Telescope

^{(1963 – 1973)}

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Man for All Cities

November 16th, 1971

Profile of award-winning Vancouver architect Arthur Erickson.

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A Woman of Appetites

November 9th, 1971

Profile and biography of famed French-Canadian chef and author, Madame Jehane Benoit. A graduate in food chemistry in Paris, she first opened a restaurant in Montreal and for years (...

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Richler of St. Urban Street

May 18th, 1971

Interview/profile of renowned Canadian author, Mordecai Richler. Living in London at the time this documentary was made (he returned to Canada in 1972), it follows his daily routine.

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Safdie in Israel

March 16th, 1971

Interview with renowned architect Moshe Safdie.

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A Lady of Equality

May 1st, 1969

Profile of feminist author Mary Van Stolk.

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The Illustrated Bradbury

January 9th, 1969

Interview/documentary with science fiction writer Ray Bradbury. Bradbury talks about growing up in a poor family in Los Angeles and how he gets ideas for his stories. The cameras follow him...

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The Thinking Man's Shelter

June 13th, 1968

A profile of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, California and its president, Robert Maynard Hutchins. The Center has 20 resident thinkers across a wide ...

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Holmes Sweet Holmes

February 22nd, 1968

An interview and profile of Adrian Conan Doyle, son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes. The younger Doyle is the trustee of his father's literary estate and at the time ...

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The Pen Is Mightier

November 16th, 1967

Profile and interview with Duncan MacPherson, for many years the editorial cartoonist in the Toronto Star newspaper.

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Lightfoot Forward

September 14th, 1967

Documentary/interview with singer Gordon Lightfoot.

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McLuhan Is the Message

April 13th, 1967

Profile and interviews with Marshall McLuhan whose "the medium is the message" and "the global village" became controversial and much misunderstood statements of the 1960's. McLuhan ...

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Lady of the Legends

January 26th, 1967

Profile of Dr. Helen Creighton, a folklorist who shares many stories of Nova Scotia and local tales of the supernatural.

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A documentary on the Speaker's Corner in Hyde Park, London. It focuses on the history of the Corner and profiles some of the more interesting characters there, including the world's most tattooed man.

Licensed to Make a Killing with James Bond

December 9th, 1965

Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli didn't create James Bond, but this duo supplied the star, the money and the creative direction to give birth the immensely popular 007 film franchise. ...

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Spell It Lootenant for Jennings

June 4th, 1965

Interview with the newly appointed host of ABC Evening News.

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Episode dated 5 February 1965

February 5th, 1965

In the first of a two part series Montreal-born short story writer Mavis Gallant is talking to host Fletcher Markle about her background shuttling from one school to another in French Canada and her life in Paris.

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October Beach

December 4th, 1964

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The Sound of Christopher Plummer

September 25th, 1964

A two-part interview with Christopher Plummer on the set of The Sound of Music.

A Talk with Hitchcock

May 22nd, 1964

"Master of Suspense" Alfred Hitchcock speaks candidly in this one-on-one interview with director and host Fletcher Markle, filmed in 1964 for the television documentary series "Telescope." During the discussion, Hitchcock talks about his early career as a silent-film editor, offers his take on the building blocks of his works and relates his theories on the impact of horror films on society and human behavior.

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Deadpan: Buster Keaton

April 17th, 1964

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