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This show was a true landmark of television, and not only for Canada. Intelligent, edgy, thought-provoking, and carrying a powerful emotional punch to the heart, Wojeck was the first realistic, truly adult dramatic television show I can remember....and nothing close to it appeared anywhere for decades.

Vernon's move to the US was a tragedy, for Canada and for Vernon's art (although, at the time, I can understand how someone would make the move). I loved Animal House, but seeing Vernon play the buffoon still saddens me. The only US role that came anywhere near showing Vernon's talent and dignity as an actor was The Outlaw Josey Wales.

Very sad; Such an enormous talent largely wasted.

Ted Zeigler was a master of the ad lib and could make parents laugh as hard as their kids. In front of a live camera he was like Robin Williams, but more than a dozen years before Williams made it onto the scene.

The Johnny Jellybean show, made for little kids, was a cult-classic with teens as well and many parents as well. He and Peter Cullen (The Buddies) were a marvelous team in subsequent years and CFCF incarnations. When they and a slew of other Canadian talent made the exodus to LA (a return to the US for Zeigler) with Aussie Chris Beard (CBC's Nightcap) to do Laugh In, Sonny & Cher, etc., they left quite a gap in Canadian TV. Sadly, I think they were all largely underutilized (at least in front of the camera).

"You never know what lonesome is, until you get to herding cows."

The Ol' Wrangler