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Country Joy

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Country of origin
  
Canada

No. of seasons
  
1

Running time
  
30 minutes

Final episode date
  
4 January 1980

Number of seasons
  
1

Language
  
English

Original language(s)
  
English

Producer(s)
  
Mark Schoenburg

First episode date
  
19 November 1979

Network
  
CBC Television

Genre
  
Soap opera

Starring
  
Howard Dallin Judith Mabey

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

Contents

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.

Scheduling

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

Cast

  • Howard Dallin as Dick Brugencate
  • Judith Mabey as Joy Burnham
  • Debra Au Coin as Pam Brugencate
  • Jim Calderbank as Rob Brugencate
  • Vernis McQuaig as Helen Brugencate
  • Brian Taylor as Andy Mallory
  • Wally McSween as John Morgan
  • Pamela Boyd
  • Jack Wyntars
  • References

    Country Joy Wikipedia