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Country of origin Canada First episode date 1956 Number of seasons 14 | 8.4/10 IMDb No. of episodes 495 Final episode date 1970 Number of episodes 495 Program creator Claude-Henri Grignon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Starring Jean-Pierre MassonAndrée ChampagneGabriel GasconGeneviève BujoldJean LeClercYves CorbeilPaul DupuisJuliette Béliveau Similar Séraphin: Heart of Stone, The Plouffe Family, The True Nature of Bernadette, Le Crime d'Ovide Plouffe, Kamouraska | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Les belles histoires des pays d en haut le miracle
Les Belles Histoires des pays d'en haut is a Canadian television drama series, which aired on Radio-Canada from 1956 to 1970. One of the longest-running programs in the history of Canadian television, the series produced 495 episodes during its 14-year run and was one of the first influential téléromans.
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- Les belles histoires des pays d en haut le miracle
- Les belles histoires des pays d en haut pater familias
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Written by Claude-Henri Grignon as an adaptation of his 1933 novel Un Homme et son péché and initially set in the 1880s, the series starred Jean-Pierre Masson as Séraphin Poudrier, the wealthy but miserly mayor of the village of Sainte-Adèle, Quebec, and Andrée Champagne as Donalda Laloge-Poudrier, the young daughter of a village resident who is given in marriage to Séraphin as payment for a family debt even though she remains in love with her suitor Alexis Labranche (Gabriel Gascon). With a vast ensemble cast of extended family and other villagers, the series also delved much more deeply than the novel into the dramatic interactions of the larger community, depicting the early settlement of Quebec's Laurentides region and evolving from the novel's satirical portrait of Séraphin's moral values into a complex soap opera. Among others, the show's ensemble cast included Geneviève Bujold, Jean LeClerc, Yves Corbeil, Paul Dupuis and Juliette Béliveau.
Several real historical figures, including Antoine Labelle, Honoré Mercier and Arthur Buies, are depicted in the series.
The series ended production of new episodes in 1970, although it continued to air in daytime repeats on both Radio-Canada and Télé-Québec for many years. Many episodes are currently available on Radio-Canada's video on demand website TOU.TV.