On an April night in 1955, I was one of two dozen people who stuffed themselves into a small Toronto living room to watch a small television set for two hours. We were crowded together because in 1955 most people had no TV set of their own. Was CBC television elitist in those early years, as MPs in Ottawa often charged? Undoubtedly, TV drama is the best it has ever been. RelatedThe Jewel in the Crown, a Granada Television series about the dying days of British rule in India, based on Paul Scott’s the Raj Quartet, turned out to be another highly attractive import.

Source: National Post September 13, 2016 16:41 UTC