(Les Belles Histoires des pays d'en haut)

Overview: Les Belles Histoires des pays d'en haut is a Canadian television drama series, which aired on Radio-Canada from 1956 to 1970. One of the longest-running programs in the history of Canadian television, the series produced 81 episodes during its 14-year run and was one of the first influential téléromans. Written by Claude-Henri Grignon as an adaptation of his 1933 novel Un Homme et son péché and initially set in the 1880s, the series starred Jean-Pierre Masson as Séraphin Poudrier, the wealthy but miserly mayor of the village of Sainte-Adèle, Quebec, and Andrée Champagne as Donalda Laloge-Poudrier, the young daughter of a village resident who is given in marriage to Séraphin as payment for a family debt even though she remains in love with her suitor Alexis Labranche.

Countries:

Canada

Genres:

Drama

Networks:

ICI Radio-Canada Télé

Year:

1956

Directors:

Fernand Quirion

Production companies:

Société Radio-Canada

Actors:

Séraphin Poudrier

Donalda Laloge

Evangeliste Poudrier

Alexis Labranche

Angelique Pothier

Crews:

Novel

Director

Costume Supervisor

Decorator

Sound