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in the 1980s.Rick Groen, "Short is sweet on Global". ''

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'', September 27, 1984. A coproduction of

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and the National Film Board of Canada, the series aired film adaptations of short stories by Canadian writers. Its most noted episode was ''

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'', a dramatization of a short story by Sinclair Ross which was an Academy Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Film at the

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in 1985. Other stories adapted for the series included Ross's "One's a Heifer","Atlantis completes 2 of Canlit series". '' Cinema Canada'', April 1984. p. 34. Mordecai Richler's "Bambinger", Margaret Laurence's "To Set Our House in Order", W. D. Valgardson's "Capital",

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's "John Cat",

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's "Cages", Morley Callaghan's "All the Years of Her Life" and "A Cap for Steve", David Walker's "A Good Tree",

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's "Jack of Hearts", and Alice Munro's "Connections". The series produced 26 episodes overall, which aired monthly from 1984 to 1986, and ended production at the discretion of Atlantis Films rather than being cancelled by the network. All 26 episodes were rebroadcast weekly in the 1986-87 television season.Noel Taylor, "In with new, out with old at Global; Network bringing in 13 new shows, dropping some standbys for fall". ''

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'', September 4, 1986.

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