# Web of Life

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| presenter            = [Ian McTaggart-Cowan](/source/Ian_McTaggart-Cowan)
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'''''Web of Life''''' is a [Canadian](/source/Television_in_Canada) nature television series which aired on [CBC Television](/source/CBC_Television) from 1959 to 1963.

==Premise==
This nature series was hosted by [University of British Columbia](/source/University_of_British_Columbia) zoology professor [Ian McTaggart-Cowan](/source/Ian_McTaggart-Cowan) and produced at [CBC Vancouver](/source/CBUT-DT). 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](/source/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](/source/Queen's_University_at_Kingston) | year=1996 | accessdate=7 May 2010}}

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Category:CBC Television original programming
Category:1959 Canadian television series debuts
Category:1963 Canadian television series endings
Category:Black-and-white Canadian television shows
Category:English-language Canadian television shows
Category:Nature educational television series
Category:Television shows filmed in Vancouver

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