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IMDb
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Trakt
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TMDb
50
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Network: CBC Television
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 1920 min.
Status: Ended
Certification: NR

Sidestreet (1975)

Season 1 (Sept. 13, 1975, midnight)

Sidestreet was a Canadian television drama, which aired Sundays on CBC from 1975 to 1978. It starred Sean McCann and Donnelly Rhodes as police working the mean streets of 1970s Toronto. The producers of "Sidestreet:" wanted to feature community service officers instead of ordinary detectives. They aimed to concentrate on issues such as blockbusting, strikebreaking, rape, poverty, and the problems of the elderly in the city, instead of major crimes.

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Sidestreet (1975)

Season 1 (Sept. 13, 1975, midnight)

Sidestreet was a Canadian television drama, which aired Sundays on CBC from 1975 to 1978. It starred Sean McCann and Donnelly Rhodes as police working the mean streets of 1970s Toronto. The producers of "Sidestreet:" wanted to feature community service officers instead of ordinary detectives. They aimed to concentrate on issues such as blockbusting, strikebreaking, rape, poverty, and the problems of the elderly in the city, instead of major crimes.

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IMDb
6.8
/14/
Trakt
10
/3/
TMDb
50
/2/
John Saxton
John Saxton
Director
Geoffrey Gilbert
Geoffrey Gilbert
Director
Donnelly Rhodes
Donnelly Rhodes
Jonathan Welsh
Jonathan Welsh
John Swindells
John Swindells
Michael Ayoub
Michael Ayoub
Sean McCann
Sean McCann
Stephen Markle
Stephen Markle
Antony Parr
Antony Parr
Maury Chaykin
Maury Chaykin

Sept. 14, 1975, midnight 0.0

S1E1 - The Hold Out

A widow being terrorized by a real-estate developer trying to force her out of her home.
Sept. 21, 1975, midnight 0.0

S1E2 - The Money-Go-Round

A young man turns to crime to pay off inherited debts to a loan shark. Extortion and purse snatching by a bicycling thief heat things up and community service cops Alex Woodward and Johnny Dias move quickly to defuse a dangerous situation.
Sept. 28, 1975, midnight 0.0

S1E3 - The Rebellion of Bertha Mackenzie

Two social workers are involved as a Metis mother of two children fights to keep from being evicted from her home.
Oct. 5, 1975, midnight 0.0

S1E4 - Perhaps in Dreams Old Man

An informer's tip shatters the dreams of two elderly pensioners whose obsession with owning a farm in Alberta leads them to commit a rather unusual robbery.
Oct. 12, 1975, midnight 0.0

S1E5 - Rape

The rape of a young woman soon to be married triggers a series of events affecting the lives of several people in addition to the rapist and his victim.
Oct. 19, 1975, midnight 0.0

S1E6 - Do You Know Where Your Children Are?

A police inspector is torn between a sense of duty and paternal concern when he learns that his son has become involved in organized juvenile crime.
Oct. 26, 1975, midnight 0.0

S1E7 - Strikebreaker

Tempers flare when a professional strikebreaker leads a group of scabs across a picket line.
Nov. 2, 1975, midnight 0.0

S1E8 - Playing the Game

A young parolee is harassed by two overly zealous cops who employ barely-within-the-law tactics to extract information from him.
Network: CBC Television
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 1920 min.
Released: Sept. 15, 1975
Last Air Date: Nov. 12, 1978, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR

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