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SEAWAY
CBS-ASP-ATV /
30x60m-e / 1965 black and white
Producer: Michael
Sadlier
Crime drama series.
Exploits of the cops patrolling the St Lawrence Seaway. 2 episodes were actually
were made in colour.
With:- STEPHEN YOUNG
as Nick King / AUSTIN WILLIS as Admiral Fox / GARY LOCKWOOD as Jed Garth / SALLY
KELLERMAN as Aline Svenson / ROBERT GOODIER as Captain Anderson
THE SECRET ADVENTURES OF JULES VERNE
22x60m / 1999
Created by Gavin Scott (inspired by the novels of Jules Verne) / Producer: Neil Zeiger
A teenage Jules Verne teams up with his fictional creation Phileas Fogg to battle the League of Darkness in the Victorian era.
With:- CHRIS DEMETRAL as Jules Verne / MICHAEL PRAED as Phileas Fogg / FRANCESCA HUNT as Rebecca Fogg / MICHEL COURTMANCHE as Passepartout
THE
SERIAL
CBC / x30m-e /
1963-66 (26 September 63 - 18 June 66)
Executive
Producer:Ronald Weyman
This was the
umbrella title for CBC's strand of drama serials, some of these included The Son
of A Hundred Kings (10x30m-e 1963) with Martin Norton and The Wings of Night
with James Doohan.
SHOESTRING
THEATRE
CBC / x30m-e /
1961-62 (4 October 61 - 27 June / Wednesday 4.00pm)
Afternoon low budget
anthology series using stage plays as its basis.
SIDESTREET
CBC / x60m-e /
1975-78 (14 September 75 - 12 Nov 78 / Sunday 9.00pm)
Creators: John
Saxton, Geoffrey Gilbert / Executive Producers: John T. Ross, Stanley Colbert
Crime drama series.
Cases of the cops dealing with more run of the mill crimes rather than murders
and the like which usually seem to feature in such shows.
With:- SEAN McCANN
as Inspector Alec Woodward / STEPHEN MARKLE as Sgt Johnny Dias / JONATHAN WELSH
as Glenn Olsen / DONNELLY RHODES as Nick Raitt
SINS
OF THE CITY
Alliance Atlantis /
13x60m-e / 1998
Crime drama series.
Cop Vince Karol loses his job after being caught sleeping with the Captain's
wife he then sets himself up as a private detective convinced he can redeem the
criminals he is after.
With:- MARCUS GRAHAM
as Vince Karol / JOSE ZUNIGA as Detective Freddie Corilla / BARBARA WILLIAMS as
Samantha Richardson
SKIPPER
AND CO
CBC / x30m-e /
1974-82 (3 April 74 - 27 March 82)
Producers: Jack
Kellum, Wayne Guzzell
Children's
entertainment in which the former sea skipper of the title told stories and
chatted to guests. With Ray Bellew as The Skipper.
SKULLDUGGERY
Comedy
Network-Salter Street Films / 6x30m-e / 2000
Executive Producer:
Suzanne Berger
Inane adventures of
a pair of none too bright 'master criminals' - brothers Carl and Marlon Carlson
with the pair regularly tangling with the evil Mr X.
With:- RANDY
SCHOOLEY as Carl Carlson / PAUL McGILLION as Marlon Carlson / LORI TRIOLO as
Sadie Winters / TOM McBEATH as Mr X
SPACE
COMMAND
CBC / x30m-e /
1953-54
Writer: Alfred
Harris / Producer: Murray Chercover
Children's scifi
drama series. A young astronaut makes a name for himself in the space corp.
With:- BOB BARCLAY /
AILEEN TAYLOR / JAMES DOOHAN / ANDREW ANTHONY / AUSTIN WILLIS / JOE AUSTIN
THE
STARLOST
CTV-Glen Warren /
16x60m-e / 1973
Creator: Cordwainer
Bird (aka Harlan Ellison) / Script Advisor: Ben Bova / Executive Producers:
Douglas Trumbull, Jerry Zeitman
Scifi drama series.
Low budget stories of a group of travellers aboard a giant starship.
With:- KEIR DULLEA
as Devon / GAY ROWAN as Rachel / ROBIN WARD as Garth / WILLIAM OSLER as Computer
Voice
STRAIGHT
UP
Alliance Atlantis /
13x30m-e / 1995
Writers: Andrew Rai
Berzins / Music: Kevin Hearn / Producers: Janis Lundman, Adrienne Mitchell
Comedy drama
anthology series of various aspects of teenage life in the 19990's with the
casts including Robin Brule, Tomas Chovanec, Sarah P{olley, Marc Cohen, Justin
Peroff.
STRANGE
PARADISE
CBC-Crawley-Krantz-Metromedia
/ 130x30m-e / 1969-70
Producer: Jerry
Layton
Fantasy daytime
drama series seemingly influenced by ABC's Dark Shadows. On the Caribbean island
of Maljardin, wealthy Jean Paul Desmond makes a pact with his 300 year old
ancestor to bring his (Desmond's) wife back to life.
With:- COLIN FOX as
Jean-Paul Desmond / TRUDI WIGGINS as Erica Desmond / DAWN GREENHALGH as Dr
Alison Carr / KURT SCHIEGL as Quito / COSETTE LEE as Raxi / PATRICIA COLLINS as
Huaco / LUCY WARNER as Emily
TABLOID
CBC / x30m-e / 1953-31 Sep 1960
Producer: Ross McLean
A mix of current affairs, news, public affairs and interviews and hosted by Dick MacDougal and Percy
Saltzman.
Coming on board early in 1953 was Elaine Grand, as a freelance interviewer for the show. MacDougal landed the show
in the courts in 1956 when after reading out a letter from a disgruntled viewer of the show invited the viewers at
home to ring the disgruntled viewer, a certain Dr Robbins. MacDopugall died before the trial went to court and
he was replaced on the show by Max Ferguson. Later in 1957 producer McLewan left to be replaced by Ted Pope.
TAKING
THE FALLS
Alliance Atlantis /
13x60m-e / 1995
Crime drama series.
Around the Niagra Falls area private detective Terry Lane teams up with lawyer
Katherine McVicar and the pair have a slightly antagonistic partnership.
With:- CYNTHIA DALE
/ SANDRA NELSON
TALES
OF ADVENTURE
CBC / x60m-e /
1952-53
An umbrella title
for a series of dramas for younger viewers each serial was usually six episodes
in length and the stories featured included 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and The
Moonstone.
TALKING TO A
STRANGER
CBC / 4x60m-e / 1971
Writer: Doris
Gauntlett / Original version: John Hopkins / Producer: Eric Till
Quartet of dramas.
One family's grim weekend is looked at, Rashomon style, from
four different angles. Based on a UK
original.
With:- MARTHA HENRY as Terry /
DOUGLAS RAIN as Alan / NORMA RENAULT as Mother / BUDD KNAPP as Father
10-07
Telefiction Inc / 4x50m-e / 1995
Writer: Joanne Arseneau /
Producers: Claude Veillet, Jacques Bonin / Director: Richard Clupka
French language crime drama
serial. A pair of cops investigate the strange death of a pharmacist and soon
get more than they bargained for.
With:- GILDOR ROY / PATRICK LABBE
/ CHANTAL FONTAINE / MICHEL BARRETTE / GILBERT SICOTTE / MARCEL LEBOEUF /
CATHERINE SENART
THRILL
OF A LIFETIME
CTV /
150x30m-e / 1981-87
Creators
Sidney M. Cohen, Willie Stein / Director: Sidney M. Cohen
Reality series that
offered ordinary people the opportunity to fulfil a life's ambition whether it
be meeting a favourite celebrity , going to Las Vegas, joining the army to
diving to the bottom of the sea. The series was revived in 2002 again produced
by Sidney M. Cohen Thanks to Sidney
M. Cohen for his contribution to this entry.
TIDEWATER
TRAMP
CBC / x30m-e / 1959-62
Creator: Captain Thomas Gilchrist
/ Producers: Philip Keatley, John Thorne
Children's drama series. Episodes
in the life of 12 year old Gail Martin who lived on a tramp steamer, the Flying
Kestral, with her father.
With:- MAUREEN COOK as Gail
Martin / REG McREYNOLDS as Captain Martin / ROBERT WILLIAM CHAMBERS as Peter /
WALLY MARSH / BRENDAN DILLON / TED GREENHALGH / EDITH MATHESON DEAN
TOBY
CBC / x30m-e / 1968-69
Writers: David Mayers, Bill Lynn
/ Producer: Gloria White
Sitcom. Stories of fifteen year
old Toby Mitchell Toby Mitchell and her best friend Jean-Jacques (JJ to his
friends) Roberge.
With:- SUSAN PETRIE as Toby
Mitchell / ROBERT DUPARC as Jean-Jacques JJ Roberge / ARCH McDONNELL as Leonard
Mitchell / MICKI MOORE as Leonard Mitchell
TRADERS
CBC-Alliance Atlantis / 83x60m-e
/ 1996-98
Devisor: Hart Hanson / Music: Lou
Natale / Executive Producers: Alyson Feltes, Seaton McLean
Drama series. High powered
stories of the staff of investment company Gardner/Ross.
With:- SONJA SMITS / DAVID
CABITTS / BRUCE GRAY / PATRICK McKENNA / KIM HUFFMAN / JANET C.A. BAILEY / RICK
ROBERTS / TERRI HAWKES / DAVID HEWLETT / RON GABRIEL / PHILIP AKIN
TREASURE
ISLAND
CBC-Franco London Films / x30m-e
/ 1969
Robert Lewis Steveneson's story
of Long John Silver and Jim the Cabin Boy's search for treasure, the series
featured an international cast and was very similar in tone to other Euro type
series of the era such as Robinson Crusoe and The Flashing Blade.
With:- IVOR DEAN as Long \John
Silver / MICHAEL ANDE as Jim Hawkins / JACQUES MONOD as Captain Smollet /
JACQUES DACQUINE as Judge Trelawney / GEORGE RIQUIER as Dr Livesay / JACQUES
GODIN as Israel Hands
TWO
22x60m-e / 1996-97
Creator: Charles Grant Craig /
Executive Producers: Stephen J. Cannell, David Levinson, Michael Taylor
Fantasy action adventure series.
When his wife is murdered Gus McCLain is the chief suspect, going on the run
pursued by the FBI Gus learns he has evil twin brother Booth who is out to
destroy him.
With:- MICHAEL EASTON as Gus
McClain / ALLISON HOSSACK as Sarah / BARBARA TYSON as Special Agent Terry Carter
/ LOCHLYN MUNRO as Agent Andrew Forbes
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