Country Joy Explained

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.^[3]

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)

External links

• Web site: Country Joy . Blaine . Allan . . 1996 . 7 May 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100311074242/http://www.film.queensu.ca/cbc/Con.html . 11 March 2010 . dmy-all .

Notes and References

1. Mary Jane Miller, Turn Up the Contrast: CBC Television Drama Since 1952. University of British Columbia Press, 1987.
2. Web site: Country Joy . John . Corcelli . August 2005 . Canadian Communications Foundation . 7 May 2010 .
3. Book: Kenter . Peter . TV North: Everything You Wanted to Know about Canadian Television . Levin . Martin W. . 2001 . Whitecap . 978-1-55285-146-3 . en.