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Black Harbour (1996)

Black Harbour poster
Genre
drama
Country
Canada
Length
3 seasons, 39 episodes
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman moves back to her Nova Scotia hometown with her husband and kids to care for her sick mother. She reconnects with her high school sweetheart, whose own marriage is falling apart. The series follows their lives and relationships in a small coastal community.

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What happens

Black Harbour is a Canadian television series, which ran on CBC Television from 1996 to 1999. The show starred Rebecca Jenkins as Katherine Hubbard, a successful restaurant owner who returned to live in her Nova Scotia hometown to be with her mother who had suffered a heart attack. Her husband Geraint Wyn Davies, followed her with their two kids. Alex Carter also starred as Hubbard's high school sweetheart Paul Isler, whose own marriage was on the rocks and who was employed by Katherine's brother at the boatyard. In the show's final season, Hubbard and Isler's marriages had both failed, and they officially rekindled their old relationship. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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