Part 1 of 3: This Hour Has Seven Days -- The Background

In the mid-sixties, young people -- and many older people who sympathized with them -- challenged the Established Order. In 1964, two experienced and eloquent CBC producers, Douglas Leiterman and Patrick Watson, both in their thirties, by no means hotheads, proposed to the CBC's Department of Public Affairs a weekly magazine program carefully designed to become "mandatory viewing" for all Canadians and that would capture the spirit of the times. The newly formed private network CTV was beginning to compete with the CBC, and Management was pleased to give its approval with high hopes.

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• Eric Koch
• Reeves Haggan
• Laurier La Pierre
• Douglas Leiterman
• Patrick Watson
• Dinah Christie
• Mavor Moore
• This Hour Has Seven Days
• That Was the Week That Was
• Edward R. Murrow
• Senator Joseph McCarthy
• CBC