Parade was created as an open-format entertainment series which covered most music styles and included comedy performances.
Featured international performers included Ernestine Anderson, Pete Seeger and Jonathan Winters.
[2] In early 1962, Parade was ranked Canada's 17th most popular series according to national ratings by Elliott-Haynes.
[3] This half-hour series was broadcast as follows (times in Eastern): The episodes from July to September 1962 were rebroadcasts from the two previous seasons.
Norman Sedawie, Parade's producer, then left CBC for work in America.