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Chez Hélène is a children's television series produced by and broadcast on CBC Television. The 15-minute weekday program was broadcast on the English television network to provide viewers with exposure to the French language. The program was produced at CBC's Montreal studios. It began its 14-season run on 26 October 1959, with the final ...
The Friendly Giant is a children's television program that aired on CBC Television from September 30, 1958, through to March 1985. It featured three main characters: a giant named Friendly (played by Bob Homme), who lived in a huge castle, along with his puppet animal friends Rusty (a rooster who played a harp, guitar, and accordion and lived in a book bag hung by the castle window), and ...
Hélène Baillargeon CM (1916–1997) was a Canadian singer, actor, and folklorist probably best known as the host of the CBC Television show Chez Hélène from 1959 to 1973. She was born in Saint-Martin, Quebec, on 28 August 1916 and studied singing in Quebec City and New York City and then in Montreal with Alfred La Liberté. [1]
Chez Denise was the first television show in Quebec to have a black character, [5] [6] played by Normand Brathwaite.According to the le Huffington Post Québec, certain scenes are a dubious "copy of American blackface", going so far as to have Brathwaite perform Al Jolson's "Swanee" in blackface in an episode. [7]
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This series was originally planned as Chez Jacques with host and folk singer Jacques Labrecque. He hosted one episode on 7 October 1957, but two weeks later the series was abruptly renamed Chez Nous where Labrecque was replaced by Baillargeon and Mills.