For the Record
For the Record

For the Record

1976 10 Seasons 56 Episodes ⭐ 9.0 Drama

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.

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.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

The Insurance Man from Ingersoll

A look into government and union corruption.

EP 2

A Nest of Shadows

An unwed teenage mother is expecting her second child. Her lover, a struggling mechanic, promises they will soon be wed,

EP 3

A Thousand Moons

A look into the world of a Metis matriarch.

EP 4

Kathy Karuks Is a Grizzly Bear

Dramatization of the youngest swimmer to attempt to cross Lake Ontario.

EP 5

What We Have Here Is a People Problem

A stubborn farmer refuses to vacate his land, despite government orders.

EP 1

Maria

Outraged by the insults to her mother, Maria decides to organize a union for the immigrant women she and her mother work

EP 2

Someday Soon

After a contaminated water from North Dakota sweeps across the Canadian prairies, a group of Manitoba farmers plan an in

EP 3

Dreamspeaker

A troubled young man ends up committing suicide in an institution.

EP 4

Hank

Hank is a kind man who owns a produce stand. A ruthless company and union try to take his business.

EP 5

Ada

Ada was brilliant and crazy before her lobotomy. Afterwards, she becomes stupid and easily controlled. A friend on the i

EP 6

The Tar Sands

A look at a clash between politicians and the oil industry.

EP 1

A Matter of Choice

A woman is raped and must come to terms with a conviction against her rapist.

EP 2

Scoop

A ruthless journalist blackmails a member of Parliament.

EP 3

Dying Hard

The life and death of a Newfoundland town called St Lawrence.

EP 4

Seer Was Here

Seer, a convict, brings understanding to his fellow inmates.

EP 1

Cementhead

A pro-hockey wannabe has to deal with extreme on-ice violence.

EP 2

Don't Forget 'Je me Souviens'

A French-English marriage in Montreal faces a crisis when the husband gets transferred to Toronto.

EP 3

Homecoming

Lou Gagnon and Jenny are nomads. With their Metis friend, Marcel, they travel the rodeo circuit and the dust and the yel

EP 4

Certain Practices

A star surgeon is caught using experimental techniques on his patients.

EP 5

Every Person Is Guilty

A man comes into possession of a secret document that puts him in peril.

EP 6

One of Our Own

A look into Down's Syndrome.

EP 1

The Winnings of Frankie Walls

An unskilled, unemployed labourer struggles to keep pace in an increasingly educated society.

EP 2

Harvest

EP 3

Maintain the Right

An RCMP man must decide between his friend and his lying superiors.

EP 4

A Question of the Sixth

EP 5

Lyon's Den

A journalist crusading against crime learns that his own son is a vandal.

EP 6

Welcome Stranger

EP 1

A Far Cry from Home

EP 2

Snowbird

A widowed senior defies her daughter's wishes, sells the family home and moves into a trailer park.

EP 3

The Running Man

A middle-aged family man and high school teacher struggles in silence as he accepts the fact that he's gay.

EP 4

Cop

EP 5

Final Edition

EP 1

An Honorable Member

A parliament back-bencher suddenly finds herself promoted to a position that causes her a moral dilemma.

EP 2

By Reason of Insanity

A young man uses an insanity plea to get off from a murder charge, but further details come to light in the aftermath.

EP 3

High Card

EP 4

Becoming Laura

EP 5

Blind Faith

A neglected wife finds solace in watching a televangelical preacher.

EP 6

I'm Just a Kid

EP 7

Special Delivery

A pregnant woman chooses a midwife assisted home birth before this practice was generally accepted.

EP 1

Ready for Slaughter

A fourth generation farmer takes on the banks to save his farm.

EP 2

Out of Sight, Out of Mind

An idealistic doctor tries to implement a new therapy for criminals.

EP 3

Reasonable Force

An actual story of racism against an East Indian family in BC.

EP 4

Moving Targets

An air traffic controller confronts his superiors about faulty radar equipment.

EP 1

A Change of Heart

EP 2

I Love a Man in Uniform

A mean, small-town cop begins a relationship with a troubled teen.

EP 3

Slim Obsession

An overweight woman suffers social pressure to be slimmer as society judges women by their looks. Dieting becomes an obs

EP 4

Rough Justice

A young girl is raped, and then has to be interrogated at her assailant's trial. Her abuser evades justice, and she's le

EP 5

A Change of Heart

EP 6

Hide & Seek

A high school hacking genius breaks a computer code and unlocks a program that thinks for itself.

EP 1

The Boy Next Door

A widow has to deal with her troubled son, who becomes a lawbreaker.

EP 2

The Front Line

A young, idealistic priest, just released from a Central American prison, returns to Canada where he is assigned to a qu

EP 3

They're Drying Up the Streets

EP 4

Tools of the Devil

EP 5

The Exile

Three generations of a Japanese Canadian family struggle with the emotional trauma inflicted by their internment in Brit

EP 6

Where the Heart Is

A native woman divorces her white husband and learns that she has also lost her Rez status as well.

EP 7

Fred Quilt

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