On cable we also get the CBC. There is some pretty good stuff to be found there, and I've recently noted that Canada has some very fine actors. Oddly enough, I discovered a number of them recently by watching "The Red Green Show." When I first saw this, I thought it was the dumbest thing I'd ever seen on television, but I got to watching it more out of morbid fascination than anything else. Now, I'm sort of hooked.

It deals with Red Grean, the head of Possum Lodge (motto: Quando omni flunkus moritati. Translation: "When all else fails, play dead!"), located on the shores of Possum Lake, the most polluted body of water on the North American continent. It's impossible to describe the show in any way that makes sense. It deals with handyman (?!??) Red Grean, a plaid-shirted, suspendered, bearded walking disaster area and the bizarre assortment of nut-balls who orbit around him. Some of these nut-balls are played by (I assume) reasonably well-known Canadian entertainers letting their hair down. One of these is Hap Shaunessy, the local tall-tale teller and blowhard, played by Gordon Pinsent. We've seen Pinsent in a couple of dramatic productions, and he is one darn fine actor.

Unfortunately, we don't get very many Canadian shows here, except by tuning in CBC wherever it's available.

Don Firth