On Stage (TV series)
Encyclopedia
On Stage is a Canadian
music variety television series which aired on CBC Television
from 1954 to 1955.
's orchestra, the Bill Brady Quartet, with singers Terry Dale, Phyllis Marshall and Wally Koster.John Aylesworth
and Frank Peppiatt, later of Hee Haw
, were the series scriptwriters, developing comedy segments which featured Alfie Scopp, Reuben Ship
, Al Bertram, and Jillian Foster. Lever Brothers
was the series sponsor.
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...
music variety 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 1955.
Premise
George Murray hosted this variety series for most of its run, with mid-1955 episodes hosted by Denny Vaughan and Joan Fairfax. Series regulars included Jack KaneJack Kane (composer)
Jack Kane was a Canadian arranger, conductor, clarinetist, and composer of English birth. His 1958 recording Kane is Able was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Performance by an Orchestra or Instrumentalist with Orchestra. He was highly active as an arranger and music director for Canadian...
's orchestra, the Bill Brady Quartet, with singers Terry Dale, Phyllis Marshall and Wally Koster.John Aylesworth
John Aylesworth
John Bansley Aylesworth was a Canadian television writer, producer and actor, best known as co-creator of the American country music television variety show Hee Haw, which appeared on network television for two years and then ran for decades in first-run syndication.-Early career at CBC:Aylesworth...
and Frank Peppiatt, later of Hee Haw
Hee Haw
Hee Haw is an American television variety show featuring country music and humor with fictional rural Kornfield Kounty as a backdrop. It aired on CBS-TV from 1969–1971 before a 20-year run in local syndication. The show was inspired by Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, the major difference being...
, were the series scriptwriters, developing comedy segments which featured Alfie Scopp, Reuben Ship
Reuben Ship
Reuben Ship was a Canadian playwright and screenwriter best known for his 1954 radio satire The Investigator, which lampooned the Army-McCarthy Hearings and the anticommunist paranoia of the Second Red Scare.-Biography:...
, Al Bertram, and Jillian Foster. Lever Brothers
Lever Brothers
Lever Brothers was a British manufacturer founded in 1885 by William Hesketh Lever and his brother, James Darcy Lever . The brothers had invested in and promoted a new soap making process invented by chemist William Hough Watson, it was a huge success...
was the series sponsor.