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The Beachcombers

1972TV-PG20 seasons6.8 / 10

The Beachcombers is a Canadian comedy-drama television series that ran from October 1, 1972 to December 12, 1990 and is the longest-running dramatic series ever made for English-language Canadian television. In all, 387 episodes were produced.

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The Beachcombers premiered October 1, 1972. We don't have a confirmed streaming, rental or purchase option yet.

Synopsis

The Beachcombers is a Canadian comedy-drama television series that ran from October 1, 1972 to December 12, 1990 and is the longest-running dramatic series ever made for English-language Canadian television. In all, 387 episodes were produced.

Season 4 episodes

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Episode 1

A Rover's Dream

The Irish Rovers are slated to perform in Gibson's Landing however one band part startlingly chooses to stop to begin an existence around the local area.

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Episode 2

Booming Clowns

McLoskey and Ceece, alongside their accomplice Jesse, gained blasting grounds and Relic hopes to cheat it far from them.

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Episode 3

Invisible Relic

Relic is being miserable and selfish as usual. He won't donate to the charity Margaret is collecting for, and he leaves McLoskey stranded out on the rough water since he won't pay the $50 Relic wants for his help.

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Episode 4

The Great Oyster Chase

Margret and Gus make a sensational find: At one point of the coast, they find huge oyster beds that no one has yet discovered. Since oysters are paid dearly, the two decide to keep the find secret. The first bucket of oysters is sold by them, as the conjecture that the oysters are infected by a poisoning condenses.

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Episode 5

Abandoned

Relic gets Nick and Jesse off guard by guaranteeing the Persephone as rescue while the two are making a plunge the waters beneath.

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Episode 6

Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire

Gus turns a web of fanciful stories to a kid welfare officer yet may soon come to lament what he has said.

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Episode 7

Blackmail

Gus surrenders to enticement and takes a top from a neighborhood store yet is seen by Relic, who extorts Gus into doing him favors.

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Episode 8

The Hexman

Scratch, Jesse and Jesse's granddad (who is a shaman) go head to head against a swordfisherman and his spooky friend in a challenge over the rights to a prize log.

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Episode 9

The Fugitive

Margret has taken care of a dog and promised to look after him well. Walking through the forest, the animal falls into a trap set up by a suspicious-looking man. The stranger, who is obviously on the run, threatens to kill the dog.

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Episode 11

In the Still of the Night

While bringing home a Christmas tree, Nick and his companions become involved with a contraband bourbon influencing operation at a neighborhood logging to camp.

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Episode 12

Boat in a Bottle: Part 1

Hughie and family get to know a youthful Japanese-Canadian who has come to Gibsons Landing to find his dad's old fishboat, appropriated amid World War Two when the West Coast Japanese were shamefully stripped of their possessions and dispatched inland as "adversary outsiders". They run head-on into settled in bias from a totally surprising quarter, old Colonel Spranklin, one of the Carmody family's best-adored companions. Finding the old fishboat and the push to get it water-borne again shape the activity of this moving two-section scene.

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Episode 13

Boat in a Bottle: Part 2

Hughie and family get to know a youthful Japanese-Canadian who has come to Gibsons Landing to find his dad's old fishboat, appropriated amid World War Two when the West Coast Japanese were shamefully stripped of their possessions and dispatched inland as "adversary outsiders". They run head-on into settled in bias from a totally surprising quarter, old Colonel Spranklin, one of the Carmody family's best-adored companions. Finding the old fishboat and the push to get it water-borne again shape the activity of this moving two-section scene. Conclusion of two-part story.

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Episode 14

Bull Kelp

Jesse is found napping while at the same time plunging and is cleared out to ocean by an effective tide and should battle to make due until the point that safeguard arrives.

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Episode 15

The Big Tow

Jesse and Hugh have found a lot of valuable flotsam. But salvaging on a self-made raft is very difficult. The boys have to fight against the tides, and it almost seems as if they can only be saved by a miracle.

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Episode 16

The Bike That Wouldn't Die

Gus examines the bike that his girlfriend Margaret got given from Nick and Molly. Unfortunately, the two did not know which wheels are currently "in". So Margaret fears that she is embarrassing herself with the ancient wire.

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Episode 18

Treasure Hunt

Hughie gives Gus a progression of pieces of information to take after to discover his birthday present yet the trail turns out to be more unsafe than arranged.

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Episode 19

Work to Rule

Relic happens a mishap: The fuel pump of his boat must be repaired. He can not do his job for a week. He's anxious that Molly go on vacation for a week.

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More about The Beachcombers

Cast

Robert Clothier
Jackson Davies
Ryan StilesTall Suit
Cameron Bancroft
Janet-Laine Green
Bruno GerussiNick Adonidas
Pat JohnJesse Jim / Jeemes
Rae BrownMolly

Production details

Status
Ended
Series type
Scripted
Episodes
66
Original language
English

Networks & production

  • CBC TelevisionCanada

Themes

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