List of Made in Canada episodes
The Canadian sitcom Made in Canada aired from 1998 to 2003 on CBC Television.
Season 1
Episode Number | Title | Original airdate | Production code |
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01 | "Pawn to King Four" | October 5, 1998 | 1-01 |
Pyramid is hosting a party to celebrate 45 episodes of Sword of Damacles, and the announcement of 20 more shows, but Michael Rushton doesn't want to sign on for another season. Richard Strong and Siobhan Roy successfully plot to get Richard promoted to head of television development by getting Raymond drunk and making it look like he sexually assaulted Siobhan. | |||
02 | "Dining Out" | October 12, 1998 | 1-02 |
After Alan promotes Victor into Veronica's job, Veronica and Richard plot to get revenge against Victor and Lisa. | |||
03 | "A Death in the Family" | October 19, 1998 | 1-03 |
Walter Franklin (Gordon Pinsent), the star of Beaver Creek, dies during hair transplant surgery in Mexico, and the team has to figure out a way to keep the show on the air. | |||
04 | "Second in Command" | October 26, 1998 | 1-04 |
Alan puts Richard in charge of developing a series about cops working undercover inside the prison system. The star of Victor's movie project is being difficult on set. | |||
05 | "The Mill Show" | November 2, 1998 | 1-05 |
Richard is taken off the cop show project and is given a "mill show" (a cheap daily assembly line-type show) to produce. | |||
06 | "Gemini Night" | November 9, 1998 | 1-06 |
Alan is being presented with a lifetime achievement award at the Gemini Awards ceremony, but can't settle on a speech. Siobhan plots to get Raymond rehired at Pyramid so she can get a role in his new show. Richard is fired after the team finds him and Siobhan having sex on the conference room table. |
Season 2
Episode Number | Title | Original airdate | Production code |
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07 | "Merger" | October 4, 1999 | 2-01 |
Richard is working on a children's show at the competing Prodigy Productions, but is brought back to Pyramid after the two companies merge in a leveraged takeover. Episode parodies the real Alliance Atlantis merger. | |||
08 | "New Office" | October 11, 1999 | 2-02 |
Alan fires the entire staff, jeopardizing a new Kiefer Sutherland project the company has only just secured. | |||
09 | "Damacles Directs" | October 18, 1999 | 2-03 |
Michael Rushton wants to direct an episode of Sword of Damacles, but even though that's in his contract, nobody wants to let him do it because he's an idiot. Victor's nephew Ted (Dov Tiefenbach) visits while on a break from drug rehab, and successfully ingratiates himself into the company by proposing a New Media division. | |||
10 | "Buy the Book" | October 25, 1999 | 2-04 |
Beaver Creek is given an award by a conservative media watchdog group for promoting family values, just days before two of its stars are planning to come out as gay by marching in the Toronto Pride Parade. In trying to manage the potential public relations fiasco, Victor makes things worse and the gay community organizes a protest in front of the company's office. Richard convinces Alan to buy an option on an unpublished book, which turns out to be terrible. | |||
11 | "For the Children" | November 1, 1999 | 2-05 |
Captain McGee, star of the company’s acquired children’s show is found out to be a wife swapper with his girlfriend while a German executive is given the cold shoulder as Pyramid employees try to sell him Beaver Creek as being “young and hip”. | |||
12 | "It's a Science" | November 8, 1999 | 2-06 |
Murray, an old business associate of Alan's, comes to visit after joining the church of Spirentology, claiming that he created Sword of Damacles and demanding royalty payments. Alan sends Victor to infiltrate the Spirentologists in order to convince Murray to drop the claim, but he ends up being drawn into the church as well. Richard and Veronica are both being secretly headhunted by a competing firm. | |||
13 | "Diva" | November 15, 1999 | 2-07 |
Beaver Creek lands legendary actress Dian Del Largo (Margot Kidder) for a guest appearance during sweeps week, but she proves to be a diva who fires half the show's production staff. Richard is forced to call in Gino Empry to get things back on track. | |||
14 | "Connect the Dots" | November 22, 1999 | 2-08 |
Misapplying techniques he learned from a new book on management, Alan sets Richard up to figure out how to work an Asian character into Beaver Creek to increase its appeal to American audiences, and leaves Veronica out of the loop on business decisions so she'll think she's about to be fired. | |||
15 | "Life in the Woods" | November 29, 1999 | 2-09 |
After actually watching an episode of Beaver Creek for the first time and deciding that it's awful, Alan puts Victor, Richard and Veronica personally in charge of overhauling the show. | |||
16 | "The Christmas Show" | December 6, 1999 | 2–10 |
Staff morale is in the tank after Alan cancels the office Christmas party. | |||
17 | "Girls Night Out" | January 10, 2000 | 2–11 |
Tired of being taken for granted, Veronica decides to show how valuable she is by taking the entire afternoon off for a girls' lunch with Wanda and Lisa, leaving Richard, Alan and Victor to search in vain for an "unpaid" tax file that she actually paid a week before. | |||
18 | "Creative Deadline" | January 17, 2000 | 2–12 |
A journalist (Ann Medina) is writing an article on Pyramid. An office temp steals Alan's new script idea and sells it to NBC as a series pilot. | |||
19 | "NATPE" | January 24, 2000 | 2–13 |
Alan orders the entire staff to undergo magnet therapy. Pyramid is working on a project to develop a school news program, but when Richard learns that Moses Znaimer has a similar program in development, he uses his magnets to erase Znaimer's tapes at the NATPE convention. Znaimer hires Richard to oversee Citytv Bogota in order to get him out of the way. |
Season 3
Episode Number | Title | Original airdate | Production code |
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20 | "Richard Returns" | October 16, 2000 | 3-01 |
With Richard still in Colombia, the Pyramid team learns that his helicopter has been shot down and he may be dead. Alan's in trouble with the shareholders after the news is revealed that he gave himself a large management bonus in the midst of the largest financial loss in the company's history. Wanda is obsessed with Manolo, a child refugee who's in the news, and Alan tries to track the child's agent down to buy a movie option on his story. Richard returns at the end, with Manolo in tow – he returned to Canada in a shipping container with a group of South American refugees that included Manolo's parents. | |||
21 | "Damacles...What a Doll" | October 23, 2000 | 3-02 |
Alan sends Victor to the Cayman Islands to deposit embezzled money into Alan's secret bank account. Michael Rushton is angry that Damacles still hasn't been licensed as an action figure. | |||
22 | "Beaver Creek: The Movie" | November 6, 2000 | 2-03 |
Mandy Forward (Megan Follows) is back for her latest Adele of Beaver Creek reunion movie, but is bitter about it. After deducing that the common link between the hit television shows Baywatch, Flipper, The Beachcombers and Gilligan's Island is water, Alan writes a movie script about water and tries to convince Mandy to star in it. | |||
23 | "Ohm Dot Com" | November 13, 2000 | 3-04 |
An Internet startup approaches Pyramid to strike a content deal. Alan doesn't understand what all this Internet fuss is about, and Veronica and Richard dabble in insider trading. | |||
24 | "Wrongly Convicted" | November 20, 2000 | 3-05 |
Dean Sutherland (Mark McKinney), a man recently released from prison after being cleared of a crime he didn't commit, offers Pyramid a movie option on his story, but Alan doesn't trust the DNA evidence and accuses Sutherland of stealing his Palm Pilot. | |||
25 | "Alan's Diet" | January 8, 2001 | 3-06 |
Alan goes on a protein diet and bans coffee and vegetables from the office. | |||
26 | "Teamwork" | January 15, 2001 | 3-07 |
After having a nightmare about somebody smashing a pyramid with a hammer, Alan requires the staff to participate in a team building seminar – but he refuses to participate in it himself. Veronica convinces Alan to hire a chief administrative officer so he can focus more on the creative side of his job, but the new executive (Sonja Smits) hires 14 new vice-presidents, and Richard, Victor and Veronica have to team up to get this whole new layer of executives fired. | |||
27 | "Happiest Girl in the World" | January 22, 2001 | 3-08 |
Siobhan is in love with Victor's driver, and rushes into marrying him so he can get a producer's position on Beaver Creek. Richard and Veronica have to create a new children's show. | |||
28 | "Beaver Creek: Live" | January 29, 2001 | 3-09 |
The network hates the script for Beaver Creek's big 150th episode special, and the team decides to produce a live episode instead. A media watchdog group is protesting the violence in Sword of Damacles. | |||
29 | "Arcadia 3000" | February 5, 2001 | 3–10 |
Alan is too busy working on his director's commentary for the upcoming DVD release of Prom Night at Horny High to help Victor with his science fiction project Arcadia 3000. | |||
30 | "Husband & Wife" | February 12, 2001 | 3–11 |
Alan hires video producers Susan and William Doyle (Cynthia Dale and C. David Johnson) to produce an office morale video at Pyramid, tasks Wanda with finding a song he heard on the radio but doesn't know anything else about – including what radio station he was listening to or when, and assigns the rest of the team to make Sword of Damacles seem more Australian. | |||
31 | "Alan's Ex" | February 19, 2001 | 3–12 |
Siobhan wants a better storyline on Beaver Creek, so the team work on an idea to give her character a near death experience. Siobhan becomes even more unruly on set after accidentally walking in on Alan and Janet making out. Alan hires renowned art film director Adam Kalilieh (Don McKellar) to direct any film he wants, but the project is going wildly over budget. | |||
32 | "Goodbye" | February 26, 2001 | 3–13 |
Alan decides to kill off the entire cast of Beaver Creek in the final episode, leading everybody on the Pyramid staff to imagine their own eventual deaths. Richard gets hired out to the mayor's office to produce a campaign ad. |
Season 4
Episode Number | Title | Original airdate | Production code |
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33 | "The Pitch" | October 12, 2001 | 4-01 |
Alan hires a consultant to write two new TV series; Victor wants to join an all-female gym. | |||
34 | "Trojan Horse" | October 19, 2001 | 4-02 |
A cute new intern begins to work in the office. | |||
35 | "Roomies" | October 26, 2001 | 4-03 |
Richard takes drastic steps to try to keep a new reality series on the air. | |||
36 | "Office Rumours" | November 2, 2001 | 4-04 |
Richard overhears a conversation that leads him to believe Veronica is pregnant. | |||
37 | "Corporate Retreat" | November 9, 2001 | 4-05 |
The staff is abruptly sent to the country for a motivational retreat. | |||
38 | "Everyone's a Critic" | November 16, 2001 | 4-06 |
A television critic seeks revenge on Alan. | |||
39 | "Beaver Creek Commercials" | November 23, 2001 | 4-07 |
Alan has plans to put the cast into Japanese commercials. | |||
40 | "Creative Bookkeeping" | November 30, 2001 | 4-08 |
Pyramid has a job opening after the Chief Financial Officer dies. | |||
41 | "Tax Audit" | December 7, 2001 | 4-09 |
Alan tries new management techniques; Wanda is audited. | |||
42 | "Alan's Brother" | January 11, 2002 | 4–10 |
After spending years in a mental care facility, Alan's brother Frank (Colin Mochrie) arrives at Pyramid. | |||
43 | "Book of Damacles" | January 25, 2002 | 4–11 |
Richard and Veronica write a book for an actor who didn't fulfill his contract. | |||
44 | "Veronica's Friend" | February 1, 2002 | 4–12 |
Richard and Victor learn that Veronica's friend is actually a gold-digger and has her sights on Alan. | |||
45 | "Just Another Week" | March 1, 2002 | 4–13 |
Alan feels snubbed that he wasn't asked to speak at the Toronto Film Institute. | |||
46 | "The War of 1812" | March 8, 2002 | 4–14 |
An American network executive who contracted Prodigy to produce a television film about the War of 1812 wants changes to make the film more appealing to American audiences, including changing the British Redcoats to teal and rewriting the ending so that the Americans win. | |||
47 | "Damacles, Time Traveler" | March 15, 2002 | 4–15 |
Richard must rework a show he is directing after an accident gets it barred from the original venue. | |||
48 | "Wrap Party" | March 22, 2002 | 4–16 |
Alan demands to organize a wrap party. |
Season 5
Episode Number | Title | Original airdate | Production code |
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49 | "Private Sector" | January 10, 2003 | 5-01 |
Executive Brian Switzer finds himself in demand after leaving public television. | |||
50 | "Best Seller" | January 10, 2003 | 5-02 |
Alan attempts to make Ann-Marie MacDonald part of the Pyramid family. | |||
51 | "Acquisitions" | January 17, 2003 | 5-03 |
Alan acquires a new production company. | |||
52 | "People of the Fish" | January 24, 2003 | 5-04 |
Diane Parkman returns to work with Veronica and Richard. | |||
53 | "Babes with Blades" | January 31, 2003 | 5-05 |
Veronica tries to produce a documentary on women in hockey. | |||
54 | "The Skateboard Show" | February 7, 2003 | 5-06 |
Richard hires a receptionist's teenage son. | |||
55 | "Beaver Creek Valentine" | February 14, 2003 | 5-07 |
The network decides to change a Christmas program to a Valentine's special. | |||
56 | "Office Flu" | February 21, 2003 | 5-08 |
The Pyramid staff succumbs to a flue epidemic. | |||
57 | "Alan's New Studio" | February 28, 2003 | 5-09 |
Victor has his eye on a new studio. | |||
58 | "Victor's Dating Show" | March 7, 2003 | 5–10 |
Alan lets Victor produce Pyramid's new dating show. | |||
59 | "Bio-Pic" | March 14, 2003 | 5–11 |
Victor is appointed to the Leaf of Fame awards committee. | |||
60 | "Dock Cops" | March 21, 2003 | 5–12 |
Richard is tasked with giving the show "Dock Cops" a face-lift. | |||
61 | "Beaver Creek Jumps the Shark" | May 30, 2003 | 5–13 |
Pyramid staff begin to realize that Beaver Creek has jumped the shark, and reminisce about how their own lives have done the same. | |||
62 | "Richard's Brother" | May 30, 2003 | 5–14 |
63 | "Requiem for Beaver Creek" | June 6, 2003 | 5–15 |
The network decides to cancel Beaver Creek, and the company has to scramble to save its cash cow. | |||
64 | "Producer's Cut" | June 13, 2003 | 5–16 |
Alan finds out about a new television sitcom called Producer's Cut which parodies the Canadian film and television production industry, and believes it's based on him. | |||
65 | "The Last Show" | June 20, 2003 | 5–17 |
Alan sells Pyramid to a dairy farmer, who fires everybody except Wanda and Victor. Richard and Veronica start their own firm and get rich off a terrible show. Victor decides to retire, and Wanda becomes CEO of Pyramid. |
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