An odd ball program that I am not sure many people can appreciate or even remember let alone enjoy would be ‘Saturday Night At The Movies - with Elwy Yost’ … it was TVO (TV Ontario public broacaster)

I grew up in norther Ontario in a small community in the 80s and we had three channels … CBC was always on, a pirated movie channel that could come on at random times and disappear at different times and TVO with all its dull programming (dull I thought at the time as a kid but now realize how much I gained from watching all of it)

Saturday Night At The Movies through osmosis introduced me to lots and lots of old classics, film noir, actors, directors and characters from the Golden Age of cinema. Yost was also an amazing host because he was so passionate about movies when he talked to everyone that came on his show. I still remember him interviewing sound guys, lighting guys, back stage hands, editors and writers and just asking them questions about what they thought about famous actors they worked with like Hepburn, Grant, Bogart and all the rest. And then they would show a classic old film.

I was bored as a kid with TV and just about every Saturday, I sat down and watched these old films thinking they were dumb … but over the years, I got to enjoy them. Now I love them like Yost did and now whenever I see anything in black and white, I think of those Saturday Night at the movies. I developed a love for old classic films and it was because of one man’s passion … what an amazing character.

Definitely great Canadian entertainment for me.