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27 shows, 28 sequences, oldest first.

9 of these moved between networks during their run and appear under each one.

1 sequence

Hockey Night in Canada

1952–CBC / SportsnetDocumentary

A theme so embedded that when the CBC lost the rights to it in 2008 the story led the national news.

  • Season 70
1 sequence

Mr. Dressup

1967–1996CBCComedy

A tickle trunk, two puppets and twenty-nine years of the same man drawing on a pad — Canada's answer to Mister Rogers, made by a man who worked on it.

  • Season 19
1 sequence

The Beachcombers

1972–1990CBCDrama

Log salvage on the British Columbia coast, and the longest-running dramatic series Canadian television has made.

  • Season 14
1 sequence

King of Kensington

1975–1980CBCComedy

A Toronto corner-shop owner in the Kensington Market, and the sitcom a fifth of the country watched.

  • Season 2
1 sequence

Degrassi Junior High

1987–1989CBCDrama

The Canadian schools series that cast actual teenagers and let them look like it, and the start of a franchise still running.

  • Season 1
1 sequence

The Kids in the Hall

1988–1995CBC / HBOComedy

Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet playing surf rock over five men in a doorway — a sketch show whose theme became more famous than most of its sketches.

  • Season 1
1 sequence

Degrassi High

1989–1991CBCDrama

The Degrassi cast moved up to secondary school, and the point the series stopped softening anything.

  • Season 1
2 sequences

Road to Avonlea

1990–1996CBCDrama

Montgomery's Prince Edward Island stories, made by the CBC with Disney paying half the bill.

  • Season 1
  • Season 5
1 sequence

The Red Green Show

1991–2006CHCH-TV / CBCComedy

A lodge of middle-aged Canadian men and the duct tape with which they solve everything.

  • Season 1
1 sequence

Royal Canadian Air Farce

1993–2008CBCComedy

A radio sketch troupe of twenty years' standing moved to television, and kept there for fifteen more.

  • Season 1
1 sequence

Theodore Tugboat

1993–2001CBCAnimation

Model tugboats in Halifax harbour, narrated for years by Denny Doherty of the Mamas and the Papas.

  • Season 1
1 sequence

Little Bear

1995–2001CBC / Nick Jr.Animation

Maurice Sendak's drawings animated in no hurry whatever, and about the quietest programme Nick Jr. ever ran.

  • Season 1
1 sequence

Da Vinci's Inquest

1998–2005CBCCrime

A Vancouver coroner written from the real one, who later became the city's mayor.

  • Season 1
1 sequence

Nanalan'

1998–2004CBCAnimation

A puppet toddler spends the day at her grandmother's, filmed at grass height.

  • Season 1
1 sequence

Rolie Polie Olie

1998–2004CBC / Playhouse DisneyAnimation

A world of robots built entirely out of spheres and cylinders, computer-animated in Toronto.

  • Season 1
1 sequence

Dragon Tales

1999–2005PBS Kids / CBCAnimation

Two children who reach a dragon world by reciting a rhyme over a scale they find in a toy box.

  • Season 1
1 sequence

Zoboomafoo

1999–2001PBS Kids / CBCDocumentary

The Kratt brothers and a leaping lemur, teaching natural history to an audience too young to read.

  • Season 1
1 sequence

Heartland

2007–CBCDrama

A family ranch in Alberta, and the longest-running one-hour drama in Canadian television.

  • Seasons 1–3
1 sequence

Little Mosque on the Prairie

2007–2012CBCComedy

A Muslim congregation renting a prairie church hall, in a sitcom that became Canada's most exported comedy.

  • Season 4
1 sequence

Murdoch Mysteries

2008–Citytv / CBCCrime

A Toronto detective in the 1890s using methods the era has not invented yet, past twenty seasons.

  • Season 1
1 sequence

Being Erica

2009–2011CBCDrama

A therapist sending his patient back to her own regrets, one per session.

  • Season 1
1 sequence

Republic of Doyle

2010–2014CBCCrime

A father-and-son detective agency in St. John's, Newfoundland.

  • Season 1
1 sequence

Schitt's Creek

2015–2020CBCComedy

A motel sign and a town crest, in the register of a place that has never once considered how its name reads.

  • Season 1
1 sequence

Baroness von Sketch Show

2016–2021CBCComedy

Four women writing and performing every sketch, with no host, no studio audience and no linking material.

  • Season 1
1 sequence

Kim's Convenience

2016–2021CBCComedy

A Korean-Canadian family running a Toronto corner shop, adapted from the play by the man who wrote it.

  • Season 1
1 sequence

Anne with an E

2017–2019CBC / NetflixDrama

Prince Edward Island in stop-motion paper and pressed flowers, over The Tragically Hip.

  • Season 1
1 sequence

Frankie Drake Mysteries

2017–2021CBCCrime

Toronto's only female private detective in the 1920s, from the Murdoch Mysteries producers.

  • Season 1