To See Ourselves

To See Ourselves is a Canadian drama anthology television series which originally aired on CBC Television from 1971 to 1973.

Premise The film drama series was a successor to Theatre Canada (1970). Episodes consisted of new works and adaptations of short stories. Writing was provided by both emerging and established Canadian writers such as Bryan Barney, Shirley Faessler (Can I Count You In?), David French, Stephen Leacock, W. O. Mitchell, Alice Munro, Thomas Raddall, Mordecai Richler (Mortimer Griffin and Shalinsky And How They Settled The Jewish Question), Sinclair Ross (The Painted Door), and D. O. Spettigue (Pity The Poor Piper).

Directors included René Bonnière, Don Owen, Peter Carter, Allan King (Mortimer Griffin and Shalinsky And How They Settled The Jewish Question), Paul Lynch (The Painted Door) and Grahame Woods.

Scheduling

This half-hour series was broadcast as follows (times in Eastern):

DayTimeSeason runNotesThursday9:30 p.m.23 September 197116 December 1971Friday10:00 p.m.22 September 197222 December 1972Thursday9:30 p.m.5 July 197327 September 1973Wednesday8:30 p.m.3 October 197326 December 1973

Rebroadcasts were aired on various occasions from May 1974 until September 1975.

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