Document 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...

 documentary 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...

 from 1962 to 1969.

Production

The first executive producers for this series were Patrick Watson
Douglas Leiterman

Douglas Leiterman

Douglas Leiterman is a former Canadian television producer.He was born in 1927 in South Porcupine, Ontario. He has a brother, cinematographer Richard Leiterman, and a sister, Elaine Campbell, who is married to producer Norman Campbell....

. Their intention was to air a documentary approximately each month to provide a detailed treatment of a subject. By the second season of Document, Leiterman became executive producer on This Hour Has Seven Days and concentrated his work on that series. Watson became a host of Document at that time. Richard Nielsen became executive producer during the final episodes.

Scheduling

This series appeared on occasional random days and times from 16 September 1962 to 27 May 1969. It was given a monthly schedule in 1965 as a mid-year replacement for This Hour Has Seven Days

This Hour Has Seven Days

This Hour Has Seven Days is a controversial CBC Television newsmagazine which ran from 1964 to 1966. The show, inspired by the BBC-TV and NBC-TV satire series That Was The Week That Was, was created by Patrick Watson and Douglas Leiterman as an avenue for a more stimulating and boundary-pushing...

 in its Sunday night time slot.

Episodes

Episodes of Document included:

• 16 September 1962: "The Servant of All" (Beryl Fox and Douglas Leiterman producers)
• 6 March 1963: "Joshua, a Nigerian Portrait" (Allan King producer)
• 21 March 1963: "The Pull To The South"
• 28 July 1963: "The Balance of Terror" (Fox, Leiterman)
• 26 November 1963: "The Peacemakers" (King)
• 15 December 1963: "The Quiet Takeover" (Leiterman), concerning computers
• 25 March 1964: "The Chief" (Fox, Leiterman), about John Diefenbaker
  John Diefenbaker
  John George Diefenbaker, PC, CH, QC was the 13th Prime Minister of Canada, serving from June 21, 1957, to April 22, 1963...
  
  
• 20 April 1964: "Bjorn's Inferno" (King), about poet Bjorn Halverson
• 20 May 1964: "The Image Makers", about American and Canadian public relations
• 13 December 1964: "The Single Woman and the Double Standard" (Fox)
• 27 December 1964: "Richard and Lillian: Two Portraits"
• 31 January 1965: rebroadcast of "The Chief"
• 28 March 1965: "Strike: Man Against Computers" (Larry Zolf)
• 7 November 1965: "At the Moment of Impact" (Jim Carney)
• 5 December 1965: "Mills of the Gods" (Fox), on Vietnam war
• 26 December 1965: "Joan Baez
  Joan Baez
  Joan Chandos Baez is an American folk singer, songwriter, musician and a prominent activist in the fields of human rights, peace and environmental justice....
  
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• 23 January 1966: "A Sense of Captivity" (Ross McLean), regarding the Canadian prison system
• 27 February 1966: "The Story of Sandy"
• 24 April 1966: "How To Go Out Of Your Mind", regarding the Millbrook experiments involving LSD
• 22 September 1968: "No Balm in Gilead"
• 17 November 1968: "Resurrection City" (Robert Hoyt director), regarding the Poor People's Campaign
  Poor People's Campaign
  Organized by Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Poor People's Campaign addressed the issues of economic justice and housing for the poor in the United States King said, “We believe the highest patriotism demands the ending of the war and the opening of a...
  
  
• 23 February 1969: "Occupation"
• 13 April 1969: "Violence" (James Shaw, John David Hamilton)
• 27 May 1969: "If I Don't Agree, Must I Go Away?" (Peter Pearson)

Reception

The Toronto Telegram

Toronto Telegram

The Toronto Evening Telegram was a conservative, broadsheet afternoon newspaper published in Toronto from 1876 to 1971. It had a reputation for supporting the Conservative Party at both the federal and provincial level. The paper competed with the liberal Toronto Star...

s Chester Bloom expressed criticism of bias over the broadcast of "The Servant of All" episode of 16 September 1962. Bloom's politics sided with the Progressive Conservative party

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

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