The Great Canadian Escape

The Great Canadian Escape is a Canadian outdoor instructional television miniseries which aired on CBC Television in 1977.

The Great Canadian Escape
Genre	outdoor instructional
Presented by	Russ Thornberry John Wells
Country of origin	Canada
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	8
Production
Production location	Edmonton
Running time	30 minutes
Original release
Network	CBC Television
Release	16 July (1977-07-16) – 17 September 1977 (1977-09-17)

Premise

This series demonstrated techniques for various outdoors activities such as backpacking, camping, canoeing and fishing. John Wells, a broadcaster, hosted this series with Edmonton Journal columnist Russ Thornberry.^[1]

Scheduling

This half-hour series was broadcast on Saturdays at 4:00 p.m. from 16 July to 17 September 1977.