Canadian
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...
children's television series
Children's television series (or children's television shows) are television programs designed for children, normally scheduled for broadcast during the morning and afternoon when children are awake. They can sometimes run during the early evenin ...
which aired 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 ...
in 1960.
Premise
Mary Grannan
Mary Evelyn Grannan (11 February 1900 – 3 January 1975) was a Canadian children's writer and radio personality. She wrote and performed in programs for children on CBC Radio and CBC Television between 1938 and 1962. Stories broadcast on her r ...
narrated stories based on her ''Just Mary'' books in this Toronto-produced series while
puppet
A puppet is an object, often resembling a human, animal or Legendary creature, mythical figure, that is animated or manipulated by a person called a puppeteer. The puppeteer uses movements of their hands, arms, or control devices such as rods ...
s and human actors performed the storylines. Actors seen in the series included Barbara Hamilton and
Toby Tarnow
Toby Tarnow (born June 15, 1937, in Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan, Canada) is a Canadian actress. She was the first actress to portray the popular Anne Shirley of Anne of Green Gables in Canadian radio then in Canadian television in a 1956 televisi ...
, while voices for puppets operated by John and Linda Keogh were provided by actors such as
Roberta Maxwell
Roberta Farnham Maxwell (born June 17, 1941) is a Canadian stage, film, and television actress.
Biography
Maxwell began studying for the stage in her early teens. She joined John Clark (actor/director), John Clark for two years as the child co ...
,
Douglas Rain
Douglas James Rain (March 13, 1928 – November 11, 2018) was a Canadian actor and narrator. Although primarily a stage actor, he is perhaps best known for his voicing of the HAL 9000 computer in the film '' 2001: A Space Odyssey'' (1968) and i ...
,
Pauline Rennie
Pauline Rennie, is a Canadian voice actress whose career included voice roles on ''Care Bears''. Rennie, who hails from Toronto, provided the voice of Fizgerald Fieldmouse on ''Maggie Muggins'', as well as voices on Mary Grannan's follow-up 1960 ...
and
Ruth Springford
Margaret Ruth Springford (September 1921 November 20, 2010) was a Canadian radio, stage, television and film actress.