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remembering the "baby blue"

RBW

RBW

It's Friday... and it's after midnight... which reminded me of when I was a teenager back in the 1970's. This is when CITY-tv (then on ch. 79) Toronto used to show the "Baby Blue" movies on Friday nights. Soft core porn at its WORST! Their ONLY sponsor as I recall was a furier (sp?) so they played the same ad at every break! I remember the movies caused quite a stir back then, and heard of potential viewers in western NY who used to go to great lengths to try to pick up the signal each week.

Is anyone else as old as me and can remember those un-edited days on Toronto TV? ;D

don't be shy
 
I used to have a copy of a Dolphin Productions demo video tape that had the open of Baby Blue on it. Pretty provocative for the times.
I did actually see the show once while visiting Toronto in the early 70's. As I remember it, it was quite a treat for me and my girl friend at the time in our motel room. I am now just across "The Big Lake" from Toronto and had an antenna on my house. I could get some Canadian stations but not CITY. I e-mailed their engineer and he said they were directional so I would not be able to get CITY. He seemed disappointed about it.
 
I remember not the Baby Blue movie on CITY-TV but the Cine Nuit Bleu on Television Quatre-Saisons (TQS) on Friday and/or Saturday night when visiting Montreal.

Women could be topless, we could see a couple "doing it" but the camera would not shoot below their waists.

Of course, as an American I was amazed that Canadian TV permitted all sorts of language. In CBC News, the "s" word can be used. (One political observer saying a certain elected official wouldn't tolerate any b.s., but using the real words.) And at night, shows are not censored for any sort of language.

After seeing Cine Nuit Bleu I thought the relaxed attitude was more about French culture. Same thing with the large number of bars around Montreal and its suburbs featuring "Danseuse Nues," both female and male in some places. Didn't know Blue Movies were seen in Toronto as well.





Gregg
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The CITY-TV movies had a bit of a cult following in Western, NY around 1974-5. There were stories of couples driving up to the lake shore with portable TVs in their cars on Friday nights to pick up the Channel 79 signal from across the lake. I am told the films were very soft core, but did include topless nudity and occasional full frontal. As a teenager living southeast of Rochester on a hilltop, I could DX some of the Toronto stations from time-to-time, but nailed 79 only once (sadly, though, not when a late movie was on!). Around the same time, CKGN-22 -- one of the first Global stations, then in Uxbridge -- would boom into Rochester after WXXI (21) signed off. Though they didn't show porn movies, their late night fare at the time included mature-themed indy movies with explicit language, mostly Canadian made, that were quite interesting.
 
I have this picture of every teenage guy in Greater Rochester climbing water towers and telephone poles, trying to position directional yagi arrays from Radio Shack for a shot at Channel 79
 
Of course, as an American I was amazed that Canadian TV permitted all sorts of language. In CBC News, the "s" word can be used. (One political observer saying a certain elected official wouldn't tolerate any b.s., but using the real words.) And at night, shows are not censored for any sort of language.
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Yes, Canadian TV has always been more "relaxed" to language etc, than US TV. I live in NY now, but I know when CTV ran The Sopranos, always at 10pm I believe, they broke for ads as always, but never edited the episodes for content (language, violence, nudity etc.) They often ran 5-15 min into the 11pm hour as well. And I remember CITY (in its present day) running movies (along-side a U.S. net) but not editing for language.
 
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