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Series Name:	Saturday Night Wrestling
Format:	TV Series
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Country:	Canada
Language:	English
Genre:	Sport
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Community:	1 Has Seen
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Notes

Telecast by CBC Canada Saturday nights in the 1950s and possibly into the early 1960s.

Comments and Reviews


23skidoo 2nd Sep 2015		@George - I tracked down Vancouver Sun TV listings. They list wrestling on Saturday nights starting in June 1954, but the title of the program is Hollywood Pro Wrestling, so it might be a different show.



23skidoo 1st Sep 2015		Don't know yet about '59. CBC affiliates did tend to air their own programming so it could have kept running in the Toronto market longer than it did in, say, Vancouver, if it aired there at all.



George Slv 1st Sep 2015		The reference I read about it being filmed in Buffalo may be correct. If it ended in 1959 so be it.



23skidoo 1st Sep 2015		Google News' website is acting up so it's making it difficult to search their archive, but I have been able to track down a listing for Wrestling dated to January 1955 for CFQC, Saskatoon. Unfortunately CFQC only went on the air around Christmas 1954 and there aren't many Canadian newspapers (and nothing from Toronto) covering that year. Going the other direction I haven't seen any listings after 1959, but again I don't have access to Toronto papers.



23skidoo 1st Sep 2015		I've checked several Canadian TV history sites including the Canadian Communications Foundation and Queen's University's Film and Media pages. Bizarrely none of them list years for this thing. The CCF page has it listed under 1950 by default but the actual listing says mid-1950s. It's not even listed in the book "TV North" which is an otherwise exhaustive index of Canadian TV shows (and one of my main sources for this project). Making things even more confusing is there was a series of the same title produced out of the US during the same time frame. If time permits I'm going to check out Google News Archive's scans of Canadian newspapers and see if it's possible to glean some dates from TV listings.



George Slv 1st Sep 2015		Probably produced in Toronto. Canadian wrestling stars like Whipper Billy Watson, Gene Kiniski, Hard-Boiled Haggerty. There were also midgets, and native Indian wrestlers like Little Beaver. In fact I got to know him while living in Toronto in 1982.

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