On Camera was 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 anthology 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 1954 to 1958.

Premise

Various dramatic and comedic works were featured in On Camera, as written or adapted by Canadian writers.

Scheduling

This half-hour series was broadcast for four seasons as follows:

Day	Time	Season run
Saturdays	9:00 p.m.	16 October 1954 to 2 July 1955
Saturdays	9:00 p.m.	1 October 1955 to 23 June 1956
Mondays	8:30 p.m.	29 October 1956 to 22 September 1958

Episodes

Featured plays and presentations during On Cameras series run included:

• "Absentee Murder" (Charles Templeton
  Charles Templeton
  Charles Bradley Templeton was a Canadian cartoonist, evangelist, agnostic, politician, newspaper editor, inventor, broadcaster and author. He was born and died in the same city, Toronto, Canada...
  
  )
• "The Almighty Voice" (a censored version of George Salverson's radio play Blasphemy)
• "Blind Date" (Jacqueline Rosenfeld)
• "Mr. Gidding Attacks" (Henry Feisen)
• "Gold Mine In The House" (J. N. Harris story; Sidney Furie adaptation)
• "The Guests" (Jack Benthover)
• "The Last Long Crusade" (Doris French)
• "Markheim" (Robert Louis Stevenson
  Robert Louis Stevenson
  Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. His best-known books include Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde....
  
   story)
• "The President's Ghost" (Michael Sheldon)
• "Stagecoach Bride" (Elsie Park Gowan)
• "Thank You, Edmondo" (Mac Shoub)
• "Two From King Street" (Jack Kuper)
• "Waltz" (Stanley Mann)
• "Who Destroyed The Earth" (Len Peterson
  Len Peterson
  Leonard Byron Peterson was a Canadian playwright, screenwriter and novelist. His career started in 1939 when he sold a script to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation....
  
  )

Hugh Garner

Hugh Garner

Hugh Garner was a Canadian novelist.Born in Batley, Yorkshire, England, Garner came to Canada in 1919 with his parents, and was raised in Toronto, Ontario. During the Great Depression, he rode the rails in both Canada and the United States, and then joined the International Brigades in the Spanish...

 and Joseph Schull

Joseph Schull

Joseph Schull was a Canadian playwright and historian who wrote more than two dozen books and 200 plays for radio and television....

 also wrote for the series. Episode producers included Paul Almond

Paul Almond

Paul Almond, is a Canadian former television and motion picture screenwriter, director and producer, and since 1990 has been a novelist.-Life and career:...

, Arthur Hiller

Arthur Hiller

Arthur Hiller, OC is a Canadian film director. His filmography includes 33 major studio releases, including the 1970 film Love Story...

, Charles Jarrott

Charles Jarrott

Charles Jarrott was a British film and television director. He was best known for costume dramas he directed for producer Hal B...

 and Ted Kotcheff

Ted Kotcheff

Ted Kotcheff , sometimes credited as William Kotcheff or William T. Kotcheff, is a Canadian film and television director, who is well known for his work on several high-profile British television productions and as a director of films such as First Blood.-Early life:Kotcheff was born William...

.