Witness to Yesterday is a Canadian docudrama television series which featured staged interviews with historical personalities.
Each episode featured a historical person as portrayed by a guest actor in conversation with host Patrick Watson who took the role of an interviewer.
Global Television Network encountered financial difficulties in its initial months and cancelled most of its original Canadian programming by May 1974.
[2] Blaik Kirby of The Globe and Mail deemed the premiere to be "flat and undramatic", noting that French-Canadian actress Geneviève Bujold should have been considered for the role of Joan of Arc over the less appropriate performance from American Sandy Dennis.
[25] Later, Kirby gave the overall series a favourable review, noting that it "was in almost everyone's opinion, one of the very best of Global's Canadian programs, which were a worthy achievement even as a group.
Its budget was supported by History Television, PBS which aired these episodes and a $168,500 credit from provincial agency Film NB.