The Whiteoaks of Jalna
1972 Canadian TV series or program
The Whiteoaks of Jalna | |
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Starring | Paul Harding Kate Reid |
Country of origin | Canada |
Original language | English |
No. of episodes | 13 |
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Producers | John Trent Richard Gilbert |
Running time | 60 min (time slow) |
Original release | |
Network | CBC |
Release | 23 January (1972-01-23) – 30 April 1972 (1972-04-30) |
The Whiteoaks of Jalna was a 1972 Canadian television drama miniseries based on the Jalna novels by Mazo de la Roche. At CA$2 million, it set a record expense at the time for a Canadian television miniseries. The series was exported internationally including the United Kingdom and France. Scriptwriting was led by Timothy Findley, supported by Claude Harz and Grahame Woods.
Plot
Production
- Due to the convoluted nature of the storyline, which jumped back and forth between the 1850s to the 1970s, CBC published a family tree of the characters in the miniseries, so viewers could follow the story.
- The miniseries was originally planned to extend beyond 13 episodes, but production was curtailed by a CBC technicians' strike that year.
- Despite this being a CBC production, the original run of the mini-series was blacked out on CKLW-TV in Windsor, Ontario (then partially owned by the CBC), as the CBC originally planned to sell the series to an American network or syndicator. Such a sale did not materialize.
- The miniseries was rebroadcast in 1974, but was re-edited with extra footage added and some scenes (especially those taking place in the modern day) cut.
Sources
- TV North: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Canadian Television, by Peter Kenter and Martin Levin
External links
- Queen's University Directory of CBC Television Series: The Whiteoaks of Jalna, accessed 10 September 2006
- The Whiteoaks of Jalna at IMDb
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Works by Timothy Findley
- The Last of the Crazy People (1967)
- The Butterfly Plague (1969)
- The Wars (1977)
- Famous Last Words (1981)
- Not Wanted on the Voyage (1984)
- The Telling of Lies (1986)
- Headhunter (1993)
- The Piano Man's Daughter (1995)
- You Went Away (1996)
- Pilgrim (1999)
- Spadework (2001)
collections
- Dinner Along the Amazon (1984)
- Stones (1988)
- Dust to Dust (1997)
- The Paper People (1967)
- Don't Let the Angels Fall (1969)
- The Whiteoaks of Jalna (1972)
- The Newcomers (1977)
- Can You See Me Yet? (1977)
- Catsplay (1978)
- The Wars (1983)
- The Stillborn Lover (1993)
- The Trials of Ezra Pound (2000)
- Elizabeth Rex (2001)
- Shadows (2001)
- The National Dream (1974)
- Dieppe 1942 (1979)
- Inside Memory (1990)
- From Stone Orchard (1998)
- Journeyman: Travels of a Writer (2003)
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