# The Fitness Fad CBC Edmonton Extra special 1983

Edmonton Extra investigative special produced in 1983 by xtv (CBXT, channel 5), Canadian Broadcasting Corporation affiliate in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Documents growing interest in public education on exercise and fitness as public health issue, recent research on the health and social benefits of exercise programs, as well as social disparities in fitness and health. Featured: ParticipACTION (Canadian public fitness education program); Shape Up Alberta (public fitness education program); the 1981 Canada Fitness Survey; Bill Stewart; Gerry Glassford, Dean, Physical Education, University of Alberta; Edmonton YMCA; Brent Collingwood; Debbie Sawka; Dr. Erwin E. Bako; Friedel Khattab. C. V Caryl Brandt, producer / director. Larry Marshall, writer / broadcaster. Don Metz, film camera. Eric Rankin film sound. Greg Novik, sound mix. Bruce Irvine, film editor. Dawn Lawrence, production assistant. 28 mins. 5 secs.

- Kind: TV
- Year: 1982
- By: XTV for CBC Edmonton CBXT
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/Edmonton.Extra.TheFitnessFad.1983)
- Licence or status: [Public Domain Mark 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader or archive marks it public domain, and nothing the site holds bears that out (its record gives no year, or a year from 1978 on, which no US term has left), so where it is free is not known. Unclear is not offered.