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The Professor's Hideaway was a Canadian children's television program. It was Toronto station CFTO's first program for children. It was shown weekday afternoons.

The show featured the Professor, a white-haired older man in a lab coat, who was played by Stan Francis, who had previously worked at BBC Radio.

One of the characters on the show was Kiddo the Clown, played by Bobby Ash. When Ash left for England, Trevor Evans was hired as Kiddo.

Each day the Professor would proclaim birthday wishes to children whose parents had written to the show.

In 1963 about 300,000 households in the area around Toronto tuned in to the show each week.