For years, Canadians have been able to watch episodes of iconic American classics such as “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “Batman” or “I Love Lucy.” But where was Canada’s TV heritage? Why was our homegrown fare always, after its initial run, locked away in a vault?

Well, “The Littlest Hobo” has finally been let out of his kennel. After years of development, the Canada Media Fund and Google Canada have teamed to launch encore+, a new YouTube channel giving viewers here and around the world access to decades of Canadian film and TV gold.

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OMG OKAY SO. If you’ve been following me since the LJ days, this is your golden opportunity to experience some of the things I used to go on and on and on about.

–They have the whole first season of DaVinci’s Inquest. This is not the best season of DVI, but it’s still good and worth watching. Features Ian Tracey, who you know if you’ve watched anything filmed in Vancouver ever, Gwyneth Walsh aka The Less-Intellectual Duras Sister, Donnelly Rhodes, another anything-filmed-in-Vancouver-ever actor, and a young Jewel Staite, who needs no fannish introduction.

–They have some of This Is Wonderland. In the absence of Power Play (if this channel uploads PP, it will get its own post), this is your best introduction to the force of acting nature that is Michael Riley. If you watched Being Erica, you may think you know him already, but trust me, you do not.

–They have Due South, but if you’re in fandom you very likely already know dS.

–They have s1 of Slings & Arrows, which is JUST THE BEST THING. (Also: HILARIOUSLY PRESCIENT. Although that doesn’t happen until s2.) It has Paul Gross and Rachel McAdams and Mark McKinney and DARREN NICHOLS. DEAL WITH THAT.

–They have The Littlest Hobo, which all non-Canadians should watch at least one episode of just for the ~experience~.

–Other notables: Little Mosque on the Prairie, Degrassi Jr High, Ready or Not, Mr Dressup, Are You Afraid Of The Dark?, Incredible Story Studio, various movies and TV movies.

Seconding (in order of awesomeness):

• Slings and Arrows
• Due South
• Little Mosque on the Prairie
• DaVinci’s Inquest
• The Littlest Hobo

Hopefully they will add more awesome Canadian-made content soon!

SLINGS AND ARROWS. Anyone who has ever worked in anything even remotely theatre-adjacent needs to watch and love this show. It is everything.  

OP forgot to mention that it’s bilingual too! So there’s both the French and English versions of Due South and Are You Afraid of the Dark. Therese also a TV movie about the Duplessis Orphans, and French original programming such as Watatatow and La Petite Vie (which were inescapable in Quebec) albeit only 3 episodes of those.

Now if someone could add say The Odyssey and Reboot…..