Drop-In

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{{Use Canadian English|date=June 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2023}} {{Infobox television | image = | caption = | alt_name = | genre = Youth variety | creator = | writer = | director = | creative_director = | developer = | presenter = | starring = | voices = | narrator = | theme_music_composer = | open_theme = | end_theme = | composer = | country = Canada | language = English | num_seasons = 4 | num_episodes = | list_episodes = | executive_producer = | producer = | editor = | location = | cinematography = | camera = | runtime = 30 minutes | network = CBC Television | first_aired = {{start date|1970|9|28|df=y}} | last_aired = {{end date|1974}} | related = {{Plainlist| * ''Dress Rehearsal'' }} }} '''''Drop-In''''' is a Canadian television series for youth broadcast on CBC Television from 28 September 1970 to 1974. Various hosts were featured throughout the course of the series to present a variety of topics.

The show was broadcast three times per week in the 1970–1971 season. This was increased to four times per week in the following year.<ref>{{cite news | last=Blaik Kirby | page=21 | title=Are TV cartoons giving way to children's public affairs? | date=3 July 1971 | newspaper=The Globe and Mail|location=Toronto}}</ref>

== ''Dress Rehearsal'' == Prior to the fall launch of the series, eight preview episodes were aired on CBC Television beginning 7 July 1970. These were entitled '''''Dress Rehearsal''''', but otherwise featured hosts such as Susan Conway, Lynne Griffin, Nina Keogh, and Rex Hagon, who would be seen on the regular series from that October. Conway and Hagon had previously appeared together as child actors on the Canadian dramatic television series "The Forest Rangers".

The first season was taped entirely in Toronto. For its second and subsequent seasons ''Drop In'''s format changed to one where episodes were produced locally in several Canadian cities, with local children as hosts.<ref>{{cite news | last=James Bawden | page=13 | title=Pet Mania makes moving film (last part of article) | date=8 July 1970 | newspaper=The Globe and Mail|location=Toronto}}</ref>

== Hosts == Partial list of hosts, who appeared with inconsistent frequency throughout the series: * Hub Beaudry * Jeffrey Cohen * Susan Conway * Christopher Dean * Lynne Griffin * Rex Hagon * Dean Keitel * Nina Keogh * Debbie Perret * Pat Rose * Jeannie Wright * Tommy Wright * Daniel Stepchuk * Jeffrey LeClair

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== External links == * [https://www.queensu.ca/filmandmedia/sites/fmwww/files/uploaded_files/DR_0.pdf Queen's University Directory of CBC Television Series: ''Drop-In'' (page 9)] *[https://www.queensu.ca/filmandmedia/sites/fmwww/files/uploaded_files/DR_0.pdf Queen's University Directory of CBC Television Series: ''Dress Rehearsal'' (page 8)] * {{IMDb title | id=0341746 | title=Drop-In }}

Category:1970 Canadian television series debuts Category:1974 Canadian television series endings Category:CBC Television original programming Category:1970s Canadian children's television series Category:English-language Canadian television shows