The run
- Network
- CBC
- Years active
- 1947–1975
- Surviving broadcasts
- 8
- Genre
- theatre
CBC Stage began in 1944 under producer Andrew Allan and ran for three decades on the Trans-Canada network. Only scattered productions survive in public hands, including a two-part Sweeney Todd, Heart of Darkness, and a 1949 Moby Dick with Lorne Greene as Ahab.
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
6 dated broadcasts across 29 years on the air, with 23 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1947, in original transmission order.
- 1. Sweeney Todd, Part One · 1 Jan 1947
- 2. Sweeney Todd, Part Two · 1 Jan 1947
- 3. Vanity Fair · 1 Jan 1947
Sweeney Todd, Part One
1 Jan 1947 · 30 min
CBC Stage, 1947. Andrew Allan's Sunday-night drama series on the CBC Trans-Canada network. Restored from the Internet Archive.
Sweeney Todd, Part Two
1 Jan 1947 · 29 min
CBC Stage, 1947. Andrew Allan's Sunday-night drama series on the CBC Trans-Canada network. Restored from the Internet Archive.
Vanity Fair
1 Jan 1947 · 59 min
CBC Stage, 1947. Andrew Allan's Sunday-night drama series on the CBC Trans-Canada network. Restored from the Internet Archive.
Moby Dick
1 Jan 1949 · 1h 1m
CBC Stage, 1949. Andrew Allan's Sunday-night drama series on the CBC Trans-Canada network. Starring Lorne Greene as Ahab. Restored from the Internet Archive.
Heart of Darkness
1 Jan 1951 · 57 min
CBC Stage, 1951. Andrew Allan's Sunday-night drama series on the CBC Trans-Canada network. Restored from the Internet Archive.
A Sense of Sin
1 Jan 1953 · 59 min
CBC Stage, 1953. Andrew Allan's Sunday-night drama series on the CBC Trans-Canada network. Restored from the Internet Archive.
The Investigator
1 Jan 1954 · 52 min
CBC Stage, 1954. Andrew Allan's Sunday-night drama series on the CBC Trans-Canada network. Restored from the Internet Archive.
Venus and the Magi
1 Jan 1975 · 53 min
CBC Stage, 1975. Andrew Allan's Sunday-night drama series on the CBC Trans-Canada network. Restored from the Internet Archive.
Also on CBC
CBC in 1947–1975
Other series the network carried while CBC Stage was on the air.
Same seasons
theatre on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
Theatre of the mind
Full-cast drama with a live orchestra and a studio full of sound effects. Lux Radio Theater and the CBS Radio Workshop are the direct ancestors of scripted podcast fiction.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of CBC Stage
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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