The Beachcombers

1972

The Beachcombers

7.1 | TV-PG | en | Drama

The Beachcombers is a Canadian comedy-drama television series that ran from October 1, 1972 to December 12, 1990 and is the longest-running dramatic series ever made for English-language Canadian television. In all, 387 episodes were produced.

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Seasons & Episodes

EP1 Hooray for Mollywood

Oct. 04,1987

Everyone in town is enthralled with Molly's latest novel, which is a fictional account of life in Gibsons. They are so enthralled that they lose track of their regular day to day duties. Each is most excited by the larger than life depiction of the character who is based on him or herself. Their excitement grows when Hollywood director Mr. Palooka and his assistant Whitney come into town, they who are making a movie of the book and who seem to want to use the local person upon who the character is based to portray that character. As such, each person tries to act the way they see their self portrayed in the book. So they all happily sign the contract that Palooka places in front of them, all except Nick, who sees that the contract is not all it seems on the surface. When Nick convinces them all that they have basically signed their life away to Palooka, they have to come up with a way to regain their life back from him. They get some unexpected support in the matter.

7.1 | TV-PG | en | Drama , Family | More Info

Released: 1972-10-01 | Released Producted By: , Country: Canada Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:

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Pat John , Bruno Gerussi

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Pat John

as Jesse Jim / Jeemes

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Bruno Gerussi

as Nick Adonidas

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Reviews

bayboytwin In spite of the beautiful scenes of West Coast Canada, the Beachcombers is one of the worst TV programs I've ever had the misfortune to see. Acting by principal "star" Bruno Gerussi is bombastic and unconvincing. Watch as he sputters his lines, and walks as if he's trying to catch a chicken or other kind of fowl. A turkey, perhaps. The writing is sub par, even for the CBC. To say its' dull is being kind. The few attempts at humor are just not funny. Example: naming a character who is an RCMP officer, "Constable Constable" is about as funny as it gets. This officer, BTW, is played as a dimwit. Plus, his character was given that rarest of CBC rewards; a "spin off!" The mind boggles! Poor, poor, POOR excuse for entertainment. That it was on TV for more than 15 years is beyond my understanding. And I'm a Canadian! The only thing about all this wretchedness that I can recommend, besides the scenery, is that the Native American actors are actually played by Native Americans.

valgin I grew up about 20 miles from the Canadian border, near Bellingham, in Washington State. The show was the first opportunity for us to see things outside our small town of ACME. The pontoon airplane was always the hit, and the inter cultural cast of characters helped us to see that there was more out there. I agree that it was a family show, and hence we were allowed to watch it as children. In that period, our region had a local tribe of Indians. I think they are still there. Being as confined as we were, I think I remember racial tensions, or in any case, school was were one saw the few Indians and the rest. Because my parents came from Europe, they didn't know anything about the situation. The TV show helped me understand the culture through Jesse, and I was one of the few kids who finished by having friends ( a friend) from the tribe in my Junior High School. Interesting how we can be positively affected by TV.If they were ever to do a DVD of some of the episodes, I would like to hear about it. Best, Valgin

toink-1 I as a kid used to watch this all the time. I don't really remember to much of it other than us kids being all excited when my father had appeared on an episode as Relic's brother or something to that matter but then we would try not to miss an episode after that. We still talk about that one episode to this day and wonder our dad LOLOLOLOL.So it was kinda neat coming across this post i just had to comment on it.If anybody may recall that episode please fill in some of the blanks for me, would be thankfulThanks

STWARR My dad was in to electronics, we had a really good antenna for our TV, and on Sunday nights we could pick up Ch 11 out of Canada, I think it was Kingston. I'd watch this show every Sunday night as a kid, I thought it was great. I know this sounds old, but I don't think a lot of the TV shows today have the presence that this one did. The characters were good, especially in the early seasons, and I liked the seeing coastline and the boats. I had no idea it went on till 1990, I graduated high school and went away to college in 1981, between college and jobs I never got back in to an area where I could pick it up. I miss it, and shows like it. My hats off to Canada for making a really wonderful TV show.