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I picked up the 2-disk set of Jimmy MacDonald’s Canada yesterday for about $15.00 at (what seems to be my favourite store lately) London Drugs. It was payday and I happy as all my bills were paid and I still had money in the bank.

Late in the summer of 2004, a team of archaeologists in Northern Ontario discovered canisters of film containing the most important footage in Canadian TV history: the long-lost episodes of Jimmy MacDonald’s Canada.
For a brief period in the mid-sixties, Jimmy MacDonald was the most popular TV star in the country. Ten million Anglo-Canadians tuned in each week to witness the irascible MacDonald’s mix of down-home platitudes, pro-monarchy utterances and non-stop rants against the emerging youth culture of the sixties.
Now, the restoration of these long-lost episodes is complete. For the first time in 40 years, CBC-TV is ready to present this incredibly influential show once again.

This is all bullshit of course as the show intersperses 1960’s archival CBC footage with a newly filmed host made to look like it was all done forty years ago. However, it does have the best opening theme and title sequence of any television show I’ve ever, ever seen. The 2-Disk set can also be purchased at the CBC store for $25.00

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