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Jim Henshaw
Jim Henshaw (born September 28, 1949) is a Canadian actor, screenwriter and film and television producer. Early life and education Henshaw was born in Bassano, Alberta, Canada. He graduated from the University of Saskatchewan. Career A mainstay of the Canadian theatre scene during the 1970s, he appeared in more than 50 productions of new Canadian plays, including the first performances of several works by playwright George F. Walker. His film career included such films as ''The Last Detail'', '' Monkeys in the Attic'', ''Lions for Breakfast'', ''The Supreme Kid'' and '' A Sweeter Song'' for which he also wrote the screenplay. Henshaw was the voice of Daniel Mouse and Beaver Drummer in the 1978 animated film ''The Devil and Daniel Mouse'', a television special created by Nelvana Productions, the Canadian animation company that worked on various television specials during this time from 1977 to 1980. In the field of animation, he is best known for playing Bright Heart Raccoon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bassano, Alberta
Bassano ( ) is a town in Alberta, Canada. It is located on the Trans-Canada Highway approximately southeast of Calgary and northwest of Medicine Hat. It is also on the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway. A short distance south of the town is the Bassano Dam (originally "Horse Shoe Bend Dam"), serves as a diversion structure which routes water through a canal into Lake Newell, Lake Newell Reservoir which supplies water to the majority of the County of Newell for purposes like irrigation, recreation, and the County's drinking water. The Bassano Dam holds the record for highest temperature in Alberta which is . The community has the name of Marquis de Bassano, a railroad promoter. Demographics In the 2021 Canadian census, 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Town of Bassano had a population of 1,216 living in 540 of its 595 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 1,206. With a land area of , it had a population density ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Get Along Gang
''The Get Along Gang'' is a group of characters created in 1983 by Tony Byrd, Tom Jacobs, Ralph Shaffer, Linda Edwards, Muriel Fahrion, and Mark Spangler for American Greetings' toy design and licensing division, "Those Characters from Cleveland" (now Cloudco Entertainment), for a series of greeting cards. ''The Get Along Gang'' is a group of 12 pre-adolescent anthropomorphic animal characters in the fictional town of Green Meadow, who form a club that meets in an abandoned caboose and who have various adventures whose upbeat stories were intended to show the importance of teamwork and friendship. The success of the greeting card line led to a Saturday morning television series, which aired on CBS for 13 episodes in the 1984–1985 season, with reruns showing from January to June 1986. Characters ''The Get Along Gang'' franchise was loosely inspired by Hal Roach's ''Our Gang'' series of short films. The core six members of the gang appeared frequently in merchandising and the show ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deadly Harvest (1977 Film)
''Deadly Harvest'' is a 1977 Canadian science-fiction " eco- thriller" film directed by Timothy Bond, about a farmer (Clint Walker) who struggles to keep food on the table and regain his son from a gang of marauding city-folk during a terrible worldwide famine, brought on by global cooling due to, among other named causes in a voice-over, overpopulation, urban sprawl, the energy crisis, pollution, and the high cost of transporting grain. The film was produced by Anthony Kramreither and Len Herberman, with a screenplay by Martin Lager, and features an unreleased score by John Mills-Cockell. The film is notable as Timothy Bond's first film, and as an early example of survivalism in film, having been compared to '' No Blade of Grass''. Plot In an over-industrialized near future, climate change in the form of global cooling has shrunk available farmland and a worldwide famine has ensued. Government neither informs its citizens nor does anything to avert or even ameliorate the loomin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Class Of '44
''Class of '44'' is a 1973 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film based on the memoirs of screenwriter Herman Raucher. Directed by Paul Bogart, it is structured as a sequel to the 1971 film ''Summer of '42'' which recounted the events in the earlier portion of Raucher's memoirs. The film is a slice-of-life style autobiography of sorts, depicting Herman Raucher's ( Gary Grimes) freshman year in college, where he falls in love with Julie (Deborah Winters) under the shadow of the growing threat of World War II. Jerry Houser and Oliver Conant reprise their roles as Oscar "Oscy" Seltzer and Benjy, the two other members of Raucher's circle of friends, "The Terrible Trio," but Conant only makes a very brief appearance. Plot Friends Hermie (an aspiring artist), Oscy (a jock), and Benjy (a nerd) graduate high school in the spring of 1944, under the looming threat of World War II. At a post-graduation party, Hermie and Oscy are startled when Benjy tells them that he's enlisted in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World
''The Lost World'' (officially ''Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World'') is a syndicated television series loosely based on the 1912 novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, '' The Lost World''. The show premiered in the United States in the fall of 1999 (after the TV-movie/pilot aired in February on DirecTV and then on the cable television channel TNT in April). It ran for three seasons, the final two of which aired in syndication in the United States, before it was cancelled in 2002 after funding for a fourth season fell through. The final episode ended with an unresolved cliffhanger. All three seasons were released in DVD box sets in 2004. Plot "At the dawn of the 20th century" a band of British adventurers, led by adventurer and scholar Professor George Challenger, embark on an expedition to prove the existence of an isolated lost world. The group, some mismatched enthusiasts with less than selfless reasons for making the journey, consists of Challenger, Professor Arthur Summe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secret Service (TV Series)
''Secret Service'' is an American action drama television series created by Gilbert M. Shilton and George Mendeluk, which premiered on NBC on August 16, 1992 and ended on November 17, 1993 with a total of 21 episodes. The show was a re-enactment of real Secret Service cases and was hosted by Steven Ford, the youngest son of former United States President Gerald Ford and First Lady Betty Ford Elizabeth Anne Ford (; formerly Warren; April 8, 1918 – July 8, 2011) was the first lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977, as the wife of President Gerald Ford. As first lady, she was active in social policy and set a precedent as a pol .... Episode titles As of this writing, the airdates of some of the episodes are uncertain. References External links * 1992 American television series debuts 1993 American television series endings American action television series 1990s American crime drama television series NBC original programming Television series by Universal Tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Other Dimension
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
War Of The Worlds (1988 TV Series)
''War of the Worlds'' is a science fiction television series that ran for two seasons, from October 7, 1988 to May 14, 1990. The series is a sequel to the 1953 film ''The War of the Worlds'', a loose adaptation of the 1898 novel of the same title by H. G. Wells, using the same war machine designs and often incorporating aspects from the film, radio adaptation, and the original novel into its mythology. Though the original film's producer, George Pal, envisioned a TV series from the same film sometime in the 1970s, it was not until the late 1980s that a series was finally realized, this time by television producer Greg Strangis. The show was a part of the boom of first-run syndicated television series being produced at the time. It was later shown in reruns on the Sci Fi Channel. The series was filmed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Premise According to the series, rather than being killed outright by germs at the end of the 1953 film, the aliens had all slipped into a state of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Top Cops
''Top Cops'' is a documentary program broadcast in the United States on the CBS television network from 1990 to 1993. Reruns aired on the USA Network in 1996. Each episode of ''Top Cops'' consisted of two to three segments featuring commended police The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state, with the aim to enforce the law, to ensure the safety, health and possessions of citizens, and to prevent crime and civil disorder. Their lawful powers include arrest and t ... officers and dramatic recreations of the events leading to their having been honored. External links * CBS original programming 1990 American television series debuts 1993 American television series endings 1990s American crime television series Television series by CBS Studios Television series by 20th Century Fox Television Television series featuring reenactments {{US-nonfiction-tv-prog-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Series
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adderly
''Adderly'' is a Canadian television adventure-drama series which aired from 1986 to 1988. It was broadcast on both Canadian TV and on CBS in the United States. It starred Vancouver-born Winston Rekert as "charming and witty V.H. Adderly," an operative working for an obscure government intelligence agency. Background ''Adderly'' was based on series creator Elliott Baker's novel, ''Pocock & Pitt''. Cast * Winston Rekert as V.H. (Virgil Homer) Adderly * Jonathan Welsh as Melville Greenspan * Mairlyn Smith as Debbie Greenspan * Dixie Seatle as Mona Ellerby * Ken Pogue as Major Jonathan B. Clack Plot V.H. Adderly (Rekert) is a secret agent for an organization known as the I.S.I (International Security and Intelligence). Before the series begins, an enemy agent, Victor Barinov, crushes Adderly's left hand with a medieval mace during an interrogation in East Germany. Adderly loses the use of the hand, and since he is no longer considered useful as an active agent, he is reassigned t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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