bonus features: next on tvontario, doctor who
This post offers supplementary material for a Torontoist post I recently wrote , which you should dive into before reading any further. Art by Ted and Pat Michener. The Toronto Star , September 11, 1976. As much as I hate the new archives databases the Toronto Public Library uses for the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star (a grocery list of reasons that would fill several posts), there are some bright spots. One is the inclusion of Star Week , which will be handy for researching television- and food-related articles. For this particular story, Star Week helped nail down Doctor Who's initial airdates on TVO. It also offered an interesting glimpse into Saturday night television at the dawn of the 1976-77 season. None of the shows spotlighted on Star Week 's cover had staying power. Clockwise from top left: Bill Cosby - Cos . Sketch comedy/variety show. Cancelled November 1976. Tony Randall - The Tony Randall Show . Sitcom about a widowed judge. Only sho...