TV Series

Series Name:	Stampede Wrestling
Format:	TV Series
IMDB:	IMDB Page
Years:	1957 - 1989
Country:	Canada
Language:	English
Genre:	Sport
Rating:	Rate
Collection:	Seen It Wishlist
Community:	2 Have Seen
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Selected Cast	Ed Whalen as Host
	Stu Hart

Notes

A predecessor to the WWE and other televised professional wrestling programs, this series was based out of Calgary, Canada and was promoted by wrestling patriarch Stu Hart. Many wrestlers who went on to fame in the WWF/WWE and professional wrestling in general got their start on this series.

Comments and Reviews


23skidoo 31st Aug 2015		I know we have people around the world editing this site. I'd be interested in hearing if anyone recalls seeing this outside Canada. Ed Whelan told me once that he was visiting the Middle East and somehow a station had gotten hold of some bootleg copies of the show and were airing them, so this thing gets around. Apparently the archives of this show are now held by the WWE so I hope someday they put out some DVDs or make episodes available online. Here's a clip from one of the final seasons featuring its iconic theme music. I used to work alongside his co-host Jim Davies too (he was another newspaper columnist). EDIT: Video might not play embedded on this site, but it should play fine on YouTube directly.



23skidoo 16th Aug 2015		@George Siv. According to the Queen's Film and Media database the CBC aired a show in the 1950s called Saturday Night Wrestling in a late-night time slot (post-11 PM). May not be the same show you're thinking of as this one was broadcast from Toronto. No dates are given beyond "early 1950s" making this one of the earlier CBC TV shows.



George Slv 2nd Aug 2015		Now what was that wrestling show shown Saturday evenings in Canada late 50s on CBC? I believe based in Buffalo. Whipper Billy Watson, Hard-Boiled Haggerty, etc.



23skidoo 26th Jun 2015		This was the show that started it all. Years before Wreslemania, Ed Whalen (who was a local sportscaster in Calgary the rest of the week) was hosting this iconic CANADIAN series. I'm proud to say I not only met Ed (R.I.P.) a number of times, I technically worked with him because he wrote a column for a Calgary newspaper at the same time I worked there. His catchphrases "It's a ring-a-ding-dong-dandy!" and "In the meantime and in-between time" still stand the test of time. This show had no budget, no sexy Divas, no soap opera-like plots. It was just down-and-dirty pro wrestling, without frills.

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