Seaway (TV series)
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Seaway is a Canadian drama series that aired on CBC Television for the 1965–1966 season. The series was a Seaway Films production in collaboration with the UK's ATV, with production money provided by the CBC. It was presented by ASP and distributed internationally by ITC Entertainment (for international screenings ITC replaced the theme music by John Bath with another composition by Edwin Astley, and prepared a different title sequence).
Seaway | |
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Genre | Drama |
Created by | Abraham Polonsky |
Written by | Edward DeBlasio Lindsay Galloway Alvin Goldman Ian McLellan Hunter Charles E. Israel Norman Klenman Abraham Polonsky |
Directed by | John Berry Abner Biberman Herschel Daugherty Lawrence Dobkin Harvey Hart Irving Lerner George McCowan Daniel Petrie Abraham Polonsky Gayne Rescher Harrison Starr Eric Till |
Starring | Stephen Young Austin Willis Cec Linder |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 31 |
Production | |
Executive producer | Maxine Samuels |
Producer | Michael Sadlier |
Production companies | Seaway Films ATV |
Original release | |
Network | CBC (Canada) ATV (United Kingdom) |
Release | September 16, 1965 (1965-09-16) – September 8, 1966 (1966-09-08) |
Although officially Canadian, many of the show's writers and directors were American (as was the series creator/script supervisor Abraham Polonsky), with some British contributors as well (such as Ian McLellan Hunter and Donald James). It was the most expensive series produced in Canada to that time with a total cost of $3 million ($12.9 million today), and although it did well enough for the CBC in terms of viewers a hoped-for sale to American network television never happened because the series, with the exceptions of the two-part episodes "Don't Forget to Wipe the Blood Off" and "Gunpowder and Paint," was shot in black and white and US network shows by that time were, with a few exceptions, in color.[1]