Marie-Soleil
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| Marie-Soleil | |
|---|---|
| Starring | Suzanne Pinel |
| Theme music composer | Suzanne Pinel |
| Opening theme | "Je m'appelle Marie-Soleil" |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Original languages |
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| No. of episodes | 145 [1] |
| Original release | |
| Network | |
| Release | 1984 |
Marie-Soleil is a Canadian children's television show in the 1980s and early 1990s, which aired on many stations associated with the CTV Television Network.[2] The show, starring children's entertainer Suzanne Pinel, used stories and songs to teach French to anglophone kids.[3]
The series was initially produced by Mid-Canada Communications for the MCTV stations in Northern Ontario in 1984,[4] and shot in Sudbury;[5] however, as a resident of Ottawa, Pinel found travelling to Sudbury on a regular basis to film the show difficult to reconcile with raising her children, so after a single season it went on hiatus before production was relaunched on Ottawa's CJOH-TV in 1987.[5]
The puppet character, an English-speaking dog named Fergus, was played by Jon Park-Wheeler.[5] There was also a clown named Samuel, played by Suzanne Lalonde, who spoke with sign language for the hearing impaired.[5]
The series was also later broadcast in reruns on YTV and later TFO.
