Cabbages and Kings is a Canadian

Television in Canada

Television in Canada officially began with the opening of the nation's first television stations in Montreal and Toronto in 1952. As with most media in Canada, the television industry, and the television programming available in that country, are strongly influenced by the American media, perhaps...

 panel discussion television series which aired on CBC Television

CBC Television

CBC Television is a Canadian television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster.Although the CBC is supported by public funding, the television network supplements this funding with commercial advertising revenue, in contrast to CBC Radio which are...

 in 1955.

Premise

This Vancouver-produced series featured topics such as broadcasting with radio host Jack Webster

Jack Webster

John Edgar "Jack" Webster, CM was a Scottish-born Canadian journalist, radio and television personality.-Life in the United Kingdom:...

 and lawyer Bill McConnell. Northrop Frye

Northrop Frye

Herman Northrop Frye, was a Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, considered one of the most influential of the 20th century....

 was featured on an episode about national reading habits. The topic of crime was discussed by McConnel, Roderick Haig-Brown

Roderick Haig-Brown

Roderick Haig-Brown was a Canadian writer and conservationist.-Early life:Born in Lancing, Sussex, England his father, Alan Haig-Brown, was a teacher and a prolific writer who published hundreds of articles and poems on sports, the military and educational issues in various periodicals...

and prison warden Hugh Christie. The show's moderator was Arthur Phelps.

Scheduling

This half hour series was broadcast Wednesdays at 10:30 p.m. (Eastern) from 6 July to 27 September 1955.