Country Joy

Country Joy
Genre	soap opera
Starring	Howard Dallin Judith Mabey
Country of origin	Canada
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
Production
Producer(s)	Mark Schoenburg
Running time	30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	CBC Television
Original run	19 November 1979 – 4 January 1980

Country Joy is a Canadian soap opera television series which aired on CBC Television from 1979 to 1980.^[1]

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.^[2]

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

See also

• High Hopes (1978)

References

1. ^ Mary Jane Miller, Turn Up the Contrast: CBC Television Drama Since 1952. University of British Columbia Press, 1987.
2. ^ Corcelli, John (August 2005). "Country Joy". Canadian Communications Foundation. http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/programming/television/programming_popup.php?id=1077. Retrieved 7 May 2010. 

External links

• Allan, Blaine (1996). "Country Joy". Queen's University. http://www.film.queensu.ca/CBC/Con.html. Retrieved 7 May 2010. 
• Country Joy at the Internet Movie Database