Silver Screen Classics
Canada
Silver Screen Classics is a television channel available to viewers in Canada, focusing primarily on films from earlier decades of cinema history. Its programming typically draws from Hollywood’s golden age through the mid-20th century, featuring a range of genres including drama, comedy, film noir, and musicals. The channel also occasionally presents classic documentaries and vintage serials that align with its retro film library. Broadcasts are in English, and the schedule is organized around themed movie blocks rather than live news or talk segments. Silver Screen Classics can be accessed through standard cable and satellite television packages across the country.
Programme
06:30 - 08:00
The Devil Bat
Movie, Horror
Dr. Paul Carruthers (Bela Lugosi) is frustrated because he thinks his employers, Mary Heath (Suzanne Kaaren) and Henry Morton (Guy Usher), have cheated him out of the company's profits. He decides to get revenge by altering bats to grow twice their normal size and training them...
08:00 - 08:30
True North Classics
Entertainment
The best in short film from the 1930s to 1960s.
08:30 - 09:00
Postcards From Canada
Documentary
Images of the East Coast and Canadian Winters.
09:00 - 09:30
Retrola: Canada's Time Machine
Entertainment
Images of Canadians doing various activities throughout history.
09:30 - 10:00
Classroom Classics
Series, Entertainment
What About Juvenile Delinquency and The Procrastinator.
10:00 - 11:00
Lux Radio Theatre
Blood and Sand
Series, Anthology, Performing arts, Theater
An illiterate peasant becomes a rich and famous matador; starring Tyrone Power and Annabella.
11:00 - 11:30
True North Classics
Entertainment
The best in short film from the 1930s to 1960s.
11:30 - 12:00
Dr. Ho Talks
Dr. Ho's Motion Ciser No Price
Series, Health, Talk
The solution for chronic or acute back pain relief.
12:00 - 13:00
Lux Radio Theatre
City For Conquest
Series, Anthology, Performing arts, Theater
A truck driver and a dancer fall in love, but ambition comes between them; starring Alice Faye.
13:00 - 14:00
Lux Radio Theatre
The Lady Eve
Series, Anthology, Performing arts, Theater
A pair of card sharks target the socially awkward son of a millionaire; starring Barbara Stanwyck.
14:00 - 14:30
Classroom Classics
Series, Entertainment
Dating Dos and Don'ts and Developing Self Reliance.
14:30 - 15:00
Retrola: Canada's Time Machine
Images of Country Living & Weddings
Series, Entertainment
Images.
15:00 - 15:30
Postcards From Canada
Documentary
Images of the East Coast and Canadian Winters.
15:30 - 16:00
True North Classics
Entertainment
The best in short film from the 1930s to 1960s.
16:00 - 17:30
The Devil Bat
Movie, Horror
Dr. Paul Carruthers (Bela Lugosi) is frustrated because he thinks his employers, Mary Heath (Suzanne Kaaren) and Henry Morton (Guy Usher), have cheated him out of the company's profits. He decides to get revenge by altering bats to grow twice their normal size and training them...
17:30 - 19:30
The Phantom From 10,000 Leagues
Movie, Science fiction
When a postmortem finds that a murdered fisherman was exposed to unusual amounts of radiation, Dr. Ted Stevens (Kent Taylor) decides to investigate. Out looking for clues, he meets a young beauty named Lois (Cathy Downs), whose father, Professor King (Michael Whalen), runs a...
19:30 - 21:30
It's Alive!
Movie, Horror
Leaving their son, Chris (Daniel Holzman), with a family friend (William Wellman Jr.), Frank (John P. Ryan) and Lenore Davis (Sharon Farrell) head to the hospital for the birth of their second child -- which turns out to be a mutant who kills many doctors and nurses as it...
21:30 - 23:30
The Phantom From 10,000 Leagues
Movie, Science fiction
When a postmortem finds that a murdered fisherman was exposed to unusual amounts of radiation, Dr. Ted Stevens (Kent Taylor) decides to investigate. Out looking for clues, he meets a young beauty named Lois (Cathy Downs), whose father, Professor King (Michael Whalen), runs a...
23:30 - 01:00
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Movie, Horror
Scientist Dr. Henry Jekyll (John Barrymore) is intelligent and diligent, but also uptight and extremely serious about his work. When his friend, Sir George Carew (Brandon Hurst), takes him to a show featuring the sensual Miss Gina (Nita Naldi), an aroused Jekyll sets out on a...