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Documentary series tracing the history of movie theaters in Quebec, from the first projections of silent movies to the advent of huge multiplexes. Through this series, people relive the wonder and excitement that inhabited Quebec movie theaters, some of which have become legendary.

Arts '73, Arts '74 and Arts '75 was a Canadian television series which aired on CBC Television between March 8, 1973 and June 22, 1975. The show was hosted by Helen Hutchinson, Sol Littman and Pat Patterson Some of the featured people included painter A.Y. Jackson, radio producer Andrew Allan, painter Jack Chambers, film historian John Kobal, tapestry maker Tamara Jaworski and composer Marek Norman. Arts was a newsmagazine which featured items and guests from the subject of arts including visual, literary and performing arts in Canada and international.

21c is a weekly Canadian newsmagazine television series for teens which aired on CTV from 2001 until 2004. The show was hosted by Dominic Patten and Anne-Marie Mediwake who presented topics related to teen issues.

Relief, formerly known as Panorama, is a public affairs newsmagazine series in Canada, airing nightly in Ontario on TFO, the Franco-Ontarian public television network. The series is hosted by Gisèle Quenneville. Reporters associated with the series include Melanie Routhier-Boudreau, Isabelle Brunet, Marie Duchesneau, Luce Gauthier, Frédéric Projean and Chantal Racine. Longtime host Pierre Granger retired from the series in 2009. The series was renamed RelieF in fall 2010. The show airs seven nights a week at 7 p.m. From Monday to Thursday, it airs news and public affairs. On Fridays, the program airs documentary programming. On Saturdays, it airs a "week in review" edition, and on Sundays it airs an arts and culture magazine.

The Sunshine Hour is a Canadian music variety television series which aired on CBC Television in 1976.

Hour-long performances from popular Canadian comedians.

Legends of Hockey is a Canadian 10 part/10 hour mini-series released in 2001 profiling the history of ice hockey. The Legends of Hockey features the following people:

Yes You Can was a Canadian children's television series broadcast on CBC Television from 1980 to 1983. Hosted by singer Kevin Gillis, and co-hosted by Trevor Bruneau and Tammy Bourne, the half-hour live-action series was sports-themed and encouraged fitness and good health. Also featured were the comedic Coach Cuddles Ford, and two animated characters, Harry Hog and Body Man, voiced by Michael Magee. Each show also featured an appearance from a professional athlete, including Gordie Howe, Karen Kain and Toller Cranston. The show was written by Jack Hutchinson and Jamie Wayne, produced by Bill Hunt, directed by Ron Piggott and executive produced by Michael Lansbury. Yes You Can was repeated on YTV in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Kevin Gillis went on to create and produce The Christmas Raccoons animated special - which lead to The Raccoons On Ice and the Raccoons animated series. Many of the songs Gillis used the Yes You Can series were later re-recorded and used in the Raccoons animated series.

APTN National News is the Canadian national news program aired by the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network. It is broadcast from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The program formerly aired in two daily editions: APTN National News Daytime aired at 12:30 p.m., and APTN National News Primetime aired at 6:30 p.m. The program now produces only a single full edition each day, which airs at 6 and 11:30 p.m. Eastern Time nightly with short headline news updates at the top of the hour during the afternoon. The program's current anchors are Michael Hutchinson and Cheryl McKenzie. In September 2009, two current affairs shows, APTN InFocus and APTN Investigates launched. In addition to its main newsroom in Winnipeg, APTN National News has news bureaus in Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Saskatoon, Edmonton, Vancouver, Iqaluit, Yellowknife and Whitehorse. News and current affairs staff at APTN applied for and received union certification with the Canadian Media Guild from the Canadian Labour Board in 2002. Unionized staff reached its first collective agreement with APTN management in April 2003. On June 8, 2012, award-winning journalist Karyn Pugliese was appointed as the director of news and current affairs for APTN. Pugliese previously worked as the Ottawa correspondent for APTN National News from 2000 to 2006.

Starring the beloved musician Beverly Glenn-Copeland ("Glenn") alongside handmade puppets, Caring Cabin follows Glenn and his animal friends as they learn valuable lessons about nature, coping with change, and the power of community.

Broken House Chronicles is a Canadian television series which premiered in 2001 on HGTV and is produced by Mountain Road Productions. Re-runs are currently airing on DIY Network Sundays at 6:00 & 6:30PM as well as weekdays at 3:00PM.

Divine Restoration, or DR, is a religious renovation television series. Created by Canada's VisionTV, instead of renovating homes like most shows, it renovates houses of worship. Hosted by Jim Codrington and Catherine Burdon, the series actually taps into the talents of the congregation. Instead of hiring electricians, plumbers, carpenters, architects, etc., DR finds people of relevant professions to donate their time to lead the rest of the parish's members in the work. The series aims to not discriminate against particular faiths, representing as many denominations as possible. They have renovated in locations as distant from each other as Toronto, Halifax, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Montreal, New York, Montgomery, Orlando, Atlanta, New Orleans, Chicago and Milwaukee.

City Lights was a Canadian television series hosted by Brian Linehan and produced by Citytv in Toronto, and syndicated throughout Canada and internationally, running from 1973 to 1989. It featured Linehan interviewing film and television celebrities about their roles and lives. Linehan developed a reputation for well-researched questions and non-adversarial style.

When a spoiled Norwegian factory heir from the 1800s forces a group of reluctant underlings to the American Wild West to gather material for his novel, their journey quickly turns sour. After accidentally landing themselves in serious trouble, the posse finds themselves on the run from the law. Forced to rely on a charismatic but untrustworthy Canadian guide, they must fight their way across the wilderness toward Vancouver, and what they hope will be a way back home to safety.

Fairy Tale is a Canadian LGBT dating television series. It is noted as the first of its kind in the world. Currently, Fairy Tale is hosted by Nelson Tomé and produced by Canadian media company Hiltz Squared Media Group Inc. It is currently airing on OUTtv in Canada.

CityNews is the title of news and current affairs programming on the City television network in Canada. It is broadcast as a local newscast in its own right on the network's Toronto station CITY-DT, while on the remaining City stations it currently airs only as the news headlines segment during each station's Breakfast Television morning show. Although City stations outside Toronto have aired local news programs in the past, most of these programs were cancelled in 2006, with the remaining news programming on these stations cancelled in early 2010.

Talk About is a game show produced in Canada for CBC, which bears some similarities to the board game Outburst. Originally produced for CBC for the 1988-89 season, it was later picked up for American television syndication, airing from September 18, 1989 to March 16, 1990, with repeats later airing on the USA Network from June 28 to December 31, 1993 and on GameTV from January 3, 2011 to 2013. Taped at stage 40 of CBC's Vancouver studios, the show was hosted by Wayne Cox, with local radio personality Dean Hill as announcer.

Your Screen Test is an eight-week reality television series on the Rogers TV community channel in Ottawa, Ontario, which aired in 2007. Prospective contestants submit an audition tape or come into the Rogers TV studio to audition. Of those, ten people were selected to appear on the series. Viewers at home were then given an opportunity to vote for their favorite contestant. The top three vote getters made the cut, and the remaining seven contestants were chosen by the selection panel. Competitors chosen to participate compete in various challenges that highlight necessary TV skills - everything from preparation, interviewing, writing, ad-lib and dealing with a live audience. The winner receives their own four-episode television series, which aired in Fall 2007 on Rogers TV. Matt Demers was the first winner of the competition. His series of choice was Nighttime with Mr. Hollywood, a late-night talk show along the same lines as The Tonight Show and Late Show with David Letterman. It has not been determined if the show will continue on Rogers after the four scheduled episodes.

Commonwealth Jazz Club is a 1965 music television miniseries which was co-produced in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom.

The Man From Tomorrow was a Canadian science fiction adventure television series which aired on CBC Television in 1958.

Supertown Challenge was a Canadian comedy series, which aired from 1998 to 2000 on The Comedy Network. A spoof of game shows, the show featured contestants competing in a series of challenges for the right to have their hometown declared Canada's "supertown". The show starred Colin Mochrie as host Dick Powell and Jenny Parsons as judge Gwen Mason.

deafplanet is a Canadian television series for children in American Sign Language. It was created by marblemedia in collaboration with TVOntario and the Canadian Cultural Society of the Deaf. A French-language version of the show is also produced, using Quebec Sign Language. The TV series aired in Canada on provincial broadcasters TVOntario, Access, SCN and Knowledge.

Man Alive was a Canadian television series about faith and spirituality. It took its name from a poem by St. Irenaeus, a 2nd-century Bishop of Lyon who wrote: The glory of God is man fully alive, and the life of man is the vision of God. The program, debuted in 1967 on CBC Television, hosted by Roy Bonisteel for more than two decades. Bonisteel retired in 1989, and was replaced by Peter Downie who left in 1993. Arthur Kent succeeded Downie for one season, and then R. H. Thomson hosted until the show was canceled. Man Alive took a diverse non-denominational approach to religious and spiritual matters. The program covered a wide range of topics: nuclear war, UFOs, Holocaust survivors, sexual abuse, Third World development, family relationships, people with disabilities, the Vatican Bank scandal and profiles of religious figures such as Mother Teresa, Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama. After several seasons of co-productions with Vision TV and the Life Network, the last episode aired on CBC Television 17 December 2000.

Home Fires was a Canadian television drama series, which aired on CBC Television from 1980 to 1983. It was a family saga set in Toronto during World War II, and took its name from the expression "keep the home fires burning". The cast included Gerard Parkes, Kim Yaroshevskaya, Wendy Crewson, Peter Spence and Booth Savage.

Walter Ego was a Canadian television sitcom pilot, which aired on CBC Television on January 3, 2005. The show starred Peter Keleghan as cartoonist Walter Davis, whose friends and family often provide fodder for his successful comic strip. The cast also included Diane Flacks, Jackie Burroughs, and Charmion King. It was one of three sitcom pilots aired by the CBC, along with Getting Along Famously and Hatching, Matching and Dispatching, as a viewer response poll. Pilots that poll favourably will be developed into full series. The CBC previously employed this strategy with the shows Rideau Hall and An American in Canada. In the third episode, Keleghan's character is coaxed into an arm wrestling match with American tourist, Brad Plothow. Plothow was an actual tourist who had won a CBC "I'm Famous For A Day " contest, earning him the privilege to appear on the show as himself. As the scene unfolds, Plothow and Keleghan lock arms across a table with a midget referee controlling the action from a step stool. During an early take, Plothow's hand slips and knocks a spectator's chilidog onto Keleghan's shirt, angering Keleghan and prompting him to call Plothow a "momo". While several other takes were shot, Director Raz Shamaldahide decided to keep the chilidog take and rewrite the remainder of the episode because of the scene's spontaneity and humor.