Season Three
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| #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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