Happy Canada Day everyone! Today is Canada's 152nd anniversary of Confederation, the official founding of our nation (July 1, 1867). For you celebrity fans, today is also Pamela Anderson's 52nd birthday. She just happens to have been born on July 1, 1967, the date of Canada's Centennial. So today offers plenty to celebrate. To mark the occasion, I have listed my favorite Canadian TV shows of all time in different categories:


Sitcoms - The Trouble With Tracy, King Of Kensington, Check It Out, Rent A Goalie

Dramas - Being Erica, Heartland

Sketch Comedy/Variety Shows - SCTV, Bizarre, Wayne and Shuster, Super Dave, The Red Green Show

Reality - Battle Of The Blades

Children's Shows - The Friendly Giant, Mr Dressup, Romper Room, Polka Dot Door, Uncle Bobby, The Hilarious House Of Frightenstein, Tiny Talent Time, You Can't Do That On Television, Big Comfy Couch

Cartoons - Rocket Robin Hood, Spiderman, The New Adventures Of Pinocchio, Tales Of The Wizard Of Oz, Arthur

Sports - Hockey Night In Canada, CFL Football, Toronto Blue Jays Baseball, Don Cherry's Grapevine

Game Shows - Definition, Party Game, Headline Hunters, The Mad Dash, Deal Or No Deal Canada, Reach For The Top

Actors/Comedians - Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, Howie Mandel, Michael J Fox, Leslie Nielsen, Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas, Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Wayne & Shuster


Other popular series not listed that you might like: Anne Of Green Gables, Celebrity Cooks, Corner Gas, Da Vinci's Inquest, Danger Bay, The Degrassi High series of shows, Dragon's Den, Due South, Emily Of New Moon, The Forest Rangers, Fraggle Rock, Franklin, Fred Penner's Place, Front Page Challenge, The Galloping Gourmet, Hammy Hamster, Hangin' In, Just For Laughs, Kids In The Hall, Little Mosque On The Prairie, The Littlest Hobo, Schitt's Creek, Sharon, Lois, & Bram, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Wind At My Back


List Of Canadian TV series - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English-language_Canadian_television_series)

Corner Gas and Heartland are excellent, two of the best shows ever made anywhere. I just wish Corner Gas was more popular in the US, hasn't aired anywhere since WGN dropped it over a decade ago. I also really liked Wind at My Back when INSP aired it. Check it Out! and The Border were good from the limited sampling I had (4 and 3 episodes each).

Also, Alex Trebek came from Canada. Besides his dominant Jeopardy!, Classic Concentration and Double Dare (not the Marc Summers version) are good game shows.

Corner Gas and Heartland are excellent, two of the best shows ever made anywhere. I just wish Corner Gas was more popular in the US, hasn't aired anywhere since WGN dropped it over a decade ago. I also really liked Wind at My Back when INSP aired it. Check it Out! and The Border were good from the limited sampling I had (4 and 3 episodes each).


If you're a Corner Gas fan, then I should tell you that last year the original cast reunited to reboot the series in cartoon form. The new series is called Corner Gas: Animated. Season 2 starts this week with Michael J Fox appearing as a special guest star. Both series are seen on the Comedy Network which will become CTV Comedy on Sept. 12.

Corner Gas (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLltivhgN97V0-KedT1iG7tMq6p5VCNSbC)

Corner Gas: Animated (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSVEhJLy4JgbrajTkytxXuQTGW8oJwRT_)

I really liked Corner Gas and Robson Arms.

Arthur undoubtedly.

I forgot about Hiccups, that one was pretty good too.

You Can’t Do That On Television

Arthur

SCTV

Degrassi

Schitt's Creek

The Kids In The Hall

Happy belated Canada Day to you as well! I LOVE Canada Day!! Hmm, I haven't given much thought about my favorite Canadian shows, but I do LOVE Red Green. I haven't seen that in forever! It's so hilarious! I can get CBC and I'm going to start watching it more often to see if I can check out any of their shows and also check out some other shows on DVD. Thank you for the list of shows.

Bizarre
The Kids In The Hall
Super Dave
Checking Out
SCTV
CFL Football

I've never seen Corner Gas or Schitt's Creek, but I have heard good things about both shows.

Trailer Park Boys definitely! Not as good as it used to be especially with the death of Jon Dunsworth who played the lovable antagonist Jim Lahey. I can see why some wouldn’t like it for its drug and crude humor but have been a fan for about 15 years of the show and I am an American who discovered it overseas.

Now it is animated show. Just did a new season this year. I requested a Trailer Park Boys section here on this board but it didn’t happen.

Not really familiar with other Canadian offerings. Kids in the Hall is Ok. There is one actor who I don’t know his name who has been in other stuff on American TV whonis pretty good. SCTV was Ok and had some great performers like Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara and the late John Candy.

I just saw the excellent series premiere of The Disappearance. WGN America had been advertising it as one of their originals that premiered last night, but I didn't know it was from Canada until I looked for a Facebook page. The Disappearance originally aired in 2017 and stars Peter Coyote. Pilot episode is now on demand, and new to the US episodes are Tuesdays at 10:00. It won't be around long though, the entire series was just six episodes (no spoilers!).

Corner Gas. I love it and I think it's the only Canadian TV show I've ever watched. Very funny and quirky sitcom.

Ed.

SCTV
Schitt's Creek
Kids In The Hall

Corner Gas
SCTV
Kids In The Hall
Are You Afraid Of The Dark
The Red Green Show
The Littlest Hobo (Canada's Lassie/Rin Tin Tin)
Friday the 13th: The Series
Strange Days At Blake Holsey High
Todd and the Book of Pure Evil


As a kid in the 80's I remember watching a Canadian sitcom titled Hangin' In. Haven't seen it since then, would love to revisit it.


Brent Butt fans should check out the comedy mystery movie No Clue, written and starring Brent.

Arthur
Babar
Today’s Special
Fraggle Rock
Highlander The Series
Are You Afraid of the Dark

Friday the 13th: The Series

Soul Food: The Series

Rookie Blue

I've been watching a lot of CBC lately (and missing my favorite country-take that as you will!), and earlier when I did a search on my DVR, I found a few shows that look pretty good so I set my DVR to tape them. Looking foreword to seeing them

Canadian TV Shows

Intelligence
Danger Bay
Street Legal
CHEK Around
Degrassi High
Today's Special
Degrassi Jr High
Da Vinci's Inquest
The Beachcombers
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
The Kids Of Degrassi Street

TV Shows Filmed In Canada

Booker
T And T
Night Heat
21 Jump Street

Here's an old Canadian sketch comedy series that I haven't seen in a long time that was made available this week on the free streaming service TUBI:


The David Steinberg Show (https://tubitv.com/series/300005129/the_david_steinberg_show)


David Steinberg is a Canadian comedian who gained fame (and plenty of notoriety) on the Smothers Brothers show where he performed various characters, including a priest who would give a weekly "sermonette" on the show. It was one of these sermonettes that got CBS and its censors angry and the show was cancelled soon after. In Canada, the show ran on CTV uncensored so we got to see everything.

From there, Steinberg moved back to Canada where he starred in "The David Steinberg Show" which is a lot like "Seinfeld" and "The Larry Sanders Show" in the way it is presented. After the opening monologue, we see Steinberg act out a fictional version of his real life where he meets some famous guest stars (including Tommy Smothers, Milton Berle and Ethel Merman) and an interesting group of regular cast members like Bill Saluga, the owner of the "Hello Deli", who is most remembered for his "Johnson" routine that he does on the show ("Oh, you don't have to call me Johnson....etc.") and a few of the SCTV cast (Martin Short, John Candy, Joe Flaherty) in one of their earliest TV appearances. If you're a fan of shows like SCTV, you'll like this one too!

Arthur
Babar
Today’s Special
Fraggle Rock
Highlander The Series
Are You Afraid of the Dark

I forgot about Are You Afraid Of The Dark and Babar.