Cannonball "Shock" Original air date Dec 29 1958
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The Cannonball TV show was a 30 minute Canadian adventure/drama series that aired on CBC and in syndication in the U.S. It was about the lives of truckers Mike Malone and Jerry Austin as they moved freight throughout Canada and the United States.
Good simple entertainment.
Cannonball was filmed at Kingsway truck terminal in toronto. The truck was dark green. GM Canada donated the truck, and Fruehauf Canada donated the trailer.It was filmed in Oakville, mono mills, orangeville and hwy 50. They used a truck stop on hwy 9 west of airport rd too. The truck was sold after the show to Stone cartage Toronto. It hauled some steel for the building of the Gardiner expressway toronto for Stone cartage. It deteriorated in there yard in the 60s and was scrapped.
The 1954 GMC Diesel was Sold in Canada but they only made them in one Factory. Cleveland, Ohio. Cummins Deisel Both Paul Birch and William Campbell were Americans. And the Music was Selander from Illinois. Nice Show. Eric House, the "Dr-" is a Canadian Actor. Did a Great Job
@@paullisanti8673 Surely they would have fitted it with a Detroit, not a Cummins? It's a surprise to me...
Great episode. Never heard of this show but so far so good. Truckers are our lifeline and they deserve more recognition.
that was fun thanks
Great show i was born in 59 i missed all the good shows . thank you for the video s
Man, what a treat!! I loved this show as a kid (born 1958), but carried away almost no memories of it (aside from the theme song). Now I can finally watch it again, thanks to you, Dan!
Thanks for the comment. I was about 5 years old when this series aired, and I do remember watching it.
I wish I could find more episodes, but unfortunately, most have been lost to time.
I hadn't thought of this one for years. I used to watch it with my parents . Thanks for posting.
I was 5 years old when this thing came out. I remember seeing it, but I never could remember its title. Thanks for the video.
That makes you and me about the same age.
Saturday night and homemade fudge such memories
Incredible surgical resuscitation for 1958, or even now. Thanks for the upload.
This is a fine example of EMS. Some of the techniques displayed were quite accurate for the time. The defibrillator requested (although badly pronounced) fore runner to the AED. The open-heart massage and the pumping of the arms (Hogler-Silvester method) was an early form of CPR. This coupled with the fact that the early days of E.M.T. was actually over-seen by the Department of Transportation, makes this episode quite accurate and very well-written.
I wish Those Cop Milkman Hats were back in style instead of foam and polyester ball caps. The only time You will see them now is on enslaved Biker gang members in a San Francisco Gay Pride Parade.
Do you attend the parade annually?
Agreed 😂😂❤
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That was great. We didn't need to see any blood, we got to hear a 2 stroke, and the story had a happy ending!
This was a Great old TV Series that was the first to feature Truck's as the mainstay of a TV Program before others Series to follow like - Movin'- On and B.J. and The Bear around two decades later. There were actually two TV Shows that had "Cannonball's" as a focus point with the other TV Series being Casey Jones with his Cannonball Express, with both these opening Songs to each of these TV Series being stilled remembered by old kids like myself of those days. I always wonder why TV Networks lose some TV Series and not others for there are many of us that we would love to see again these Great Old Shows if only they could all be found.
Well said. It is the virgin trucker show to make the rest possible.
What a great show, Thank you for posting this such great memories. !!!!
I loved this series when I was a kid. Thanks for posting this. What wonderful memories and not to mention the great theme song.i used to sing along to it . 👍📺
First time i watched this and i absolutely LOVED IT! Thanks for posting this. 👍
Good wholesome entertainment. The kind sorely missing today. I search these shows out. Better than anything out there today.
Great show. I never forgot the opening music.
The Cannonball or GMC 850 cab over was a navy blue color. They had a sign posting in front of it at the Golden Age of Trucking museum in Middlebury,Ct. The owner of it is from Maine. It was the original from the Tv series the museum operator told me. Identical right down to last detail. A single. Axle GMC 850 cab over with the sleeper on it as you might remember from the tv show. Ran like new still the owner drove it to the museum personally for six months consignment to display their most unusual trucks for the public to see at the museum. As you might imagine I couldn’t believe it to see it in person. Had to climb up into the cab and sit behind the wheel to get a feel of what it must have been like to drive it. I have driven big trucks in the past but this was the apple of my eye for sure. Fantastic truck for sure.
The cannonball truck was green and it was sold after the show to Stone cartage Toronto Canada. The show was filmed in toronto.
William Campbell here as co-star played several guest roles on the original Star Trek. Trelane was one, Koloth rhe Klingon Commander at station K-7, during the tribbles episode, was rhe other one.
I was able to meet Paul Birch in Atmore, Alabama around 1967. His sister, Elizabeth Blalock had passed away and he was in town making the Funeral arrangements. A group of teen-agers went over to the house and met him. He gave us all his signature, which I have kept to this day. The movies he was in were always shown at the local Strand Theater in Atmore, Alabama. As he was from Atmore (a small Alabama town) and a television and movie star, his pictures were never missed by the local town's people.
Cool story. Thanks.
Thanks for putting up these TV shows. Paul Birch was on many television shows and also in film, but his name is not known to the public. His voice and face may be recognized, but like so many excellent character actors in Hollywood, their names were not well known.
In the older days there was a wealth of great character actors in Hollywood, but I don't see that as being the case today.@@2wagondragon
He was also Lt. Gerard's boss in the first two seasons of The Fugitive.
That's an awesome story.
As a 7 year old , I wasn't very interested in Cannonball .. It was boring ...
The only thing I liked was the opening song ....
My father wanted to watch it , so I found something else to do ..Canadian programming was awful ..
Except for Forrest Rangers ...
And sergeant preston of the Yukon. 😅 8:07
@@danielthoman7324 Sergeant Preston of the Yukon was a American TV show ..No Canadian actors in that show .. That TV show was not filmed in the Yukon , it was filmed in Colorado I think .. Being that young I didn't watch it because I could tell it was fake American show pretending to be Canadians .. RCMP did not have wolf's as pets
I sat in the cannonball truck from the show at the Golden Age Of Trucking Museum in Middlebury,Ct. The identical truck right down to the same color. The cannonball was owned by someone in Maine that put it on display consignment for six months in 2002 at the time. Was a thrill for me to climb up in the cab and sit behind the wheel. I will always love this show and particular truck the gmc 850 cab over. Was very tight and confined cab to drive for sure. The museum said the owner drove it down from Maine and said it gets pretty hot in the cab for sure. Owner of the truck was doing 75 miles an hour down to the museum truck runs like new they said. Don Beaulac I am was a real thrill for me as you might imagine to experience this.
Very cool. So what colour was that truck? I have heard it was green, but also heard it was red. It's a little hard to tell from a black and white show.
@@2wagondragon The Cannonball truck was Dark Green. It was sold after the show to Stone cartage Toronto Canada. It Deteriorated in there yard in the 60s and was scrapped. That blue truck is not the Cannonball tv truck.
Thanks for the upload !!
That must be the only GMC cab that got insulation in it. You can't hear that Detroit screaming at all inside the cab.
This was perhaps the best episode of the series. It provides a snapshot of trucking back in the 50s before CB radios became popular.
One thing's for sure that 6-71 cruises well at good Speed
But we can hear it in our imagination. Great show.
@@andrewking9761 i think it was a 471 dd
I love this show. I plan to watch every episode on here. BUT the closing sequence is a classic case of middle lane hogging if ever I saw one.😁
Yeah at 30 mph
Fun fact: Mike "Cannonball" Malone invented the "trucker bomb" thus the nickname
Great show, wow what memories watched it with my recently deceased kid brother back in the 60's we used to turn my mothers shopping cart on its side and use the wheel to drive right along with the boys. my grandpa often visited around this time and treat us with almond joy bars I still enjoy them today in fact had a double pack yesterday i believe this aired around the same time as the whirlly birds inclosing i say thanks for the memories
watching this i want run the lionel that was looped around the Christmas tree
Dang. This was a great show, as a kid.
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I vaguely remember seeing this perhaps when originally broadcast.
Fantastic show although they never shifted one single gear while driving(that I noticed) lol
"The Romeo of the road" hahaha. I'm just a little old man now but once upon a time that was me!
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Watched this as a kid in Montreal back in the day. CBC channel 6 aired the show. In 1958 there were only two channels to watch in Montreal: 6 & 2, and 2 was the French channel--not a lot of choices in entertainment back then.
Toronto (and Southern Ontario in general) haven't changed a bit since the late 1950s.......
Oh really!
I guess you haven’t left the house since 1979 huh!!!! It’s changed big time!!!!!
How does the doc control the bleeding? Inthought Jerry was driving to the nearest phone not the nearest town. Hevwas supposed to hone for an ambulance.
This is first TV show I recall when 3 years old. The intro music stuck.
The background music to these old shows is very much missed
So no one had a pen and a piece of paper.
this was 1958, paper and pen hadn't been invented yet! and computers were too big at that time to carry around!
The Cannonball or GMC 850 cab over was a navy blue color. They had a sign posting in front of it at the Golden Age of Trucking museum in Middlebury,Ct. The owner of it is from Maine. It was the original from the Tv series the museum operator told me. Identical right down to last detail. A single. Axle GMC 850 cab over with the sleeper on it as you might remember from the tv show. Ran like new still the owner drove it to the museum personally for six months consignment to display their most unusual trucks for the public to see at the museum. As you might imagine I couldn’t believe it to see it in person. Had to climb up into the cab and sit behind the wheel to get a feel of what it must have been like to drive it. I have driven big trucks in the past but this was the apple of my eye for sure. Fantastic truck for sure.
The tc cannonball truck was dark green.
Do you have Alzheimers ? You have told use the same story three times here!
@@RC-Flight: It's "Alzheimer's", "Alzheimer's",..."Alzheimer's...."Alzheimer's"....
The only Canadian drama we saw on tv.
Two drivers , no rush , wow nice job, not realistic
Great show. I'll be back.