Neon Rider
| Neon Rider | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Genre | Drama |
| Created by |
Winston Rekert Danny Virtue |
| Directed by |
Bruce Pittman George Bloomfield Neill Fearnley Winston Rekert Peter D. Marshall Mick MacKay Joseph L. Scanlan René Bonnière Danny Virtue Allan King Michael Robison Vic Sarin David Winning Nicholas Kendall |
| Starring | Winston Rekert |
| Theme music composer | Terry Frewer |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 5 |
| No. of episodes | 64 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Winston Rekert William Wallace Gray Michael MacMillan Danny Virtue |
| Producer(s) |
Justis Greene Mary Kahn |
| Location(s) |
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Mission, British Columbia, Canada |
| Editor(s) | Frank Irvine |
| Running time | 60 minutes (including commercials) |
| Release | |
| Original network |
CTV (1990-1992) YTV (1992-1995) |
| Original release | September 15, 1990 – November 1, 1995 |
Neon Rider is a Canadian drama television series which first aired between 1990 and 1995. Created by Winston Rekert and Danny Virtue, the show was about the title character, a man named Michael Terry (Rekert) who quits his job as a therapist to become a mentor for troubled kids which he brings to his ranch. The series was filmed and set in British Columbia's Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley.
Other cast members included Sam Sarkar, William S. Taylor, Peter Williams, Suzanne Errett, Antoinette Bower, Barbara Tyson, Alex Bruhanski, Philip Granger and Jim Byrnes.
Neon Rider was produced by Alliance Atlantis and broadcast on the CTV Television Network on Saturdays at 10 PM then moved to 8 PM in 1991. CTV cancelled the series in 1992 after which original episodes continued to air on the youth-oriented cable network YTV and in syndication.
The series was also popular in Gibraltar where it aired on GBC TV.
SciFi veteran David Winning directed the third season episode "Straight Home" guest-starring Martin Cummins.
See also
Higher Ground: a similarly themed series.
External links
- Canadian Communications Foundation - Article about Neon Rider
- Neon Rider at the Internet Movie Database
- Neon Rider at TV.com