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'''''Homemade TV''''' is a [[Television in Canada|Canadian]] children's television series which aired on [[CBC Television]] from 1976 to 1977.
==Premise== This series featured comedy segments from the Homemade Theatre company ([[Barry Flatman]], [[Fred Mollin]], Larry Mollin, [[Phil Savath]]). Jed McKay, another company member, was not in the regular cast but served as series writer.
"The Big Story" was a feature sketch in each episode. Some segments were parodies of other films and plays such as "Pigmalion" (for ''[[Pygmalion (play)|Pygmalion]]'') and "Ricky" (instead of ''[[Rocky]]'').<ref>{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ngFHAAAAIBAJ&pg=5150%2C4221142 | title=Applauding Children's TV | date=29 November 1977 | newspaper=The Daily Reporter | location=Spencer, Iowa | accessdate=13 March 2011 }}</ref> Other sketches included the period piece "Rock 'n Romans", whose characters were Emperor Rollus and Roculuse, his slave. [[Quebec sovereignty movement|Quebec separatism]] was the focus of the bilingual sketch "Ouest Side Story".<ref name=CCF>{{cite web | url=http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/programming/television/programming_popup.php?id=1093 | first=John | last=Corcelli | date=August 2005 | title=Homemade TV | publisher=Canadian Communications Foundation | accessdate=7 May 2010 }}</ref> In its final run from October 1977, episodes featured a magazine structure, with the participation of children who submitted story ideas or who joined the cast on set.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=s05VAAAAIBAJ&pg=2284%2C4684429 | title=For young viewers | date=30 September 1977 | newspaper=Leader-Post | location=Regina | accessdate=13 March 2011 }}</ref> The children who joined the cast on set were selected from the Young People's Theatre acting school at which the members of the Homemade Theatre company taught.
Each episode began with the following voiceover: "It's 4:30. Do you know where your parents are?"
==Scheduling== The initial run of this half-hour series was broadcast weekdays at 4:30 p.m. (Eastern time) from 27 February to 26 March 1976. The second season aired weekly on Tuesdays at 5:00 p.m. from 2 November 1976 to 8 March 1977. Its third and final run was broadcast on Wednesdays at 4:00 p.m. from 5 October to 28 December 1977. Rebroadcasts were scheduled from June to August 1977 and from April to June 1978.
==Response== The series received an [[ACTRA Award]] nomination for Best Children's Television Program at the [[7th ACTRA Awards]] in 1978.<ref name=nominations>Bill Musselwhite, "Radio and television: Nellies". ''[[Calgary Herald]]'', March 22, 1978.</ref>
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==External links== * {{cite web | url=http://www.film.queensu.ca/CBC/Hob.html | first=Blaine | last=Allan | title=Homemade TV | publisher=[[Queen's University at Kingston|Queen's University]] | year=1996 | accessdate=7 May 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150205051731/http://www.film.queensu.ca/cbc/Hob.html | archive-date=5 February 2015 | url-status=dead }}
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