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novel ''

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'' and its 1988 film adaptation, the series centred on Maximilian Glick, a young

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in Beausejour,

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in the 1960s. Though set in Beausejour, the series was filmed on location in

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Synopsis

The series starred Josh Garbe as Max, Alec Willows and

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as his parents Henry and Sarah,

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as his grandparents Augustus and Bryna,

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as his classmate and love interest Celia, and

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as Rabbi Teitelman. Jan and Susan Rubeš were the only cast members to reprise their roles from the film;

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, who had played Max in the film, was also originally slated to star in the series, but had undergone puberty and grown too tall to believably play a 13-year-old by the time the series entered production. The series was created by Stephen Foster and

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, who had been the producer and screenwriter of the original film. Critics commonly compared the series to the contemporaneous American series ''

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''.

Episodes

The series aired 26 episodes over two seasons in the fall of 1990 and 1991, and then aired in reruns in 1992. It was not renewed for a third season.

Season 1 (1990–91)

Season 2 (1991)

Awards

The series received three Gemini Award nominations at the

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in 1992, for Best Guest Performance in a Series (

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), Best Costume Design (Karen L. Matthews) and Best Original Music Score for a Series (Graeme Coleman); at the 7th Gemini Awards in 1993, Coleman was again nominated for Best Original Music while David Barlow won the award for Best Writing in a Dramatic Series."Beleaguered McKenna honored with two Geminis". ''

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'', March 7, 1993.

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