Up at Ours
This half-hour comedy/drama centred on a St. John's boarding house. Verna Ball (Mary Walsh) owned the house, and Jack Howse, (Ray Guy), was her long-time lodger. Janis Spence played Mrs. O'Mara, who lived next door, and Kevin Noble was Dolph, the myopic driver of the Outport Taxi. Mrs. Ball's boarding house attracted a number of troubled, eccentric characters in a series that trod between human relationships and comic treatment. Gordon Pinsent ("The Shipping News") was featured in one episode as a parish priest who came to St. John's and found his faith tested and reconfirmed in his encounter with two young women, one a boarder at the house and the other a runaway from an outport community. The series was produced in St. John's by Kevin O'Connell, with episodes directed by O'Connell, Walter Learning, and Wayne Guzzwell, and scripts by writers from the Atlantic provinces-- Pinsent, Learning, Gerry Rubia, Michael Cook, and famed Canadian poet Alden Nowlan. A 12-week series, "Up At Ours" was a rare example of continuing drama produced in a regional CBC centre which employed a distinctive local milieu.
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This half-hour comedy/drama centred on a St. John's boarding house. Verna Ball (Mary Walsh) owned the house, and Jack Howse, (Ray Guy), was her long-time lodger. Janis Spence played Mrs. O'Mara, who lived next door, and Kevin Noble was Dolph, the myopic driver of the Outport Taxi. Mrs. Ball's boarding house attracted a number of troubled, eccentric characters in a series that trod between human relationships and comic treatment. Gordon Pinsent ("The Shipping News") was featured in one episode as a parish priest who came to St. John's and found his faith tested and reconfirmed in his encounter with two young women, one a boarder at the house and the other a runaway from an outport community. The series was produced in St. John's by Kevin O'Connell, with episodes directed by O'Connell, Walter Learning, and Wayne Guzzwell, and scripts by writers from the Atlantic provinces-- Pinsent, Learning, Gerry Rubia, Michael Cook, and famed Canadian poet Alden Nowlan. A 12-week series, "Up At Ours" was a rare example of continuing drama produced in a regional CBC centre which employed a distinctive local milieu.