General Motors Theatre

General Motors Theatre
Also known as
CBC Theatre
Encounter
Ford Television Theatre
General Motors Presents
GenreAnthology, Drama
Country of originCanada and United States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons6 (5 original, 1 year of UK programme called Interplay)
Production
Production locationToronto, Ontario, Canada
Running time60 minutes
Original release
NetworkCBC Television
Release
  • 18 September 1952 (1952-09-18) – 1 January 1961 (1961-01-01)
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General Motors Theatre (also known as CBC Theatre, Encounter, Ford Television Theatre, and General Motors Presents) was a Canadian television anthology drama series of television plays, which ran on CBC Television under various titles from September 18, 1952, until January 1, 1961, and in the US on ABC from October 5 to November 2, 1958.[1] The series mainly consisted of one-hour episodes of romance, adventure, or mystery stories, with some social realist drama plays.

  1. ^ Alex McNeil, Total Television, (New York: Penguin Publishers, 1996), p. 258