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Marianne Jones is an actress who appeared in TV shows such as The Beachcombers, Ritter's Cove and MacGyver. She was born in British Columbia, Canada and is of Haida ancestry.
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Marion Lois Jones (born October 12, 1975), also known as Marion Jones-Thompson, is an American, disgraced former world champion track-and-field athlete and former professional basketball player. She won three gold medals and two bronze medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia , but was later stripped of her medals after admitting ...
Marianne Jones is a Canadian actress of Haida ancestry. She has appeared in The Beachcombers, Ritter's Cove and MacGyver, among other shows and movies.
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The Beachcombers grew out of the short-lived 1969 series Adventures in Rainbow Country, a family adventure series by independent producer William Davidson. It starred Lois Maxwell (best known as Miss Moneypenny in the 1960s James Bond films) as single mother Nancy Williams, Stephen Cottier as her son Billy and Buckley Petawabano as Billy’s Ojibwa f...
The CBC liked the premise of Adventures in Rainbow Country and decided to pursue another wholesome, family-friendly adventure series. CBC executives believed the West Coast provided an attractive setting for a prime-time series and assigned producer Phil Keatley to oversee the show’s development. They stipulated that the series should focus on a si...
The idea for The Beachcombers came when the Stranges were walking on the beach and observed the practice of beachcombing, which involves salvaging logs from the shore and selling them. Struck by the freedom and simplicity of the job, they devised a series they called Molly’s Reach, focusing on a Zorba the Greek-like character who works as a beachco...
Italian Canadian actor Bruno Gerussi, who had enjoyed success onstage and as the radio host of the pioneering talk show Gerussi: Words and Music for the Middle of the Morning, was cast as Nick Adonidas, the Greek Canadian beachcomber and father figure of the series. Wary of the impact that any sexual tension between Molly and Nick would have on the...
Production of the first eight episodes began in 1971 in the small BC town of Gibsons, up the Sunshine Coast about 25 km from Vancouver. A vacant liquor store near the town’s ferry terminal served as the location for the café, Molly’s Reach. The production crew filmed Nick’s scenes on the Persephoneon open water with the aid of a custom-built barge ...
The Beachcomberspremiered on Sunday 1 October 1972 at 7:00 p.m. The ratings were initially weak, with Nick proving polarizing as an unconventional leading man. The show nevertheless found an audience with its family-friendly stories and its time slot between suppertime and prime time. Nineteen more episodes were filmed in 1972, and family gathering...
The Stranges returned to writing on the series in 1978 (they went on to write more than 70 episodes) with the episode “Bandits,” which was the first of several episodes directed by Gerussi. The Beachcombers featured some changeover in the cast when Brown retired from acting in 1985. The Reach got a new owner in 1988 when Janet-Laine Green debuted a...
Gerussi might have been the lead on The Beachcombers, but the star of the series was arguably Canada itself. The Beachcomberswas the first Canadian series that didn’t try to copy an American model, and it emphasized the power and character of the natural landscape to provide a distinct, if idealized regional flavour. The show’s respectful slice-of-...
Despite the enduring popularity of The Beachcombers, it rarely received esteem as high art. Critics often described performances as “stilted” or “wooden” and observed that the series lacked consistently strong female characters. The writers also frequently recycled plots as a consequence of the show’s longevity. While calling it “the greatest show ...
The Beachcombers inspired a few spinoffs, TV movies and attempted reboots, but none saw a fraction of the original’s success. In 1985, the short-lived spin-off Constable Constable,featuring Jackson Davies’s beloved character, ran for four episodes. Davies then pitched the CBC The New Beachcombers as a revival starring SCTV’s Dave Thomas. CBC expres...
The life and legacy of Pat John, who played Jesse Jim on The Beachcombers, a popular TV series set in Gibsons, B.C. Learn how he broke barriers as an Indigenous actor and faced challenges off-screen.
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Marianne Jones is a Canadian actress who starred in various TV shows and movies from 1973 to 1995. She played roles such as Lenore in Lost in the Barrens, Hettie Ominik in Street Legal, and Anna Lightfoot in MacGyver.
Feb 3, 2024 · 901 likes, 140 comments - mariannejonesuk on February 3, 2024: "In today’s @thetimes I write about my recovery from the burnout that ended my career but mercifully not my life. Do pre-order Soothe, the book I mention by the wonderful @thehumanmethoduk. Not sure why I’m in a yoga pose given I’ve never done it in my life (pilates is more my bag), but it was possibly the only pic not ...
