SUMMARY: Audio recording of a television variety show marking the BC Centennial, broadcast live from the stage of the Lyric Theatre on Granville Street in Vancouver. A home recording, made off-air from a telev;ision set.;

Promotional film. For Vantel's application to the Board of Broadcast Governors for a television broadcasting license, company president Art Jones introduces samples of proposed programming. These include "Van-O-Rama," a TV journal of local interest; a news program; a discussion of metropolitan planning in Vancouver with Warnett Kennedy; a football game; a children's show; a variety show featuring a female singer and a barbershop quartet; a West Indian dance performed by an ethnic dance troupe from UBC; a large grad choir, etc. Includes footage of simulated TV studio operations; an Artray film crew at a tree nursery, on the waterfront and in Fraser Valley; views of Port Moody waterfront and Vancouver skyline.

RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1954-10-27 SUMMARY: Betty Phillips, Doug Haskins, John Emerson, newspaper columnist Eric Nicol and Peter Carter-Page (maker of hand-puppets) discuss that week's broadcast of the CBUT variety program "Parade" (1954-10-25); and the general quality of television. At Emerson's home.;

SUMMARY: John Emerson emcees a musical variety show that includes solo and ensemble performances of popular songs, as well as a musical comedy sketch set in a bar. Accompaniment is provided by the Chris Gage T;rio and Emerson at the piano; musical arrangements are by Emerson with Jerry Fuller. (See CBC Times, vol.9 no.46 1959 p.9.);

Variety show. John Emerson emcees a musical variety show that includes solo and ensemble vocal pieces in a popular vein, as well as a musical comedy sketch set in a bar.

SUMMARY: "Some Of Those Days" was a weekly CBC television variety show from Vancouver that ran for about five years. The host was Bill Bellman; scripts were by David Brock. This audio tape contains selected mu;sical highlight from the 1961 shows. Guests include Barney Potts, Don Brown, Pat Morgan, Thora Anders, Roma Hearn, Patsy Walker, Lorraine McAllister, and the Lance Harrison Orchestra.;

SUMMARY: Audio recording of a television broadcast. In response to recent criticism of Vancouver from Toronto Star columnist Pierre Berton, this hour-long television program (written by Vancouverite Eric Nico;l and others) uses humour, music, song and dance to better explain the many facets of the city.;

SUMMARY: Audio recording of a television broadcast. Selected highlights from the 1966 Variety Club Telethon, broadcast from the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver. TRACK 1: Ed Ames, "They Call the Wind Maria"; Helen Curtis, "On a Wonderful Day Like Today"; Bill Kenny, "If I Didn't Care"; Shirley MacDonald, "Wouldn't It Be Lovely"; Fran Gregory, "All I Want"; Jack Wasserman and (wife) Fran Gregory, "Embrace;able You"; Bob Smith introduces Maynard Ferguson, who plays "Maria". TRACK 2: Maynard Ferguson plays "One O'Clock Jump"; Patti Paige, "L.O.V.E." and "Tennessee Waltz"; Eve Smith, "Easy Livin'" and "A;ll of You"; the Lance Harrison Dixieland Band plays "That's A-plenty", "Tin Roof Blues", and "Muskrat Ramble".;

SUMMARY: Audio recording of CTV's first west coast network television show -- the first show in a six-month series. An off-air home recording of a BCTV broadcast.;