''Swingaround'' is a

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children's quiz television series which aired on

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from 1967 to 1970.

Premise

Contestants in this quiz show were Toronto-area

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school students. Quiz elements included

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questions and "Who Am I?" segments. The National Telephone Quiz segment was introduced in the second season in which the host called a student elsewhere in Canada to participate with a studio team for several questions. Doris Tennant was the series' coordinator.

Scheduling

The series began its first season as an eight-minute segment around 4:50 p.m. (Eastern time) from 12 September 1967. It followed episodes of '' Barney Boomer'' which from January 1968 became '' Upside Town''. ''Swingaround'' was lengthened to fill a 30-minute time slot from 26 April 1968, where it aired on Fridays at 4:30 p.m. until 7 June 1968. It moved to Tuesdays at 4:30 p.m. for its second full season from 1 October 1968 to 24 June 1969. Its third and final season ran from 30 September 1969 to 30 June 1970, also in the Tuesday 4:30 p.m. time slot.

References

External links

* {{cite web , url=http://www.film.queensu.ca/CBC/Sta.html , first=Blaine , last=Allan , title=Swingaround , publisher= Queen's University , 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 1967 Canadian television series debuts 1970 Canadian television series endings