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  The Beachcombers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Davies was the only original cast member who starred in the show's follow-up TV movie The New Beachcombers, produced in 2002, which was an unsuccessful pilot for a revived series.
By which time the program had been syndicated around the world and was particularly popular in the United Kingdom and on PBS in the United States.
East German television ran the series because it had so little controversy, as in one episode the whole episode was based on people arguing over who owned a wayward log.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Beachcombers   (297 words)

  
 Paradise for Sale: CHAPTER TWO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Beachcombers were among the first westerners to transmit the European worldview to Pacific islanders.
Beachcombing was not what it was cracked up to be, at least not on Nauru in 1837.
The beachcombers were sensitive to the local norms of behavior and behaved accordingly, and the natives welcomed beachcombers who were integrated as economic and political assets.
ucpress.org /books/pages/8453/8453.ch02.html   (6590 words)

  
 BeachCombers PRODUCTION NOTES
The New Beachcombers retains all the charm of a world removed from big city life, while addressing the inevitable changes that have occurred over time; changes like the demise of the beachcombing industry, the invasion of upmarket “weekenders,” eagerly snapping up waterfront cottages, and the encroachment of condo developments and retirement complexes.
New Beachcombers star Deanna Milligan found that acting with an “audience” added an unexpected element of excitement to her role and Jackson Davies could barely make it from one end of the street to the other without being stopped by well-wishers and autograph hunters.
The Beachcombers was remembered as an idyllic summer working camp by so many of the cast and crew that, once the word of the new show spread, it became an easy matter to entice alumni back to shoot the new show.
www.thebeachcombers.ca /presskit/production.htm   (2679 words)

  
 Papua New Guinea Association - Chips Mackeller
Fourthly, these beachcombers were usually on the verge of doing something constructive, only to be distracted from their endeavours by the exotic diversions of the islands.
Friendly, helpful and tolerant, the beachcombers in the final analysis, could be described as a talented bunch of likeable no hopers, trapped into perpetual indolence by the listless nirvana of the islands.
The beachcombers had continued to watch from the verandah of the house, drinking their beers in silence.
www.pngaa.net /Articles/articles_The_Beachcombers.htm   (2600 words)

  
 The Beachcombers
The Beachcombers, in production for 19 years, was the longest running series drama in Canadian television history.
Nick Adonidas (Bruno Gerussi), was a licensed beachcomber on the North West Coast of British Columbia.
In Beachcombers children of both sexes were respected as human beings who had much to learn and to share.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/B/htmlB/beachcombers/beachcombers.htm   (808 words)

  
 History of Beachcomber Surf and gun Club of Staten Island
The Beachcomber Surf and Gun Club of Staten Island was formed in 1947 by a group of sportsmen with a common interest in hunting and fishing.
By the late nineteen-fifties and sixties, with a membership of 115 sportsmen, the Beachcombers were one of the strongest voices for conservation and environmental concerns on Staten Island and the East Coast.
As a club the Beachcombers strongly supported the establishing of the 200-mile fishing limit for foreign commercial fishing vessels.
members.aol.com /beachcmbrsandg/history.htm   (656 words)

  
 Gerussi, Bruno
Although largely consistent with the family-adventure genre, Beachcombers ("The" was dropped from the title in 1988) stretched the limitations of the form sufficiently to allow the various characters to evolve and the series to stay fresh during its long history.
Beachcombers was one of the few Canadian productions of its time to be widely exported, selling to as many as 34 countries at once, including Greece, Australia, Italy and Britain.
This was true both in terms of its economic development--a relatively low budget product of the publicly subsidized CBC, as well as culturally, in the sense that it presented a relatively innocent, unglamourous group of characters and story lines, which distinguished the series from much of the U.S. prime-time programming distributed on Canadian airwaves.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/G/htmlG/gerussibrun/gerussibrun.htm   (825 words)

  
 Newhouse A1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
He uses the beachcombers' reports around the world to track cargo spills that loose millions of items from ships into the ocean each year.
Beachcombers are still gathering the little plastic pieces, even some with sea-themes -- rafts, flippers and octopuses.
What first got Williams interested in beachcombing 10 years ago were the dozens of varieties of drift seeds, also called sea beans, that he found while living in Florida.
www.newhouse.com /archive/story1a072501.html   (1002 words)

  
 Brighton Beachcombers Softball Club - Home
The Beachcombers started life as the Brightonians in 1999 with help from a couple of dedicated London and Redhill players and the support of the British Softball Federation.
The Beachcombers are a relatively new team on the scene, but we have the advantage of being coached by members of the GB mixed softball team.
During the summer, the Beachcombers enter a number of recreational tournaments.
www.beachcomberssoftball.com   (502 words)

  
 The Beachcombers - Article
Molly's Reach, the TV diner from The Beachcombers that has become a landmark in the pristine town of Gibsons, B.C. Tourists still flock to the Sunshine Coast community to have their pictures taken in front of the restaurant, just as the cast of the show did in the early years.
The Beachcombers (or Beachcombers as Fecan had renamed it), was moved to mid-week, where its audience, already slipping, went into free-fall.
The Beachcombers, a show born of west coast connivance, prospered mightily despite all odds and had to be killed with a stick.
www.brucegreenwood.com /mov-tv/beach/beach-arts.htm   (2717 words)

  
 NIGHTSHIFT - Live Reviews - February 2002
Whilst the local metal scene does still seem to be dominated by nu-metal and emo-core, none of tonight’s three strikingly different bands fall into either category.
Maybe it is due to poor sound but the Beachcombers are a bit disappointing tonight.
They seem to competing too much with the other bands’ heaviness, to the point of burying their off-the-wall lyrics and Mr Bungle-esque arrangements in a mess of noisy-punk thrash which, like the cow who plays guitar (we kid you not), only holds your attention for so long.
nightshift.oxfordmusic.net /0202/live-pg2.html   (305 words)

  
 The History of The Beachcombers MCC
Unfortunately some members didn’t like the way things were run, and after a few fall outs, they headed off into the sunset to form their own club in September 1988, always to be known as the Beachcombers.
The first thing they did was form some basic rules for running a club which were felt to be important guidelines.
Although the clubs original meeting place in 1988 was a pub called the Beachcombers, this was not the reason for the clubs name, but more to do with everyone behaving irresponsibly on bikes across a west coast beach!
www.geocities.com /beachcombersmcc/history.htm   (740 words)

  
 Brighton Beachcombers Softball Club - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The Beachcombers had an amazing start, winning eight of the first nine games before hitting "Black Sunday" when both games played ended in defeat.
With the Beachcombers scoring 124 more runs than the previous year (more runs in fact than any other team) and finishing eight points better off than 2003 the platform is there for 2005.
The Beachcombers did well in our Rookie year finishing a creditable fourth with the Dolphins, Sharks and Dodgers taking the top three positions for the third successive year.
www.brightonsoftball.com /news.htm   (182 words)

  
 FFWD Weekly - November 21, 2002
CBC-TV As soon as you say it –The Beachcombers – the sound of a flute courses through your brain and before you know it that familiar pre-pajama theme song has you mentally winging across the surf looking for the perfect log.
Still, there are those who think there is enough spirit of The Beachcombers left in the Canadian psyche to test the waters for bringing it to life again.
With the passing of three of the main characters from the original series, The New Beachcombers could hardly be the same, which Davies obviously realizes.
www.ffwdweekly.com /Issues/2002/1121/tv.htm   (592 words)

  
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The BeachCOMBERS are gathering data that can be averaged over several years, and will serve to provide "normal," or background, rates of mortality.
The BeachCOMBERS program also proved extremely useful in the recent "Monterey Bay Bird Incident," in which a mysterious oil was spilled in the Monterey Bay and coated hundreds of seabirds.
BeachCOMBER Scott Benson and a fellow volunteer, while surveying Zmudowski State Beach, heard screams and saw a woman flailing in the water, being pulled away from shore by a rip tide.
bonita.mbnms.nos.noaa.gov /educate/newsletters/news12_97/page1.html   (778 words)

  
 Keith Moon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
As a young teen, he joined a band called the Beachcombers and became part of Bob Druce's club circuit, which was the same circuit that the Who, then called the Detours, were on.
It was apparent that Keith enjoyed surf music groups like the Beach Boys, as well as Jan and Dean, and continued to enjoy this style until the end of his life.
He wanted his position to be settled so he strung them along for a bit and for a few weeks played in both the Beachcombers and the Who (by this time the group named changed to what we reconize).
drum_gods.tripod.com /drumgods/id9.html   (1080 words)

  
 The Beachcombers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The Beachcombers for those who never saw it was one of the longest running TV comedy drama series -- 20 seasons.
Produced by the CBC in Canada, the program was set on the coast of British Columbia and focused on the lives of beachcombers in the community of Gibson's Landing.
The main character was a Greek immigrant beachcomber named Nick Andonis who was forever battling with his arch rival Relic, an old embittered beachcomber.
www.jumptheshark.com /b/beachcombers.htm   (1607 words)

  
 The Beachcombers - Nostalgia Central   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The Beachcombers was in production for 19 years, and was the longest running drama in Canadian television history.
This family adventure series featured the adventures of Nick Adonidas (a licensed beachcomber on the North West Coast of British Columbia), his young Native partner Jesse, and his unscrupulous adversary and rival beachcomber, Relic.
Comedy was also part of almost every episode, and there was often a documentary flavour to the scenes of fishing, logging and beachcombing.
www.nostalgiacentral.com /tv/drama/beachcombers.htm   (441 words)

  
 Pat Wayne and The Beachcombers
Along with Keith Powell's Valets and Mike Sheridan's Nightriders, Pat Wayne and The Beachcombers were amongst the city's top live acts at that time.
After the release of a final single with the Beachcombers, Pat Wayne decided to go solo and went on to record a further three singles in 1965 and 1966.
The songs were well produced and some were exceptional, but by this time the record charts were dominated by "pop groups" and apart from isolated successes by those such as Tom Jones and Englebert Humperdink, the age of the solo performer seemed to have passed.
www.brumbeat.net /patwayne.htm   (1065 words)

  
 relic beachcombers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The Beachcombers -- Geoffrey Farmer, Brian Jungen, Myfanwy MacLeod -- 28/06/...
The Beachcombers was a great show that jumped the shark on Nov. 25, 2002 when they made that dumb movie...
A New Beachcombers Movie: It's the Recipe for a Holiday Treat, Dec. 6 at 8 PM on CBC-TV Start with a legendary CBC-TV series: For 19 seasons, audiences enjoyed the antics of Nick, Relic and the...
www.beachcomberpalm.com /relicbeachcombers   (1385 words)

  
 Beachcombers CBC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Gibsons is famous for "The Beachcombers," a long running CBC TV drama, and "Needful Things", a Stephen King thriller.
Bayrakdarian, Isabel Bayside Baziuk, Andrij BC Regiment Association Band BCeagle Be Curious Beachcombers, The Beagle Ranch Beale, Melanie Beals, Jacinda Beam, Darrell Beans Beans, The Bear Hills...
But by 1982 he had returned to his first love as a writer for CBC's The Beachcombers series and as a columnist for The North Shore News in Vancouver "I was the right person in the right place," said...
www.beachcomberpalm.com /beachcomberscbc   (1342 words)

  
 The Beachcombers -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The Beachcombers -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
The Beachcombers was a popular (A river rising in northeastern New Mexico and flowing eastward across the Texas panhandle to become a tributary of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma) Canadian (A telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points) television program broadcast on CBC.
The café featured in the show, "Molly's Reach", still survives today (although the original was destroyed in a later episode of the series) and is a local attraction in Gibsons.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/the_beachcombers.htm   (226 words)

  
 CBC Television - Behind the Scenes - The New Beachcombers
The cast and crew of The New Beachcombers all agree that Jackson Davies was an inspiration, putting his heart and soul into the show.
Dave Thomas of SCTV fame is one of the new faces on The New Beachcombers.
Despite the ominous implications, The New Beachcombers is a gentle family film, just like the original series.
www.cbc.ca /television/behindthescenes_beachcombers.html   (531 words)

  
 The Drawing Room   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Shot in British Columbia during the 1970s and '80s, the sitcom followed the life stories of a multicultural cast of characters who made their living salvaging runaway logs along the BC coastline.
This group of artists are beachcombers of popular culture, taking inspiration both in subject matter and form from the regional and global culture that surrounds them.
MacLeod's recent solo exhibitions include: Miss Moonshine, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, 2001 and How not to be seen, VTO Gallery, London, 2000 and a group exhibition at the Power Plant, Toronto, 2002.
www.drawingroom.org.uk /Projects_Past_Beachcombers.htm   (465 words)

  
 The Beachcombers: A Canadian Treasure   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
This series was a successful addition to CBC television for nearly twenty years in it's Sunday night time slot, but unfortunately, the last season on the air saw the series lose that timeslot, and, consequently, most of it's viewers.
Over the years, "The Beachcombers" featured a number of talented up-and-comings, the most notable of which was Canadian actor Cameron Bancroft, but it was the "lesser knowns" like Rae Brown (Molly Carmody), Jackson Davies (John Constable), Pat John (Jesse Jim), and Robert Clothier (Relic) that have stayed with us to this day.
Unfortunately, the hopes that "The Beachcombers" fans may have had of a TV reunion were forever dashed with the tragic 1995 passing of 67-year-old Bruno Gerussi.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/3057/25039   (352 words)

  
 CTV.ca | Former Beachcombers writers, actors in dispute with CBC over payment
Her client, the late Merv Campone, believed series personnel are owed possibly millions or dollars in royalties, an allegation the CBC denies.
If The Beachcombers is rebroadcast on CBC, performers receive a residual fee.
If the program is sold to another network - The Beachcombers now is shown on Showcase while Wayne andShuster appears on the Comedy Network - performers receive a royalty payment, Waddell explains.
www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1025814745185_21223945   (575 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Barry and the Beachcombers were formed by Magic Booka (Vocals and Bass) and The Constable (Guitar and Vocals) (both their real names) in 1942, 33 years before they were born.
The Beachcombers were soon joined by King Porter (real name) after replying to his advert in Elvis Monthly magazine.
Barry and the Beachcombers are only influenced by Cliff Richard and the kings of metal, Manowar.
www.boat-ting.com /info/beachcombers.html   (127 words)

  
 Bermuda Sun: Narrow victory for Snowballs (2002-01-16)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The Beachcombers (1-6) earned their first victory of the season with a hard-fought 26-25 decision over the Police Enforcers (3-6).
The Beachcombers took the lead back with a six run bottom half of the third.
The Beachcombers tied the score at 22 after six innings.
www.bermudasun.bm /archives/2002-01-16/06Sports03   (1532 words)

  
 Beach Comber Vol. 1 No. 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
After being held scoreless again in the fourth, the Beachcombers came bouncing back with three badly needed runs in the fifth to tie the score 4-4.
Sparks produced three more Beachcomber runs in their half of the sixth, to put the fighting 14th ahead for the first time by a 7-4 count.
Underdogs, the Beachcombers coming from behind twice, then set the stage for the final four runs in the last inning to bring home their first victory of the year.
home.att.net /~denis/stuff/bc-1-8.htm   (487 words)

  
 Daisies Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
I have truly sunk to new levels but I actually really enjoyed The Beachcombers as a child and much to my lovely Duke's...
I have truly sunk to new levels but I actually really enjoyed The Beachcombers as a child and much to my lovely Duke's dismay, I had somewhat of a crush on the crusty old Relic, heh heh.
Anyway, Beachcombers was the longest running series drama in canadian television history.
www.pluckthepetal.com /blackdaisies/archives/001032.html   (245 words)

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