Almost Home (Canadian TV series)

This article is about the Canadian TV Series. For the U.S. TV Series Almost Home, see The Torkelsons.

Almost Home
Genre	Educational
Country of origin	Canada
Original language(s)	English
No. of episodes	9
Production
Running time	15 minutes
Release
Original network	TVOntario
External links
[{{#property:P856}} Website]

Almost Home (aka On the Move) was an educational television show which was produced and broadcast by TVOntario (known at the time as the Ontario Educational Communications Authority) in 1972 or 1973. The premise of the show is about a young man from Cornwall, Ontario, who travels to Manitoba and returns back into Ontario, hitchhiking his way home through Northern Ontario and southward. The stories of each episode detail the various people he meets in his travels. The show was also shown in junior high and high schools as a teaching tool.

Actors and Actresses

• Michael Duhig as Ken Matthews
• Beth Amos
• Jack Mather
• James Barron
• Murray Westgate
• Syd Brown
• Larry Reynolds
• Les Rubie

Episodes

Nine episodes were broadcast. A tenth was scripted but not filmed. Here are the titles for all ten:

• 1- "Boots"
• 2- "I'm Looking For Volunteers And You're It"
• 3- "Words are Wild Birds"
• 4- "Playing the Angles"
• 5- "It's My Country and You Better Believe It"
• 6- "Just Talk to Us"
• 7- "An Old Man With A Suitcase Full Of Books"
• 8- "Remember All the Things We Were Going to Do?"
• 9- "Almost Home"
• 10- "Never the Same Again"

Filming locations

• Kakabeka Falls, Ontario
• Manitoulin Island
• Niagara Falls, Ontario

External links

• A webpage dedicated to the show as well as other classic TVOntario children's shows of the '70s and '80s
• Internet Movie Database listing