Exploring Minds

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Exploring Minds
Genreeducational
Country of originCanada
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons3
Production
ProducerE. S. Hallman (supervising)
Running time30 minutes
Original release
Network CBC Television
Release5 October 1953 (1953-10-05) 
15 April 1956 (1956-04-15)

Exploring Minds is a Canadian educational television series which aired on CBC Television from 1953 to 1956.

Contents

Premise

Lectures from various university academics throughout Canada were featured on Exploring Minds. Episodes were produced in Toronto, Vancouver and other cities with support from numerous Canadian universities. [1]

Charles Comfort and Peter Brieger hosted a sequence of lectures on various art forms. Canada's first Prime Minister was the subject of two programmes hosted by Donald Creighton which featured John A. Macdonald portrayed by Robert Christie.

Series producers included David Walker (Toronto) and Daryl Duke (Vancouver).

Scheduling

The first season of this half-hour series was broadcast on Mondays at 7:30 p.m. (Eastern) from 5 October 1953 to 19 April 1954. The second and third seasons aired Sundays at 6:00 p.m., from 3 October 1954 to 1 May 1955, then 30 October 1955 to 15 April 1956.

Reception

Despite efforts such as Exploring Minds, academic programming fell out of favour at the CBC after its initial years. Conflicts arose due to producers attitudes towards creating a presentable broadcast, and the professors' lack of familiarity with the requirements of television production. In one incident, a producer recorded a scene with 12 young ballet dancers to illustrate light refraction although the professor merely wished to show a drawing of the concept. [2]

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References

  1. Corcelli, John (April 2002). "Exploring Minds". Canadian Communications Foundation. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
  2. Rutherford, Paul (1990). When Television Was Young: Primetime Canada 1952-1967 . University of Toronto Press. pp.  151–152. ISBN   0-8020-5830-2.