Scarlett Hill was a Canadian

Canada

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 soap opera

Soap opera

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 first broadcast on the CBC

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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 in October 1962. This was the first daytime soap opera produced for Canadian television, although it was based upon an American

United States

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 radio drama created by Robert Lindsay

Robert Lindsay

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The series focused on the residents of a boarding house

Boarding house

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, and starred John Drainie

John Drainie

John Robert Roy Drainie was a Canadian actor and television presenter, who was called "the greatest radio actor in the world" by Orson Welles....

, Ed McNamara, Gordon Pinsent

Gordon Pinsent

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, and Beth Lockerbie.

The series was syndicated to the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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, Australia

Australia

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and the US and ran until 1964.