The Play's the Thing | |
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Genre | drama |
Presented by | Gordon Pinsent |
Country of origin | Canada |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 11 |
Production | |
Running time | 60 minutes |
Release | |
Original network | CBC Television |
Original release | 17 January – 28 March 1974 |
The Play's the Thing was a Canadian theatrical drama television series which aired on CBC Television in 1974.
This anthology series was based on Canadian-written plays, especially from new playwrights.
This hour-long series was broadcast Thursdays at 9:00 p.m. (Eastern) from 17 January to 28 March 1974 as follows: [1] [2]
Date | Title | Writer | Director | Comments |
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17 January 1974 | "How I met My Husband" | Alice Munro | Herb Roland | |
24 January 1974 | "The Bells of Hell" | Mordecai Richler | George Jonas | |
31 January 1974 | "And then Mr. Jones" | Morley Callaghan | Paddy Sampson | |
7 February 1974 | "Friends and Relations" | Hugh Hood | Rudi Dorn | |
14 February 1974 | "Brothers in the Black Art" | Robertson Davies | Mario Prizek | |
21 February 1974 | "The Man from Inner Space" | Eric Nicol | Paddy Sampson | |
28 February 1974 | "The Servant Girl" | Margaret Atwood | George Jonas | |
7 March 1974 | "Roundelay" | Pierre Berton | Rudi Dorn | |
14 March 1974 | "The Roncarelli Affair" | Mavor Moore | George McCowan | Dramatic portrayal of the Roncarelli v. Duplessis case, adapted from the writings of F. R. Scott who was part of Roncarelli's legal team |
21 March 1974 | "Back to Beulah" | W. O. Mitchell | Eric Till | |
28 March 1974 | "The Executioners" | Farley Mowat and Len Peterson | Rudi Dorn | Featured Inuit actors in a story which concerns a 1964 murder trial, documented by Farley Mowat for Maclean's magazine. [3] |
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