Season Three
October 1st, 1982 - May 13th, 1983


#69  This One Will Kill You Detailed
Writer(s): Arthur Samuels Air Date: 10/1/1982
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: William Lane
Featuring: Barbara Hamilton, Sean McCann, Alan Royal, John Evans, Les Carlson, Marian Waldman, Michael Wincott
Commercial Synopsis: The crazy, fast-paced world of stand-up comedy is the unusual setting for this story of a terrible revenge that reaches from beyond the grave.  (CBC)

#70  Footsteps Detailed
Writer(s): Larry LeClair Air Date: 10/8/1982
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: William Lane
Featuring: David McIlwraith, Janet-Lane Green, Les Carlson, Graham Batchelor
Commercial Synopsis: David Thurston miraculously escapes certain death in a traffic accident,only to face an even more miraculous series of experiences on the treacherous borderline between life and death.  (CBC)

#71  Lifeline Detailed
Writer(s): Frank Moher Air Date: 10/15/1982
Production Location: CBC Vancouver Producer: John Juliani
Featuring: Rick Reed, Beth Kaplan, Otto Lowy, Leroy Schultz, Judith Berlin, Joe Golland
Commercial Synopsis: Philip Raitt totally destroys his hands, and in consultation with a palmist and a plastic surgeon agrees to undergo a risky operation to restore his damage palms and with them any visible signs of his past and future.  (CBC)

#72  The Tie That Binds Detailed
Writer(s): Nika Rylski Air Date: 10/22/1982
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: William Lane
Featuring: Michael Ball, Linda Sorenson, Maja Ardal, George Merner, Ray Whalen, John Blackwood, Terri Cherniak, Peter Blaze
Commercial Synopsis: Torn with grief by his wife's accidental death, Alan Hart suffers from mysterious blinding headaches and blackouts. During one of these attacks, he is mistakenly locked up in a mental institution, and then the real nightmare begins.  (CBC)

#73  The Dentist Detailed
Writer(s): Bill Gray Air Date: 10/29/1982
Production Location: CBC Vancouver Producer: Don Kowalchuk
Featuring: Beth Kaplan, Lee Taylor, Terry Kelly, Doris Chilcott, Nicola Cavendish, William Samples
Commercial Synopsis: Everyone is very friendly and helpful to Sandra Logan, the new assistant at the dentist's office.But she begins to suspect that something isn't quite as it seems behind the smiling faces of her colleagues. Some appointments, it appears, might better be missed.  (CBC)

#74  Assassin Game Detailed
Writer(s): John G. Fisher Air Date: 11/5/1982
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: Stephen Katz
Featuring: Saul Rubinek, Nicky Guadagni, David Ferry, Ralph McPherson, Peter Jobin, Chris Wiggins, Barbara Kyle
Commercial Synopsis: In the future, your career will be determined by how many students you eliminate at University. Assassination was just a game at first, then it got real.  (DHPA)

#75  Lazarus Rising Detailed
Writer(s): John Douglas Air Date: 11/12/1982
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: Bill Howell
Featuring: Neil Munro, Ruth Springford, Eric Peterson, Murray Westgate, Ken James, Marian Waldman, John Stocker, Elva Mai Hoover, Melleny Brown
Commercial Synopsis: A reporter tracks the suppressed rumor that a farmer apparently rose from the grave.  (CBCE)

#76  Young Goodman Brown (by Nathaniel Hawthorne) Detailed
Writer(s): John Douglas Air Date: 11/19/1982
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: William Lane
Featuring: Jay Bowen, David Calderisi, Louisa Martin, Marian Waldman, George Merner, Richard Curnock
Commercial Synopsis: The classic Hawthorne story: a virtuous young man discovers the devil is to be found in the most unusual of places.  (CBC)

#77  But, Oh, What Happened to Hutchings Detailed
Writer(s): Roy Sallows Air Date: 11/26/1982
Production Location: CBC Edmonton Producer: Lawrie Seligman
Featuring: Joan Hurley, Alan Stebbings, Christopher Gaze, Bill Meilan
Commercial Synopsis: Hutchings has a part-time job selling dead bodies. But what is he going to do when he needs a fresh body in a hurry?  (CBC)

#78  Daddy's Girl Detailed
Writer(s): Janet Bonellie Air Date: 12/3/1982
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: Stephen Katz
Featuring: David Stein, Phil Akin, Maxine Miller, Mia Anderson, Errol Slue, Calvin Butler, Arden Bess
Commercial Synopsis: A project developer for a new hospital in the Carribean is confronted with "the way things are" in this tale of modern progress versus traditional ways.  (N25)

#79  The Cruel Husband (by Honoré de Balzac) Detailed
Writer(s): David Leicester Air Date: 12/10/1982
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: William Lane
Featuring: David Calderisi, Barbara Gordon, Patrick Young, David McIlwraith, Rosemary Dunsmore, Maja Ardall, Angelo Rizacos, Graham Batchelor
Commercial Synopsis: Balzac's tale of infidelity and a punishment so beastly that it figures in the deaths of four people.  (N25)

#80  The Signalman (by Charles Dickens) Detailed
Writer(s): Otto Lowy Air Date: 12/17/1982
Production Location: CBC Vancouver Producer: Robert Chesterman
Featuring: Leon Parlow, Duncan Frasier, Desmond Smiley, William Samples
Commercial Synopsis: The Dickens classic short story about the frightening premonitions of a lonely railroad signalman at a remote station.  (N25)

#81  Watching Detailed
Writer(s): Bryan Wade Air Date: 12/31/198x
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: William Lane
Featuring: Thomas Hauff, John Evans, Robin Craig, Patricia Phillips, Michael Kirby, Doris Petri, Maja Ardal
Commercial Synopsis: Paul has his hobbies. There are the normal ones, like assembling 1000-piece picture puzzles, and there are the ... not-so-normal ones, like watching the woman across the street through his telescope.  (N25)

#82  The Strange Odyssey of Lennis Freed Detailed
Writer(s): Tim Wynne-Jones Air Date: 1/7/1983
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: William Lane
Featuring: Helen Hughes, Sandy Webster, Frank Moore, Melleny Brown, George Merner, Marianne Guilsenen, Joyce Campion, Henry Ramer
Commercial Synopsis: A husband and wife on their annual east coast vacation keep running into the same young man. How is he getting to their destinations ahead of them when they're driving and he's only on foot?  (N25)

#83  Weather Station Four Detailed
Writer(s): Arthur Samuels Air Date: 1/14/1983
Production Location: CBC Montréal Producer: John Jessop
Featuring: Timothy Webber, Earl Pennington, Jane Woods, Glen Watts
Commercial Synopsis: Two men and a dog are stranded in the high Arctic. The loneliness and cold and a strange voice on the radio start to affect the mind of one of them.  (CBC)

#84  The Brides of Olivera Detailed
Writer(s): Larry Gaynor Air Date: 1/21/1983
Production Location: CBC Edmonton Producer: Lawrie Seligman
Featuring: Brian Taylor, Darcy Dunlop, Bill Meilan, Al Koslik, Stephen Walsh
Commercial Synopsis: A young woman is brought to a dangerous fortune-teller - who controls the future. A dozen women married Olivera. Now she's his latest fiancee.  (DHPA)

#85  The Contract Detailed
Writer(s): John Richard Wright Air Date: 1/28/1983
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: William Lane
Featuring: Les Carlson, Frank Moore, Linda Sorenson, Robin Craig, Ron White, Peter MacNeill, David Clemente
Commercial Synopsis: There are people you shouldn't bargain with. Give them twice what they ask for, even three times, or you'll end up dead - or worse.  (DHPA)

#86  Beauty's Beast Detailed
Writer(s): Burke Campbell Air Date: 2/4/1983
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: Stephen Katz
Featuring: John Douglas, Mary Long, Alan Fawcett, Marian Waldman, Ken Pouge, David Bolt, Eve Crawford
Commercial Synopsis: Dr. Mandrake's daughter Victoria, an aspiring model, is involved in a tragic accident that leaves her face disfigured. Mandrake, an expert in bone restoration, insists on treating her at his own clinic with injections and sound treatments. The doctor falls in love with his own perfect creation - with tragic consequences.  (DHPA)

#87  The Angel of Death Detailed
Writer(s): Raymond Storey Air Date: 2/11/1983
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: William Lane
Featuring: Diane Lasko, Marion Gilsenan, Richard Donat, Angelo Rizacos, Richard Curnock
Commercial Synopsis: James McCaulley died in battle in 1916 - now he's calling from the attic! And he knows the grim reaper. His horrified family isn't ready for him to live again.  (DHPA)

#88  Semi-Detached Detailed
Writer(s): Shawn Selway Air Date: 2/18/1983
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: William Lane
Featuring: David Calderisi, Mary Pirie, David Stein, Peter MacNeill, Andrea Schwartz
Commercial Synopsis: When Nicole gets pregnant, she and her husband think that they'll send their foster child to another home. But it's not so easy...there are unearthly forces at work.  (CBC)

#89  A Glaze of Perfect Beauty Detailed
Writer(s): Stephen Freygood Air Date: 2/25/1983
Production Location: CBC Halifax Producer: Sudsy Clark
Featuring: Bruce Armstrong, Joseph Rutten, Nicola Littman, John Fulton, Stan Carou, David Renton
Commercial Synopsis: In Paris at the turn of the century, the potter Isigeac searches frantically for the perfect glaze. Egged on by the antique dealer Lenoir, Isigeac is prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice to attain his goal.  (CBC)

#90  No Quarter Detailed
Writer(s): Phil Savath Air Date: 3/4/1983
Production Location: CBC Vancouver Producer: Don Kowalchuk
Featuring: Terry Kelly, Anna Hagan, Norm Grohmann, Walter Marsh
Commercial Synopsis: Paul Weaver has thrown away everything just to play video games -- his job, his bank account, maybe even his wife. But the biggest game of his life is still before him. Are video games as bad for us as their detractors claim? Paul Weaver is about to find out.  (CBC)

#91  The Undertaker (by Al Purdy) Detailed
Writer(s): John Douglas Air Date: 3/11/1983
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: Bill Howell
Featuring: John Stocker, Sean O'Hara, Colleen O'Neil, Elva Mai Hoover, Nonnie Griffin, Tom Hauff, Ken James
Commercial Synopsis: An undertaker is compelled to recount his erratic romance with the woman currently on his preparation table.  (N25)

#92  Private Collection Detailed
Writer(s): Warren Graves Air Date: 3/18/1983
Production Location: CBC Edmonton Producer: Lawrie Seligman
Featuring: Graham McPherson, Tom Peacocke, Judith Mabey, Jill Dyck, Stephen Walsh, Len Crowther, David Lereaney, Nicole Evans, Gordon Marriott
Commercial Synopsis: A Missing Persons investigator, perplexed by the rising number of disappearances of women between the ages of 19 and 25, discovers a link between several recent cases: all had a connection to a new government research building in the middle of town.  (N25)

#93  The Hit Detailed
Writer(s): Laurence Gough Air Date: 3/25/1983
Production Location: CBC Vancouver Producer: John Juliani
Featuring: Norman Grohmann, Dwight Dukavicz, Gabriele Rose, Roger Dressler, Paul Batten
Commercial Synopsis: Bill and Ernie are professional killers. Bill is emotionally involved in his work. Ernie is dispassionate, cold, aloof. One of them has the right attitude. The other is as good as dead.  (CBC)

#94  Walter's Dog Detailed
Writer(s): Larry LeClair Air Date: 4/1/1983
Production Location: CBC Halifax Producer: Sudsy Clark
Featuring: George Merner, John Fulton, Kent Stetson, Bill Carr
Commercial Synopsis: Twisted with jealousy and anger, Blake thinks he has a simple solution, a way to get rid of Walter. But he hasn't counted on Walter's dog...  (CBC)

#95  Safe in the Arms of Jesus Detailed
Writer(s): Martin Kinch Air Date: 4/8/1983
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: William Lane
Featuring: Henry Ramer, Elva Mai Hoover, Neil Dainard, Simon Reynolds, Zoe Welden, Sandy Webster, Diana Reese (?)
Commercial Synopsis: A young boy's obsession with evangelism leads to conflict with his family, particularly his mother's fiancé.  (N25)

#96  The Wedding Detailed
Writer(s): Phil Savath Air Date: 4/15/1983
Production Location: CBC Vancouver Producer: Don Kowalchuk
Featuring: Judy Greenburg, Earl Klein, Otto Lowy, Richard Newman
Commercial Synopsis: It is Poland, 1658. Although the Jews of Vilna have had their troubles -- anti-Semitic pogroms, a virulent plague -- things have settled down.  (CBC)

#97  Hypnotized Detailed
Writer(s): Jesse Bodyan Air Date: 4/22/1983
Production Location: CBC Vancouver Producer: Don Kowalchuk
Featuring: Micki Maunsell, Dr. Joseph Scala, Guy Bannerman, Anna Hagan
Commercial Synopsis: A psychiatrist-psychic researcher attempts to hypnotically regress a woman through her past lives to the origin of pre-carnal consciousness. But can he bring her back?  (CBC)

#98  After Sunset Detailed
Writer(s): Brian Taylor Air Date: 4/29/1983
Production Location: CBC Edmonton Producer: Lawrie Seligman
Featuring: Stu Carson, Nicole Evans, Graham McPherson, Gordon Marriott, Araby Lockheart, Frank C. Turner, Walter Kaasa, Blair Haynes
Commercial Synopsis: Every morning they find another shredded body. A few frightened townsfolk know what's out there and how to kill it - but someone must sacrifice themself. Would you?  (DHPA)

#99  Servants of Cerberus Detailed
Writer(s): Mary Humphrey Baldridge Air Date: 5/6/1983
Production Location: CBC Toronto Producer: Scott Swan
Featuring: Francis Highland, Sheila Junor-Moore, Michael Pape, Gillie Fenwick
Commercial Synopsis: Cassie Browne von Bergen is a very wealthy woman who lives on a rambling country estate. Although she has always controlled everyone and everything in her life, she now finds herself increasingly helpless as a heart condition has confined her to her bed. Her much younger husband, Carl, resents his lack of financial independence as well as his invalid wife. Cassie has alienated almost everyone in her life except for her secretary, Helen, and her pets, a pack of fierce Great Danes.  (CBC)

#100  Waters Under the Bridge Detailed
Writer(s): Gaëtan Charlebois Air Date: 5/13/1983
Production Location: CBC Montréal Producer: John Jessop
Featuring: Walter Massey, Andrée Pelletier, Ron Lea, Victor Desy, Martin Neufeld
Commercial Synopsis: In the waters that flow beneath a great bridge there are the bones of many bodies. And there's also a great treasure for the taking -- if you can overcome the evil that protects it.  (CBC)

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