Mosquito Lake (TV series)

Mosquito Lake
Created byPaul K. Willis
StarringMike MacDonald
Mary Long
Dan Redican
Maria Vacratsis
Country of originCanada
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes25
Production
Running time30 minutes
Original release
NetworkCBC Television
Release1989 (1989) –
1990 (1990)
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Mosquito Lake was a Canadian television sitcom, which aired on CBC Television in the 1989–90 television season.[1] The show, a family sitcom, starred comedian Mike MacDonald as Bob Harrison, the father of a family spending the summer in a dilapidated cottage on Mosquito Lake.[2]

The cast also included Mary Long as Bob's wife Rita; Tara Charendoff and Bradley Machry as their kids Tara and Brian; Dan Redican as George, Bob's friend from the neighbouring cottage; and Maria Vacratsis as Ramona, the owner of the lake's marina.[3] The show was created by Paul K. Willis.[4]

  1. ^ "TV introduces both the weird and wonderful". Calgary Herald, September 10, 1989.
  2. ^ "Mosquito Lake has no comic sting". Toronto Star, October 8, 1989.
  3. ^ "Mosquito Lake: the worst of sitcoms past and present". Ottawa Citizen, October 7, 1989.
  4. ^ "Welcome to Mosquito Lake". Montreal Gazette, October 7, 1989.