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- ↑ "CBC offers alternate programming". Grande Prairie Daily Herald-Tribune , September 15, 1980.
- ↑ "Seven new Canadian series on CBC". Owen Sound Sun-Times , July 4, 1980.
- ↑ Barbara Yaffe, "The real Newfie joke". The Globe and Mail , June 21, 1980.
- ↑ Chris Cobb, "New TV season — a $130 million bumper crop". Ottawa Citizen , September 13, 1980.
