Filmed: late summer (?) 1980
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Broadcast: Sunday 6 December 1981, 20:30-21:30, CBC, Canada
Release status: Unreleased
Duration: 58:36, ABBA segment is 5:00
Shown in: Canada
Super Special was a series broadcast on CBC from 26 September 1976 to 20 March 1983 and containing 76 episodes. It was created to feature many of Canada's international and up-and-coming stars, supported by well-known foreign talent.
Episode 64.
This episode was a musical celebration from Sweden, including dancers, singers, comedians and different performers and places who and which representated the contemporary Swedish culture and the capital.
Apparently the scenes of the program were filmed at different times during 1981, but the ABBA segment must have been much sooner as it was recorded around the late summer of 1980.
The show was hosted by Edward Paul Allen.
The guests on the show were:
The ABBA segment started with some shots of Stockholm and ABBA Live in 1979 and were followed by a short interview with Agnetha, Frida and Stig. They were asked why they stayed in Stockholm and a clip of the After Dark drag impersonation of them was shown (Kisses of Fire and Thank You For The Music) with their reactions to it. It finished with the last half of the Thank You For The Music PROMO.
Click here for a TV listing from The Times Herald (Port Huron, Michigan) - 6 December 1981, p.42 (listed the CBC TV guide).
Archive data from CBC database:
SUPER SHOW, A WONDERFUL EVENING IN SCANDANAVIA
Edward Paul Allen, Paddy Campanaro, Libby Levine and John Tripp hosts this musical celebration with Victor Borge, ABBA, Canadian singer Dan Maloney and a musical tribute to Hans Christian Anderson provide some of the highlights for this fast-paced hour of Scandanavia's liveliest entertainment. Also included in the program is After Dark, a troupe of women inpersonators; violinist Anton Kontra; juggler Chris Cremo; the Little Mermaid Ballet; and the Northern Light Revue.
PROGRAM TITLE: SUPER SHOW
EPISODE TITLE: A WONDERFUL EVENING IN SCANDANAVIA
BROADCAST DATE: 1981-12-06 - 20:30:00
FORMAT: ENT Entertainment
DATELINE: NTW
LENGTH: 01:00:00
PEOPLE: ALLEN EDWARD PAUL, CAMPANARO PADDY, LEVINE LIBBY, TRIPP JOHN, CREMO CHRIS, MALONEY DAN, ANDERSON HANS CHRISTIAN, KONTRA ANTON, BORGE VICTOR
SUBJECT HEADING: ABBA (MUSIC GROUP), AFTER DARK, DANCE - SCANDANAVIA, ENTERTAINERS - SCANDANAVIA, IMPERSONATORS FEMALE - CANADA, LITTLE MERMAID BALLET, MUSIC POPULAR (SONGS ETC.) - PERFORMANCES, NORTHERN LIGHTS REVUE, Q.M. PRODUCTIONS, SINGERS - SCANDANAVIA
HOLDING: D-02897
Thanks to Philip Muytjens, Sam Shervz, Jozsef and Petr Mlejnek.
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