''The Living Sea'' is a Canadian nature television series 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 ...

from 1957 to 1962.

Premise

University of British Columbia zoology professor

Ian McTaggart-Cowan Ian McTaggart-Cowan (June 25, 1910 – April 18, 2010) was a Scottish-Canadian zoologist, conservation movement, conservationist, and television presenter. He has been called "the father of Canadian ecology". He was the brother of meteorologist P ...

hosted this series on marine life, both plants and animals.

Scheduling

This half-hour series was initially broadcast for one season on Sunday afternoons from 7 July to 13 October 1957, then resumed 5 January to 30 March 1958. Episodes were rebroadcast on Wednesdays at 5:30 p.m. from 4 July to 19 September 1962 under the supervision of Tom Connachie.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Living Sea CBC Television original programming 1957 Canadian television series debuts 1958 Canadian television series endings Black-and-white Canadian television shows Nature educational television series Television shows filmed in Vancouver