Saturday Night at the Movies

Saturday Night at the Movies was a weekly television series on TVOntario, the public educational television network in Ontario, Canada. The series presented classic movies, followed by interviews and feature segments with directors, actors and other people involved in making the films presented. The series presented almost 1,500 films and over 1,000 interviews.

First aired on March 30, 1974, the program was originally hosted by Elwy Yost. The first film shown was Ingmar Bergman’s Through a Glass Darkly. During Yost’s 25-year tenure as host, he showed a wide variety of foreign films, but tended to concentrate on Hollywood-produced films from the 1930s through the 1970s.