On the Spot
Season 2
40 episodes
Episode 1
School for Charm
No overview available.
Episode 2
Dresden Story
The citizens of Dresden, Ontario, Canada speak their minds about racial problems in their community.
Episode 3
Story of a Newspaper
No overview available.
Episode 4
Laurentian Skiing
No overview available.
Episode 5
Test Pilot
In this short documentary, Fred Davis visits the De Havilland Aircraft factory in Toronto. He interviews two test pilots, talks to one of their wives, and goes for a ride in a new Beaver airplane.
Episode 6
The Strong Man
No overview available.
Episode 7
Threshermen’s Reunion
No overview available.
Episode 8
Survival in the Bush
The producer of "On the Spot", a cameraman, and skilled woodsman Angus Baptiste are left in the bush with nothing but an axe (plus a camera and a microphone).
Episode 9
The Traffic Cop
No overview available.
Episode 10
Javanese Dancing
No overview available.
Episode 11
On Leave in Tokyo
No overview available.
Episode 12
Police Club for Boys
No overview available.
Episode 13
Artist in Montreal
This short film introduces us to the "automatistes," followers of an abstract art form that developed in Montreal. The movement, initiated by Paul-Émile Borduas, is explained by the artists themselves when narrator Bruce Ruddick drops in at their cooperative studio. The film also captures painter Paterson Ewen at his home and joins the crowd at L'Échouerie, the artists' rendezvous spot. Dr. Robert Hubbard, chief curator of the National Gallery of Canada, comments on non-objective art in general and automatism in particular.
Episode 14
Hidden Power
No overview available.
Episode 15
Movies in the Mill
No overview available.
Episode 16
Judo - Jinks
How--and how not--to get thrown for a loop is demonstrated as Fred Davis visits the gymnasium of the Kano Judo Club in Hull, Québec. The story starts with a pretty girl in a park who proves that judo is not entirely a male preserve. Fred interviews Bernard Gauthier, judo instructor, and gets the history of judo as a sport and some demonstrations of the art.
Episode 17
Chinese Canadians
No overview available.
Episode 18
Food and Drug Patrol
What is on the spot is the Food and Drug section of the Department of National Health and Welfare, a Canadian governmental agency. Ensuring the health and safety of Canadians, the Food and Drug section deals not only with those items listed in its name but also cosmetics. That work also includes efficacy in ensuring that any claims made by manufacturers is actually what a product does when used as directed. An actual case of a little girl ingesting a toxic amount of fluoride through a contaminated chocolate bar is dramatized, staff at the Food and Drug Directorate who have to go through the painstaking process of determining the cause of her illness, and locating its source so that it can be dealt with and that no one else gets sick from it. The work of the actual inspections unit of the Directorate is then presented. The consumer protection side of the coin concludes the presentation in discussing the work of the non-profit Canadian Association of Consumers.
Episode 19
Korea, After the War
Fred Davis takes a look at Korea in 1954, and gives a sobering account of the realities of war as they affect the Korean population. He sees the primary industries of agriculture and fishing in ruins, towns and villages destroyed, thousands of homeless and orphaned children left to survive as best they may. At the docks of Inchon harbour, previously the landing base for United Nations troops, Davis interviews two officers of UNKRA (United Nations Korean Relief Administration) and learns about this organization's aid program in war-torn Korea.
Episode 20
Aviation Medicine
No overview available.
Episode 21
End of Tour
No overview available.
Episode 22
Auto Production
No overview available.
Episode 23
Chosen Children
No overview available.
Episode 24
Workshop for Science
No overview available.
Episode 25
Better Business Bureau
No overview available.
Episode 26
Camera Men
In this film, On the Spot series host Fred Davis sets out to learn about the art of photography. Amateur, commercial, news and portrait photographers discuss the tricks of their trade when Davis pays them a visit: Louis Jacques does a photo story on pianist Oscar Peterson, while Ottawa's Yousuf Karsh explains how he clicks the shutter at famous people and, illustrating his point, snaps Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent’s portrait.
Episode 27
The Magnificent
No overview available.
Episode 28
How to Climb a Mountain
In this short documentary vignette, members of the Alpine Club of Canada display their skill and talk to host Fred Davis about why they climb.
Episode 29
The Doll Factory
No overview available.
Episode 30
Deep Sleep
No overview available.
Episode 31
The Car Mart
No overview available.
Episode 32
Cancer Clinic
No overview available.
Episode 33
Bureau of Missing Persons
No overview available.
Episode 34
Curtain Time in Ottawa
No overview available.
Episode 35
Harness Racing
No overview available.
Episode 36
French Cuisine
No overview available.
Episode 37
The Magic Men
No overview available.
Episode 38
Micro Movies
No overview available.
Episode 39
Montreal Fire Department
No overview available.
Episode 40
Vancouver's Chinatown
No overview available.
