The_Winners_(Canadian_TV_series)

<i>The Winners</i> (Canadian TV series)

The Winners (Canadian TV series)

Canadian TV series or program


The Winners was a Canadian biographical television miniseries which aired on CBC Television in 1982.

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Premise

This series, sponsored by Shell Canada, presented docudramas of Canadian heroes.

Scheduling

The half-hour episodes were originally broadcast on Sundays at 5:30 p.m. from 17 January to 28 March 1982. It was rebroadcast later that year on Sunday evenings from 15 July to 2 September.

Episodes

  1. Athol Murray, founder of Notre Dame College, Saskatchewan, portrayed by Donnelly Rhodes ("The Winners"); Gordon Ruttan (writer), Brian Walker (director)[1]
  2. Emily Murphy, portrayed by Martha Henry, co-starring Douglas Campbell, William Hutt, Gerard Parkes and Douglas Rain; John Kent Harrison (writer), Martin Lavut (director)
  3. H.R. MacMillan - Norman Klenman (writer), Lawrence S. Mirkin (director)
  4. Pauline Johnson, portrayed by Fern Henry - Munroe Scott (writer), Martha Coolidge (director)
  5. J.A. Bombardier, portrayed by Yvon Ponton, James Brown (writer), Jean Lefleur (director)
  6. Charlotte Whitton, portrayed by Kate Lynch; Carol Bolt (writer), Graham Parker (director)
  7. John Wesley Dafoe - Fiona McHugh (writer), Scott Hylands (director)
  8. Marion Hilliard, portrayed by Chapelle Jaffe, co-starring Peter Dvorsky, Janet-Laine Green, Lois Maxwell and Mary Pirie; Fiona McHugh (writer), Zale Dalen (director)
  9. Reginald Fessenden, portrayed by Alan Scarfe; George Robertson (writer), Richard Gilbert (director)
  10. Vilhjalmur Stefansson, portrayed by Michael J. Reynolds co-starring John Friesen and Eric Peterson; George Robertson and Alan Scarfe (writers)

References

  1. "TV Times". Montreal Gazette. Montreal. 16 January 1982. pp. 17–18.

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