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'''''Festival''''' (initially titled '''''Festival '61''''') is a [[Television in Canada|Canadian]] entertainment anthology television series which aired on [[CBC Television]] from 1960 to 1969.

==Premise==
CBC Television aired dramatic and musical anthology series such as ''Scope'' and ''Folio'' during the 1950s. Robert Allen, a producer on ''Folio'', became supervising producer of the new ''Festival'' series.<ref name=QU>{{cite web | url=https://www.queensu.ca/filmandmedia/sites/webpublish.queensu.ca.fmwww/files/files/FABLES%20OF%20LaFONTAINE.pdf | first=Blaine | last=Allan | title=Festival | publisher=[[Queen's University at Kingston|Queen's University]] | year=1996 | accessdate=9 July 2018}}</ref><ref name=WTWY271>{{cite book | title=When Television Was Young: Primetime Canada 1952-1967 | url=https://archive.org/details/whentelevisionwa0000ruth | url-access=registration | first=Paul | last=Rutherford | publisher=[[University of Toronto Press]] | isbn=0-8020-5830-2 | page=[https://archive.org/details/whentelevisionwa0000ruth/page/271 271] | year=1990 }}</ref>

==Production==
The production cost of a typical ''Festival'' drama show was approximately $45,000 in 1961, among the highest production costs of CBC programming at the time.<ref name=WTWY276>{{cite book | title=When Television Was Young: Primetime Canada 1952-1967 | url=https://archive.org/details/whentelevisionwa0000ruth | url-access=registration | first=Paul | last=Rutherford | publisher=[[University of Toronto Press]] | isbn=0-8020-5830-2 | page=[https://archive.org/details/whentelevisionwa0000ruth/page/276 276] | year=1990 }}</ref> Productions such as a ballet performance or a Gilbert and Sullivan play could cost $60,000 for CBC.<ref name=WTWY276 />

==Scheduling==
This series was broadcast as follows:

{|class="wikitable"
!Day
!Time
!colspan="2"|Season run
!Duration (minutes)
|-
|Monday
|9:30&nbsp;p.m.
|10 October 1960
|19 June 1961
|60-90
|-
|Monday
|9:30&nbsp;p.m.
|2 October 1961
|11 June 1962
|60-90
|-
|Monday
|9:30&nbsp;p.m.
|1 October 1962
|20 May 1963
|60-135
|-
|Wednesday
|9:30&nbsp;p.m.
|2 October 1963
|24 June 1964
|90
|-
|Wednesday
|9:30&nbsp;p.m.
|7 October 1964
|30 June 1965
|30
|-
|Wednesday
|9:30&nbsp;p.m.
|15 September 1965
|6 July 1966
|30
|-
|Wednesday
|9:30&nbsp;p.m.
|14 September 1966
|10 May 1967
|90
|-
|Wednesday
|9:30&nbsp;p.m.
|4 October 1967
|8 May 1968
|90
|-
|Wednesday
|9:30&nbsp;p.m.
|30 October 1968
|26 March 1969
|90
|}

==Seasons==

===1960-61===

''Festival'' was pre-empted some weeks with such programming as specials from the ''Omnibus'' or ''Hall of Fame'' series, or by sports (hockey, football), or by other special programs.

{{:Festival (Canadian TV series)/1960-61 season}}

===1961-62===

The program was simply billed as ''Festival'' in its second season. Most pre-empted weeks were for special episodes of ''[[Camera Canada]]''.

{{:Festival (Canadian TV series)/1961-62 season}}

===1962-63===

Weeks not indicated were pre-empted by special broadcasts such as ''Camera Canada'' or ''The Telephone Hour''. [[1963 Canadian federal election|National election coverage]] pre-empted ''Festival'' on 8 April 1963.

{{:Festival (Canadian TV series)/1962-63 season}}

===1963-64===

Weeks not indicated were pre-empted by special broadcasts such as ''Camera Canada'', ''Horizon'' or ''Intertel''. NHL hockey playoffs pre-empted ''Festival'' on 8 April 1964.

{{:Festival (Canadian TV series)/1963-64 season}}

<!-- 1964-1969 seasons still to do -->

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0348926}}

[[Category:CBC Television original programming]]
[[Category:1960 Canadian television series debuts]]
[[Category:1969 Canadian television series endings]]
[[Category:1960s Canadian anthology television series]]