Coming Up Rosie

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Coming Up Rosie
GenreChildren's sitcom
Written byBarbara Evans (1975-1977)
David Mayerovitch
Stuart Northey
Hedley Read (1977-1978)[1]
Country of originCanada
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons3
No. of episodes32
Production
Running time30 minutes
Release
Original networkCBC Television
Original release15 September 1975 (1975-09-15)[1] –
1978 (1978)

Coming Up Rosie was a Canadian children's sitcom TV series on CBC Television, aired for three seasons from 1975–1978.

Premise[]

The show focused on a group of tenants in an office building located at 99 Sumach Street, Toronto. The title character, Rosie Tucker, was played by Rosemary Radcliffe. Tucker is an aspiring Canadian documentary film-maker who is a tenant in the building.[2]

Other cast members included John Candy and Catherine O'Hara who both subsequently starred in Second City Television (aka SCTV) and feature films. Candy and O'Hara actually appeared on Rosie concurrently with their early episodes of SCTV, while Candy was also a regular on the sitcom The David Steinberg Show during this period, thereby simultaneously appearing as a regular on three separate series for three different Canadian networks.

Dan Aykroyd appeared as a regular in this series concurrently with his star-making turn on Saturday Night Live, which debuted less than a month after Coming Up Rosie. The name of the character Aykroyd played -- building janitor "Purvis Bickle" -- had a seemingly parodic similarity to the name of the disturbed "hero" of the 1976 film Taxi Driver, cab driver Travis Bickle. However, this is a coincidence; the film debuted five months after this TV series began.

Many of the actors in this series also appeared in the less successful 1974–1975 CBC series Dr. Zonk and the Zunkins.[2]

Broadcast[]

For the first season, the series aired at 4:30pm on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The series frequency was reduced to once per week for the remaining seasons, Mondays in 1976-77 and Tuesdays in 1977–78.[3]

Cast[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Corcelli, John. "Coming Up Rosie". Canadian Communications Foundation. Retrieved 27 April 2010.
  2. ^ a b "Can Rosie catch up with the kids?". The Gazette. Montreal. 27 September 1975. p. TV Times 16. Retrieved 10 May 2010.
  3. ^ Allan, Blaine. "Coming Up Rosie". CBC Television Series, 1952-1982. Queen's University. Archived from the original on 11 March 2010. Retrieved 10 May 2010.

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