beautiful sports car ever built. There’s production sports racers like the DB4GT and DB4GT Zagato, and the unique Project 215 and the last factory-supported Aston racer, the AMR1.

title: Aston Martin

title: Porsche

overview: This episode contains rare and fascinating film shot by Huschke Von Hanstein and Dr Ferry Porsche as they built up the Porsche company through the 1950s, using motor sport as a means of development and promotion on a world wide scale. Combining this extensive archive film with Alain de Cadenet driving and appraising the milestone competition and production cars spanning Porsche’s history – from “Porsche Number One” through to the recent limited-edition supercar, the Carrera GT – a complete picture of the marque is built up.

title: Porsche

title: Ferrari

overview: Alain de Cadenet, a long-time Ferrari enthusiast and aficionado, drives some of the great sports racers and production sports cars that helped establish the marque's reputation, believing that, rather than the Grand Prix racers, it was the sports cars that truly created the Ferrari mystique among the wider public. This show features those milestone sports cars in the marque's history, some actual Le Mans winners and some among the most valuable collectors' cars anywhere in the world (including the TR60, 250P and 250GTO, 330/P3 and 312PB.)

title: Ferrari

title: Maserati

overview: Alain drives and appraises some of the most important “Masers”, from the racer that helped establish the Maserati name in the 1920s, the Tipo 26, to the successful 8CM of the early thirties. The legendary pre-War 8CTF Grand Prix car, which was to win the Indianapolis 500 two years in a row, to the 250F, which would take Fangio to his fifth World Championship. Not forgetting the legendary Maser sports racers – the 300S, 450S and Birdcage.

title: Maserati

title: Alfa Romeo

overview: Alain de Cadenet, a true authority on Alfas, particularly the pre-WW2 cars of Vittorio Jano and Enzo Ferrari, drives and appraises many of the actual cars that won the great classic races which would help create the Alfa legend that's still with us today. Some of the superb Alfas featured include: the 8C 2300 Zagato, the actual car last raced by Enzo Ferrari as a driver and the actual P3 in which Tazio Nuvolari won the famous 1935 German Grand Prix.

title: Alfa Romeo

title: Lotus

overview: Features cars from Classic Team Lotus which is owned by Clive Chapman, the son of Lotus founder Colin Chapman, and includes world championship cars as driven by Graham Hill, Jochen Rindt, Emerson Fittipaldi and Mario Andretti. Truly groundbreaking original cars are driven by presenter de Cadenet, including the Lotus 49B and the Lotus 72 and 79. The programme also includes Colin Chapman’s very first Lotus and many other of the finest examples that are now housed in the world’s largest Lotus collection at the Barber Vintage Motorsport Museum in Birmingham, Alabama.

title: Lotus

title: Corvette

overview: America’s sports car is celebrated in Victory by Design with a line up that includes many of the most important versions of the Corvette ever to hit road and track. Filmed in the UK and in the US, with cars from some rare and unique private collections, the programme includes the landmark experimental racers Cerv 1 and Cerv II along with the iconic Grand Sport 001, a De Lorenzo and a Greenwood racer and an original 1954 Blue Flame Six.

title: Corvette

title: Ford Muscle

overview: Alain De Cadenet drives a mouth watering selection of Ford Muscle cars including an original 1955 Thunderbird, a selection of AC Cobras, Lotus Cortinas, racing Mustangs and Galaxies and of course the iconic Ford GT 40. Uniquely, Alain gets to drive perhaps one of the most valuable historic race cars in the world today – one of only 6 that remain – the Shelby Daytona Coupe, the car that was developed to win the FIA world Sports Car Championship. A sister car, arguably with less race history, was recently purchased for a staggering $13 million.

title: Ford Muscle

title: Grand Prix Greats

overview: A Victory by Design special that takes a selection of the most important Grand Prix cars from the beginning of Grand Prix racing up to 1960 and includes famous names such as Bugatti, Ferrari, Alfa Romeo, Maserati, Mercedes and Auto Union. De Cadenet drives unique examples as ever, including a 1908 Panhard, a 1914 Mercedes GP, the awesome two engined Alfa Romeo Bi-motore and a world beating 1939 Auto Union Type D. The programme finishes with the Cooper Climax, the car that transformed post war racing when constructor John Cooper put the engine in the rear of the car, a development that ensured Grand Prix racing would never be the same again.

title: Grand Prix Greats

title: Victory by Design: Making Of

title: Victory by Design: Making Of

title: Season 1

overview: The series features many of the most important competition cars in the history. Shot on international locations, each featured car is driven and appraised by renowned racer, Alain de Cadenet.

title: Victory by Design

character: Self - Host

original_title: Victory by Design