French for Love

French for Love
Genre	language instruction
Created by	Gerard Arthur Sheila Arthur
Presented by	Gerard Arthur Sheila Arthur
Country of origin	Canada
Original language	English
No. of seasons	2
Production
Producer	Denyse Adam
Production location	Montreal
Original release
Network	CBC Television
Release	3 January 1965 (1965-01-03) – 10 July 1966 (1966-07-10)

French for Love was a Canadian French-language instructional television series which aired on CBC Television from 1965 to 1966.

Premise

This Montreal-produced series taught English audiences how to speak in French. Initial hosts Gerard and Sheila Arthur, a married couple who also created the series, were previously featured on CBC Radio's Time For French series. The Arthurs performed sketches to demonstrate French conversation in a manner that could be explained to an English audience. Other features of the episodes included "What The Dictionaries Don't Tell" which described French nuances and idioms, plus "Pages choisies" where Gerard Arthur read a French passage then translated this to English.

New hosts, Felixe Fitzgerald and Paul Hebert, appeared from 28 February 1965 when Gerard Arthur left the series and Sheila Arthur focused on scriptwriting. The Arthurs reappeared in the 1966 season but left the performance of the instructional sketches to actors such as Raymond Cosgrove, Yvon Dufour, Lise Lasalle and Carol Zorro.

Scheduling

The half-hour series was broadcast regionally on CBMT from 1962. Its first nationally broadcast episodes were aired Sundays at 2:00 p.m. from 3 January to 30 May 1965. The Time For French CBC Radio series was renamed to French For Love later that year. Episodes of the second network-wide season were broadcast Sundays at 3:30 p.m. from 3 April to 10 July 1966.

External links

• Allan, Blaine (1996). "French for Love". Queen's University. Archived from the original on 11 March 2010. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
• French for Love at AllMovie