Ron James

Wings

Brothers Brian and Joe Hackett attempt to run an airline on the New England island of Nantucket while surrounded by their various wacky friends and employees.

Release Date1990-04-19

Charactersd Tommy Morocco

Episode Count1

Vote Count134

Defining Moments

A touching story of eight very different people who are at a crossroads in life and must make decisions that will forever change who they are. Jack must decide to spend the rest of his life with his girlfriend Terri. Marina must reconnect with her aging father. Laurel must embrace her new pregnancy and come to terms with her father’s early Alzheimer's. And Dave must learn why life is worth living.

Release Date2021-08-27

Charactersd Melvin

Vote Count5

Head Office

In this comic take on big-business wheelings and dealings, an ambitious senator's son moves up the corporate ladder through undeserved promotions. But against his better judgment, he falls for a woman (the chairman's daughter, no less) who's leading a protest against the company's shady business practices.

Release Date1985-06-06

Charactersd Mark Rabinovich

Vote Count32

The Dream Team

Four mental patients on a field trip in New York City must save their caring chaperone, who ends up being taken to a hospital in a coma after accidentally witnessing a murder, before the killers can find him and finish the job.

Release Date1989-04-07

Charactersd Dwight

Vote Count248

Get a Life

Surreal, twisted and hilariously funny, Get a Life is the ultimate anti-sitcom. Chris Peterson is a 30-year-old paperboy who still lives with his parents and who seems to have an ever decreasing grip on reality.

Release Date1990-09-23

Charactersd Kevin

Episode Count1

Vote Count20

Special People

Brooke Adams is the real-life Diane Dupuy, the Canadian woman whose vision and drive molded a group of developmentally-challenged young adults into the Famous People Players, a professional puppet troupe that has become world-renowned, having performed Radio City Music Hall and Las Vegas (Liberace's opening act in 1975) to the People's Republic of China.

Release Date1984-09-11

Charactersd Doug

Tommy Boy

To save the family business, two ne’er-do-well traveling salesmen hit the road with disastrously funny consequences.

Release Date1995-03-31

Charactersd Bank Guard

Vote Count1017

Goofballs

Another entry in the Canadian "Balls" comedy era, this time set in a golf resort.

Release Date1987-01-01

Charactersd Stanley Lowe

Vote Count4

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

Stephen Leacock recounts his growing up period in the small town of Mariposa, Ontario, located on the shores of Lake Wissanotti with its notoriously leaky holiday steamer. It is a town similar to many other small towns in Canada with its odd assortment of residents.

Release Date2012-02-12

Charactersd Golgotha Gingham

Vote Count2

Tipping Uber Alice

The direction of the life of a down-on-her-luck ride-share driver changes when she gives a ride to a blind octogenarian with an amazing life story.

Charactersd Tippetarius

The Rocket Boy

In this Sci-fi Comedy a gentle video clerk has a secret double life as an intergalactic crime-fighter who must stop an evil alien from stealing the hair off human heads.

Release Date1989-06-01

Charactersd Buddy

Vote Count3

Something About Love

Wally Olynyk (Stefan Wodoslawsky) returns home to the Cape Breton region of Nova Scotia in this somber drama. After years of living in Los Angeles, he hopes to attend his high-school reunion and visit with his father Stan (Jan Rubes). Stan is the local mortician who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, but the 63-year-old father is too stubborn to admit anything is wrong. The contrast between Los Angeles and the grim Canadian steel town clashes like the father and son.

Release Date1988-12-09

Charactersd Billie

Vote Count3

Strange Brew

Something is rotten at the Elsinore Brewery. Bob and Doug McKenzie (as seen on SCTV) help the orphan Pam regain the brewery founded by her recently-deceased father. But to do so, they must confront the suspicious Brewmeister Smith and two teams of vicious hockey players.

Release Date1983-08-26

Charactersd Man in Movie

Vote Count210

Star Wars: Ewoks - Tales from the Endor Woods

Wicket remembers four memorable adventures from his youth: how he fixed up his great grandfather's battle wagon, the occasion when Latara ran away from the Ewok village to join the traveling Jindas, the time his father Deej fell terrible ill and the story of Kneesa's long lost sister, Asha.

Release Date1997-02-11

Charactersd Mring Mring the Gupin (voice)

Vote Count9

Blackfly

Who would have thought that Canadian history could be so much fun? Blackfly is set in the 18th century fur-trading post of Fort Simpson-Eaton and is a hysterical romp through the backwoods of Canada when the British ruled, the French explored, and beaver was king.

Release Date2001-01-04

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Charactersd Benny 'Blackfly' Broughton

Episode Count[ 26 ]

Vote Count1

Ernest Rides Again

Buffoonish Ernest and his dimwitted pal Abner unearth a huge cannon reputed to contain the crown jewels of England.

Release Date1993-11-12

Charactersd Abner (as Ron K. James)

Vote Count59

Dog Park

A young man, whose girlfriend has just left him and taken their dog, falls for another woman who is also on the rebound, but who prefers the company of her dog to the company of men.

Release Date1998-09-14

Charactersd Male Dog Owner #1

Vote Count23

Ron James: True North

TRUE NORTH finds Ron James and his poetically charged brand of funny searching for slivers of sanity in a year so categorically ‘cuckoo’ that he watched dumbstruck as just about every nation on earth but Canada went “to hell in a hand cart.”

Release Date2016-12-30

Charactersd Himself

Ron James: Quest for the West

Quest for the West is a full tilt, comedic homage to the lure of 'The Promised Land', during Alberta and Saskatchewan’s centennial year, performed by Canada’s number one selling comedian, Ron James. His poetically charged, kinetically driven performance, delivers an eclectic collection of side splitting bits, covering a 100 year timeline... from sod busting pioneers, to twenty-first century foot soldiers in the Fort 'McMoney' oil patch, all come west looking to reap the boons in a land where Opportunity’s shining bright as a new dream!

Release Date2006-12-31

Charactersd Himself

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Stepping into the late-late slot vacated by David Letterman, Conan O'Brien stars in a show that far outdoes its competition in sheer strangeness. Along with the celebrity interviews and musical numbers typical of late-night talk shows, this program make frequent use of odd walk-on characters and frequent "visits" from celebrity guests.

Release Date1993-09-13

Charactersd Self - Comedy Guest

Episode Count1

Vote Count148

RoboCop: The Animated Series

Cyborg cop Alex Murphy, with his partner Officer Anne Lewis fight to save the city of Old Detroit from assorted rogue elements, and to reclaim aspects of his humanity.

Release Date1988-10-01

Episode Count12

Vote Count93

Made in Canada

Made in Canada is a Canadian television situation comedy which aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2003. Rick Mercer co-created the program and starred as mercenary TV producer Richard Strong. In the United States, France, Australia and Latin America, the show was syndicated as The Industry. It was produced using a single camera setup.

Release Date1998-10-05

Episode Count65

Vote Count3

The Jim Henson Hour

The Jim Henson Hour was developed as a showcase for the Jim Henson Company's various puppet creations, including the popular Muppet characters. This hour-long anthology series was hosted by Jim Henson and generally included two segments. The first segment,"Muppetelevision," included comedy skits starring the Muppets, as well as frequent guest appearances by popular entertainers. The second segment often featured rebroadcasts of original, Henson-created productions, such as episodes from Jim Henson's "The StoryTeller" anthology series.

Release Date1989-04-14

Episode Count1

Vote Count9

The Ron James Show

The Ron James Show is a Canadian television comedy show, which debuted on CBC Television on September 25, 2009. Starring comedian Ron James, the show intersperses filmed and stage sketches with clips of James performing his stand-up routine. One of the show's more noted features is L'il Ronnie James, an animated recurring sketch which depicts James as a young child growing up in Cape Breton in the vein of Terry Gilliam's animation style.

Release Date2009-09-25

Episode Count34

Sisters

The Reed sisters of Winnetka, Illinois, are a close-knit group. Alex, Georgie, Teddy, and Frankie navigate the waters of life's triumphs and tragedies with the help of their mom, Bea. And no matter what befalls them, they know they can count on their sisters to help pull them through. (Sisters is an Emmy Award-winning television drama.)

Release Date1991-05-11

Vote Count10

The Incredible Time-Travels of Henry Osgood

A college professor wishes he could live in Victorian England. Through a scientific experiment that goes wrong, he is able to make his dream come true. He is now able to travel back and forth in time.

Release Date1986-03-09

Vote Count3

Kraft Hockeyville

Kraft Hockeyville is an annual competition developed by CBC Sports and sponsored by Kraft Foods, the NHL and the NHL Players' Association in which communities across Canada compete to demonstrate their commitment to the sport of ice hockey. The competition was first held in 2006 as a reality television series aired by CBC Television, but since 2007, it was relegated to segments aired during CBC's Saturday night NHL coverage, Hockey Night in Canada.

Release Date2006-03-29

Episode Count1

Vote Count1