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market (where American broadcast signals could be received from across the border), General Motors pulled out and the show disappeared for two years. It returned in 1958 after
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First transmitted under the sponsored title on October 5, 1954, a new 60-minute drama was aired each week. As suggested by the title, the program was sponsored by the
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from October 5 to November 2, 1958. The series mainly consisted of one-hour episodes of romance, adventure, or mystery stories, with some social realist drama plays.
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The show was one of the first Canadian programs to be sold to an American network. ABC had planned to air 39 episodes of the series but aired only five. Renamed
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For its final run in the summer of 1961, the series had not the originally-produced dramas but broadcasts of a bought-in British anthology series called
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were among those who appeared in plays produced in the strand. The series also supported the earlier careers of many Canadian actors, such as
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Following some concerns, the series moved to a Sunday evening slot in 1956, where it had competed with the
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under various titles from September 18, 1952, until January 1, 1961, and in the US on
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moving to work in the UK, where he later worked on anthology series similar to
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automobile company. It was effectively the same series as the unsponsored
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The series was a breeding ground for writing and directing talent such as
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in the United Kingdom. It was a significant factor in
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Index

Ford Television Theatre
Ford Theatre (disambiguation)
Anthology
Drama
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
CBC Television
television
television plays
CBC Television
ABC
Austin Willis
Patrick Macnee
Barry Morse
William Shatner
James Doohan
Flight into Danger
William Kotcheff
Donald Jack
Arthur Hailey
feature film
Zero Hour!
Airplane!
BBC
Sydney Newman
Armchair Theatre
The Wednesday Play
General Motors
General Motors
American
CBS

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