Toronto Star Star Week Newspaper Clipping from 1976

On the 13th of this month I took a look back at the old SF television series Space:1999. While looking for a particular file this morning I noticed a clipping that should have been included. While undertaking some research through the Toronto Star online archives last year, I stumbled upon an issue of that paper's then television-listings magazine, Star Week. Given that this then young teen was still a regular television viewer in 1976, I figured a peruse would bring back memories.

Space:1999 was given a full coast-to-coast network run by the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) in its 1976/77 television season. The Ceeb promoted the heck out of its new fall lineup. Based on the quick series of clips, Space looked "souped-up" (as I described it at the time). I had been a little disappointed in that show's first year. Year Two was a bit different and, as it turned out, better... and I'm guessing the CBC's program-buyers felt the same way.

(In my television market, southern Ontario, and many other markets, actually, Commander Koenig and his Crashing Eagles were, for the most part, relegated to Saturday mornings ― which is how I saw it: 10:30 on CKVR, "Channel 3", a CBC affiliate.)

The clip above is from Saturday, September 18, 1976. Look for the 5:00 listing. I did. By the way, the episode that day, if memory serves, was either "The Metamorph", the show's Year Two premiere episode, or the immediate follow-up, "The Exiles". (The CBC had kicked off the proceedings by running Space:1999's series-premiere episode "Breakaway". I had no need to see it again, but that scheduling move made sense in that it set up the show for those viewers who didn't know the series premise. However, it's possible that that spectacular, but claustrophobic and single-minded, episode turned them off from coming back!)

Anyway, that's enough of that; I'm no longer a wide-eyed television-watching teen, but a cynical adult who hasn't even bothered to hook up his television aerial.

The good news is, I'm getting better at 'file management'.

Postscript: Note that at 2:30pm, Channel 10 ran the feature film It Came from Outer Space (1953). Far out!