''Suzuki on Science'' is a

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science information television series which aired on

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from 1971 to 1972.

Premise

This marked the debut of

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science professor

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as a television series host and launched his career as a Canadian scientific broadcaster. This series on scientific subjects was produced by CBC Vancouver, with the initial pilot episodes reflecting Suzuki's specialty of

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. Later episodes concerned other areas of science.

Scheduling

This half-hour series began with a pilot run on Sundays at 2:00 p.m. (Eastern time) from 10 January to 14 February 1971. Another run was broadcast in the same time slot from 28 March to 27 June 1971. It continued in a Monday 10:00 p.m. time slot from 12 July to 20 September 1971. The final series run returned to its original Sunday afternoon time slot from 9 January to 26 March 1972.

References

External links

* {{cite web , url=http://www.film.queensu.ca/CBC/Sta.html , first=Blaine , last=Allan , title=Suzuki on Science , publisher=

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, year=1996 , accessdate=7 May 2010 , url-status=dead , archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140311070603/http://www.film.queensu.ca/CBC/Sta.html , archivedate=11 March 2014 CBC Television original programming 1971 Canadian television series debuts 1972 Canadian television series endings