Adventures in Rainbow Country

Okay, so here's how it started: I was watching Hitchcock's "The Trouble with Harry" and the music sounded familiar. Whoever did the score for "The Forest Rangers", a 1960's Canadian TV series, blatantly ripped off Hitch's score. Don't believe me? Then you be the judge:

• Link to: The Forest Rangers theme.
• Link to: The Trouble with Harry score.

I say that we forget all this nonsense about the bundle of sticks reference in Dire Straits' song "Money for Nothing", and get on with this travesty of epic proportions.




But anyway, that then reminded me of "Adventures in Rainbow Country", which was another outdoorsy Canadian drama made at about the same time. I started searching the interweb tubes...


I don't remember much about the show. There was the opening scene where the boy is excitedly running through the woods, the boy's single mom and sister, people never smiling, and there was a dock for boats and planes. But just look at this synopsis/episode guide and tell me it wasn't edge-of-your-seat action:


[www.IMDB.com]
The inseparable pair experience an endless string of adventures, thwarting the designs of:

• Jewel thieves (Mystery at Whaleback Bay)
• Kidnappers (Pursuit Along the Aux Sables)
• Iron Curtain defectors (Stolen Tugboat)
• Airplane hijackers (Milk Run)
• The military (Wall of Silence)
• Petty larcenists (Roar of the Hornet)
• Witch doctors (The Return of Eli Rocque)
• The Devil himself (Lac du Diable)





But I digress. Look at what I dug up in the cast trivia, and how they are linked through Hollywood's seamy underbelly of aberrant sexual practices, messy divorces, drug addiction, mental instability, and suicide attempts - all the way back to little old Canadian "Adventures in Rainbow Country":


• The avid outdoorsMAN who loved ANIMALS, was played by Billy.

• Billy's hot mom Nancy was played by Lois Maxwell, who played Miss Moneypenny in a bazillion Bond films.



• In the 1966 movie "King Kong", Susan Bond was played by Susan Conway (Billy's sister Hannah).
Bonus: she played Kathy in "The Forest Rangers".

• In Bond film "Live and Let Die", Jane Seymour played Solitaire.

• Solitaire, in "GoBots: War of the Rock Lords", was played by Margot Kidder, who played Dr Rhodes in "Adventures in Rainbow Country".

• Margot Kidder has Bipolar Disorder.

• "The Polar Express" was composed by Alan Silvestri.

• Alan Silvestri composed the music for "MANIMAL."




OMG, HOW SUPER-CREEPY IS THAT SET OF LINKS???

To whom do I report this?




Next week in classic Canadian children's programming: Kidstuff!

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