Sandy Stewart (producer)

Andrew "Sandy" Stewart (22 February 1930 – 5 August 1998) was a Canadian television producer and writer.

He was the producer of Reach for the Top, a CBC high school quiz show that continues today as an off-air competition.

Sandy Stewart was born in Calgary, and in his childhood moved to Montreal and London, Ontario.

Stewart brought Reach for the Top, a televised quiz show for high school students, to a national audience in 1966, bringing teams from Vancouver, Edmonton, Regina, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Toronto, and Ottawa to Montreal for a national final.

[4] Stewart served as president of the Canadian Science Writers' Association and held regular dinner lectures up until his death in 1998.