The Sunshine Hour [SEP] original network
The Sunshine Hour
The Sunshine Hour is a Canadian music variety television series which aired on CBC Television in 1976.
Premise.
Jim Bennet, Tom Gallant and Gloria Kaye starred in this mid-season replacement for "The Tommy Hunter Show". The series house band was led by Paul Mason. Comedy sketches were performed by Andrea Martin, Joe Flaherty and Eugene Levy ("Second City Television"). Visiting artists included Debbie Lori Kaye, Mary Ann McDonald, David Michaels and Marg Osburne.
Scheduling.
season. Five episodes of "Sunshine" were later combined into a feature-length movie called "My Sweet Lady" which was widely circulated in England, Japan and Australia, resulting in the characters becoming better known in those countries than they were in the United States. 
In 1977, NBC took the unusual step of reuniting the original cast of the cancelled series for a two-hour holiday television film, "Sunshine Christmas", which the network first aired on December 12, 1977. In the movie, Sam