Norman Corwin Presents 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...

-produced drama anthology television series which aired on CBC Television

CBC Television

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 from 1972 to 1973.

Premise

The series host was American broadcast writer Norman Corwin

Norman Corwin

Norman Lewis Corwin was an American writer, screenwriter, producer, essayist and teacher of journalism and writing...

 who introduced dramas of various genres and subjects.

Production

The series was a co-production of Group W

Westinghouse Broadcasting

The Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, also known as Group W, was the broadcasting division of Westinghouse Electric Corporation. It owned several radio and television stations across the United States and distributed television shows for syndication....

 and Arjo Productions (Arthur Joel Katz). It was recorded in Toronto on videotape.

The series relied on American actors such as Diane Baker

Diane Baker

Diane Carol Baker is an American actress who has appeared in motion pictures and on television since 1959.-Early life:...

, Milton Berle

Milton Berle

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, Beau Bridges

Beau Bridges

Lloyd Vernet "Beau" Bridges III is an American actor and director.- Early life :Bridges was born in Los Angeles, the son of actor Lloyd Bridges and his college sweetheart, Dorothy Bridges . He was nicknamed "Beau" by his mother and father after Ashley Wilkes's son in Gone with the Wind, the book...

, Stan Freberg

Stan Freberg

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, Fred Gwynne

Fred Gwynne

Frederick Hubbard "Fred" Gwynne was an American actor. Gwynne was best known for his roles in the 1960s sitcoms Car 54, Where Are You? and The Munsters, as well as his later roles: Pet Sematary and My Cousin Vinny...

, Rip Torn

Rip Torn

Elmore Rual "Rip" Torn, Jr. , is an American actor of stage, screen and television.Torn received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his role in the 1983 film Cross Creek. His work includes the role of Artie, the producer, on The Larry Sanders Show, for which he was nominated...

 and Cicely Tyson

Cicely Tyson

Cicely Tyson is an American actress. A successful stage actress, Tyson is also known for her Oscar-nominated role in the film Sounder and the television movies The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and Roots....

. They were supported by Canadian actors such as Gale Garnett

Gale Garnett

Gale Zoë Garnett is a New Zealand-born Canadian singer best known in the United States for her Grammy-winning folk hit "We'll Sing in the Sunshine." Garnett has since carved out a career as a writer and actress.-Biography:...

, Lynne Gorman, Don Harron

Don Harron

Donald H. Harron, is a Canadian comedian, actor, director, journalist, author and composer.- Charlie Farquharson :...

, Leslie Nielsen

Leslie Nielsen

Leslie William Nielsen, OC was a Canadian and naturalized American actor and comedian. Nielsen appeared in more than one hundred films and 1,500 television programs over the span of his career, portraying more than 220 characters...

, William Shatner

William Shatner

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 and Donald Sutherland

Donald Sutherland

Donald McNichol Sutherland, OC is a Canadian actor with a film career spanning nearly 50 years. Some of Sutherland's more notable movie roles included offbeat warriors in such war movies as The Dirty Dozen, , MASH , and Kelly's Heroes , as well as in such popular films as Klute, Invasion of the...

.

Scheduling

This half-hour series was syndicated on American television. In Canada, it was broadcast on CBC Television from 19 June 1972 until 12 September 1973 approximately every week, scheduled on varying evening time slots during its sole season.

Episodes

• "Aunt Dorothy's Playroom", starring Fred Gwynne
  Fred Gwynne
  Frederick Hubbard "Fred" Gwynne was an American actor. Gwynne was best known for his roles in the 1960s sitcoms Car 54, Where Are You? and The Munsters, as well as his later roles: Pet Sematary and My Cousin Vinny...
  
  
• "The Better it is, the Worse it is", starring John Saxon
  John Saxon (actor)
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   as a married man in an affair with an unmarried woman approximately half his age.
• "Bingo Twice a Week", a drama which portrays an aging woman who is being ejected from her daughter's residence
• "The Blue Hotel"
• "Crown of Rages"
• "The D.J.", written by M. Charles Cohen
• "The Discovery"
• "First Big Try", starring Donald Sutherland
  Donald Sutherland
  Donald McNichol Sutherland, OC is a Canadian actor with a film career spanning nearly 50 years. Some of Sutherland's more notable movie roles included offbeat warriors in such war movies as The Dirty Dozen, , MASH , and Kelly's Heroes , as well as in such popular films as Klute, Invasion of the...
  
   as narrator of a quasi-documentary about the League of Nations
  League of Nations
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• "A Foreign Field"
• "Hold That Line"
• "Jefferson's Crush"
• "The Joy of Living"
• "Letter From an Only Child", a psychological drama, starring Gerard Parkes
  Gerard Parkes
  Gerard Parkes is an Irish Canadian actor who was born in Dublin, Ireland, and moved to Canada in 1956. His acting career has spanned film, radio, television, and the stage...
  
  , Maxinne Miller, Diane Baker
  Diane Baker
  Diane Carol Baker is an American actress who has appeared in motion pictures and on television since 1959.-Early life:...
  
  ; Don Balluck, writer
• "A Matter of Life and Death"
• "The Moat Farm Murder", starring James Booth
  James Booth
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  , based on an actual British homicide case
• "Odyssey in Progress"
• "The One Man Group", a comedy concerning a man who becomes possessed by the ghosts of historical figures, starring Donald Harron
• "Pappy's Oasis", starring Beau Bridges
  Beau Bridges
  Lloyd Vernet "Beau" Bridges III is an American actor and director.- Early life :Bridges was born in Los Angeles, the son of actor Lloyd Bridges and his college sweetheart, Dorothy Bridges . He was nicknamed "Beau" by his mother and father after Ashley Wilkes's son in Gone with the Wind, the book...
  
  , Bonnie Bedelia
  Bonnie Bedelia
  Bonnie Bedelia Culkin is an American actress best known for her supporting roles in the action film Die Hard and the courtroom drama Presumed Innocent...
  
  , a drama about a fugitive
• "Please, No Flowers"
• "The Pursuit", starring David McCallum
  David McCallum
  David Keith McCallum, Jr. is a Scottish actor and musician. He is best known for his roles as Illya Kuryakin, a Russian-born secret agent, in the 1960s television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E., as interdimensional operative Steel in Sapphire & Steel, and Dr...
  
   as an Everyman, who is constantly sought by elements of contemporary society, Arthur Joel Katz director.
• "Reunion"
• "A Soliloquy for Television"
• "A Son, Come Home"
• "Two Gods on Prime Time", starring Leslie Nielsen
  Leslie Nielsen
  Leslie William Nielsen, OC was a Canadian and naturalized American actor and comedian. Nielsen appeared in more than one hundred films and 1,500 television programs over the span of his career, portraying more than 220 characters...
  
  , Forrest Tucker
  Forrest Tucker
  Forrest Tucker was an American actor in both movies and television from the 1940s to the 1980s. Tucker, who stood 190 cm tall and weighed 93 kg , appeared in nearly 100 action films in the 1940s and 1950s.-Early life:Forrest Meredith Tucker was born in Plainfield, Indiana, a son of...
  
  , Cicely Tyson
  Cicely Tyson
  Cicely Tyson is an American actress. A successful stage actress, Tyson is also known for her Oscar-nominated role in the film Sounder and the television movies The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and Roots....
  
   in which the mythical Roman deities Mars
  Mars (mythology)
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   and Venus
  Venus (mythology)
  Venus is a Roman goddess principally associated with love, beauty, sex,sexual seduction and fertility, who played a key role in many Roman religious festivals and myths...
  
  are guests on a televised talk show.
• "The Undecided Molecule"
• "You Think You Got Troubles"