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Dooley Gardens

Network: CBC Television Network

Broadcast Run: 1997 to 1999

Broadcast Medium: Television

Pilot aired October 26, 1997. Five more episodes aired weekly from March 10, 1999 to April 7, 1999. [Repeated in 2000]

This half-hour comedy was about Dooley Gardens, the oldest indoor hockey rink in St. John’s Nfld.,  run by supervisor Marilyn Benoit (Mary Walsh) and frequented by a cast of characters who were in constant crisis. Only six episodes were broadcast. A Mary Sexton, Rink Rat Production co-produced with the CBC. Walsh and Jones first hooked up on Codco, ten years earlier.

Principal Cast:

Mary Walsh as Marilyn Benoit
Ken Campbell as Professor Pickney
Nicole de Boer as Skye
Ron Hynes as Johnny Shea
Andy Jones as Eddie Hawco
Andrew Younghusband as Tracy

Written by John Corcelli – April, 2006