First Person is a Canadian

Television in Canada

Television in Canada officially began with the opening of the nation's first television stations in Montreal and Toronto in 1952. As with most media in Canada, the television industry, and the television programming available in that country, are strongly influenced by the American media, perhaps...

 dramatic television series which aired on CBC Television

CBC Television

CBC Television is a Canadian television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster.Although the CBC is supported by public funding, the television network supplements this funding with commercial advertising revenue, in contrast to CBC Radio which are...

 from 1960 to 1961.

Premise

This dramatic anthology consisted of adapted and original stories whose teleplays were produced out of CBC Toronto.

This series is distinct from Adrienne Clarkson

Adrienne Clarkson

Adrienne Louise Clarkson is a Canadian journalist and stateswoman who served as Governor General of Canada, the 26th since Canadian Confederation....

's First Person talk show in 1966.

Scheduling

This half-hour series was first broadcast over 20 weeks on Wednesdays at 10:00 p.m. (Eastern) from 8 June to 19 October 1960. Then it was given a full season on Wednesdays at 8:30 p.m. from 26 October 1960 to 8 February 1961.

Episodes

Some of the teleplays included:

June-October 1960

• The Anniversary (Basil Coleman producer; Michael Jacot writer)
• At the Railing (David Gardner producer; Robert Presnell, Jr. writer), starring Martha Buhs and Robert Goulet
  Robert Goulet
  Robert Gerard Goulet was a Canadian American entertainer as a singer and actor. He played the role of Lancelot in the Broadway musical Camelot of 1960.-Early life:...
  
  
• Aunt Jeannie and the Idol (Audrey Piggott writer)
• Bulgarian Bread (Paul Wayne writer)
• The Click of Beads
• Earn Money At Home (W. O. Mitchell
  W. O. Mitchell
  William Ormond Mitchell, PC, OC better known as W.O. Mitchell was a Canadian writer.-Early life and career:...
  
   writer)
• End of Innocence (Paul Almond producer; Vincent McConnor writer), starring Kenneth Wolff
• Final at Furnell (Melwyn Breen producer; Willis Hall writer), starring Bill Glover and Deborah Turnbull
• Harry (Ted Pope producer; Fletcher Barry writer; Rosemary Timperley
  Rosemary Timperley
  Rosemary Timperley was a British novelist, short story writer and screenwriter. She wrote a wide range of fiction, publishing 66 novels in 33 years, and several hundred short stories, but is best remembered for her ghost stories which appear in many anthologies...
  
   adaptation)
• Kukla (Audrey Piggott writer)
• The Magnet (Harvey Hart producer; Hugh Garner writer), starring Don Francks
  Don Francks
  Donald Harvey Francks or Iron Buffalo is a Canadian actor, vocalist and jazz musician.- Life and work :Francks was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is a drummer, poet, native nations champion, motorcyclist, author and peace activist...
  
   and Charmion King
  Charmion King
  Charmion King was one of Canada's leading actresses.Born in Toronto, Ontario, she was part of the country's burgeoning theatre and television scene in the decade of the 1950s...
  
  
• The Man Who Knew A Good Thing (George McCowan producer; Herb Hosie writer), starring Michael Forest
• The Man With Two Hands
• Night River (Basil Coleman producer; George Salverson writer), starring Powys Thomas and Terry Carter
  Terry Carter
  Terry Carter is an American actor and filmmaker who is known for his roles as "Sgt. Joe Broadhurst", on the seven year hit TV series McCloud and as "Colonel Tigh" on the original Battlestar Galactica.-Early life:...
  
  
• Some Are So Lucky (David Gardner producer; Hugh Garner writer)

October 1960-February 1961

• The Gold Dress (Stephen Vincent writer)
• Guardian Angel (Frederick Hazlett Brennan story; Hugh Garner adaptation)
• Man in Town (John Gray writer)
• A Matter of Some Importance (Roy Shields writer)
• Overlaid (David Gardner producer; Robertson Davies story; Wallace Christie adaptation), based on Davies' theatre play, starring Alex McKee and Aileen Seaton
• The Trouble With Pyecraft (Eric Till
  Eric Till
  Eric Till is a British film and television director working in Canada, the United States, and Europe since the 1960s.-Career:...
  
   producer, H. G. Wells
  H. G. Wells
  Herbert George Wells was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing text books and rules for war games...
  
  writer; Douglas Cleverdon adaptation), a comedy starring Tony Van Bridge (Pyecraft) and Gillie Fenwick (Formalyn)
• Venice Libretto (Herb Hosie writer)
• Witness to Murder (Wenzell Brown story; M. Charles Cohen adaptation)
• A Woman Called Anne (Basil Coleman producer; Pamela Lee writer), starring Norma Renault, Ruth Springford, and Norman Welsh