Program X [SEP] original network
Program X
Program X is a Canadian anthology television series which aired on CBC Television from 1970 to 1973.
Premise.
Various entertainment works were presented in this series whose limited budget was $5000 to $7000 per episode. A goal of the series was to encourage works by new writers and to allow for some experimental works.
CBC management originally intended to combine "Program X" with another new production, "Canadian Short Stories", to form a common "Theatre Canada" series despite the radically different
series lacked the sophistication of sci-fi shows like the later "X Minus One", it was enjoyed as a throwback to the Golden Age of space opera popularized in the 1930s by pioneering magazine editor Hugo Gernsback. Only 117 of the original broadcasts survive. 97 are on the OTR site and a few others on torrent sites.
Production.
"Space Patrol" was the first West Coast morning network program broadcast to the East Coast, via a massive network of cable and electronic interchanges. The program was televised