Sidestreet
Sidestreet
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Sidestreet

5.0 / 10
1975
4 seasons
32 episodes
Drama

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.

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SIDE STREET (1976)

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  • Ep 1

    1.The Hold Out

    14-09-1975

    A widow being terrorized by a real-estate developer trying to force her out of her home.

  • Ep 2

    2.The Money-Go-Round

    21-09-1975

    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 an...

  • Ep 3

    3.The Rebellion of Bertha Mackenzie

    28-09-1975

    Two social workers are involved as a Metis mother of two children fights to keep from being evicted from her home.

  • Ep 4

    4.Perhaps in Dreams Old Man

    05-10-1975

    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.

  • Ep 5

    5.Rape

    12-10-1975

    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.

  • Ep 6

    6.Do You Know Where Your Children Are?

    19-10-1975

    A police inspector is torn between a sense of duty and paternal concern when he learns that his son has become involved in organized juvenile crime.

  • Ep 7

    7.Strikebreaker

    26-10-1975

    Tempers flare when a professional strikebreaker leads a group of scabs across a picket line.

  • Ep 8

    8.Playing the Game

    02-11-1975

    A young parolee is harassed by two overly zealous cops who employ barely-within-the-law tactics to extract information from him.

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