Robson Arms

{{Infobox television

| image = Robson Arms.PNG

| caption = Robson Arms title screen

| runtime = 22 minutes

| creator = Gary Harvey
Susin Nielsen

| developer =

| executive_producer = Gary Harvey
Susin Nielsen
Brian Hamilton

| starring =

| country = Canada

| network = CTV

| first_aired = {{start date|2005|6|17}}

| last_aired = {{end date|2008|6|30}}

| num_seasons = 3

| num_episodes = 39

}}

Robson Arms is a Canadian television series that began airing on CTV on June 17, 2005, and ended on June 30, 2008. Robson Arms is a co-production between Vancouver-based Omni Film Productions Limited and Halifax's Creative Atlantic Communications.

The show is a comedy-drama (dramedy) anthology organized around the Robson Arms, an apartment building in Vancouver, at the fictional address of 951 Pendrell Street. Each of the show's episodes focuses principally on a different tenant of the building, although the core cast members interact in minor roles throughout the series. In each episode, the Troubadours comment on the storyline through song.

The show was created to fulfill a licensing requirement of CTV's Vancouver station, CIVT, which originally promised, as an independent station, to produce 20 episodes of an anthology series entitled The Storytellers. Only ten such episodes were produced. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) did not agree that CIVT's new network programming supplanted this commitment and asked the station to fulfill its promise.[http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2001/DB2001-457-13.htm Decision CRTC 2001-457-13 at 10] CTV believed the anthology would be more successful as a series with common characters, and Robson Arms was the result.

Two of the show's regular cast members, Gabrielle Miller and Fred Ewanuick, appeared in this series concurrent with their continuing roles in another CTV production, Corner Gas.

The series currently airs in reruns on CTV's secondary CTV Two system.

Cast and characters

The season(s) during which each actor has been included in the main cast are marked in black. White square means the actor doesn't appear in that season at all.

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!rowspan=2 |Actor(s)

!rowspan=2 |Character

!colspan=6 |Appearances

S 1

! S 2

! S 3

Tom SaundersThe Tall Troubadourstyle="background:black;"|style="background:black;"|style="background:black;"|
Jason DedrickThe Not as Tall Troubadourstyle="background:black;"|style="background:black;"|style="background:black;"|
John CassiniYuri Kukocstyle="background:black;"|style="background:black;"|style="background:black;"|
Helena YeaGrandma Tanstyle="background:black;"|style="background:black;"|style="background:black;"|
Colin FooBao Tanstyle="background:black;"|style="background:black;"|style="background:black;"|
Gabrielle RoseToni Mastroianni-Tanstyle="background:black;"|style="background:black;"|style="background:black;"|
Justine WongRuby Tanstyle="background:black;"|style="background:black;"|style="background:black;"|
Zak SantiagoHal Garciastyle="background:black;"|style="background:black;"|style="background:black;"|
Alisen DownSault Ste. Mariestyle="background:black;"|style="background:black;"|style="background:black;"|
David Richmond-PeckGeoff McAlisterstyle="background:black;"|style="background:black;"|style="background:black;"|
Fred EwanuickNick Papathanasioustyle="background:black;"|style="background:black;"|style="background:black;"|
Kevin McNultyStanley Wassermanstyle="background:black;"|style="background:black;"|style="background:black;"|
Haig SutherlandFred Fochsstyle="background:black;"|style="background:black;"|style="background:black;"|
Jane McGregorAlicia Plecas-Fochsstyle="background:black;"|style="background:black;"|style="background:black;"|
Gabrielle MillerBobbi Briggsstyle="background:black;"|style="background:black;"|style="background:black;"|
Tobias MehlerBobby Briggsstyle="background:black;"|style="background:black;"|style="background:white;"|
William B. DavisDr. Carlisle Wainwrightstyle="background:black;"|style="background:white;"|style="background:white;"|
Margot KidderElaine Wainwrightstyle="background:black;"|style="background:white;"|style="background:white;"|
Jim TaiRicky Tanstyle="background:black;"|style="background:white;"|style="background:white;"|
Maxine MillerBeatrice Duboisstyle="background:black;"|style="background:white;"|style="background:white;"|
Shirley DouglasPauline Duboisstyle="background:black;"|style="background:white;"|style="background:white;"|
Mark McKinneyTom Goldblumstyle="background:black;"|style="background:white;"|style="background:white;"|
Megan FollowsJanice Keneallystyle="background:black;"|style="background:white;"|style="background:white;"|
Peter DeLuiseWayne Rossstyle="background:white;"|style="background:black;"|style="background:white;"|
Laura BertramChris Coltonstyle="background:white;"|style="background:black;"|style="background:white;"|
Gabriel HoganAndrew Coltonstyle="background:white;"|style="background:black;"|style="background:white;"|
Linda KashCarol Goldsteinstyle="background:white;"|style="background:black;"|style="background:black;"|
Tegan MossGeorgie Goldsteinstyle="background:white;"|style="background:black;"|style="background:black;"|
Bill MondyVal Kukocstyle="background:white;"|style="background:black;"|style="background:black;"|
April TelekSasha Kowalskistyle="background:white;"|style="background:black;"|style="background:black;"|
Allison HossackTrixie Hoskinsstyle="background:white;"|style="background:white;"|style="background:black;"|
Dave FoleyChuck Hoskinsstyle="background:white;"|style="background:white;"|style="background:black;"|

Robson Arms, the Building

The structure used as the apartment building is not located in Vancouver's West End, but rather is located at 951 Boundary Road on the east side of the City of Vancouver. It is called Taylor Manor, and is on the City of Vancouver's historic building registry.[http://historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=10959 Taylor Manor on Canada's Historic Places Registry] The skyscraper skyline behind the building is superimposed to make it look like it is located in Vancouver's West End.

Episodes

=Season 1 (2005)=

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Episode #

! Original Air Date (CTV)

! Episode Title

align="center" | 1

| June 17, 2005

| Dancing the Horizontal Mambo

align="center" | 2

| June 17, 2005

| The Tell-Tale Latex

align="center" | 3

| June 24, 2005

| The Eyes of Grandma Tan

align="center" | 4

| June 24, 2005

| ICQ

align="center" | 5

| July 1, 2005

| A Certain Vintage

align="center" | 6

| July 1, 2005

| Sweet City Woman

align="center" | 7

| July 8, 2005

| Hairpiece of Mind

align="center" | 8

| July 8, 2005

| A Material Breach

align="center" | 9

| July 15, 2005

| The Lonely Passion of Mr. Tan

align="center" | 10

| July 15, 2005

| Educating Alicia

align="center" | 11

| July 22, 2005

| The Recipe

align="center" | 12

| July 22, 2005

| The Misses Dubois Turn Out the Lights

align="center" | 13

| July 29, 2005

| Aftershock

=Season 2 (2007)=

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Episode #

! Original Air Date (CTV)

! Episode Title

align="center" | 1

| February 10, 2007

| Ordinary Assholes

align="center" | 2

| February 17, 2007

| Saultology

align="center" | 3

| February 24, 2007

| I Did Not Have Sex With That Woman

align="center" | 4

| March 3, 2007

| Something Straight Between Us

align="center" | 5

| March 10, 2007

| Mr. Lonely

align="center" | 6

| February 27, 2007

| Pest Control

align="center" | 7

| March 17, 2007

| Misery, Inc.

align="center" | 8

| March 12, 2007

| The Daughter of Frankenstein

align="center" | 9

| March 24, 2007

| Wayne's World

align="center" | 10

| March 31, 2007

| Mussolini and Me

align="center" | 11

| April 7, 2007

| All About Kitty

align="center" | 12

| April 14, 2007

| Lizard of Doubt

align="center" | 13

| April 21, 2007

| Texas Birthmark

=Season 3 (2008)=

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Episode #

! Original Air Date (CTV)

! Episode Title

align="center" | 1

| February 26, 2008

| Gila Monster

align="center" | 2

| February 27, 2008

| Geeks in Love

align="center" | 3

| May 5, 2008

| Positivity

align="center" | 4

| May 12, 2008

| I Pagliacci

align="center" | 5

| April 28, 2008

| Mean Girls

align="center" | 6

| May 19, 2008

| Prince of Nigeria

align="center" | 7

| May 26, 2008

| Wrong and Wronger

align="center" | 8

| June 2, 2008

| No Sex in the City

align="center" | 9

| March 10, 2008

| Cherchez la Femme

align="center" | 10

| June 16, 2008

| Trixie's Honour

align="center" | 11

| June 23, 2008

| Baby? What Baby?

align="center" | 12

| June 24, 2008

| My Brother's Keeper

align="center" | 13

| June 30, 2008

| Hero

Home media

Video Service Corp has released all 3 seasons on DVD in Region 1.

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DVD Name

! Ep#

! Release date

The Complete First Season

| align="center"|13

| April 3, 2007

The Complete Second Season

| align="center"|13

| November 6, 2007

The Complete Third Season

| align="center"|13

| September 23, 2008

References

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