Robson Arms

infobox television
show_name = Robson Arms
bgcolour = #6DA7FF
rating = 14+


caption = "Robson Arms" title screen
format = Comedy
runtime = 22 minutes
creator = Gary Harvey
Susin Nielsen
developer =
executive_producer = Gary Harvey
Susin Nielsen
Brian Hamilton
starring = "See Cast below"
country = CAN
network = CTV
Comedy Network
first_aired = June 17, 2005
last_aired = June 30, 2008
num_episodes = 38 (as of June 30, 2008)
website = http://www.robsonarms.com Robson Arms
imdb_id = 0418424
tv_com_id = 29965|

"Robson Arms" is a Canadian television series that began airing on CTV on June 17, 2005 and ended on June 30, 2008. "Robson Arms" is a co-production between Vancouver-based Omni Film Productions Limited and Halifax's Creative Atlantic Communications.

The show is a comedy-drama (dramedy) anthology organized around the Robson Arms, an apartment building in Vancouver, at the fictional address of 951 Pendrell Street. Each of the show's episodes focuses on a different tenant of the building.

The show was created to fulfill a licensing requirement of CTV's Vancouver station, CIVT, which originally promised, as an independent station, to produce 20 episodes of an anthology series entitled "The Storytellers". Only ten such episodes were produced. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) did not agree that CIVT's new network programming supplanted this commitment and asked the station to fulfill its promise [ [http://www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/ENG/Decisions/2001/DB2001-457-13.htm Decision CRTC 2001-457-13 at 10] ] . CTV believed the anthology would be more successful as a series with common characters, and "Robson Arms" was the result.

Two of the show's regular cast members, Gabrielle Miller and Fred Ewanuick, appear in this series concurrent with their continuing roles in another CTV production, "Corner Gas".

The series will air in reruns on CTV's secondary A system in the fall of 2008.

Cast

Current

* John Cassini - Yuri Kukoc
* Alisen Down - Sault Ste. Marie
* Fred Ewanuick - Nick Papathanasiou
* Dave Foley - Chuck Hoskins
* Colin Foo - Bao Tan
* Allison Hossack - Trixie Hoskins
* Linda Kash - Carol Goldstein
* Kevin McNulty - Stanley Wasserman
* Jane McGregor - Alicia Plecas
* Gabrielle Miller - Bobbi Briggs
* Tegan Moss - Georgia
* David Richmond-Peck - Geoff McAllister
* Gabrielle Rose - Antonia (Toni) Mastroianni-Tan
* Zak Santiago - Hal Garcia
* Haig Sutherland - Fred Fochs
* Justine Wong - Ruby Tan
* Helena Yea - Grandma Tan

Past

* Laura Bertram - Chris Colton (Season 2)
* William B. Davis - Dr. Carlisle Wainwright. (Season 1)
* Peter DeLuise - Wayne Ross (Season 2)
* Shirley Douglas - Pauline Dubois (Season 1)
* Perry Finnbogason - Henry Armstrong (Season 1)
* Megan Follows - Janice Keneally (Season 1)
* Gabriel Hogan - Andrew Colton (Season 2)
* Margot Kidder - Elaine Wainwright (Season 1)
* Mark McKinney - Tom Goldblum (Season 1)
* Tobias Mehler - Bobby (Bob) Briggs (Seasons 1 & 2)
* Maxine Miller - Beatrice Dubois (Season 1)
* Leslie Nielsen - Caldo Vasco (Season 2)
* Michael Roberds - Brent the Shopping Cart Guy (Seasons 1 & 2)
* Jim Tai - Ricky Tan (Season 1)
* Jackie Torrens - Colleen Goldblum, Tom's deceased wife (Season 1)

Episodes

eason 1 (2005)

References

External links

* [http://www.robsonarms.com "Robson Arms"]
* [http://broadband.ctv.ca Full Episodes Online]
* [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050711.wxrobson11/BNStory/Entertainment/ A call to Arms for creative talent] , "The Globe and Mail", July 11, 2005 (subscription may be required)
* [http://www.thecommentary.ca/ontheline/20050614a.html Audio interview with THECOMMENTARY.CA: Co-creator, producer, and head writer Susin Nielsen]