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Children's Cinema
Genre children's film
Presented by Robert Homme
Country of origin Canada
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 6
Production
Running time 30–60 minutes
Release
Original network CBC Television
Original release 22 December 1969 (1969-12-22) – 28 June 1975 (1975-06-28)

Children's Cinema is a Canadian children's film television series which aired on CBC Television from 1969 to 1975.

Premise

Bob Homme (The Friendly Giant) hosted this series of films for children from Canada and other nations.

Scheduling

The initial series was run weekdays at 10:00 a.m. (North American Eastern time) for half-hour time slots during the Christmas holidays from 22 December 1969 to 2 January 1970. Regular season runs began October 1970 and were broadcast Saturdays at 1:00 p.m. (Eastern time) as follows:

Duration Season run
60 minutes 3 October 1970 17 April 1971
60 minutes 2 October 1971 8 April 1972
30 minutes 15 April 1972 30 June 1973
60 minutes 15 September 1973 6 April 1974
30 minutes 6 April 1974 6 July 1974
60 minutes 5 October 1974 28 June 1975
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