Encounter 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...

 talk show 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 1960.

Premise

Nathan Cohen

Nathan Cohen

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 hosted this interview series with guests such as James Baldwin, Samuel Freedman

Samuel Freedman

Samuel Freedman, OC, QC , was a lawyer, judge, and Chief Justice of the Province of Manitoba .-Early life:Born on April 16, 1908, to Nathan and Ada Freedman in Zhytomyr, Russian Empire , Freedman moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada when he was three years old...

, John Kenneth Galbraith

John Kenneth Galbraith

John Kenneth "Ken" Galbraith , OC was a Canadian-American economist. He was a Keynesian and an institutionalist, a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism...

, Stanley Kramer

Stanley Kramer

Stanley Earl Kramer was an American film director and producer. Kramer was responsible for some of Hollywood's most famous "message" movies...

, Louis Kronenberger

Louis Kronenberger

Louis Kronenberger was an American critic and author. He was a novelist and biographer, and wrote extensively on drama and the 18th century.-Biography:He studied at the University of Cincinnati from 1921...

, Marshall McLuhan

Marshall McLuhan

Herbert Marshall McLuhan, CC was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar—a professor of English literature, a literary critic, a rhetorician, and a communication theorist...

, Karl Shapiro

Karl Shapiro

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 and E. W. R. Steacie (National Research Council president).

Scheduling

This half-hour series was broadcast on Sundays at 10:30 p.m. (Eastern) from 9 October to 18 December 1960. Encounter temporarily replaced Fighting Words

Fighting words

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, also hosted by Cohen.