Network: CBC Television Network
Broadcast Run: 1981
Broadcast Medium: Television
Aired Sunday nights from May 16 to June 21, 1981; repeated Friday
nights from May 14 to June 20, 1982.
This was a short series of six one-hour programs based on the stories
of Jack London whose many adventures took him to the Yukon Territory
during the Gold Rush of the late 1890s. It was produced by Norfolk
Communications under the supervision of William MacAdam. Orson Welles
was the narrator.
The six stories were: The One Thousand Dozen, directed by Peter Rowe
and starring Neil Munro, In A Far Country, with Scott Hylands and
Robert Carradine, Scorn Of Women, starring Eva Gabor,The Unexpected,
with John Candy and Cherie Lunghi, Finis and The Race For Number One.
Written by John Corcelli – November, 2005