Sidestreet
Sidestreet was a Canadian television drama, which aired Sundays on CBC from 1975 to 1978. It starred Sean McCann and Donnelly Rhodes as police working the mean streets of 1970s Toronto. The producers of "Sidestreet:" wanted to feature community service officers instead of ordinary detectives. They aimed to concentrate on issues such as blockbusting, strikebreaking, rape, poverty, and the problems of the elderly in the city, instead of major crimes.
- Created By
Geoffrey GilbertJohn Saxton
- First Aired on
Sep 14, 1975
- Popularity: 7.7922
- 2 votes
- Networks
- (CA)
- Status: Ended
Show Ended
4 seaons till Nov 12, 1978
Last episode: Vancouver Connection
Seasons & episodes
Total 4 seasons, 32 episodes
Season 1
Aired
Episode 1The Hold Out min
A widow being terrorized by a real-estate developer trying to force her out of her home.
Episode 2The Money-Go-Round min
A young man turns to crime to pay off inherited debts to a loan shark. Extortion and purse snatching by a bicycling thief heat things up and community service cops Alex Woodward and Johnny Dias move quickly to defuse a dangerous situation.
Episode 3The Rebellion of Bertha Mackenzie min
Two social workers are involved as a Metis mother of two children fights to keep from being evicted from her home.
Episode 4Perhaps in Dreams Old Man min
An informer's tip shatters the dreams of two elderly pensioners whose obsession with owning a farm in Alberta leads them to commit a rather unusual robbery.
Episode 5Rape min
The rape of a young woman soon to be married triggers a series of events affecting the lives of several people in addition to the rapist and his victim.
