Adventures in Rainbow Country

Adventures in Rainbow Country
Created by	William Davidson
Starring	Susan Conway Stephen Cottier Wally Koster Lois Maxwell Albert Millaire Buckley Petawabano
Country of origin	Canada
Original language(s)	English
No. of episodes	26
Production
Producer(s)	Ralph C. Ellis- Manitou Productions
Running time	30 min (time slot)
Release
Original network	CBC
Original release	20 September 1970 – 28 March 1971

Adventures in Rainbow Country was a Canadian television series, which aired on CBC Television in 1970 and 1971. Reruns were later shown on the American children's cable channel Nickelodeon during the early 1980s.

A half hour family drama, the show starred Lois Maxwell (of James Bond fame) as Nancy Williams, a widow raising her children Billy (Stephen Cottier) and Hannah (Susan Conway) in rural Northern Ontario. Other characters included Billy's Ojibwa friend Pete Gawa (Buckley Petawabano), photographer/journalist Roger Lemieux (Albert Millaire), tugboat skipper Dougal MacGregor (Alan Mills), and bush pilot Dennis McGubgub (Wally Koster).

The show was filmed in 1969 around Whitefish Falls, which is near Espanola, Ontario, Canada. Many scenes were also shot at Birch Island and on Manitoulin Island.

The show was very popular in Canada and technically never cancelled or axed. No further episodes were produced after the first season. There were 26 episodes produced in total.

It has continued to air in repeats, both in Canada and internationally — in Canada, the show had been seen on DejaView, on Silver Screen Classics, in Australia the series is screened on GEM.

Actors who made appearances on the show included Gordon Pinsent, Margot Kidder, Len Birman, Percy Rodrigues, Duke Redbird, Jean-Louis Roux, Murray Westgate, Anthony Kramreither and Eric Christmas.

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