House of Pride

This article is about the Canadian soap opera. For the fictional palace in Edmund Spenser's 16th-century epic poem The Faerie Queene, see House of Pride (Faerie Queene).

House of Pride was a Canadian television soap opera, which aired on CBC Television from 1974 to 1976.[1]

The series opened with the death of family patriarch Dan Pride (George Waite), and focused on the families of his five adult children.[2] Each of the families lived in a different Canadian city; the series had production units in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal and Halifax.[3]

The cast included Charmion King, Lynne Griffin, Budd Knapp, Linda Sorenson, Colin Fox, Murray Westgate and Sébastien Dhavernas.

  1. ^ Mary Jane Miller, Turn Up the Contrast: CBC Television Drama Since 1952. University of British Columbia Press, 1987.
  2. ^ "House of Pride: sweetening regional pill". The Globe and Mail, June 8, 1974.
  3. ^ "Jalna-type series planned by CBC". The Globe and Mail, July 13, 1973.