CBC
27 shows, 28 sequences, oldest first.
9 of these moved between networks during their run and appear under each one.
1 sequenceHockey 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 sequenceMr. 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 sequenceThe Beachcombers
1972–1990CBCDrama
Log salvage on the British Columbia coast, and the longest-running dramatic series Canadian television has made.
- Season 14
1 sequenceKing 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 sequenceDegrassi 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 sequenceThe 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 sequenceDegrassi High
1989–1991CBCDrama
The Degrassi cast moved up to secondary school, and the point the series stopped softening anything.
- Season 1
2 sequencesRoad 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 sequenceThe 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 sequenceRoyal 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 sequenceTheodore Tugboat
1993–2001CBCAnimation
Model tugboats in Halifax harbour, narrated for years by Denny Doherty of the Mamas and the Papas.
- Season 1
1 sequenceLittle 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 sequenceDa Vinci's Inquest
1998–2005CBCCrime
A Vancouver coroner written from the real one, who later became the city's mayor.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNanalan'
1998–2004CBCAnimation
A puppet toddler spends the day at her grandmother's, filmed at grass height.
- Season 1
1 sequenceRolie Polie Olie
1998–2004CBC / Playhouse DisneyAnimation
A world of robots built entirely out of spheres and cylinders, computer-animated in Toronto.
- Season 1
1 sequenceDragon 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 sequenceZoboomafoo
1999–2001PBS Kids / CBCDocumentary
The Kratt brothers and a leaping lemur, teaching natural history to an audience too young to read.
- Season 1
1 sequenceHeartland
2007–CBCDrama
A family ranch in Alberta, and the longest-running one-hour drama in Canadian television.
- Seasons 1–3
1 sequenceLittle 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 sequenceMurdoch Mysteries
2008–Citytv / CBCCrime
A Toronto detective in the 1890s using methods the era has not invented yet, past twenty seasons.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBeing Erica
2009–2011CBCDrama
A therapist sending his patient back to her own regrets, one per session.
- Season 1
1 sequenceRepublic of Doyle
2010–2014CBCCrime
A father-and-son detective agency in St. John's, Newfoundland.
- Season 1
1 sequenceSchitt'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 sequenceBaroness 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 sequenceKim'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 sequenceAnne with an E
2017–2019CBC / NetflixDrama
Prince Edward Island in stop-motion paper and pressed flowers, over The Tragically Hip.
- Season 1
1 sequenceFrankie Drake Mysteries
2017–2021CBCCrime
Toronto's only female private detective in the 1920s, from the Murdoch Mysteries producers.
- Season 1