A Month of Sundays (miniseries)

A Month of Sundays
Presented by	Harry Brown
Country of origin	Canada
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	4
Production
Running time	180 minutes
Original release
Network	CBC Television
Release	25 January – 15 February 1981

A Month of Sundays was a Canadian film anthology television miniseries which aired on CBC Television in 1981.

Premise

Each episode consisted of various films according to a theme, as hosted by Harry Brown.

Episodes

The films were presented during a three-hour time slot at 2:00 p.m. (Eastern) from 25 January to 15 February 1981.

1. 25 January 1981: Films on the theme of war were broadcast: the World War I drama "Bravery in the Field", the World War II documentary "For King And Country" (an excerpt from The Days Before Yesterday), "The Last Corvette" featuring the HMCS Sackville and "Six War Years" by Barry Broadfoot which was previously developed for CBC's Performance series.

1. 1 February 1981: Films on women writers were featured, namely "Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Road to Green Gables", another documentary about the Anne of Green Gables musical itself, and "The Garden and the Cage" about Gabrielle Roy and Marie-Claire Blais.

1. 8 February 1981: This week's theme concerned flying. Snow geese were featured on "Flight of the Snows", aviation's history was featured on "Man Aloft", and "Whiskey Whiskey Papa" profiled various pilots.

1. 15 February 1981: Winter was the theme of the final programme including scenes from Winterlude in Ottawa and "The Dawson Patrol", a 1978 dramatization of an ill-fated 1910 Royal Northwest Mounted Police journey towards Dawson city.

External links

• Allan, Blaine (1996). "A Month of Sundays". Queen's University. Archived from the original on 11 March 2010. Retrieved 7 May 2010. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)