| 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 | ca 50 minutes |
| 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]
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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.
