The_Rovers_Comedy_House

<i>The Rovers Comedy House</i>

The Rovers Comedy House

Canadian TV series or program

The Rovers Comedy House is a Canadian variety television miniseries which aired on CBC Television in 1981.

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Premise

The Irish Rovers, who identified as The Rovers in the early 1980s, hosted this Vancouver-produced music and comedy variety series. George Millar of the group likened the series to an "Irish Hee-Haw." The series was backed by CBC Television after The Rovers starred in a highly rated October 1980 broadcast. The series was produced in Vancouver by Ken Gibson and directed by Michael Watt. Irish singer Jimmy Kennedy regularly portrayed a bartender on the series.[1]

Scheduling

This half-hour series was originally broadcast on Thursdays at 10:30 p.m. from 8 January to 19 February 1981. When a NABET strike affected the network that spring, the series was rebroadcast from 9 May to 13 June on Saturdays at 6:30 p.m., It was rebroadcast again in 1982, on Mondays at 7:30 p.m. from 24 to 31 May.[2]

Episodes and guests

References

  1. [1]
    "The Rovers plan music-comedy mix". Star-Phoenix. Saskatoon. 2 January 1981. p. Accent 3. Retrieved 25 December 2011.
  2. [2]
    Corcelli, John (November 2005). "The Rovers Comedy House". Canadian Communications Foundation. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
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