Description
Blackfly is a Canadian sitcom which ran on the Global Television Network for two seasons in 2001 and 2002. Although shot single-camera like most Canadian comedies, this series was shot on film rather than videotape and contains a laugh track rather than making use of the usual live audience because most scenes take place outdoors. The show is set in 18th-century Canada back "in days when beaver fur was good as gold" and features a twisted "Blackadder meets F Troop"-style Canadian history in which Benny "Blackfly" Broughton, a Maritimes-born undersized but ambitious general jack-of-all-trades at the isolated Fort Simpson-Eaton on the colonial Canadian frontier, is joined by the prissy by-the-book upper class British officer Corporal Entwhistle whom he is usually able to talk into his latest doomed-to-failure get-rich-quick scheme. Other characters include Blackfly's boss at the Hudson's Bay Company-style trading post, the rowdy, penny-pinching Scottish storekeeper MacTavish, Misty Moon, a wryly wise native barkeep who loves watching the white man blow his money on whisky at her Leg Hold Trap Bar between visits by her boisterous if distinctly anglophobic French Canadian voyageur lover Dijon, tough but good-natured local tribal leader Chief Smack-Your-Face-In, masochistic and desperate-to-be-martyred Jesuit priest Brother Jacques, the deranged and drunken fort commander Colonel Boyle, and his buxom blond daughter Lady Hammond, the hot-blooded young princess of privilege who had no idea what she was getting into when she decided to join her father in Canada after becoming a widow.Extra
Runtime of the episode | 30 minutes |
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Network | Global Television Network |
Seasons
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Season 1Episodes: 13Date of release: 04 Jan 2001
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Season 2Episodes: 13Date of release: 25 Nov 2001
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