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Polka Dot Door was created and developed by a team of employees from TVOntario, hired and led by original series producer and director Peggy Liptrott. [1]Significant contributors to the creation and development of the series in 1971 included executive producer Vera Good, [2] who laid the conceptual foundation of the show, educational supervisor Marnie Patrick Roberts, educational consultant L ...
Leo Howard "Ted" Coneybeare (March 1925 - 16 January 2012) was a Canadian TV producer and educational consultant for acclaimed Canadian TV series Polka Dot Door produced for TV Ontario from 1972 to 1984. [1] [2]
The original bass vocalist for The Nylons in 1978–79, [3] he left the band to appear in the Broadway musical Indigo before they became commercially successful.. Simpson was also a longtime host of the children's television series Polka Dot Door from 1978 until the mid-1980s.
Gloria Elizabeth Reuben (born June 9, 1964) is a Canadian-American actress, producer, and singer. She is well-known for her role as Jeanie Boulet on the medical drama ER (1995–1999, 2008), for which she was twice nominated for an Emmy Award, and for portraying Elizabeth Keckley in the 2012 Steven Spielberg–directed film Lincoln.
Miller began her career in the 1970s as a singer and dancer. She later gained attention in Canadian television for representing Spumante Bambino wine in commercial advertisements, as well as for her role as the host of the children's television series, Polka Dot Door. She also appeared in Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides.
Today's Special is a Canadian children's television program produced by Clive VanderBurgh at TVOntario, originally broadcasting 120 episodes from 1981 to 1987.Much of the series was set in a department store, based on Simpson's then-flagship location in Toronto.
To grow polka dot plants from seed, sow the seeds on top of the soil's surface either outdoors well after the last frost or indoors in a container. Keep the soil moist.
A graduate of York University's theatre program (1979), she was hired as a host on the long-running children's series Polka Dot Door in 1981. Cindy became the longest-serving female host in the program's history, and one of the few to work with two producers; Coneybeare from 1981-84 and MacKay from 1985-93