Reaction To 40 Must See Canadian Television Shows 

North of 60 drama about an Indiginous community in northern Canada. It ran for 5 or 6 years and starred many excellent indiginous actors.

No Canadian Television list should be made without "The Littlest Hobo" or "King of Kensington" but I guess they have been lost to generations. The Title song for the Littlest Hobo is so Iconically Canadian it was voted into the top 10 Canadian Songs of all time by a CBC National Poll

Beachcombers was a classic of the 1980s, it was must-see TV in my house growing up.

Corner gas is must see viewing. It has its own pace, and so much heart, and it is absolutely hilarious.

My all time Canadian shows I'm most proud of: "The Nature of Things" (science show hosted by David Suzuki) "This Hour Has 22 Minutes" (political satire) "Fraggle Rock" (muppet kids show ) "Tales of the Riverbank -- Hammy the Hamster" (live action kids show) "Schitt’s Creek" -- (sitcom) "Orphan Black" -- (thriller/mystery) "SCTV" -- (sketch comedy) "Kids in the Hall" -- (sketch comedy) "Degrassi High" -- (youth drama series) "Degrassi Junior High" (youth drama series)

Thanks for the trip down memory lane 🙂 Those were some classic shows. Kids in the Hall, Murdock mysteries, corner gas, the Red Green show.....classics!!!

Corner gas !!!! So funny...a must see !!

Forever Knight was a really awesome Canadian Drama. It was about a vampire who wanted to be human again and he worked as a police detective in Toronto to make up for his past while trying to find a cure.

This Hour Has 22 Minutes!! Loved it!

The name is an obvious play on Little House on the Prairie, a hit American show from the 80s

You’re finding Canadian gold here! Brent Butt has the classic Saskatchewan humour. Shot in the small town Rouleau (French Canadian name pronounced rō-lō) and at the nearby production sound stage in my home city Regina. Worth watching if you want to experience small town Saskatchewan without the long trip! 😂

There were a couple of long time children shows ran 70's and 80's, probably a little earlier for the Friendly Giant and Mr. Dressup ran past the 80's.

Corner Gas is one of the best shows I've ever watched. It's a classic. It's also very quotable and rewatchable.

I loved This Hour has 22 Mins and SCTV a few decades back. Schitts Creek is also one of my more recent favourites.

Schitt’s Creek is my absolute favourite!!! It has an amazing cast of Catherine O’Hara, Eugene Levy, and Dan Levy. My favourite animated kids show is Arthur and my favourite live person kids show will always be The Elephant Show, featuring Sharon, Lois and Bram!!

"Corner Gas: The Movie" was released in 2014, and that turned out pretty well, as well as "Corner Gas: Animated", which ran from 2018 to 2021.

I loved Schitt's creek, TBPs, Kenny vs Spenny and Corner Gas, still go and watch through them

"Schitt's Creek" is fantastic! Totaly in teh old school vein of Canadian comedy.

I learned english listening to the Beachcombers... Your mic picks-up the tapping on the table...

Canada has great sitcoms but also some of the best sci-fi. Orphan Black was mind blowing! Dark Matter and Killjoys also awesome. Some of my favourites!

In 1980-1, I lived in a trailer park outside Calgary, Alberta. It was oil boom time and housing was scarce, so I bought what you call a " caravan "and winterized it as much as possible. When I first saw " Trailer Park Boys ", it took about 15 minutes before I was sure it wasn't a documentary.

Continuum was really good, very well done Canadian science-fiction show, and it's actually set in Vancouver not just filmed there!

Orphan black is fantastic. She plays herself cloned several times each with distinct personalities. Being erica is also good. She goes back in time and addresses her regrets. Wouldn't we all like to do that?

Schitt's Creek!!! Cannot say enough about how great this show is!

Corner Gas was my favourite comedy growing up by far.

How the Mercer Report or This hour has 22 minutes didn't make this list is beyond my comprehension

I remember watching The Beachcomber’s as a kid. Also Anne of Green Gables the first mini series with Megan Follows is a must. THEN watch the sequel.

North of 60 (police drama) Danger Bay (drama Vancouver aquarium) Mr. Dress Up (kids show) This Hour Has 22 Minutes (News satire) CODCO (sketch comedy) Royal Canadian Air Farce (satire/sketch comedy) The Racoons (kids show) Theodore Tugboat (kids show) On the Road Again (documentary series about unique Canadians) Road to Avonlea (1800s drama series) The Odyssey (teen drama. Teenage Ryan Reynolds appears in this one. Lol) Reboot (kids/teen 3d animation) Shoresy (comedy series - Letterkenny spinoff) Tommy Hunter Show (variety show)

Many popular shows were filmed in Canada. SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis are just 2, and if you like sci-fi, Continuum was great. Being Human is based on the British show of the same name, both were well done. Another great one to check out is absolutely Schitt's Creek; it is fabulous. I was excited to see Beachcomers on the list as I grew up watching it with my family every week.

My niece is an animator on Paw Patrol and I have cards she has made for me with the characters on them

Corner Gas gets my vote. It still makes me laugh.

Son of a Critch, Republic of Doyle; both filmed in Newfoundland and both fantastic.

The original Street Legal was great. I loved the opening credits. I had a killer sax and gorgeous views of the Toronto skyline. I miss that skyline.

I loved Rookie Blue. Great cast of Canadian actors and really well written. I still watch re-runs.

I agree that most of these shows are absolutely worth watching. 19-2 is really underrated, and one episode, in particular, is a must-see as it follows a POV experience of a school shooting in progress, all done in a single take. Interestingly, the star of 19-2 is Jared Keeso, who co-created Letterkenny and has had most of the cast of 19-2 as regulars or guest stars. The 19-2 episode can be found on RU-vid.

One Canadian show that should have been on there is Wayne & Shuster! That show was hilarious, although undeniably older than the others mentioned. If you can find clips from that, you'll be splitting your sides! They tried to talk them into going to the US, but they were adamant about staying in Canada. Canadian shows have just been getting better and better over the years. The Beachcombers was a terrific comedy, as was Corner Gas. Flashpoint is one of my fave cop shows. Heck, I could go on forever!

One of my favourite shows was Royal Canadian Airfarce.

Hey, my Scottish friend, I grew up watching, The Beachcombers on CBC TV!!

Spenny lives in my city. I see him all the time. He’s very quiet.

Corner Gas is my kind of comedy. I really liked that show. Schitt's Creek was also good.

There's been a few Degrassi series, Jr High was followed by Degrassi High, years later there was a spinoff, Degrassi The Next Generation and I believe there's been a more recent series as well Degrassi The Next Class. The original was Kids of Degrassi Street. Yep it's been going on for a long time, lol. And I think there's another one in the works.

Cardinal is riveting. Corner Gas is freaking hilarious. I cannot recommend them enough.

Letterkenny, Schitt's Creek, and Trailer Park Boys are all hilarious shows. I strongly recommend them all! Trailer Park Boys in particular is like comfort food for me.

Still Standing with Johnny Harris. He’s hilarious, a good Newfie, he goes around to Canadian towns that have fallen on tough times and has a lot of fun with the people. Be sure to google Still Standing with Johnny Harris because I think there’s another show by the same name..go figure. He’s on CBC television. He also plays George Crabtree on the famous Murdock Mysteries series which is another awesome show set in Toronto in the 1800s. Very entertaining. Thanks! Love your show, yes I subscribed 😊

6:36 "The Kids in the Hall" was a pretty interesting show for its time. The executive producer was Lorne Michaels, who has been the longtime executive producer of "Saturday Night Live" in the US.

Night Heat, Forever Knight, Kim's Convenience and Due South are my absolute favorite Canadian shows.

Corner Gas is one of the funniest sitcoms to ever come out of Canada. Kenny vs. Spenny and Letterkenny would definitely make for good reaction material as well!

You will love Murdoch Mysteries, it’s a brilliant turn of the century detective series that’s still going & is popular world wide. Due South was also a great show. My brother was crew on Forever Knight (another good one) & Assistant DOP on Due South. He’s worked on many shows in Toronto over 30+ years but Due South & Forever Knight were his favs to work on. More recently he was on a good series starring Jason Priestly called Private Eyes. Currently on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. All the new Star Trek shows are done at the same studio in Toronto.

The Beachcombers was set in a fictional island but real island is in BC gulf on some of the little islands between Vancouver and Vancouver Island

There are a few other must see shows: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, The Expanse, Orphan Black, Stargate SG-1/Atlantis/Universe, The Hilarious House of Frieghtenstein, Corner Gas. America's Sweetheart, Rachel McAdams, is Canadian. You're welcome, America. Shitt's Creek has Eugene Levy and Katherine O'Hara from SCTV, so yeah, funny.

Trailer Park Boys, Letterkenny, Corner Gas

DEFINITELY Mert!!! You will love Corner Gas!😂😂 Watch episode about the taxman 😅

I totally agree with you with the crime detective Scandinavian shows and their cinematography.

Kim's Convenience launched the career of Simu Liu who later went on to play Shang-chi (Marvel superhero) and Ryan Gosling 's rival Ken in Barbie. My personal favorite is a kids show from the 70s called The Hilarious House of Frightenstein. Starring Billy Van (whose choir sang the original Spider-Man theme in 1968) and featuring Vincent Price. For the record the voices on the original Spider-Man were done by Canadians while the animation was done in New York (Ralph Bakshi's team if I remember correctly). Lastly, the performer Drake got his start in Degrassi .

One show I remember as a kid is Bordertown. A Canada/France co-production. Set it the 1880's, Bordertown takes place in a town that is on the Canada/US border.

Private Eyes staring Jason Presley private detective series filmed in Toronto.

4:48 The star of this show, Gerry Dee, has been the host of "Family Feud Canada" since 2019. You would know the format in the UK as "Family Fortunes".

Back in the early 1960's, then again in the early 1980 there was a show Called The Littlest HoBo. It was a show of a german shepherd dog, that always Traveled from place to plase Helping different people in Trouble. The Theme song for This show is Call Tomorrow

There's also Shoresy, which is a hockey-centric spinoff of Letterkenny. I'm still working on Letterkenny, but I hear Shoresy is hilarious. Jared Keeso (also the show creator) stars in both. The Beachcombers was filmed in my childhood hometown of Gibsons, BC! The fictional "Molly's Reach" was later turned into an actual restaurant.

I'm shocked that The Littlest Hobo wasn't included in this list.

Aside from many of these shows, Canada has produced some phenomenal shows for children, aside from the Magic School bus. My childhood was filled with Chez Hélène, The Friendly Giant, Butternut Squares, which later turned into Mr. Dressup. My children watched shows like Danger Bay, Fraggle Rock, and the Degrassi shows. We watched the Beach Combers too. Of course, one of the shows I live bed was ‘Reach For The Top’, a quiz show for high school students. There was the award winning show called ‘Front Page Challenge’ which ran from 1957 to 1995. It had a panel of journalists who had to guess the news story presented.

Yes, watch Corner Gas!!!

Corner Gas was so Classic.🤩💥Corner Gas and Red Green wwere the best shows ever💥💥.Rick Mercer Report ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 Loved that show. Little Mosque on the Prairie was really fun plus I loved Due South. Shocked that Littlest Hobo was not there. Da Vinci's Inquest was so good.😃 I really like Murdoch Mysteries, The Listener and Republic of Doyle too.😃❤️ Beachcombers was so great back in the day but I watched a few episodes last year and found it did not weather well. Everybody watched Trailer Boys and Vikings..... I got rid of my TV around the year 2000 (pissed about the horrible rip off prices for cable) so do not remember any of these other shows but some look really good. I was a big Crime and Sci Fi Drama person too.🐛🥹 Stargate was Americain but most of it filmed in Canada. This hour has 22 minutes was classic.😂👍

I would put Corner Gas at, or near the top of Comedy shows. The humour is fairly dry, and brilliant. I just binged watched Orphan Black, where an actress plays many parts exceedingly well. Canada as some great science fiction shows, like Firefly (with the movie Serenity), Sanctuary, Continuum, Killjoys, and Flash which were produced in Vancouver. Good kids shows too, although Friendly Giant (which I grew up on, and loved!) is not available anywhere that I know of, other than a few on RU-vid (look up, look waaaaay up!). I also grew up with the Beachcombers - a regular on Sunday night after Disney, and about a real place: Gibson's Landing, which is north of Vancouver. Murdock Mysteries is good if you like cop shows - set in the early 1900's, when forensic techniques were just being developed.

"CODCO" "This Hour Has 22 Minutes"

Loved Republic of Doyle. I think ud like it. And of course Corner Gas. U have to see that. So funny.

A good crime shoe is flashpoint with Enrico Colantoni. I highly recommend it

Corner Gas and Schitt's Creek are a must see. Very Canadian humour.

Trailer Park Boys I think are still going (definitely past 2018, they just moved to Netflix). It's a fave of mine.

I can't believe they didn't mention Reboot!!! It was a Canadian animated series that revolutionized CGI, good for kids and adults alike, and absolutely brilliant! ❤❤❤ Trailer Park Boys were hilarious! Best comedy ever!

Don McKellar had a show: 'Twitch City".😊 Well worth a look. Funny af.😅

Missed King of Kensington. Did they mention Littlest Hobo? For 19-2 there are TWO versions. The original in French, and the other in English.

Cardinal is a must to watch. Actor Billy Campbell plays Cardinal, excellent role. Dark, moody, emotional. I highly recommend👍

Corner Gas, without question is top of my list, it's the only TV show that we would plan supper around, "Corner Gas is on, grab your plate, get to the couch!". Anne of Green Gables (not just the sequel) is a superbly done telling of the classic book series based mostly in PEI. Megan Follows embodied Anne so perfectly, and the series had a superb supporting cast. I would add Royal Canadian Air Farce & This Hour has 22 minutes, but their humour may be too time period and Canadian political scene specific. Both were extremely well done though. Littlest Hobo is definitely a classic that should be sampled, and one episode of Corner Gas gives it a solid nod - from one classic Canadian show to another.

A lot of pre-2000 stuff is missing... Royal Canadian Air Farce, Codco, Wayne & Shuster, Tommy Hunter, and what about Mr. Dressup and The Friendly Giant? Alan Hamel/Alan Thicke? Definition & the Mad Dash? So, so many.

Schitt's Creek was the creation of Dan Levy and his father Eugene Levy from SCTV

I remember being in university, and seeing the Kenny vs. Spenny house come up for rent periodically on Craiglist.

I was surprised that DaVincis Inquest wasn’t on the list? It sold in the US and Australia and possibly some other countries.

Dragon's Den was the seed for the American copy called "Shark's Tank".

Interesting thing about Da Vinci’s Inquest is based on a true Vancouver chief coroner who eventually became mayor for a term. And did watch Street Legal.

to set it here alone.........."Murdoch Mysteries".

Letterkenny started as a bunch of short RU-vid videos, obviously it took right off!

The Littlest Hobo, North of 60, Fraggle Rock, The Beachcomber’s, Kids In The Hall, SCTV, Wayne and Schuster!!!

Early Street Legal was a great show. one of the main characters is the nephew in Red Green. You wouldn't recognize him , so different. You should watch 'Murdoch Mysteries". Very popular across the Commonwealth. Canadian detective series in 1900. inventive gadget making detective solving crimes in progress and chasing bad guys, conspiracies. Drawn from real events and notable people in Canada and US history. Prime Minister even played a humble desk cop in a cameo appearance and other known Canadians in other public walks of life.

In Due South Peter Gross played the mountie lead. He has starred in and produced the war movie Paschendaele, one of Canada's WWl battles and he also starred in and produce Hyena Road about the war in Afghanistan.

I was watching a Mert Can video the other daaaaay.... Letterkenny and Trailer Park Boys, definitely. They're probably gonna be some of the most genuine comedy from the other side (that is, the side that doesnt try to be family friendly-rated E for everyone. And i mean, you want to know Canadian lingo, Letterkenny will give a few ideas lol

The Littlest Hobo will always be my favorite Canadian show, too bad it didn't make the list. I believe it's the first weekly series that had no recurring human characters

Absolutely love Heartland, Schitt's Creek and Orphan Black!

How is "The Littlest Hobo" not on that list but "Beachcombers" is?!?! The Littlest Hobo is about a stray German Shepherd who wanders from town to town helping people in crisis. RIP London, good boy.

Orphan Black is a science sci-fi set in present day Toronto. It's about women who look alike and realize they are clones, one being an evolutionary developmental biology phd student. They are aware there are clones in other countires as well but don't know who created them, how many, or why. But now they are being killed off so they need to find out. It's a great series! Tatiana Maslany won best actress in a drama series in Canada for all five seasons. She also had Emmy, Golden Globe, People Choice, and Critics Choice nominations in the US, and won an Emmy. It originally aired on the Space Channel in Canada and BBC America in the US. By the end of season two it had been picked up in over 170 countires. Well worth seeing. There's several among these that I've watched. But Orphan Black is the one I bought on DVD and have rewatched several times.

Cardinal is a series based on the wonderful novels by Gilles Blunt set in North Bay, thinly disguised as Algonquin Bay.

Schitts Creek and Trailer Park Boys are must watches!!!

Tiny Talent Time (kids talent show)- another 1970s hit.

Vikings is TOP NOTCH.. Trailer Park Season 3 episode "Closer to the Heart" got me hooked.. 2 clips to watch "Bubbles and the Bible Pimp".. and.. "Ricky in Court:.. Schitt's Creek highly recommended.. A missed show I love "Call Me Fitz" with Jason Priestly as a crazy car salesman..

Beachcomber's is a classic TV show, I don't think there is a single Canadian that hasn't watched it. One that isn't on the list that I watched and loved when I was young is Rainbow Country. Set in Ontario on Manitulan Island.

Hudson and Rex - Love this show, love all the actors and especially Rex (aka Diesel vom Burgimwald or just Diesel). Reminds me a lot of the Littlest Hobo.

I grew up in the town where The Beach Combers was filmed, Gibsons BC. The restaurant in the show, Molly's Reach is still there. I loved the show as a kid, but it's a bit cheesy by today's standards. A Stephen King movie was also filmed there. Needful Things is my memory serves. It wasn't a great flick, but it was cool to see my local pub in a movie.

Bit of Trivia: Drake (from Toronto) played one of the characters on Degrassi: The Next Generation. Also, director Kevin Smith (Clerks / Jay and Silent Bob Movies) was a big fan of Degrassi.

I think "North of 60" should definitely have been on this list.

Da Vinci' Inquest is based on an actual Vancouver Coroner who became mayor and did a term in the Canadian Senate. Slings and Arrows has an amazing cast and very Shakespearean story lines. Lost Girl is a cult classic that some of us will never get over the ending of. North of 60 and Blackstone are Indigenous lead shows worth watching though season 1 of Blackstone has a lot of shakeycam. Tribal also looks like good a good police series but I haven't watched it yet.