He Shoots, He Scores (1986)

Original title

Lance et Compte

Directed by

Jean-Claude Lord

Genre

drama

Country

Canada

Length

9 seasons, 99 episodes

Rating

4.3 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This series follows a fictional professional ice hockey team in Quebec City through their games and personal lives. It shows the players' struggles on and off the ice during the late 1980s.

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What happens

He Shoots, He Scores (French: Lance et compte) is a Canadian téléroman, or television drama series, revolving around a fictional ice hockey team based in Quebec City. The series aired from 1986 to 1989 on the Radio-Canada network, and revival series on TQS in 2001 and on TVA from 2004 to 2015. The first season was filmed in both French and English, the English version appearing on CBC Television as He Shoots, He Scores. It was the first television series to air simultaneously in English on CBC and in French on Radio-Canada. (An earlier series, La famille Plouffe, had aired on both networks, but not simultaneously; the English version aired approximately a year behind the French series. Each episode of Lance et Compte, however, aired in English as He Shoots, He Scores in the same week.) The series was scripted by Réjean Tremblay and Louis Caron for the first season, and by Tremblay and Jacques Jacob after that. Following the end of the regular series, a number of television movies continued to air into the 1990s. A new generation of the series started to air in 2001 and a movie was made in 2010. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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