Street Legal (TV series)
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Street Legal is a Canadian
television series, which aired on CBC Television
from 1987 to 1994.
, Ontario
law firm, Barr, Robinovitch and Tchobanian. The primary stars were Sonja Smits
as Carrington "Carrie" Barr, Eric Peterson
as Leon Robinovitch, and C. David Johnson
as Charles "Chuck" Tchobanian. The cast also included Julie Khaner
, Albert Schultz
, Cynthia Dale
, Maria del Mar
, and Ron Lea
.
Produced at the same time as L.A. Law
, this series was distinctively Canadian, in the use of Canadian court customs and procedures. Much of the show's music was composed by Eric Robertson
who was nominated for a Gemini Award
in 1987 for his work on the show.
From the third through the seventh seasons Brenda Greenberg was first senior producer, then executive producer, with Nada Harcourt taking over for the final season. As CBC's director of programming in 1987, Ivan Fecan
hired a Canadian script doctor at CBS, Carla Singer, to work with the producer on improving the show.
It was after this time that the show began to find its niche, introducing aggressive, sultry, high-heeled, risk-taking Olivia Novak (played by Cynthia Dale
) to contrast the niceness of the Carrie Barr character.
Olivia became one of the most memorable characters, but others were also added. Olivia became married to Chuck as the series progressed, they had a child together then became estranged near the series end.
Alana Newman-Robinovitch (Julie Khaner
) plays a confident, compassionate judge, married to Leon, who confidently battles sexism in the workplace. They subsequently adopt a young boy in the series. Rob Diamond is added, a young bright lawyer (Albert Schultz
)he leaves R.J. Williams and joins as a junior lawyer and managing partner.
In the fourth season, the first African-Canadian continuing character was introduced, crown prosecutor Dillon Beck (Anthony Sherwood). Dillon had a love affair with Carrie, subsequently marries her. They had two children, Dillon's daughter (previous wife deceased) and Carrie's adopted daughter from a client.
Carrie is struck and killed by a judge who was driving drunk. This wrote Carrie (Smits) out of the show due to family reasons. New lawyer Laura Crosby (Maria del Mar
) is added to replace Carrie. Laura clashes with Olivia and romances Olivia's then-former boyfriend (later, husband), Chuck.
Dillon then has a relationship with Mercedes (Alison Sealy-Smith
), the no-nonsense Caribbean Canadian
office secretary. Nearer the series end Dillon joins the firm, to replace Chuck who is likely heading to Vancouver. He is now estranged from Olivia and has had a parting of the ways with longtime friend, partner Leon. Ron Lea played a nasty crown prosecutor called Brian Maloney, an in-joke to Canadians who immediately connected him to the Progressive Conservative Prime Minister, lawyer Brian Mulroney
.
Ron and Laura have a ongoing and eventual sour relationship. Nearer the end of the series Rob and Laura get together.
The enlarged cast allowed for more storylines and increased conflict.
The issues dealt with are also definably Canadian as well as international. Leon fought an employment equity case for a Royal Canadian Mounted Police
candidate, as well as representing an African-Canadian nurse in front of the Human Rights Commission. Olivia became a producer of a Canadian movie. Chuck defended a wealthy Native
cigarette smuggler on conspiracy to commit murder. Leon represented the survivors of a mine disaster and then ran for mayor of Toronto. Leon and Alana became involved with a Mexican refugee, eight months pregnant, who gets in trouble with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service
. Human interest stories intertwined with the political issues and the characters' personal lives.
Street Legal represented a very important step in the Canadian television industry. Along with the CTV series E.N.G.
, set in a Toronto television newsroom, Street Legal established Canadian dramatic television stars. Cynthia Dale, who played vixen Olivia, has become nationally famous and has gone on to star in another series, as a Niagara Falls private eye in Taking the Falls
. She has said that she gets letters from young girls who want to grow up to be just like Olivia. In one episode, when ogled and harassed by a construction worker as she passed his job site, Olivia knocked him off his sawhorse with her hefty briefcase. The scene was then inscribed into the new credit sequence.
The other cast members have also gone on to other work, but the problem of a Canadian star system remains. There are few series produced, even among all the networks, and often their stars will return to theatre or radio or, it has been noted, to auditioning again for TV parts. One reason Street Legal ended was that CBC could not afford to have two dramatic series on air at the same time and the older program was supplanted by Side Effects
, a medical drama. The show's regular episode run came to an end on Feb. 18, 1994, and then all new episode production wrapped up with a two-hour movie, aired on Nov. 6, 1994, which drew 1.6 million viewers.
When Street Legal completed its eighth and final season, one TV journalist called it "unblushingly sentimental, unblinkingly campy, unabashedly Canadian and completely addictive." The one-hour CBC drama series about a group of Toronto lawyers stands as a landmark event in Canadian broadcasting history. After taking two years to find its niche, it became extremely popular. In its last six seasons, it regularly drew about a million viewers, the benchmark of a Canadian hit.
, Donnelly Rhodes
, Nicholas Campbell
, Jayne Eastwood
, Margot Kidder
, Eric McCormack
, Vlasta Vrana
, Linda Kash
, Gordon Clapp
, and Wendy Crewson
, Abby Zotz
, had guest roles during the show's eight-year run.
Janet Wright
would play a lawyer named Jessica Grant in the last regular 1 hour episode of Street Legal. She would later go on to play Emma Leroy on the CTV
sitcom Corner Gas
, alongside main Street Legal cast member Eric Peterson
. Lynette Davies
, in what proved to be her final screen role, played Dr Renata Berger in 'Children's Hour' (1992).
Bravo! Canada
aired repeats of the show weekdays at 6 a.m., 12 p.m., and 6 p.m. et until July 27, 2009.
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
television series, which aired on CBC Television
CBC Television
CBC Television is a Canadian television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster.Although the CBC is supported by public funding, the television network supplements this funding with commercial advertising revenue, in contrast to CBC Radio which are...
from 1987 to 1994.
Synopsis
A spinoff from the 1985 television movie Shellgame, Street Legal focused on the professional and private lives of the partners in a small TorontoToronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
, Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
law firm, Barr, Robinovitch and Tchobanian. The primary stars were Sonja Smits
Sonja Smits
Sonja Smits is a television actress who has played roles in many television series, including Falcon Crest, Airwolf, Odyssey 5, The Outer Limits, Street Legal, Traders and The Eleventh Hour.She also played Bianca O'Blivion in the David Cronenberg horror movie, Videodrome.Sonja went to Bell High...
as Carrington "Carrie" Barr, Eric Peterson
Eric Peterson
Eric Neal Peterson, C.M. is a Canadian stage and television actor, known for his roles in three major Canadian series – Street Legal, Corner Gas and This is Wonderland.-Personal life:...
as Leon Robinovitch, and C. David Johnson
C. David Johnson
C. David Johnson is a Canadian actor.Born Christopher David Johnson in Montreal, Quebec, Canada he attended Stanstead College, the University of New Brunswick , and the Vancouver Playhouse Acting School and currently lives in Toronto.Johnson began his career with Theatre New Brunswick, and he has...
as Charles "Chuck" Tchobanian. The cast also included Julie Khaner
Julie Khaner
Julie Khaner is a Canadian television and film actress, best known for her roles in as Alana Robinovitch in Street Legal, Sidney Dernhoff in The Newsroom, Gen in Deepwater Black and Bridey Jones in Videodrome. She also appeared in the 1995 Susan Dey vampire flick Deadly Love.-External links:...
, Albert Schultz
Albert Schultz
Albert Schultz is a Canadian actor, director and the founding artistic director of Toronto's celebrated Soulpepper Theatre Company.-Education:...
, Cynthia Dale
Cynthia Dale
Cynthia Dale is a Canadian television actress and stage performer. With a long and accomplished history as a dramatic actor, she is best known for her role as lawyer Olivia Novak in the 1987-94 television drama Street Legal....
, Maria del Mar
Maria del Mar (actress)
Maria del Mar del Castillo is a Canadian television actress, who has starred in series such as Street Legal, Tek War, Relativity, Mercy Point, Terminal City and Blue Murder....
, and Ron Lea
Ron Lea
Ron Lea is a Canadian actor.Lea was born in Montreal and attended Concordia University before moving on to take acting training at the National Theatre School. His career took off after appearing in various local theatre productions. Lea can be seen in many movies on television, but may be most...
.
Produced at the same time as L.A. Law
L.A. Law
L.A. Law is a US television legal drama that ran on NBC from September 15, 1986 to May 19, 1994. L.A. Law reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights,...
, this series was distinctively Canadian, in the use of Canadian court customs and procedures. Much of the show's music was composed by Eric Robertson
Eric Robertson (composer)
Eric Nathan Robertson is a Scottish composer, organist, pianist, and record producer who has been primarily active in Canada. A two time Gemini Award winner, he has composed more than 60 film scores and written music for a number of television series in Canada and the United States...
who was nominated for a Gemini Award
Gemini Award
The Gemini Awards are annual television broadcasting industry awards in Canada.First awarded in 1986, the Geminis celebrate the achievements of TV members of the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. Essentially, it presents awards for the best television productions in Canada. Awards are...
in 1987 for his work on the show.
Show history
The series debuted in the 1986-87 season with Maryke McEwen as executive producer. It experienced a rocky start, with good story ideas but weak execution, lack of style in directing, and consequently low ratings. The theme music, however, beginning in season four, was immediately identifiable—a distinctive, raunchy and rollicking saxophone piece by Mickey Erbe and Maribeth Solomon. At that time the show revolved around just three lawyers—Carrie Barr (Sonja Smits), Leon Robinovitch (Eric Peterson) and Chuck Tchobanian (C. David Johnson). Carrie and Leon were the committed, left-wing social activists and Chuck the motorcycle-riding, reckless, aggressive, 1980s criminal lawyer.From the third through the seventh seasons Brenda Greenberg was first senior producer, then executive producer, with Nada Harcourt taking over for the final season. As CBC's director of programming in 1987, Ivan Fecan
Ivan Fecan
Ivan Fecan is a retired Canadian media executive. Fecan was the president and CEO of Baton Broadcasting and its successor CTVglobemedia from 1996 to 2011, and CEO of the CTV Television Network from late 1998 to 2011....
hired a Canadian script doctor at CBS, Carla Singer, to work with the producer on improving the show.
It was after this time that the show began to find its niche, introducing aggressive, sultry, high-heeled, risk-taking Olivia Novak (played by Cynthia Dale
Cynthia Dale
Cynthia Dale is a Canadian television actress and stage performer. With a long and accomplished history as a dramatic actor, she is best known for her role as lawyer Olivia Novak in the 1987-94 television drama Street Legal....
) to contrast the niceness of the Carrie Barr character.
Olivia became one of the most memorable characters, but others were also added. Olivia became married to Chuck as the series progressed, they had a child together then became estranged near the series end.
Alana Newman-Robinovitch (Julie Khaner
Julie Khaner
Julie Khaner is a Canadian television and film actress, best known for her roles in as Alana Robinovitch in Street Legal, Sidney Dernhoff in The Newsroom, Gen in Deepwater Black and Bridey Jones in Videodrome. She also appeared in the 1995 Susan Dey vampire flick Deadly Love.-External links:...
) plays a confident, compassionate judge, married to Leon, who confidently battles sexism in the workplace. They subsequently adopt a young boy in the series. Rob Diamond is added, a young bright lawyer (Albert Schultz
Albert Schultz
Albert Schultz is a Canadian actor, director and the founding artistic director of Toronto's celebrated Soulpepper Theatre Company.-Education:...
)he leaves R.J. Williams and joins as a junior lawyer and managing partner.
In the fourth season, the first African-Canadian continuing character was introduced, crown prosecutor Dillon Beck (Anthony Sherwood). Dillon had a love affair with Carrie, subsequently marries her. They had two children, Dillon's daughter (previous wife deceased) and Carrie's adopted daughter from a client.
Carrie is struck and killed by a judge who was driving drunk. This wrote Carrie (Smits) out of the show due to family reasons. New lawyer Laura Crosby (Maria del Mar
Maria del Mar (actress)
Maria del Mar del Castillo is a Canadian television actress, who has starred in series such as Street Legal, Tek War, Relativity, Mercy Point, Terminal City and Blue Murder....
) is added to replace Carrie. Laura clashes with Olivia and romances Olivia's then-former boyfriend (later, husband), Chuck.
Dillon then has a relationship with Mercedes (Alison Sealy-Smith
Alison Sealy-Smith
Alison Sealy-Smith is a Canadian actress, born and raised in Barbados.Sealy-Smith attended Mount Allison University where she studied psychology on a scholarship. She is the founding director of Obsidian Theatre, a company that specializes in Black Canadian drama...
), the no-nonsense Caribbean Canadian
Black Canadian
'Black Canadians is a designation used for people of Black African descent, who are citizens or permanent residents of Canada. The term specifically refers to Canadians with Sub-Saharan African ancestry. The majority of Black Canadians are of Caribbean origin...
office secretary. Nearer the series end Dillon joins the firm, to replace Chuck who is likely heading to Vancouver. He is now estranged from Olivia and has had a parting of the ways with longtime friend, partner Leon. Ron Lea played a nasty crown prosecutor called Brian Maloney, an in-joke to Canadians who immediately connected him to the Progressive Conservative Prime Minister, lawyer Brian Mulroney
Brian Mulroney
Martin Brian Mulroney, was the 18th Prime Minister of Canada from September 17, 1984, to June 25, 1993 and was leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada from 1983 to 1993. His tenure as Prime Minister was marked by the introduction of major economic reforms, such as the Canada-U.S...
.
Ron and Laura have a ongoing and eventual sour relationship. Nearer the end of the series Rob and Laura get together.
The enlarged cast allowed for more storylines and increased conflict.
The issues dealt with are also definably Canadian as well as international. Leon fought an employment equity case for a Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police , literally ‘Royal Gendarmerie of Canada’; colloquially known as The Mounties, and internally as ‘The Force’) is the national police force of Canada, and one of the most recognized of its kind in the world. It is unique in the world as a national, federal,...
candidate, as well as representing an African-Canadian nurse in front of the Human Rights Commission. Olivia became a producer of a Canadian movie. Chuck defended a wealthy Native
First Nations
First Nations is a term that collectively refers to various Aboriginal peoples in Canada who are neither Inuit nor Métis. There are currently over 630 recognised First Nations governments or bands spread across Canada, roughly half of which are in the provinces of Ontario and British Columbia. The...
cigarette smuggler on conspiracy to commit murder. Leon represented the survivors of a mine disaster and then ran for mayor of Toronto. Leon and Alana became involved with a Mexican refugee, eight months pregnant, who gets in trouble with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service
Canadian Security Intelligence Service
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service is Canada's national intelligence service. It is responsible for collecting, analyzing, reporting and disseminating intelligence on threats to Canada's national security, and conducting operations, covert and overt, within Canada and abroad.Its...
. Human interest stories intertwined with the political issues and the characters' personal lives.
Street Legal represented a very important step in the Canadian television industry. Along with the CTV series E.N.G.
E.N.G.
E.N.G. is a Canadian television drama, following the staff of a fictional Toronto television news station . The show aired on CTV from 1988 to 1994...
, set in a Toronto television newsroom, Street Legal established Canadian dramatic television stars. Cynthia Dale, who played vixen Olivia, has become nationally famous and has gone on to star in another series, as a Niagara Falls private eye in Taking the Falls
Taking the Falls
Taking the Falls was a Canadian dramedy series, which aired on CTV in the 1995-96 television season.The show starred Cynthia Dale as Terry Lane, a former police officer turned private investigator in Niagara Falls who solved crimes with the help of her lawyer friend Katherine MacVicar...
. She has said that she gets letters from young girls who want to grow up to be just like Olivia. In one episode, when ogled and harassed by a construction worker as she passed his job site, Olivia knocked him off his sawhorse with her hefty briefcase. The scene was then inscribed into the new credit sequence.
The other cast members have also gone on to other work, but the problem of a Canadian star system remains. There are few series produced, even among all the networks, and often their stars will return to theatre or radio or, it has been noted, to auditioning again for TV parts. One reason Street Legal ended was that CBC could not afford to have two dramatic series on air at the same time and the older program was supplanted by Side Effects
Side Effects (TV series)
Side Effects was a Canadian television series, which aired from February, 1994 to January, 1996 on CBC Television.A hospital-themed drama created by Brenda Greenberg and Guy Mullally, the cast included Elizabeth Shepherd, Albert Schultz, Joseph Ziegler, Jovanni Sy and Arsinée Khanjian....
, a medical drama. The show's regular episode run came to an end on Feb. 18, 1994, and then all new episode production wrapped up with a two-hour movie, aired on Nov. 6, 1994, which drew 1.6 million viewers.
When Street Legal completed its eighth and final season, one TV journalist called it "unblushingly sentimental, unblinkingly campy, unabashedly Canadian and completely addictive." The one-hour CBC drama series about a group of Toronto lawyers stands as a landmark event in Canadian broadcasting history. After taking two years to find its niche, it became extremely popular. In its last six seasons, it regularly drew about a million viewers, the benchmark of a Canadian hit.
Main cast
- Sonja SmitsSonja SmitsSonja Smits is a television actress who has played roles in many television series, including Falcon Crest, Airwolf, Odyssey 5, The Outer Limits, Street Legal, Traders and The Eleventh Hour.She also played Bianca O'Blivion in the David Cronenberg horror movie, Videodrome.Sonja went to Bell High...
-Carrington 'Carrie' Barr - C. David JohnsonC. David JohnsonC. David Johnson is a Canadian actor.Born Christopher David Johnson in Montreal, Quebec, Canada he attended Stanstead College, the University of New Brunswick , and the Vancouver Playhouse Acting School and currently lives in Toronto.Johnson began his career with Theatre New Brunswick, and he has...
-Charles 'Chuck' Tchobanian - Eric PetersonEric PetersonEric Neal Peterson, C.M. is a Canadian stage and television actor, known for his roles in three major Canadian series – Street Legal, Corner Gas and This is Wonderland.-Personal life:...
-Leon Robinovitch - Cynthia DaleCynthia DaleCynthia Dale is a Canadian television actress and stage performer. With a long and accomplished history as a dramatic actor, she is best known for her role as lawyer Olivia Novak in the 1987-94 television drama Street Legal....
-Olivia Novak - David James ElliottDavid James ElliottDavid James Elliott is a Canadian-born actor who was the star of the series JAG, playing lead character Harmon Rabb Jr. from 1995 to 2005. In the Fall of 2010, Elliott was cast on CSI: NY.-Biography:...
-Nick Del Gado - Julie KhanerJulie KhanerJulie Khaner is a Canadian television and film actress, best known for her roles in as Alana Robinovitch in Street Legal, Sidney Dernhoff in The Newsroom, Gen in Deepwater Black and Bridey Jones in Videodrome. She also appeared in the 1995 Susan Dey vampire flick Deadly Love.-External links:...
-Alana Newman Robinovitch - Anthony SherwoodAnthony SherwoodAnthony Sherwood is an award-winning Canadian actor, producer and director.-Biography:Sherwood's mother was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia and his father was born in Kingston, Jamaica. Anthony’s mother was a fifth generation Canadian whose ancestors escaped to Canada using the "underground railroad"...
-Dillon Beck - Albert SchultzAlbert SchultzAlbert Schultz is a Canadian actor, director and the founding artistic director of Toronto's celebrated Soulpepper Theatre Company.-Education:...
-Rob Diamond - Maria del MarMaria del Mar (actress)Maria del Mar del Castillo is a Canadian television actress, who has starred in series such as Street Legal, Tek War, Relativity, Mercy Point, Terminal City and Blue Murder....
-Laura Crosby - Ron LeaRon LeaRon Lea is a Canadian actor.Lea was born in Montreal and attended Concordia University before moving on to take acting training at the National Theatre School. His career took off after appearing in various local theatre productions. Lea can be seen in many movies on television, but may be most...
-Brian Malony - Alison Sealy-SmithAlison Sealy-SmithAlison Sealy-Smith is a Canadian actress, born and raised in Barbados.Sealy-Smith attended Mount Allison University where she studied psychology on a scholarship. She is the founding director of Obsidian Theatre, a company that specializes in Black Canadian drama...
-Mercedes
Guest appearances
Perhaps the most distinctive feature of Street Legal was the fact that on almost every episode there were guest appearances by various Canadian actors. In fact, an estimated 500 different actors, including Gordon PinsentGordon Pinsent
Gordon Edward Pinsent, CC, FRSC is a Canadian television, theatre and film actor.-Early life:Pinsent, the youngest of six children, was born in Grand Falls, Newfoundland, the son of Flossie ; originally from Clifton, Newfoundland, and Stephen Arthur Pinsent, a papermill worker and cobbler;...
, Donnelly Rhodes
Donnelly Rhodes
Donnelly Rhodes is a Canadian actor. He recently starred as Doctor Cottle on the Sci Fi Channel television program Battlestar Galactica. Before Battlestar Galactica he was probably best known to American audiences as the lovestruck, hapless escaped convict "Dutch Leitner" on the 1970s soap-opera...
, Nicholas Campbell
Nicholas Campbell
Nicholas Campbell , sometimes credited as Nick Campbell, is a Canadian actor and filmmaker, who has won three Gemini Awards for acting. The movies Naked Lunch, Prozac Nation and the TV series Da Vinci's Inquest are some examples of his acting work.-Early life:Campbell was born in Toronto, Ontario,...
, Jayne Eastwood
Jayne Eastwood
Jayne Eastwood , also credited as Jane Easton or Jane Eastwood, is a Canadian actress most famous for appearing in the 2002 film Chicago. She was one of the original cast members of the Toronto branch of The Second City, and was a semi-regular on SCTV...
, Margot Kidder
Margot Kidder
Margaret Ruth "Margot" Kidder is a Canadian-born American actress. She is perhaps best known for playing Lois Lane in the four Superman movies opposite Christopher Reeve, a role that brought her to widespread recognition....
, Eric McCormack
Eric McCormack
Eric James McCormack is a Canadian American actor, musician, writer and producer. Born in Toronto, he began his acting career performing in school plays at Stephen Leacock Collegiate Institute High School...
, Vlasta Vrana
Vlasta Vrana
Vlasta Vrána is a Canadian actor of Czech descent, known for playing Jack Richards in A Year in the Death of Jack Richards. His surname means "crow" in Czech and several other Slavic languages.-Career:...
, Linda Kash
Linda Kash
Linda Kash is a Canadian actress.An alumna of Second City, she played Trudy Weissman in the 1998 Jean Smart sit-com, Style & Substance...
, Gordon Clapp
Gordon Clapp
Gordon Clapp is an American actor, best known for portraying the role of Det. Greg Medavoy for all 12 seasons on the television series NYPD Blue, winning an Emmy Award in 1998.-Early and personal life:...
, and Wendy Crewson
Wendy Crewson
-Life and career:Crewson was born in Hamilton, Ontario, the daughter of June Doreen and Robert Binnie Crewson. She attended Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, where she won the prestigious Lorne Greene Award for outstanding work in the theater. She then studied at the Webber Douglas Academy...
, Abby Zotz
Abby Zotz
Abby Zotz is a Canadian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actress.-Biography:The Zotz family originated in Tyrol, Austria and spread to Germany, from where Abby’s father immigrated to Canada. He loved classical music, especially Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven and Wolfgang...
, had guest roles during the show's eight-year run.
Janet Wright
Janet Wright
Janet Wright is a Canadian actress and theatre director. She is best known for her role as Emma Leroy on the hit Canadian sitcom Corner Gas. She won a 2003 Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series for her role in Betrayed...
would play a lawyer named Jessica Grant in the last regular 1 hour episode of Street Legal. She would later go on to play Emma Leroy on the CTV
CTV television network
CTV Television Network is a Canadian English language television network and is owned by Bell Media. It is Canada's largest privately-owned network, and has consistently placed as Canada's top-rated network in total viewers and in key demographics since 2002, after several years trailing the rival...
sitcom Corner Gas
Corner Gas
Corner Gas is a Canadian television sitcom created by Brent Butt. The series ran for six seasons from 2004 to 2009. Re-runs still air on CTV and The Comedy Network in Canada; it formerly aired on WGN America in the United States....
, alongside main Street Legal cast member Eric Peterson
Eric Peterson
Eric Neal Peterson, C.M. is a Canadian stage and television actor, known for his roles in three major Canadian series – Street Legal, Corner Gas and This is Wonderland.-Personal life:...
. Lynette Davies
Lynette Davies
Lynette Davies was a Welsh stage, television, and film actress.The daughter of a Customs and Excise officer, Davies was born in Tonypandy, Glamorgan, in 1948, and was educated at Our Lady's School, Cardiff...
, in what proved to be her final screen role, played Dr Renata Berger in 'Children's Hour' (1992).
Time Slots/Syndication
Street Legal held four timeslots during its tenure on TV; both appearing on either Friday or Tuesday evenings.- January 1987 - March 1988: Tuesday 8:00-9:00pm
- November 1988 - March 1991: Friday 8:00-9:00pm
- November 1991 - March 1993: Friday 9:00-10:00pm
- November 1993 - March 1994: Friday 8:00-9:00pm
Bravo! Canada
Bravo! Canada
Bravo! is a Canadian English language Category A specialty channel owned by Bell Media. Bravo! is an entertainment channel with a particular focus on television dramas and films, as well as art-related programming....
aired repeats of the show weekdays at 6 a.m., 12 p.m., and 6 p.m. et until July 27, 2009.