Country Joy

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Country Joy
Genresoap opera
StarringHoward Dallin
Judith Mabey
Country of originCanada
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
Production
ProducerMark Schoenburg
Running time30 minutes
Original release
Network CBC Television
Release19 November 1979 (1979-11-19) 
4 January 1980 (1980-01-04)

Country Joy is a Canadian soap opera television series which aired on CBC Television from 1979 to 1980. [1]

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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. [2]

Scheduling

This half-hour series was broadcast on weekdays at 12:30 p.m. (Eastern) from 19 November 1979 to 4 January 1980.

Cast

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References

  1. Mary Jane Miller, Turn Up the Contrast: CBC Television Drama Since 1952. University of British Columbia Press, 1987.
  2. Corcelli, John (August 2005). "Country Joy". Canadian Communications Foundation. Retrieved 7 May 2010.