The Forest Rangers (1963)

Genre

children's television series

Country

Canada

Length

3 seasons, 104 episodes

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of kids live in an old fort and act as Junior Forest Rangers. They watch for fires, help rescue people, and sometimes catch wrongdoers with help from adults.

adventurouswholesomeeducationalearnestaction-orientedfamily-friendlycheerfulsimple

What happens

The Forest Rangers (in French, Les Cadets de la forêt) is a Canadian television series that ran from 1963 to 1965. It was a co-production between CBC Television and ITC Entertainment and was Canada's first television show produced in colour. Executive producer Maxine Samuels founded the show. The series ran for three seasons, a total of 104 30-minute colour episodes (although Canadian and UK audiences would not get to see them in colour until long after the series ended). Early episodes of the series were broadcast in serialized form as part of a CBC children's series entitled Razzle Dazzle, hosted by Alan Hamel and Michelle Finney. The series follows a group of child Junior Forest Rangers who lived in an abandoned Hudson's Bay Company fort in Ontario, and who kept watch on the forest. Most plots dealt with physical threats such as forest fires and floods, but the junior rangers also rescued people or caught wrongdoers with the help of a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer, an adult uniformed Ranger, and a local First Nations guide. Educational elements were included in some episodes. This was the first appearance in a major series by Gordon Pinsent. He left the series in 1965 to star in Quentin Durgens, M.P.. In 1966 the series was adapted into a comic strip by British comics artist John Gillatt, which appeared in the British comic magazine Tiger. The show was also run in syndication in the United States from 1965 to 1966. In June 2004, there was a reunion for ex-cast and fans just south of Kleinburg, where the show was originally filmed. Six of the ex-junior rangers appeared and Peter Tully flew in from his home in Ireland. Another reunion occurred 15 June 2013 at the actual studios where the show was filmed. This time nine junior rangers and Gordon Pinsent were in attendance. The show's first season was released on DVD by Imavision in early 2007. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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