Neon Rider | |
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Genre | Drama |
Created by | Winston Rekert Danny Virtue |
Directed by | Bruce Pittman George Bloomfield Neill Fearnley Winston Rekert Peter D. Marshall Mick MacKay Joseph L. Scanlan René Bonnière Danny Virtue Allan King Michael Robison Vic Sarin David Winning Nicholas Kendall Stuart Margolin Brad Turner Charles Lazer George Mendeluk Michael Berry Stuart Gillard Scott Hylands Alan Simmonds Ken Jubenvill Crawford Hawkins |
Starring | Winston Rekert |
Theme music composer | Terry Frewer |
Country of origin | Canada |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 5 |
No. of episodes | 64 |
Production | |
Executive producers | Winston Rekert Michael MacMillan Danny Virtue |
Producers | Justis Greene Mary Kahn |
Production locations | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Mission, British Columbia, Canada |
Editor | Frank Irvine |
Running time | 60 minutes (including commercials) |
Production company | Virtue/Rekert Productions |
Original release | |
Network | CTV (1990-1992) YTV (1992-1995) |
Release | September 15, 1990 – November 1, 1995 |
Neon Rider is a Canadian drama television series which aired between 1990 and 1995. Created by Winston Rekert and Danny Virtue, the show was about the title character, a psychologist named Michael Terry (Rekert) who, after writing a successful book on adolescent psychology, purchases his childhood friend's family ranch just outside of Mission, British Columbia to open a therapeutic residential treatment program for troubled and abused teens. The series was filmed and set in Vancouver, and British Columbia's Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley. [1]
Other cast members included Samuel Sarkar, William S. Taylor, Peter Williams, Suzanne Errett-Balcom, Antoinette Bower, Barbara Tyson, Alex Bruhanski, Philip Granger and Jim Byrnes.
Neon Rider was produced by Alliance Atlantis and broadcast on the CTV Television Network on Saturdays at 10 PM then moved to 8 PM in 1991. CTV cancelled the series in 1992 after which original episodes continued to air on the youth-oriented cable network YTV and in syndication.
The series was also popular in Gibraltar where it aired on GBC TV.
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
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1 | 1 | "Dude" | Stuart Margolin | Stuart Margolin | TBA |
2 | 2 | "Nowhere to Run" | George Bloomfield | Aubrey Solomon | September 15, 1990 |
3 | 3 | "Hardcase" | Brad Turner | Aubrey Solomon | 1990 |
4 | 4 | "Devil's Child" | George Bloomfield | Marlene Matthews | 1990 |
5 | 5 | "One Step" | Charles Lazer | Neill Fearnley | 1990 |
6 | 6 | "Clay Pigeon" | René Bonnière | Richard Oleksiak | 1990 |
7 | 7 | "All's Fair" | George Mendeluk | Jorge Montesi & Peter Haynes | 1990 |
8 | 8 | "Playing With Fire" | Bruce Pittman | David Eames | 1990 |
9 | 9 | "The Mighty Quinn" | Neill Fearnley | Christian Bruyère | 1990 |
10 | 10 | "Starting Over" | Bruce Pittman | Aubrey Solomon | 1990 |
11 | 11 | "Guardian Angel" | Michael Robison | Jerome McCann | 1990 |
12 | 12 | "You Can Run" | Allan King | Story by : R.A. Lyons Teleplay by : Cash Edwards | 1990 |
13 | 13 | "Confessions" | Neill Fearnley | Winston Rekert, Danny Virtue, Carl Binder | 1990 |
14 | 14 | "Under Pressure" | Michael Berry | Aubrey Solomon | 1990 |
15 | 15 | "Suspicions" | Stuart Gillard | Aubrey Solomon | 1990 |
16 | 16 | "John Doe" | Joseph L. Scanlan | Brad Wright | 1990 |
17 | 17 | "Model Student" | Neill Fearnley | Carl Binder | 1990 |
18 | 18 | "Father and Son" | Bruce Pittman | TBD | 1990 |
19 | 19 | "High Wire" | Neill Fearnley | Brad Wright | 1990 |
20 | 20 | "Blood Feud" | Bruce Pittman | Aubrey Solomon | 1990 |
21 | 21 | "Over the Line" | George Bloomfield | Sally Drake, Thomas Y. Drake | 1990 |
22 | 22 | "Hacker" | Vic Sarin | Story by : R.A. Lyons Teleplay by : Brad Wright | 1990 |
23 | 23 | "Backwater" | René Bonnière | Brad Wright | 1990 |
24 | 24 | "Vengeance" | Scott Hylands | Aubrey Solomon | 1990 |
25 | 25 | "Running Man" | Bruce Pittman | Bill Thumm | 1990 |
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
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26 | 1 | "A Face in the Crowd" | TBD | TBD | 1991 |
27 | 2 | "1117" | Neill Fearnley | Brad Wright | 1991 |
28 | 3 | "Loyalties" | Joseph L. Scanlan | Brad Wright | 1991 |
29 | 4 | "The Twelfth Step" | Bruce Pittman | Carl Binder | 1991 |
30 | 5 | "Secrets" | Peter D. Marshall | Rick Drew | 1991 |
31 | 6 | "Providence" | Bruce Pittman | Carl Binder | 1991 |
32 | 7 | "Men of Principle" | Neill Fearnley | Hart Hanson | 1991 |
33 | 8 | "Bread and Water" | Bruce Pittman | Brad Wright | 1991 |
34 | 9 | "Twist in the Wind" | TBD | Alan Di Fiore | 1991 |
35 | 10 | "Black Moon Rising" | Bruce Pittman | Jana Veverka | 1991 |
36 | 11 | "Before I Sleep" | Alan Simmonds | Brad Wright | 1991 |
37 | 12 | "Phoenix" | Ken Jubenvill | Carl Binder | 1991 |
38 | 13 | "Nowhere Fast" | Neill Fearnley | Carl Binder | 1991 |
39 | 14 | "Parent's Day" | George Bloomfield | Brad Wright | 1991 |
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
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40 | 1 | "A Perfect 10" | George Bloomfield | Carl Binder | 1992 |
41 | 2 | "Saint Walt" | Bruce Pittman | Brad Wright | 1992 |
42 | 3 | "Straight Home" | David Winning | Brad Wright | 1992 |
43 | 4 | "Colour Line" | Bruce Pittman | Carl Binder | 1992 |
44 | 5 | "Night of the Living Ed" | George Bloomfield | Brad Wright | 1992 |
45 | 6 | "Labour Day" | Bruce Pittman | Carl Binder | 1992 |
46 | 7 | "Point Blank" | George Bloomfield | Alan Di Fiore | 1992 |
47 | 8 | "Daniel" | Bruce Pittman | Brad Wright | 1992 |
48 | 9 | "On the Line" | Mick MacKay | Winston Rekert, Danny Virtue, Rick Drew | 1992 |
49 | 10 | "The Good, The Bad and Eleanor" | Winston Rekert | Winston Rekert, Carl Binder | 1992 |
50 | 11 | "Brothers" | Winston Rekert | Brad Wright | 1992 |
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
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51 | 1 | "Extreme Prejudice" | Nicholas Kendall | Brad Wright | 1993 |
52 | 2 | "Live and Let Go" | Mick MacKay | Laura Doyle, Brad Wright | 1993 |
53 | 3 | "Safe at Home" | Peter D. Marshall | Alison Lea Bingeman | 1993 |
54 | 4 | "Walking Tall" | Danny Virtue | Richard Oleksiak | 1993 |
55 | 5 | "The Best Man" | Bruce Pittman | Chris Haddock | 1993 |
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
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56 | 1 | "Moving On: Part 1" | Winston Rekert | Brad Wright | 1994 |
57 | 2 | "Moving On: Part 2" | Winston Rekert | Brad Wright | 1994 |
58 | 3 | "St. Vincent" | Peter D. Marshall | Victor Nicolle | 1994 |
59 | 4 | "The Secret Life of Garret Tuggle" | Bruce Pittman | Carl Binder | 1994 |
60 | 5 | "Little Con" | Bruce Pittman | Charles Lazer | 1994 |
61 | 6 | "Cowboys and Indians" | Danny Virtue | Carmen Thibault, Jeremy R. Wright | 1994 |
62 | 7 | "Fathers" | Bruce Pittman | Brad Wright, Laura Doyle | 1994 |
63 | 8 | "Where the Buffalo Roam" | Mick MacKay | Carl Binder | 1994 |
64 | 9 | "What's Up, Doc?" | Crawford Hawkins | Scott Renyard | 1994 |
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