TV Series

Series Name:	Hockey Night In Canada (Molson Hockey Night In Canada / HNIC)
Format:	TV Series
IMDB:	IMDB Page
Years:	1952 - Now
Country:	Canada
Language:	English
Genre:	Sport
Rating:	Rate
Collection:	Seen It Wishlist
Community:	2 Have Seen
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Selected Cast	Ron MacLean
	Don Cherry
	George Stroumboulopoulos
	Dave Hodge
	Ward Cornell
	Foster Hewitt
	Howie Meeker

Notes

Longest-running series of any genre in Canadian history, preceded by a radio version that ran from 1931 to 1976.

Primarily associated with the CBC network, which uses this title for not only games broadcast in the traditional Saturday night time slot, but on other nights and daytime as well. Also used even if the games themselves are not played in Canada between Canadian teams. Between 1965 and 1975 the franchise was shared with CTV which broadcast games on Wednesday nights. In 2014, CBC lost exclusive rights to the program which was thereafter shared with the Sportsnet cable network.

The famous "Hockey Theme", considered by some to be Canada's second national anthem, was introduced in 1968 and was used until 2008 when the CBC lost the rights to it; since then the theme has been used for hockey broadcasts aired on CTV and its affiliate cable networks.

During the 1970s, the Hanna-Barbera studio produced Peter Puck, a series of animated minisodes explaining the rules of hockey that aired occasionally between periods; the cartoons have since been released as a standalone on DVD.

Comments and Reviews


23skidoo 31st Aug 2015		This series has had so many logos and early ones are hard to come by online, so I decided to go with the current logo. If anyone wants to replace it with an earlier one, though, I won't complain! Anyway, for Canada this is The Big One. I believe there's some law saying I'd have to forfeit my passport if I didn't include it in this index! LOL.

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