Seeing Things (TV series)
| Seeing Things | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Mystery Comedy-drama |
| Created by |
David Barlow Louis Del Grande |
| Written by |
David Barlow Louis Del Grande |
| Directed by | George McCowan |
| Starring |
Louis Del Grande Janet-Laine Green Martha Gibson |
| Composer(s) | Philip Schreibman |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 6 |
| No. of episodes | 43 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Robert Allen |
| Producer(s) |
David Barlow Louis Del Grande |
| Location(s) | Toronto |
| Cinematography | Nikos Evdemon |
| Editor(s) | Vincent Kent |
| Running time | 1 hour |
| Production company(s) | CBC |
| Distributor | CBC |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBC Television |
| Original release | 15 September 1981 – 15 May 1987 |
Seeing Things is a Canadian comedy-drama mystery television series which originally aired on CBC Television from 1981 to 1987. It was also seen in Europe, South Africa, Singapore, Spain, Australia and the United States. In all, 43 episodes were produced. With the exception of "Seeing R.E.D." (90 minutes) episodes were one hour long.
The show starred Louis Del Grande as Louis Ciccone, a newspaper journalist who solves murders with the help of postcognitive visions. Louis can only control this ability by investigating clues given in a vision. (In some episodes, such as "Seeing the Country", he is able to stop visions from entering his mind.) Only when he discovers new information will further visions occur, which provide increasingly more detail until they finally reveal the murderer.
Del Grande (formerly an actor, writer and co-producer of the hit sitcom The King of Kensington) was also the show's creator and writer.
The show also starred Del Grande's real-life wife Martha Gibson as Ciccone's ex-wife Marge, who, even though she and Louie were divorced, continued to help him with his cases. Marge even drove Louie around town (Louie, like Del Grande in real life, was too hyper to get a driver's license), though she initially rejected Louie's desire to rekindle their relationship (they finally became a couple again in the show's final season). Del Grande and Gibson were married, then divorced in real life; they had re-wed just before the series started.
The supporting cast included Janet-Laine Green as crown attorney Heather Redfern, as well as Frank Adamson, Lynne Gordon, Ivan Beaulieu, Murray Westgate, Louis Negin and Cec Linder.
Seeing Things was a hit, and guest-starred several celebrities, such as Ronnie Hawkins, Bruno Gerussi, Gordon Pinsent and Karen Kain. Another notable appearance is by Mark McKinney of The Kids in the Hall, who played a character working in a morgue in the episode "Different Point of View". The show won several awards. In 1983, Del Grande won an ACTRA Award for Best Actor in a Television Drama, and Sheldon Chad won an ACTRA award for Best Writer Television Drama for the episode "Seeing Double."
Episode list
- Ep = Episode number within the season
- № = Overall episode number
Season 1 (1981)
| Ep | № | Title | Airdate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "I May Be Seeing Things, But I'm Not Crazy" | 1981·Sep·15 |
| 2 | 2 | "Sight Unseen" | 1981·Sep·22 |
| 3 | 3 | "A Charming Sight" | 1981·Sep·29 |
Season 2 (1982)
| Ep | № | Title | Airdate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | "An Eye for an Eye" | 1982·Oct·20 |
| 2 | 5 | "Looking Back" | 1982·Oct·27 |
| 3 | 6 | "Seeing Double" | 1982·Nov·03 |
| 4 | 7 | "Through the Looking Glass" | 1982·Nov·10 |
| 5 | 8 | "Eyes Too Big for His Stomach" | 1982·Nov·17 |
| 6 | 9 | "Evil Eye" | 1982·Nov·24 |
| 7 | 10 | "Hear No Evil, See No Evil" | 1982·Dec·01 |
| 8 | 11 | "In the Eyes of the Law" | 1982·Dec·08 |
Season 3 (1984)
| Ep | № | Title | Airdate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | "Seeing R.E.D." | 1984·Jan·15 |
| 2 | 13 | "Someone Is Watching" | 1984·Jan·22 |
| 3 | 14 | "I'm Looking Through You" | 1984·Jan·29 |
| 4 | 15 | "Now You See Him, Now You Don't" | 1984·Feb·05 |
| 5 | 16 | "Snow Blind" | 1984·Feb·12 |
| 6 | 17 | "An Eye on the Future" | 1984·Feb·19 |
| 7 | 18 | "Second Sight" | 1984·Feb·26 |
| 8 | 19 | "Looking Good" | 1984·Mar·04 |
Season 4 (1985)
| Ep | № | Title | Airdate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 | "Fortune and Ladies' Eyes" | 1985·Feb·03 |
| 2 | 21 | "Seeing the Country" | 1985·Feb·10 |
| 3 | 22 | "You Can't Believe Your Eyes" | 1985·Feb·17 |
| 4 | 23 | "Defective Vision" | 1985·Feb·24 |
| 5 | 24 | "Eye in the Sky (Part 1)" | 1985·Mar·03 |
| 6 | 25 | "Eye in the Sky (Part 2)" | 1985·Mar·10 |
| 7 | 26 | "I'll Be Seeing You" | 1985·Mar·17 |
| 8 | 27 | "Blind Alley" | 1985·Mar·24 |
Season 5 (1986)
| Ep | № | Title | Airdate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 28 | "The Walls Have Eyes" | 1986·Jan·26 |
| 2 | 29 | "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes" | 1986·Feb·02 |
| 3 | 30 | "If Looks Could Kill" | 1986·Feb·09 |
| 4 | 31 | "The Eyes of Ra" | 1986·Feb·16 |
| 5 | 32 | "I'm Dancing with Stars in My Eyes" | 1986·Feb·23 |
| 6 | 33 | "Optical Illusion" | 1986·Mar·02 |
| 7 | 34 | "Look at Me, Look at Me" | 1986·Mar·09 |
| 8 | 35 | "That Hang Dog Look" | 1986·Mar·16 |
Season 6 (1987)
| Ep | № | Title | Airdate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 36 | "Here's Looking at You" | 1987·Feb·24 |
| 2 | 37 | "Eye of the Beholder" | 1987·Mar·03 |
| 3 | 38 | "Spectacle of India" | 1987·Mar·10 |
| 4 | 39 | "Another Point of View" | 1987·Mar·17 |
| 5 | 40 | "The Naked Eye" | 1987·Mar·24 |
| 6 | 41 | "Bull's-Eye" | 1987·Mar·31 |
| 7 | 42 | "Gifted Pupils" | 1987·Apr·07 |
| 8 | 43 | "A Vision in White" | 1987·May·15 |
External links
- Seeing Things at the Internet Movie Database
- Seeing Things at TV.com
- Unofficial Seeing Things Home Page