Well, Charmion and I can claim to have appeared on an obscure Canadian television program. We both competed on Reach for the Top (long before we met each other). I was actually on something even more obscure. I once read A Child's Christmas in Wales on a local cable TV show in Stratford, Ontario.

Does anybody remember a series called d'Iberville, about the adventures of the Sieur d'Iberville, who caused the British no end of grief in the 17th century? It might have been a dubbed Quebec program.

As for Afghanada, Metchosin, I don't see it as a jingoistic piece of crap. The dialogue strikes me as being extremely accurate. It reminds me of a lot of soldiers I have known over the years. Perhaps anything that treats Canadian soldiers in a sympathetic manner is enough to start you gibbering with rage. My knock against that program is the blatantly PC notion of making the section commander a female. All trades are open to women in the CF nowadays, but neither the infantry nor women have changed enough to make it likely that a woman would be a sergeant in the infantry. There may be some even now, and the time may come when it won't be unusual, but it hasn't happened yet. Also, the actor who plays the part sounds about as much of a grunt as the average Muchmusic VJ.