To mark the 20th anniversary of Citytv, The Best of the New York Erotic Film Festival was screened on Septemas a one-off installment of Baby Blue titled Baby Blue Returns. On May 2, 1975, the all-ages film Cat Ballou aired in the time slot normally reserved for Baby Blue, with the viewer discretion notice comedically re-phrased to indicate that "the following program is for family audiences." While the charge was eventually dismissed, Znaimer elected to cancel Baby Blue shortly thereafter the program had accomplished its goal of generating publicity for Citytv, and the network was running out of acceptable films to broadcast. The Metropolitan Toronto Police exerted frequent pressure on Znaimer and Citytv over Baby Blue, and in January 1975 the station was charged with obscenity for the Baby Blue broadcast of Love Boccaccio Style. Robert Lantos later joined as a producer after acquiring Canadian broadcasting rights to short films from the New York Erotic Film Festival and selling the rights to Znaimer, which aired as The Best of the New York Erotic Film Festival. I Am Curious (Yellow) aired as the first Baby Blue Movie on September 29, 1972, with the film's companion I Am Curious (Blue) airing the following night. The title was suggested by Znaimer's partner Marilyn Lightstone, who noted that because the films were not "blue" movies (a term for X rated films), they could be classified as " baby blue" instead. To generate publicity for the new station and communicate that it was for "mature, urban adults," Znaimer conceived of a regularly scheduled block of softcore adult films to air on Friday nights, which became The Baby Blue Movie. Station founder Moses Znaimer aired feature films as the bulk of Citytv's programming as the station established itself, and hired Brian Linehan to purchase and schedule movies.
HistoryĬITY-TV began broadcasting out of Toronto, Ontario on Septemas the first commercial ultra high frequency (UHF) television station in Canada.
The series was revived in the 1990s as Baby Blue 2, which aired until 2008. Initially broadcast from 1972 to 1975 to generate publicity for the then-upstart channel, Baby Blue was the first regularly-scheduled adult television program to air in North America. The Baby Blue Movie is a late-night programming block on the Canadian television channel Citytv that primarily aired softcore pornography and erotica films.
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