Canadian TV series or program
Coming Up Rosie
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Genre
| Children's
sitcom
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Written by
| Barbara Evans (1975-1977)
David Mayerovitch
Stuart Northey
Hedley Read (1977-1978)
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Country of origin
| Canada
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Original language
| English
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No.
of seasons
| 3
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No.
of episodes
| 32
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Running time
| 30 minutes
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Network
| CBC Television
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Release
| 15 September 1975
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1975-09-15
)
[1]
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1978
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1978
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Coming Up Rosie
was a Canadian children's
sitcom
TV series
on
CBC Television
, aired for three seasons from 1975–1978.
Premise
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The show focused on a group of tenants in an office building located at 99 Sumach Street,
Toronto
.
Rosemary Radcliffe
played the title character, aspiring Canadian documentary film-maker Rosie Tucker.
[2]
The initial cast also included
Fiona Reid
as Mona Swicker, an operator for the Ringading Telephone Answering Service;
John Stocker
as elevator operator Dwayne Kramer; Dan Hennessey as Ralph Oberding, salesman for the Neva-Rust Storm Door Company;
Barrie Baldaro
as Rosie's production assistant Dudley Nightshade; and
Dan Aykroyd
as building janitor/superintendent Purvis Bickle.
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
.
Cast member Fiona Reid was cast on
King of Kensington
almost simultaneously with the start of
Coming Up Rosie
, and citing her lack of improvisational skills ("I wasn't comfortable....
Rosie
demands a great improvisational head. I need set lines."
[3]
), left
Coming Up Rosie
only a few months after its debut. Aykroyd also left the show after its first season.
Later cast members?replacing Aykroyd and Reid?included
John Candy
as Wally Wypyzypychwk, the Ukrainian owner of Sleep-Tite Burglar Alarms, and
Catherine O'Hara
as answering service operator Myrna Wallbacker. Both Candy and O'Hara concurrently starred in
Second City Television
, actually appearing on
Rosie
concurrently with their early episodes of SCTV, which began in September 1976. Candy was also a regular on the sitcom
The David Steinberg Show
(1976?77) during this period, thereby simultaneously appearing as a regular on three separate series for three different Canadian networks.
Many of the actors in this series also appeared in the less successful 1974–1975 CBC series
Dr. Zonk and the Zunkins
.
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Broadcast
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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.
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Cast
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References
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