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'''''Web of Life''''' is a Canadian nature television series which aired on CBC Television from 1959 to 1963.

==Premise== This nature series was hosted by University of British Columbia zoology professor Ian McTaggart-Cowan and produced at CBC Vancouver. Episodes used film recorded in the Arctic, the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, Uganda, the American south and in the series home province (British Columbia).<ref name=CCF>{{cite web | url=http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/programming/television/programming_popup.php?id=1034 | first=John | last=Corcelli |date = May 2005| title=Web of Life | publisher=Canadian Communications Foundation | accessdate=7 May 2010 }}</ref>

Episodes of ''Web of Life'' were purchased by Granada Television for British television audiences.<ref name=WTWY>{{cite book | title=When Television Was Young: Primetime Canada 1952–1967 | url=https://archive.org/details/whentelevisionwa0000ruth | url-access=registration | first=Paul | last=Rutherford | publisher=University of Toronto Press | isbn=0-8020-5830-2 | page=[https://archive.org/details/whentelevisionwa0000ruth/page/70 70] | year=1990 }}</ref>

==Scheduling== This half-hour series was broadcast in four runs from 1959 to 1963, except 1962, as follows (times in North American Eastern zone):

{|class="wikitable" !Day !Time !colspan="2"|Season run |- |Sundays |3:30&nbsp;p.m. |10 October 1959 |3 January 1960 |- |Sundays |3:30&nbsp;p.m. |3 April 1960 |26 Jun 1960 |- |Fridays |5:30&nbsp;p.m. |14 May 1961 |26 August 1961 |- |Fridays |5:30&nbsp;p.m. |19 April 1963 |28 September 1963 |}

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== * {{Cite web | url=http://www.film.queensu.ca/CBC/W.html | first=Blaine | last=Allan | title=Web of Life | publisher=Queen's University | year=1996 | accessdate=7 May 2010}}

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