Eye Opener (Canadian TV series)
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Genreexperimental drama
Country of originCanada
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
| Eye Opener | |
|---|---|
| Genre | experimental drama |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 12 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Mario Prizek |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | CBC Television |
| Release | 5 January – 23 March 1965 |
Eye Opener is a Canadian experimental drama television series which aired on CBC Television in 1965.
Scheduling
This half-hour series was broadcast on Tuesdays at 10:30 p.m. (Eastern) from 5 January to 23 March 1965.
Episodes
- 5 January 1965: The Blind Eye and the Deaf Ear (Melwyn Breen producer; Leslie MacFarlane writer), concerning the Kitty Genovese murder in New York City; starring Bill Brydon, Maureen Fitzgerald, Cosette Lee, Jane Mallett, Aileen Seaton and John Vernon
- 12 January 1965: The Black Madonna (George McCowan producer; Muriel Spark story; Barrie Hale adaptation), starring Bill Glover, Mel Scott and Hilary Vernon
- 19 January 1965: A Borderline Case (Mario Prizek producer), starring Chicago's The Second City performers in sketches about Canada as seen by Americans
- 2 February 1965: Hear Me Talkin' To Ya (Paddy Sampson producer; Don Francks writer; Ron Collier music), a "jazz oratorio"
- 9 February 1965: Uhu. . . Huh? (George Bloomfield producer), included sketches by Harold Pinter and N. F. Simpson, starring Len Birman, Helen Burns and Jennifer Phipps
- 16 February 1965: The Tulip Garden (Mario Prizek producer; George Ryga writer)
- 23 February 1965: Blossoms, Butterflies, and Bombs, concerning war and peace, illustrated by three animated sketches
- 2 March 1965: eastern European sketches Playthings from Poland, Boomerang from Yugoslavia and The Red Trace from Czechoslovakia
- 2 March 1965: The Trial of Joseph Brodsky (Stan Jacobson producer and adaptation), concerning Brodsky's struggles in the Soviet Union, starring Frances Hyland, Martin Lavut and Cosette Lee[2]
- 9 March 1965: Sarah and the Sax (Mario Prizek producer; Lewis John Carlino writer), starring Sophia Reinglas and Mel Scott
- 16 March 1965: The Golden Bull of Boredom (Mario Prizek producer; Lorees Yerby writer), starring Budd Knapp and Paul Massie
- 23 March 1965: The Lonely Machine (Paddy Sampson producer; Jules Feiffer story; Sampson and Norm Symonds adaptation), based on the Feiffer cartoon, starring Rich Little
On 26 January 1965, Eye Opener was pre-empted by Wall of Ice, an hour-long documentary about a Canadian expedition to Denali.[3]
The Dutchman, a drama on racial relations by Leroi Jones, was planned for broadcast on Eye Opener, but there was no confirmation whether this production was cancelled or televised.[4]