''Document'' is a Canadian documentary television series that aired once a month on
CBC Television
CBC Television (also known as CBC TV) is a Canadian English-language broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster. The network began operations on September 6, 1952. Its French-l ...
from 1962 to 1969.
This innovative series featured various documentaries, employing both
direct cinema and traditional
documentary techniques.
The series, appearing on occasional random days and times, was given a monthly schedule in 1965 as a mid-year replacement for ''This Hour Has Seven Days''.
The ''
Toronto Telegram
''The Toronto Evening Telegram'' was a conservative, broadsheet afternoon newspaper published in Toronto from 1876 to 1971. It had a reputation for supporting the Conservative Party at the federal and the provincial levels. The paper competed wit ...
''s Chester Bloom expressed criticism of bias over the broadcast of "The Servant of All" episode of September 16, 1962. Bloom's politics sided with the
Progressive Conservative party.
Production
The first executive producers for this series were
Patrick Watson and
Douglas Leiterman, whose intention was to air a documentary approximately each month to provide a detailed treatment of a subject. By the second season, Leiterman became executive producer on ''
This Hour Has Seven Days
''This Hour Has Seven Days'' was a CBC Television news magazine that ran from 1964 to 1966, offering viewers in-depth analysis of the major social and political stories of the previous week.
The show, inspired by the BBC and NBC-TV satire seri ...
'' and focused his attention on that series; Watson became a host of ''Document'' at that time.
Richard Nielsen became executive producer during the final episodes.
Episodes
References
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CBC Television original programming
1962 Canadian television series debuts
1969 Canadian television series endings