''The Things We See'' was a Canadian children's television series on the arts 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 July to September 1957.

Premise

Alan Jarvis, the National Gallery of Canada's director, hosted this series which encouraged viewers to examine ordinary objects for certain patterns, featuring items from the National Gallery. The series was named for Jarvis' 1947 book ''The Things We See – Indoors and Out''. Special postcards were sold to viewers to support the 11th episode's theme on colour, given that the CBC was limited to black-and-white broadcasts at that time.

Scheduling

12 episodes of this half-hour series were broadcast on Tuesdays 5:00 p.m. from 2 July to 24 September 1957.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Things We See CBC Television original programming 1957 Canadian television series debuts 1957 Canadian television series endings 1950s Canadian children's television series Black-and-white Canadian television shows