Country Joy
{{Short description|Canadian soap opera television series}}
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Country Joy is a Canadian soap opera television series which aired on CBC Television from 1979 to 1980.Mary Jane Miller, Turn Up the Contrast: CBC Television Drama Since 1952. University of British Columbia Press, 1987.
Premise
This series was produced in Edmonton. Its plot features Dick Brugencate (Howard Dallin), a real estate agent in the fictitious Alberta community of Coronet, lost his wife in an automobile crash. He campaigns to build a modern medical centre for the community believing that this could have prevented his wife's death. In the process, he meets and soon marries medical executive Joy Burnham (Judith Maby). Dick's mother Helen (Vernis McQuaig) and his teenaged children Pam (Debra Au Coin) and Bob (Jim Calderbank) object to his relationship with Joy.{{cite web | url=http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/programming/television/programming_popup.php?id=1077 | first=John | last=Corcelli | date=August 2005 | title=Country Joy | publisher=Canadian Communications Foundation | accessdate=7 May 2010 }}
Scheduling
This half-hour series was broadcast on weekdays at 12:30 p.m. (Eastern) from 19 November 1979 to 4 January 1980.{{Cite book |last1=Kenter |first1=Peter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hQ8bAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Country+Joy%22+opera |title=TV North: Everything You Wanted to Know about Canadian Television |last2=Levin |first2=Martin W. |date=2001 |publisher=Whitecap |isbn=978-1-55285-146-3 |language=en}}
Cast
- Howard Dallin as Dick Brugencate
- Judith Mabey as Joy Burnham
- Debra Au Coin as Pam Brugencate
- Jim Calderbank as Rob Brugencate
- Vernis McQuaig as Helen Brugencate
- Brian Taylor as Andy Mallory
- Wally McSween as John Morgan
- Pamela Boyd
- Jack Wyntars
See also
- High Hopes (1978)
References
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External links
- {{Cite web | url=http://www.film.queensu.ca/CBC/Con.html | first=Blaine | last=Allan | title=Country Joy | publisher=Queen's University | year=1996 | accessdate=7 May 2010 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100311074242/http://www.film.queensu.ca/cbc/Con.html | archivedate=11 March 2010 | df=dmy-all }}
- {{IMDb title|0294043}}
Category:CBC Television original programming
Category:1979 Canadian television series debuts
Category:1980 Canadian television series endings