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The Doug Crosley Show

Canadian television program

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ7730756 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Doug Crosley Show is a Canadian music variety television series which aired on CBC Television in 1973.

Premise

Doug Crosley had appeared in stage productions and on television series such as Juliette. For his own 1973 series, Crosley adopted country music styles in contrast to the traditional show tunes he previously performed.

Regular series bands were the Dave Shaw Orchestra and country group Humphrey and the Dumptrucks. Singlers Liliane Stillwell and Sherisse Laurence were additional series performers.

Scheduling

This half-hour series was broadcast Saturdays at 7:00 p.m. (Eastern) from 16 June to 21 July 1973.

References

External links

Allan, Blaine (1996). "The Doug Crosley Show". Queen's University.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “The Doug Crosley Show” as canadian television program. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1973, 1996—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Doug, Crosley and Show can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as canadian television program. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7730756. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1973 and 1996.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Doug Crosley Show” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.