''House of Pride'' was a Canadian television

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, which aired on

CBC Television CBC Television (also known as CBC TV) is a Canadian English-language broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster. The network began operations on September 6, 1952. Its French- ...

from 1974 to 1976. The series opened with the death of family patriarch Dan Pride (George Waite), and focused on the families of his five adult children."House of Pride: sweetening regional pill". ''

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'', June 8, 1974. Each of the families lived in a different Canadian city; the series had production units in

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and Halifax."Jalna-type series planned by CBC". ''

'', July 13, 1973. The cast included

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, Lynne Griffin,

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Linda Sorenson Linda Sorenson (born January 19, 1940) is a Canadian film, television and voice actress, best known for playing Mrs. Stegman in ''Class of 1984'', Warden Howe in ''Murphy Brown'', Virginia Reeves in '' Material World'' and Isabelle Carrington in ...

, Colin Fox,

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and

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* Canadian television soap operas CBC Television original programming 1974 Canadian television series debuts 1976 Canadian television series endings 1970s Canadian drama television series {{Canada-drama-tv-prog-stub