Seeing Things (TV series)
| Seeing Things | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Mystery Comedy-drama |
| Created by | David Barlow Louis Del Grande |
| Written by | David Barlow Louis Del Grande |
| Directed by | George McCowan |
| Starring |
Louis Del Grande Janet-Laine Green Martha Gibson |
| Composer(s) | Philip Schreibman |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 6 |
| No. of episodes | 43 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Robert Allen |
| Producer(s) | David Barlow Louis Del Grande |
| Location(s) | Toronto |
| Cinematography | Nikos Evdemon |
| Editor(s) | Vincent Kent |
| Running time | 1 hour |
| Production company(s) | CBC |
| Distributor | CBC |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBC Television |
| Original release | 15 September 1981 – 15 May 1987 |
Seeing Things is a Canadian comedy-drama mystery television series which originally aired on CBC Television from 1981 to 1987. It was also seen in Europe, South Africa, Singapore, Spain, Australia and the United States. In all, 43 episodes were produced. With the exception of "Seeing R.E.D." (90 minutes) episodes were one hour long.
The show starred Louis Del Grande as Louis Ciccone, a newspaper journalist who solves murders with the help of postcognitive visions. Louis can only control this ability by investigating clues given in a vision. (In some episodes, such as "Seeing the Country", he is able to stop visions from entering his mind.) Only when he discovers new information will further visions occur, which provide increasingly more detail until they finally reveal the murderer.
Del Grande (formerly an actor, writer and co-producer of the hit sitcom The King of Kensington) was also the show's creator and writer.
The show also starred Del Grande's real-life wife Martha Gibson as Ciccone's ex-wife Marge, who, even though she and Louie were divorced, continued to help him with his cases. Marge even drove Louie around town (Louie, like Del Grande in real life, was too hyper to get a driver's license), though she initially rejected Louie's desire to rekindle their relationship (they finally became a couple again in the show's final season). Del Grande and Gibson were married, then divorced in real life; they had re-wed just before the series started.
The supporting cast included Janet-Laine Green as crown attorney Heather Redfern, as well as Frank Adamson, Lynne Gordon, Ivan Beaulieu, Murray Westgate, Louis Negin and Cec Linder.
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