''R.C.M.P.'' was a Canadian television drama series about the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP; french: Gendarmerie royale du Canada; french: GRC, label=none), commonly known in English as the Mounties (and colloquially in French as ) is the federal police, federal and national police service of ...
. The series ran a single season, consisting of 39 weekly half-hour episodes that aired from 28 October 1959 to 19 October 1960 on
CBC.
Cast
The series starred French-Canadian actor
Gilles Pelletier as Corporal Jacques Gagnier, who was in charge of the rural northern Shamattaw station. English-Canadian actor
Don Francks played Constable Bill Mitchell, and American actor John Perkins played Constable Frank Scott.
[The Long (Red) Arm of the Law, ''TV Guide'', March 18, 1961, pages 8 - 11]
Actors in supporting roles were
Hugh Webster,
Murray Westgate
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,
Robert Christie,
James Doohan
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,
John Drainie
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Drainie was most famous in Canada for two long-running roles: the ...
,
Katherine Blake, and
Alfie Scopp
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.
[Allan, Blaine, ''Directory of CBC Television Series, 1952 - 1982'', Queen's University, 1996] A nine-member
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family, from a grandmother to an infant, were flown in from the
Hudson Bay area to appear in some episodes.
Cooperation of Royal Canadian Mounted Police
The series had the cooperation of the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP; french: Gendarmerie royale du Canada; french: GRC, label=none), commonly known in English as the Mounties (and colloquially in French as ) is the federal police, federal and national police service of ...
, and the producers were allowed access to their case files.
Charles Rivett-Carnac, who had 36 years of active service before being appointed as RCMP commissioner, worked closely with the producers.
Earl Rettig, the president of
NBC
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division California National Productions, which syndicated ''R.C.M.P.'' in the United States, stated "Hollywood motion pictures and television producers for years have been negotiating in vain for a working agreement with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. This is why CNP feels very fortunate in having secured rights to the series."
[U.S. TV Getting 'RCMP', ''Ottawa Citizen'', April 27, 1960, page 7](_blank)
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Production
The series was created by Canadian film-maker Radford Crawley in collaboration with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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