''Over the Line Fence'' is a Canadian agricultural documentary television series which aired on

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in 1956.

Premise

This series featured aspects of agricultural and rural life. Episodes included relevant documentary films. It was produced by Murray Creed of CBC's Farm Department. He later produced ''Country Calendar'' (now '' Country Canada'') and ''

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''.

Scheduling

This half-hour series was broadcast Saturdays at 5:00 p.m. from 30 June to 22 September 1956. The debut episode on 30 June 1956 featured the 1953 NFB documentary film "The World at Your Feet" about soil and plant growth. Other episodes concerned fishing, Scottish sheep ranching and Western Canadian wheat production (7 July).

References

External links

* {{cite web , url=http://www.film.queensu.ca/CBC/One.html , first=Blaine , last=Allan , title=Over the Line Fence , publisher= Queen's University , year=1996 , accessdate=7 May 2010 , url-status=dead , archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150601000000/http://www.film.queensu.ca/CBC/One.html , archivedate=1 June 2015 , df=dmy-all CBC Television original programming 1956 Canadian television series debuts 1956 Canadian television series endings 1950s Canadian documentary television series Black-and-white Canadian television shows