With over 350 episodes, it is one of the longest running dramatic English-language television shows ever produced for Canadian television and July 30 marked the 30th anniversary of the shooting of the final episode. To mark the occasion, actor Jackson Davies joined CBC's The Early Edition to reflect on the show and how the industry has evolved since Hollywood North was just, well, the North. "I think we had at that time one film crew," Davies said about The Beachcomber years. He said the show's crew was usually borrowed from Vancouver's Playhouse Theatre or the CBC studios in Vancouver during the summer when they could be spared. anymore, with many large-scale American film productions, as well as serial television shows, now being shot all over the province.

Source: CBC News August 02, 2020 13:52 UTC