For the Record

1. The Insurance Man from Ingersoll

Air Date: 1976-02-08

A look into government and union corruption.

2. A Nest of Shadows

Air Date: 1976-02-15

An unwed teenage mother is expecting her second child. Her lover, a struggling mechanic, promises they will soon be wed, yet a social worker attempts to save her from the brink of collapse.

3. A Thousand Moons

Air Date: 1976-02-29

A look into the world of a Metis matriarch.

4. Kathy Karuks Is a Grizzly Bear

Air Date: 1976-03-07

Dramatization of the youngest swimmer to attempt to cross Lake Ontario.

5. What We Have Here Is a People Problem

Air Date: 1976-03-14

A stubborn farmer refuses to vacate his land, despite government orders.

1. Maria

Air Date: 1977-01-09

Outraged by the insults to her mother, Maria decides to organize a union for the immigrant women she and her mother work with in a Toronto sweat shop.

2. Someday Soon

Air Date: 1977-01-16

After a contaminated water from North Dakota sweeps across the Canadian prairies, a group of Manitoba farmers plan an invasion of the USA.

3. Dreamspeaker

Air Date: 1977-01-23

A troubled young man ends up committing suicide in an institution.

4. Hank

Air Date: 1977-01-30

Hank is a kind man who owns a produce stand. A ruthless company and union try to take his business.

5. Ada

Air Date: 1977-02-06

Ada was brilliant and crazy before her lobotomy. Afterwards, she becomes stupid and easily controlled. A friend on the inside tries to help her recall her former self.

6. The Tar Sands

Air Date: 1977-09-12

A look at a clash between politicians and the oil industry.

1. A Matter of Choice

Air Date: 1978-01-29

A woman is raped and must come to terms with a conviction against her rapist.

2. Scoop

Air Date: 1978-02-12

A ruthless journalist blackmails a member of Parliament.

3. Dying Hard

Air Date: 1978-03-12

The life and death of a Newfoundland town called St Lawrence.

4. Seer Was Here

Air Date: 1978-12-10

Seer, a convict, brings understanding to his fellow inmates.

1. Cementhead

Air Date: 1979-02-18

A pro-hockey wannabe has to deal with extreme on-ice violence.

2. Don't Forget 'Je me Souviens'

Air Date: 1979-02-25

A French-English marriage in Montreal faces a crisis when the husband gets transferred to Toronto.

3. Homecoming

Air Date: 1979-03-04

Lou Gagnon and Jenny are nomads. With their Metis friend, Marcel, they travel the rodeo circuit and the dust and the yells and the hardness are their companions. Then Lou, badly hungover, breaks his leg and is in hospital. Marcel, with a teenage girl to care for, takes her to an Indian reserve and Jenny, for the first time in her life, has roots.

4. Certain Practices

Air Date: 1979-03-11

A star surgeon is caught using experimental techniques on his patients.

5. Every Person Is Guilty

Air Date: 1979-03-18

A man comes into possession of a secret document that puts him in peril.

6. One of Our Own

Air Date: 1979-04-25

A look into Down's Syndrome.

1. The Winnings of Frankie Walls

Air Date: 1980-03-02

An unskilled, unemployed labourer struggles to keep pace in an increasingly educated society.

2. Harvest

Air Date: 1980-03-09

3. Maintain the Right

Air Date: 1980-03-16

An RCMP man must decide between his friend and his lying superiors.

4. A Question of the Sixth

Air Date: 1980-03-23

5. Lyon's Den

Air Date: 1980-03-30

A journalist crusading against crime learns that his own son is a vandal.

6. Welcome Stranger

Air Date: 1980-04-06

1. A Far Cry from Home

Air Date: 1981-02-01

2. Snowbird

Air Date: 1981-02-08

A widowed senior defies her daughter's wishes, sells the family home and moves into a trailer park.

3. The Running Man

Air Date: 1981-02-22

A middle-aged family man and high school teacher struggles in silence as he accepts the fact that he's gay.

4. Cop

Air Date: 1981-03-01

5. Final Edition

Air Date: 1981-03-08

1. An Honorable Member

Air Date: 1982-02-28

A parliament back-bencher suddenly finds herself promoted to a position that causes her a moral dilemma.

2. By Reason of Insanity

Air Date: 1982-03-07

A young man uses an insanity plea to get off from a murder charge, but further details come to light in the aftermath.

3. High Card

Air Date: 1982-03-14

4. Becoming Laura

Air Date: 1982-03-21

5. Blind Faith

Air Date: 1982-03-28

A neglected wife finds solace in watching a televangelical preacher.

6. I'm Just a Kid

Air Date: 1982-04-04

7. Special Delivery

Air Date: 1982-04-11

A pregnant woman chooses a midwife assisted home birth before this practice was generally accepted.

1. Ready for Slaughter

Air Date: 1983-03-06

A fourth generation farmer takes on the banks to save his farm.

2. Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Air Date: 1983-03-13

An idealistic doctor tries to implement a new therapy for criminals.

3. Reasonable Force

Air Date: 1983-03-20

An actual story of racism against an East Indian family in BC.

4. Moving Targets

Air Date: 1983-03-27

An air traffic controller confronts his superiors about faulty radar equipment.

1. A Change of Heart

Air Date: 1984-02-19

2. I Love a Man in Uniform

Air Date: 1984-02-26

A mean, small-town cop begins a relationship with a troubled teen.

3. Slim Obsession

Air Date: 1984-03-11

An overweight woman suffers social pressure to be slimmer as society judges women by their looks. Dieting becomes an obsession as she fights to be accepted by all including her husband. Self worth is hard to come by.

4. Rough Justice

Air Date: 1984-03-25

A young girl is raped, and then has to be interrogated at her assailant's trial. Her abuser evades justice, and she's left to deal with the painful aftermath.

5. A Change of Heart

Air Date: 1984-04-01

6. Hide & Seek

Air Date: 1984-04-08

A high school hacking genius breaks a computer code and unlocks a program that thinks for itself.

1. The Boy Next Door

Air Date: 1985-02-10

A widow has to deal with her troubled son, who becomes a lawbreaker.

2. The Front Line

Air Date: 1985-02-17

A young, idealistic priest, just released from a Central American prison, returns to Canada where he is assigned to a quiet town parish.

3. They're Drying Up the Streets

Air Date: 1985-02-24

4. Tools of the Devil

Air Date: 1985-03-03

5. The Exile

Air Date: 1985-03-10

Three generations of a Japanese Canadian family struggle with the emotional trauma inflicted by their internment in British Columbia camps during World War Two. Each generation has to come to terms with their family breakup.

6. Where the Heart Is

Air Date: 1985-03-17

A native woman divorces her white husband and learns that she has also lost her Rez status as well.

7. Fred Quilt

Air Date: 1985-03-24