''Moment of Truth'' is a Canadian serial drama television series that aired on
CBC Television
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from 1964 to 1965, and on
NBC
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in the United States in 1965.
Premise
The series was set in Ontario where clinical psychologist Dr. Robert Wallace (
Douglass Watson
Larkin Douglass Watson III (February 24, 1921 – May 1, 1989) was an American actor. He was best known for his portrayal of Mac Cory on the daytime soap opera '' Another World''.
Life and career
Watson was born in Jackson, Georgia, the so ...
) not only operated a private practice but taught his subject field at the local university. His wife Nancy (Louise King) and their children Johnny (Michael Dodds) and Sheila (Barbara Pierce) were also primary series characters. Other characters included Lila (Sandra Scott) who was Nancy's sister, Eric Brandt (
John Horton), Dexter Elliot (
Chris Wiggins
Christopher John Wiggins (January 13, 1931 – February 19, 2017) was a Canadian actor.
Career
Wiggins was born January 13, 1931, in Blackpool, England. He started out as a banker in his home country before he began his acting career in Canada ...
), Linda Harris (Anna Hagan), Dean Hogarth (
Cec Linder
Cecil Yekuthial Linder (March 10, 1921 – April 10, 1992) was a Polish-born Canadian film and television actor. He was Jewish and managed to escape Poland before the Holocaust. In the 1950s and 1960s, he worked extensively in the United Kingdom, ...
), Walter Leeds (Robert Goodier), Wilma Leeds (Lynne Gorman), Jack Williams (Stephen Levy) and Carol Williams (
Toby Tarnow
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). Doctor characters included Vincent Conway (
Peter Donat
Peter Donat (born Pierre Collingwood Donat; January 20, 1928 – September 10, 2018) was a Canadian-American actor.
Early life
Pierre Collingwood Donat was born in Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada, the son of Marie (née Bardet) and Philip Ernst ...
), Russell Wingate (
Ivor Barry
Ivor Barry (12 April 1919 – 12 December 2006) was a Welsh film and television actor.
Born in South Wales, Barry served with the British Royal Artillery during World War II and completed his university studies prior to beginning his ac ...
) and Gil Bennett (John Bethune). As many as 60 different characters could be seen during a week of the series.
Production
''Moment of Truth'' was recorded at
Robert Lawrence Productions
Robert Lawrence is an American film producer and former studio executive.
Early life
Lawrence was born in New York City and grew up in Great Neck, New York.
Lawrence graduated with honors from the University of California, Berkeley and then at ...
in Toronto and produced by John Trent. Clare Kennedy wrote the early episodes.
Scheduling
This half-hour series was broadcast weekday afternoons at varying times from 28 December 1964 to 11 November 1965.
NBC also purchased the series for broadcast in the United States from 4 January to 5 November 1965. It was replaced by ''
Days of Our Lives
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''.
See also
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''High Hopes'' (1978)
References
External links
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CBC Television original programming
1964 Canadian television series debuts
1969 Canadian television series endings
Black-and-white Canadian television shows
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