Original title
For the Record
Released
2/8/1976
Origin country
CA
Genre
Drama
Production companies
CBC
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
10
Number of episodes
56
For the Record, an anthology of 60-to-90-minute dramas, started on the series, Performance, as a subseries called Camera ’76. A collection of docudrama-style short stories on diverse but socially relevant (and very Canadian) topics such as unemployment, euthanasia, spousal abuse, televangelists, aboriginal issues, and anglophone-francophone relations. This series attracted most of the 'big name' Canadian actors and directors of the time.
A look into government and union corruption.
An unwed teenage mother is expecting her second child. Her lover, a struggling mechanic, promises they will soon be wed, yet a social worker attempts to save her from the brink of collapse.
A look into the world of a Metis matriarch.
Dramatization of the youngest swimmer to attempt to cross Lake Ontario.
A stubborn farmer refuses to vacate his land, despite government orders.
Outraged by the insults to her mother, Maria decides to organize a union for the immigrant women she and her mother work with in a Toronto sweat shop.
After a contaminated water from North Dakota sweeps across the Canadian prairies, a group of Manitoba farmers plan an invasion of the USA.
A troubled young man ends up committing suicide in an institution.
Hank is a kind man who owns a produce stand. A ruthless company and union try to take his business.
Ada was brilliant and crazy before her lobotomy. Afterwards, she becomes stupid and easily controlled. A friend on the inside tries to help her recall her former self.
A look at a clash between politicians and the oil industry.
A woman is raped and must come to terms with a conviction against her rapist.
A ruthless journalist blackmails a member of Parliament.
The life and death of a Newfoundland town called St Lawrence.
Seer, a convict, brings understanding to his fellow inmates.
A pro-hockey wannabe has to deal with extreme on-ice violence.
A French-English marriage in Montreal faces a crisis when the husband gets transferred to Toronto.
Lou Gagnon and Jenny are nomads. With their Metis friend, Marcel, they travel the rodeo circuit and the dust and the yells and the hardness are their companions. Then Lou, badly hungover, breaks his leg and is in hospital. Marcel, with a teenage girl to care for, takes her to an Indian reserve and Jenny, for the first time in her life, has roots.
A star surgeon is caught using experimental techniques on his patients.
A man comes into possession of a secret document that puts him in peril.
A look into Down's Syndrome.
An unskilled, unemployed labourer struggles to keep pace in an increasingly educated society.
An RCMP man must decide between his friend and his lying superiors.
A journalist crusading against crime learns that his own son is a vandal.
A widowed senior defies her daughter's wishes, sells the family home and moves into a trailer park.
A middle-aged family man and high school teacher struggles in silence as he accepts the fact that he's gay.
A parliament back-bencher suddenly finds herself promoted to a position that causes her a moral dilemma.
A young man uses an insanity plea to get off from a murder charge, but further details come to light in the aftermath.
A neglected wife finds solace in watching a televangelical preacher.
A pregnant woman chooses a midwife assisted home birth before this practice was generally accepted.
A fourth generation farmer takes on the banks to save his farm.
An idealistic doctor tries to implement a new therapy for criminals.
An actual story of racism against an East Indian family in BC.
An air traffic controller confronts his superiors about faulty radar equipment.
A mean, small-town cop begins a relationship with a troubled teen.
An overweight woman suffers social pressure to be slimmer as society judges women by their looks. Dieting becomes an obsession as she fights to be accepted by all including her husband. Self worth is hard to come by.
A young girl is raped, and then has to be interrogated at her assailant's trial. Her abuser evades justice, and she's left to deal with the painful aftermath.
A high school hacking genius breaks a computer code and unlocks a program that thinks for itself.
A widow has to deal with her troubled son, who becomes a lawbreaker.
A young, idealistic priest, just released from a Central American prison, returns to Canada where he is assigned to a quiet town parish.
Three generations of a Japanese Canadian family struggle with the emotional trauma inflicted by their internment in British Columbia camps during World War Two. Each generation has to come to terms with their family breakup.
A native woman divorces her white husband and learns that she has also lost her Rez status as well.
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