The Albertans
{{Short description|Canadian television series}}
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| writer = Lyal Brown
| director = Ron Weyman
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| starring = Albert Angus
George Clutesi
Anne Collinge
Frances Hyland
Leslie Nielsen
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| country = Canada
| language = English
| channel = CBC Television
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| num_episodes = 3
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The Albertans is a Canadian dramatic television miniseries that aired on CBC Television in 1979.
Premise
The drama resembled a Canadian version of Dallas, with the plot involving the cattle ranching and petroleum industries, eco-terrorism, and First Nations land claims.{{cite web | url=http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/programming/television/programming_popup.php?id=1158 | first=John | last=Corcelli | date=August 2005 | title=The Albertans | publisher=Canadian Communications Foundation | accessdate=7 May 2010 }}
Cast
- Albert Angus as Johnny
- George Clutesi as Isaac, Johnny's grandfather, an aboriginal
- Anne Collinge as Clair, Carl Hardin's daughter-in-law
- Frances Hyland as Marjanne, Carl Hardin's daughter
- Leslie Nielsen as Don MacIntosh, a petroleum industrialist
- Daniel Pilon as Hans Keller, a German businessman, involved with Clair
- Gary Reineke as Peter Wallen, a construction company operator
- George Waight as Carl Hardin, a former rancher
Scheduling
Three hour-long episodes were broadcast on Sundays 9:00 p.m. (Eastern) from 14 to 28 January 1979.
References
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External links
- {{cite web | url=http://www.film.queensu.ca/CBC/A.html | first=Blaine | last=Allan | title=The Albertans | publisher=Queen's University | year=1996 | accessdate=7 May 2010 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100311072631/http://www.film.queensu.ca/cbc/A.html | archivedate=11 March 2010 | df=dmy-all }}
- {{IMDb title|0250201|The Albertans}}
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Category:CBC Television original programming
Category:1979 Canadian television series debuts
Category:1979 Canadian television series endings