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For the Record is a Canadian television drama anthology series that aired on CBC Television from 1976 to 1986.[1] The series aired docudrama television films on contemporary social issues.[2]
Episodes
1976
Number
Title
Director
Writer
Cast
Date
1
"The Insurance Man from Ingersoll"
Peter Pearson
Peter Pearson, Norman Hartley
Michael Magee , Charlotte Blunt, Warren Davis , Mavor Moore
February 8, 1976
An opposition MPP in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario makes explosive charges of political corruption against the government.[3]
2
"A Nest of Shadows"
Peter Carter
Michael Mercer
Louise Rinfret , Ralph Endersby
February 15, 1976
3
"A Thousand Moons"
Gilles Carle
Mort Forer
Carole Laure , Nick Mancuso , Adeline Coppaway
February 29, 1976
An elderly Métis woman living in Toronto wants to return to her hometown before her death.[4]
4
"Kathy Karuks Is a Grizzly Bear"
Peter Pearson
Ralph L. Thomas
Lesley Angus, Red Burnett, Rudy Lipp, Donnelly Rhodes , Dixie Seatle
March 7, 1976
A swimmer who aspires to perform a marathon swim across Lake Ontario copes with an unscrupulous coach.[5]
5
"What We Have Here Is a People Problem"
Francis Mankiewicz
Michael Mercer
George Waight , Heath Lamberts
1976
1977
Number
Title
Director
Writer
Cast
Date
6
"Maria"
Allan King
Rick Salutin
Diane D'Aquila , Enzina Bertini, Jean Gascon
January 9, 1977
A woman organizes a labour union .[6]
7
"Someday Soon..."
Don Haldane
Rudy Wiebe , Barry Pearson
John Vernon
January 16, 1977
Farmers in Manitoba try to resist a hydroelectric dam development that threatens to flood their land.[7]
8
"Dreamspeaker"
Claude Jutra
Anne Cameron
Ian Tracey , George Clutesi
January 23, 1977
Adaptation of Anne Cameron's novel Dreamspeaker .[8]
9
"Hank"
Don Haldane
Don Bailey, Ralph L. Thomas
Bob Warner
January 30, 1977
10
"Ada"
Claude Jutra
Claude Jutra , Margaret Gibson
Janet Amos , Jayne Eastwood , David Fox
February 6, 1977
Several women struggle in the mental health system.[9]
11
"The Tar Sands"
Peter Pearson
Peter Pearson , Peter Rowe , Ralph L. Thomas
Kenneth Welsh , Ken Pogue
September 12, 1977
1978
Number
Title
Director
Writer
Cast
Date
12
"A Matter of Choice"[10]
Francis Mankiewicz
Anne Cameron
Michael Ironside , Roberta Maxwell , Fiona Reid , Gary Reineke
January 29, 1978
After being sexually assaulted by her acquaintance David (Reineke), Carol (Maxwell) struggles with the moral and legal complexities of whether to report her assault to the police.
13
"Scoop"[11]
Anthony Perris
Douglas Bowie
Scott Hylands , Lloyd Bochner , Deborah Templeton , Sabina Maydelle
February 12, 1978
14
"Dying Hard"[12]
Don Haldane
Bill Gough
Neil Munro , Clyde Rose, Claude Bede, Austin Davis, Estelle Wall
March 12, 1978
15
"Seer Was Here"[13]
Claude Jutra
Claude Jutra, Don Bailey
David Hemblen , Robert Forsythe
December 3, 1978
1979
Number
Title
Director
Writer
Cast
Date
16
"Cementhead"
Ralph L. Thomas
Ralph L. Thomas, Roy MacGregor
Tom Butler , Peter Dvorsky, Martin Short , Kate Lynch
February 18, 1979
Bear Bernier, a minor league hockey player from Sudbury , is willing to do whatever it takes to make the National Hockey League .[14]
17
"Je me souviens / Don't Forget Me"
Robin Spry
Carmel Dumas
February 25, 1979
18
"Homecoming"
Gilles Carle
Anne Cameron
March 4, 1979
19
"Certain Practices"
Martin Lavut
Ian Sutherland
Richard Monette , Alan Scarfe
March 11, 1979
20
"Every Person Is Guilty"
Paul Almond
Ralph L. Thomas , Roy MacGregor
Ken Pogue , Lynne Griffin
1979
A journalist (Ken Pogue) tries to investigate a physical attack on his daughter.[15]
21
"One of Our Own"
William Fruet
Florrie Adelson
October 3, 1979
1980
Number
Title
Director
Writer
Cast
Date
22
"The Winnings of Frankie Walls"
Martin Lavut
Rob Forsyth
Al Waxman , Chapelle Jaffe
March 2, 1980
23
"Harvest"
Giles Walker
Rob Forsyth
Jan Rubeš
March 9, 1980
24
"Maintain the Right"
Les Rose
Tony Sheer
Laurie Brown, Nicholas Campbell
March 16, 1980
25
"A Question of the Sixth"
Graham Parker
Grahame Woods
Lawrence Dane , Maureen McRae
March 23, 1980
26
"Lyon's Den"
Graham Parker
Tony Sheer
Mary Bellows, James Blendick, Mogens Gander
1980
1981
Number
Title
Director
Writer
Cast
Date
27
"A Far Cry from Home"
Gordon Pinsent
Helen Weils, Bill Gough
Mary Ann McDonald, Richard Monette
February 1, 1981
28
"Snowbird"
Peter Pearson
Margaret Atwood
Robert Christie , Jayne Eastwood , Doris Petrie
February 8, 1981
29
"The Running Man"
Donald Brittain
Anna Sandor
Chuck Shamata , Barbara Gordon , Colm Feore , Kate Trotter
February 22, 1981
A married man struggles to come to terms with his homosexuality.[16]
30
"Cop"
Al Waxman
Grahame Woods
March 8, 1981
31
"Final Edition"
Peter Rowe
Tony Sheer
March 22, 1981
1982
Number
Title
Director
Writer
Cast
Date
32
"An Honourable Member"
Donald Brittain
Roy MacGregor
Fiona Reid , Don Francks , Eric House
February 28, 1982
Trish Baldwin, a backbench Member of Parliament , is named to the Cabinet of Canada but struggles to balance her political ambitions with her personal integrity when she has to defend a major government project in her riding to which she is personally opposed.[17]
33
"By Reason of Insanity"
Donald Shebib
David McLaren
Patricia Collins, John Wildman , Hrant Alianak
March 7, 1982
Psychiatrists try to evaluate whether or not an accused murderer is insane .[18]
34
"High Card"
Bill Gough
Anna Sandor
Chuck Shamata , Celine Lomez , Helen Hughes
March 14, 1982
A photographer gets himself into financial trouble by overusing his credit cards .[19]
35
"Becoming Laura"
Martin Lavut
Gordon Knot
Jennifer Jewison, Tom McCamus , Shelley Thompson
March 21, 1982
A troubled teenager tries to establish her identity.[20]
36
"Blind Faith"
John Trent , Jack Nixon-Browne
Ian Sutherland, Edward Cullen
Sneezy Waters , Florence Paterson , Peter MacNeill , Martha Burns
March 28, 1982
Marge Aylesworth (Paterson) inherits her late husband's horse racing business.[21]
1983
Number
Title
Director
Writer
Cast
Date
37
"Ready for Slaughter"
Allan King
Roy MacGregor
Gordon Pinsent , Diana Belshaw , Layne Coleman , Booth Savage
March 6, 1983
A farmer struggles to hold onto his business despite his increasing financial debt.[22]
38
"Out of Sight, Out of Mind"
Zale Dalen
Nicholas Campbell , Robert Joy , John Wildman
March 13, 1983
39
"Reasonable Force"
Peter Rowe
Brian Kit McLeod, Peter Lower
Deepa Mehta , Abdul Merali, Lee Taylor
March 20, 1983
An Indo-Canadian family in Vancouver struggles to deal with racism .[23]
40
"Moving Targets"
John Trent
Allan Royal
March 27, 1983
1984
Number
Title
Director
Writer
Cast
Date
41
"Kate Morris, Vice President"
Danièle Suissa
John C. W. Saxton
Kate Trotter , Scott Hylands
February 19, 1984
A woman struggles to be taken seriously in her business career.[24]
42
"I Love a Man in Uniform"
Don McBrearty
John Frizzell
Tom Butler , Denis Forest, Dan MacDonald, Stephanie Morgenstern , Dixie Seatle , Timothy Webber , Kenneth Welsh
February 26, 1984
43
"Hide & Seek"
René Bonnière
Barry Wexler
Bob Martin , Ingrid Veninger , David Patrick, Alan Scarfe
March 4, 1984
Adaptation of Thomas J. Ryan's 1977 science fiction novel The Adolescence of P-1 .
44
"Slim Obsession"
Donald Shebib
Susan Wright, Paul Kelman
March 11, 1984
45
"Rough Justice"
Peter Yalden-Thomson
March 25, 1984
46
"A Change of Heart"
Anne Wheeler
Joy Coghill , Ken James
April 1, 1984
1985
Number
Title
Director
Writer
Cast
Date
47
"The Boy Next Door"
John Hunter
John Hunter
Chris Owens , Chapelle Jaffe , Michael Hogan
February 10, 1985
A mother struggles to cope with the behaviour of her troubled teenage son.[25]
48
"Where the Heart Is"
Carol Moore Ede
Suzette Couture
Margo Kane , Gary Farmer , Tantoo Cardinal , Tom Jackson
February 23, 1985
After divorcing from her white husband, an indigenous woman discovers that she has lost her First Nations status.[25]
49
"The Front Line"
Douglas Jackson
Ken Mitchell
Brent Carver , Monique Mercure
March 3, 1985
An activist priest encourages his congregation to protest a local factory which is manufacturing parts for military equipment.[25]
50
"Tools of the Devil"
Peter Yalden-Thomson
Don Truckey
Marc Strange , Heath Lamberts
March 10, 1985
A journalist (Strange) tries to investigate the secret agenda of a politician (Lamberts).[26]
51
"The Exile"
Gordon Pinsent
Michael Mercer
Denis Akiyama, Robert Ito, Hiroshi Nakashimi, Jim McLarty
September 15, 1985
Three generations of a Japanese Canadian family deal with the ongoing consequences of the Japanese Canadian internment in World War II .[27]
References
^ Gail Henley, "On the Record: For the Record's 10 distinctive years". Cinema Canada , April 1985.
^ "Lightyears ahead". Cinema Canada , March 1977.
^ "Everything but reality in TV show". The Globe and Mail , February 5, 1976.
^ "Important' CBC drama still dreary". The Globe and Mail , February 27, 1976.
^ "Dynamo filmmaker with a patriot's passion: For Peter Pearson the only word is win". The Globe and Mail , March 13, 1976.
^ "TV drama explores union organizing". Toronto Star , January 4, 1977.
^ "Docu-dramas: reality meets fiction". The Globe and Mail , January 15, 1977.
^ "TV choice". Toronto Star , January 22, 1977.
^ "Jutra brings warmth, humanity to mental hospital drama". The Globe and Mail , February 5, 1977.
^ "Reality of rape in CBC drama". The Globe and Mail , January 28, 1978.
^ "CBC's slick journalistic drama carries a Hollywood trademark". The Globe and Mail , February 11, 1978.
^ "Has docu-drama gone too far?". The Globe and Mail , March 11, 1978.
^ "Prison show deserves at least a life sentence". The Globe and Mail , December 3, 1978.
^ "Cementhead is minor league". The Globe and Mail , February 17, 1979.
^ "Tangled tale tedious". The Globe and Mail , March 17, 1979.
^ "Shamata to play in CBC TV drama". The Globe and Mail , July 16, 1980.
^ "Fiona Reid enters the political arena". The Globe and Mail , February 27, 1982.
^ "Trained shrinks sent in to score for the defence: Does insanity excuse murder?". The Globe and Mail , March 6, 1982.
^ "Failure of comic touches deals High Card a fatal blow". The Globe and Mail , March 13, 1982.
^ "Torturers and the tortured go on record in TV special". The Globe and Mail , March 20, 1982.
^ "Sneezy Waters won't let success go to his head". The Globe and Mail , November 26, 1983.
^ "Pinsent's past helped with role in farm drama". Broadcast Week , March 5, 1983.
^ Carlo Coppola, "Reviewed Work: "Reasonable Force". Television drama for the series "For the Record," by BRIAN KIT MCLEOD, PETER LOWER". Journal of South Asian Literature Vol. 21, No. 1, SOUTH ASIAN WOMEN WRITERS: THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE (Winter, Spring 1986), pp. 181-185.
^ "In black and white". The Globe and Mail , February 18, 1984.
^ a b c "Record shows rare gems, many duds". The Globe and Mail , February 23, 1985.
^ "Producer knows how to use 'tools' of trade". The Globe and Mail , March 9, 1985.
^ "Pinsent proves again that he can do it all". Broadcast Week , September 7, 1985.
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