The U.S. disk jockey Wolfman Jack came to the greater public's attention in the 1973 film American Graffiti and as the announcer for the television rock concert series, The Midnight Special. His Howl Productions co-produced The Wolfman Jack Show with the CBC in Vancouver. The producers booked foreign performers as well as Canadian musical artists, such as the Stampeders and Bachman-Turner Overdrive, and was intended to give Canadian artists an avenue into an international market. The program also featured regular performances by the Famous People Players, and comedy with Danny Wells, Peter Cullen, and Sally Sales.

Original air dates: Tue 7:30-8:00 p.m., 5 Oct 1976-13 Sep 1977

Opening show.

Item is a recording of the Wolfman Jack Show.

Item is a recording of a television special on Harry Belafonte.

Item is a recording of the Belafonte Canada television special.

Show featuring Colleen Peterson

Variety television show that aired between September 22, 1977 and September 12, 1980 and featured Canadian musical performers from across the country.

Item is a recording of an Edmonton episode of the Canadian Express series.

Item is a recording of show 8 from the Canadian Express series.

Item is a recording of the opening graphics for the Canadian Express series.

The last 10 minutes of the televised music special.

Item is of the last 10 minutes of the Zhao Gala.

Item consists of unedited footage of interviews between Patrick Watson and Harry Belafonte.

A 30 minute special with Don Francks from a 1964 episode of the CBC series Eye Opener.

Rich Little stars in a one-man retelling of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol".

A recurring special weekend broadcast that showcased many of Canada's international and up-and-coming stars, supported by well-known foreign talent. The Superspecials slot was the place for four annual Wayne and Shuster hour-long shows, as well as programs by the Irish Rovers and ballerina Karen Kain.

Item is a recording of a Jon Vickers concert in 1984.

Item is a recording of Duke Ellington.

File consists of various tapes of the television special "The Many Moods of Buffy Ste. Marie".

Item is a tape of a Buffy St. Marie program.

Item is a tape of a Buffy St. Marie program.

Item is a tape of a Buffy St. Marie program.

File consists of various reel-to-reel audio tapes of "The Blues" festival on 23 February 1966.

File consists of various reel-to-reel audio tapes from the television series "Black Hallelujah".

Item is reel two from the television series "Black Hallelujah".

File contains fourteen audio reels with recordings of interviews with Harry Belafonte and Patrick Watson.

Item is a recording of an interview with Harry Belafonte and Patrick Watson.

Item is a recording of the Barcelona Olympics.

Closing ceremonies for the XIV Olympic Winter Games held in Sarajevo, Bosnia, as recorded by ABC Sports, Olympic Special Projects.

Item is a production called "A Northern Light".

Item is a recording of Flin Flon variety.

Spanish telelvision series profiling musical acts.

Item is a recording of Dauphin variety.

Medal ceremony showing RCMP officers, close-up of medals, downtown Calgary, the torch relay, winners for the 20km Biathalon from East Germany, Italy, Canada, Norway, Sweden, Soviet Union (Ukraine), Switzerland.

Item is tape two of the Olympic closing ceremonies.

A 90 minute feature film documentary about the discover of lost art treasures for the NBC network in conjunction with Phil Stein/ Belafonte Productions. Filmed on location in Czechoslovakia, West Germany and Austria.

Episode of the Music Room featuring Harry Warren.

Presentation to the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission).

A one-woman broadway musical that ran from 1981-1983, adapted for television in a one hour special.

A one-woman broadway musical that ran from 1981-1983, adapted for television in a one hour special.

File contains productions by Insight/Indigo.

Item is reel one of two of a commercial.

File contains both preliminary and interim reports from the marketing company hired to work on the fundraising campaign for the charitable corporation Friday's Child.

File contains mission, statistics, marketing campaign and program for Friday's Child charitable corporation.

File contains two videocassette tapes and three textual documents under the "Realizing America's Hope Initiative To Help America Respond To The Challenges Facing Its Youth". The first videocassette includes two titles "All Our Children with Bill Moyers (90-minute documentary) and Responding to All My Children (60-minute panel discussion). The second videocassette includes "Investing in Our Youth ( 30-minute documentary), "Making the American Dream Come True for Our Children" (30-minute documentary) and "Making the American Dream Come True for Our Children" (60-minute teleconference).

File contains one television script - Lena Horne : The Lady and Her Music Routine (June 1982, RKO Pictures, 90 mins. ) by Executive producer Robert Many and Producer Bill Siegler, two RKO Pictures' promotional posters and one "Lena Horne: The Highlights" biography proposal compiled by Diane M. Giola. The success of Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, which opened at the Netherlander Theater on Broadway on May 12, 1981, and ran 333 performances, until June 30, 1982 (Horne's 65th birthday). Later that same week, the entire show was performed again and videotaped for television broadcast and home video release. The Lady and Her Music toured 41 cities in the U.S. and Canada through June 17, 1984. Lena Horne (1917 - 2010) was an African-American singer, actress, civil rights activist and dancer.

File contains "American Music : Through the Back Door" - a presentation by Richard and Frank Garcia. It is the title for a television series that will explore Blues, the cornerstone of American music.

File contains a proposal for a television show called, "Guitar Heroes". The proposal aims to pay tribute to the guitar over the course of "five extravaganza guitar concerts" including: Rock and Roll at the Hollywood Bowl, Jazz Guitar at Carnegie Hall, Country Guitar at The Grand Ole Opry, A Week of the Blues (Toronto) and hit Recordings.

File contains a script called, "Pioneer Oh Pioneers" by Rod Coneybeare. It tells the story of a reality show broadcast that follows two astronauts as they explore "Earth II" - a newly discovered planet.

File contains a short script with the written annotation "Bill-Bill Cosby". In addition to another file on There is no date or author affiliated with this typed document. The script is about a Chef named Bill who cooks for Santa and his elves with the help of crocodiles. The crocodiles' home swamp is threatened but The Mudslinger who wants to steal their mud for his Mud company. Bill sets out to foil the Mudslinger's plans with the help of children from around the world. See also, Story concept for a Musical. Please note that the poem "Alligator Pie" is attributed to Toronto-based poet, Dennis Lee, although there is no mention of his name in this document.

File contains one New years' Eve Show (1965) pages 1-43 and one Union Top Sheet pages 1-3. The concept of the show is "the world is now a goldfish bowl" in which the world has become smaller than it once was. The New Year's Eve show re-caps the events of the year through sketches, musical numbers and dancing.

File contains six transcribed segments of the Harry Belafonte television interview (1: 1-63, 2: 1-63, 3: 1-33, 4: 1-23, 5: 1-46 and 6: 1-40). Harry Belafonte is a Jamaican - American singer, actor and activist. The transcription includes directions and off-camera dialogue with director, camera man and producer, Paddy Sampson. Also included in the file is a copy of the Globe and Mail newspaper dated may 2nd, 1970. There is only one article about , Cleavon Little, Star of a Broadway musical and tony-award winner. The subject of the article could relate further to the Belafonte transcripts. The title of the article is " This year Hollywood isn't interested in the man who won the Tony" and Little is quoted as saying, "I'm trying to say I have not received a good offer to do a movie because I happen to be black."

File contains Paddy Sampson's files relating to the Sky Dome project. Included in the file are correspondences with Sky Dome Chairman, Paul Goddfrey, news clippings, the proposal for the Opening celebrations project, financial agreements between Goodman & Goodman, contract agreements and Sampson's participation certificate from Sky Dome. File also contains press clippings that explain public reaction to Sky Dome president, Chuck Magwood's, decision to open the dome during the celebrations despite rainy weather conditions. Additionally, a document called "Command Performance: a concept by Paddy Sampson (April 12th, 1988) outlines his goals and objectives as executive producer of the project. Sampson was the president of That's Show business Inc.

File contains correspondences with National Capital Commission (NCC) about working with Paddy for a special televised event ranging from 1985 to 1992. The National Capital Commission is a Crown corporation of the Government of Canada created by Parliament in 1959.

File contains publications by or about the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary., including 1986-87 National Teams Media Guide, Key to Calgary: Your Personal Guide to Calgary, Fourth team '88 Recognition Evening (March 25, 1988), The Olympic Movement, Champion: Canada's High Performance Amateur Sport Magazine (Winter 1998), Kodak Olympic Balloon Festival (September 1987) Agenda, Calgary Olympic Place (site of medal presentations), and CTV Olympic Broadcast notes.

File contains letters to the editor of such newspapers as the Calgary Herald, Globe and Mail and The Toronto Star. Some letters praise the opening ceremonies, Calgary and the winter Olympics, volunteers while others criticize the Western (stampede), representation of Canada.

Textual records from Belafonte enterprises, Inc. listing Large Blue Video Tapes (Tape # and Description of contents) dated from 1966 - 1981. Paddy Sampson wrote and or directed the Belafonte television special in Japan. He and Belafonte were life long friends and worked together many times in which Sampson either wrote or directed televised projects.

File contains photos from the CBC television special, The Blues. In 1966, CBC Television invited some of North America's greats blues performers to gather in a Toronto studio and record performances together and individually. The session lasted over three days and the results were originally televised as a 90-minute special of the CBC series, Festival. Festival aired from 1960-1970 and was CBC's home for performing arts programming. The Blues special became famous. It included the Muddy Waters Blues Band, Big Joe Williams, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Mabel Hillery, Sunnyland Slim, Willie Dixon and Jesse Fuller. Paddy Sampson produced the show and Barry Callaghan served as host.

File contains photograph of the cast, crew and production team for "Love and Mr. Smith" in Vancouver. Paddy Sampson is sitting in the centre right, second row up.

File contains two photographs (1) Paddy Sampson, Bette Laderoute Sampson and Willie Nelson in b/w (Aug 27, 1984) and (2) Paddy Sampson portrait in b/w (n.d.). In 1984 Nelson's album and single, City of New Orleans, was the number one song in Canada and the USA.

File contains three copies of CODA-The Canadian Jazz Magazine (May 1961, November 1962 and January 1963). CODA was founded in Toronto in May 1958 and is one of the longest continuously running music magazines in Canada and the oldest Jazz magazine in the country. CODA is published six times per year in January, March, May, July, September and November. In the May issue there is a paragraph titled "Suite for Jazz Quintet & Orchestra -Junior Magazine" (pg. 4). There is an annotation with "Paddy" next to the title. The article is about the "CBC's Junior Magazine on April 16th [1961] presented a program of contrast in music with Louis Applebaum moderating." It is a good review of the program. In the November issue there is a short paragraph the gives a bad review of the CBC's choice to show "Tongues of Brass" on New Year's Eve, a night typically reserved for " the most insignificant and unimportant programs- not something that has every indication of being high quality" (p. 8). This paragraph is circled in blue pen. The January 1963 issue contains a half-page article covering the "Tongues of Brass - C.B.C. TV December 31st". Despite the November 1962 article that expressed disappointment about the program's air time provides the show with a very positive review. The opening lines read, " Every once in a while jazz gets presented properly on TV. This was one of those occasions" (p. 4). The production received particular positive review, "Both the camera work and sound were excellent...This was one of the best jazz shows to have been shown on Canadian television. Everyone deserves credit foot a fine production" (p. 4).

File contains a collection of CBC Times Guide to CBC Radio-TV programs. The CBC Times is unique because it was only circulated internally to employees. Many of the collected issues feature projects by Paddy or feature articles about Paddy himself.

File contains miscellaneous press clippings, original and photocopies.

File contains mimeograph copies of news clippings and correspondence about The Duke and The Blues shows. Many of the items have been annotated in blue and black ink.

File contains press clippings about the CBC production of The Lonely Machine on Eye Opener based on a cartoon by Jules Feiffer with a performance by Rich Little.

File contains two press clipping items that review Paddy Sampson's half hour drama series.

Files contains notes about The Blues production including, set schedule, possible cast list of performers and profiles about each artist typed on York University letterhead.

File contains press clippings (photocopied) about Victor Borge's performance at the O'Keefe Theatre.

File contains news articles reviewing and highlighting many of Paddy Sampson's work from over the years. This is a collection of items curated by Paddy and some are highlighted, photocopied and others cut and pasted onto larger pieces of paper.

File contains three items including, one draft of the production contract for Rich Little's Robin Hood, preliminary estimated budget for Jeunesse Musicale and Toronto Program inventory for Program X.

File contains two film copies of the Eye Opener jazz music special starring Don Francks.

Montage of multiple news reports about the Spanish Civil War, produced by British Movietone. Original footage from 1937-1939. Film print date unknown.

Musical television special about Duke Ellington as part of the Festival television series. Shot in a Toronto studio, the show also features members of Ellington’s orchestra, singer Joya Sherrill and the dancer Bunny Briggs. The program is produced and directed by Paddy Sampson.

The four film reels are divided into Reel 1 and Reel 2 and each Reel has Print #1 and Print #2.

Item is a recording of the Wolfman Jack Show.

Item is a recording of the Belafonte at the O'Keefe television special.

Television series that aired from May-October 1976, featuring musical variety productions from CBC centres outside Toronto, two each from Vancouver, Montreal, Halifax, Edmonton, and St. John's. The programs were pilots for future CBC productions and featured local talents from each of the regions.

Item is a recording of a Toronto episode of the Canadian Express series.

Item is a recording of a Grant Smith special.

Item is a recording of the Ryan's Fancy from the Canadian Express series.

Item is a recording of a Grant Smith special from the Canadian Express series.

Interviews for a planned documentary dicussing issues of the life and times of Harry Belafonte, never completed or aired.

Item consists of unedited footage of interviews between Patrick Watson and Harry Belafonte.

Tommy Ambrose starred in his own half-hour show of music, variety, dance, and comedy under the title "The Best Of Tommy Ambrose."

Item is a recording of a Vanda King television special.

Performance and broadcast of a song called "Black Hallelujah" composed by Russ Little and Norm Symonds; a 60 minute gospel music version of the trial and crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

File contains recordings of the Jon Vickers concert from November 11, 1984.

Item is a tape of a Buffy St. Marie program.

Item is a tape of a master concert from a Buffy St. Marie program.

File consists of two reel-to-reel audio tapes from the 1969 "Show of the week: the 20's"". The reels are labelled as tape one and tape two.

Item is a recording of the musician Rob McConnell.

Item is a recording of an interview with Harry Belafonte and Patrick Watson.

Item is a recording of an interview with Harry Belafonte and Patrick Watson.

Item is a recording of an interview with Harry Belafonte and Patrick Watson.

Item is a recording of an interview with Harry Belafonte and Patrick Watson.

File contains two audio reels with recordings from the Tongues of Brass program.

File contains two audio reels with various recordings.

Item is a recording of Rob and Guido from the A La Carte program.