Robson Arms
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| Robson Arms | |
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 Robson Arms title screen |
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| Genre | Comedy |
| Creator(s) | Gary Harvey Susin Nielsen |
| Starring | See Cast below |
| Country of origin |  Canada |
| No. of episodes | 22 (as of March 24, 2007) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Gary Harvey Susin Nielsen Brian Hamilton |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | CTV Comedy Network |
| Original run | June 17, 2005 – Present |
| Links | |
| Robson Arms Official website | |
Robson Arms is a Canadian television series that began airing on CTV Television Network on June 17, 2005. Robson Arms is a coproduction between Vancouver-based Omni Film Productions and Halifax's Creative Atlantic Communications.
The show is a dramatic anthology organized around the Robson Arms, an apartment building in Vancouver, most likely on Robson Street. Each of the show's 13 episodes will focus on a different tenant of the building. The second season aired on CTV on February 10, 2007 & February 17, 2007 on The Comedy Network.
It was created to fulfill a licensing requirement of CTV's Vancouver station, CIVT, which originally promised, as an independent station, to produce 20 episodes of an anthology series entitled The Storytellers. Only ten such episodes were produced. The CRTC did not agree that CIVT's new network programming supplanted this commitment and asked the station to fulfill its promise (Decision CRTC 2001-457-13 at 10). CTV believed the anthology would be more successful as a series with common characters, and Robson Arms was the result.
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[edit] Cast
- Laura Bertram - Chris Colton
- John Cassini - Yuri Kukoc
- William B. Davis - Dr. Carlisle Wainwright. (Season 1)
- Peter Deluise - Wayne Ross
- Shirley Douglas - Pauline Dubois (Season 1)
- Alisen Down - Sault Ste. Marie
- Fred Ewanuick - Nick Papathanasiou
- Perry Finnbogason - Henry Armstrong (Season 1)
- Megan Follows - Janice Keneally (Season 1)
- Colin Foo - Bao Tan
- Gabriel Hogan - Andrew Colton
- Linda Kash - Carol Goldstein
- Margot Kidder - Elaine Wainwright (Season 1)
- Mark McKinney - Tom Goldblum (Season 1)
- Kevin McNulty - Stanley Wasserman
- Jane McGregor - Alicia Plecas
- Tobias Mehler - Bobby (Bob) Briggs
- Gabrielle Miller - Bobbi Briggs
- Maxine Miller - Beatrice Dubois (Season 1)
- Tegan Moss - Georgia
- Leslie Nielsen - Caldo Vasco
- David Richmond-Peck - Geoff McAllister
- Gabrielle Rose - Antonia (Toni) Mastroianni-Tan
- Zak Santiago - Hal Garcia
- Haig Sutherland - Fred Fochs
- Jim Tai - Ricky Tan (Season 1)
- Jackie Torrens - Colleen Goldblum, Tom's deceased wife (Season 1)
- Justine Wong - Ruby Tan
- Helena Yea - Grandma Tan
[edit] Episodes
[edit] Season 1 (2005)
| Episode # | Original Air Date (CTV) | Episode Title |
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| 1 | 17 June 2005 | Dancing the Horizontal Mambo |
| 2 | 17 June 2005 | The Tell-Tale Latex |
| 3 | 24 June 2005 | The Eyes of Grandma Tan |
| 4 | 24 June 2005 | ICQ |
| 5 | 1 July 2005 | A Certain Vintage |
| 6 | 1 July 2005 | Sweet City Woman |
| 7 | 8 July 2005 | Hairpiece of Mind |
| 8 | 8 July 2005 | A Material Breach |
| 9 | 15 July 2005 | The Lonely Passion of Mr. Tan |
| 10 | 15 July 2005 | Educating Alicia |
| 11 | 22 July 2005 | The Recipe |
| 12 | 22 July 2005 | The Misses Dubois Turn Out the Lights |
| 13 | 29 July 2005 | Aftershock |
[edit] Season 2 (2007)
| Episode # | Original Air Date (CTV) | Episode Title |
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| 1 | 10 February 2007 | Ordinary Assholes |
| 2 | 17 February 2007 | Saultology |
| 3 | 24 February 2007 | I Did Not Have Sex With That Woman |
| 4 | 3 March 2007 | Something Straight Between Us |
| 5 | 10 March 2007 | Mr. Lonely |
| 6 | 27 February 2007 | Pest Control |
| 7 | 17 March 2007 | Misery, Inc. |
| 8 | 12 March 2007 | The Daughter of Frankenstein |
| 9 | 24 March 2007 | Wayne's World |
| 10 | 31 March 2007 | Mussolini and Me |
| 11 | 7 April 2007 | All About Kitty |
| 12 | 14 April 2007 | Lizard of Doubt |
| 13 | 21 April 2007 | Texas Birthmark |
[edit] External links
- Robson Arms
- A call to Arms for creative talent, The Globe and Mail, July 11, 2005 (subscription may be required)
- Audio interview with THECOMMENTARY.CA: Co-creator, producer, and head writer Susin Nielsen
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