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Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story (CA)
TV Series (2006)
A mini-series based on the work of Canadian political icon Tommy Douglas.
Series Info
Type:
Scripted
Premiered:
Mar. 2006
Status:
Canceled/Ended
Runtime:
120 min.
Network
Character Guide
Series Fun Facts
- The steam locomotive which turns up in several places is an original CPR Hudson which was restored in Vancouver by CP employees with the help of the company and which has crossed the country…
[show]The steam locomotive which turns up in several places is an original CPR Hudson which was restored in Vancouver by CP employees with the help of the company and which has crossed the country on PR tours. The second car is actually a machine shop on wheels for possible repairs enroute and would not have been part of a CP passenger train in those days. The coaches, part of the touring train, are post war and would not have been in service in the thirties or forties.
[hide] - Goof (anachronisms): When Tommy Douglas is convincing Clarence Fines to handle his campaign for the CCF (which dates the scene to around 1943 or 1944), China is labeled a "Communist country"…
[show]Goof (anachronisms): When Tommy Douglas is convincing Clarence Fines to handle his campaign for the CCF (which dates the scene to around 1943 or 1944), China is labeled a "Communist country" on the blackboard in Fines's classroom. The revolution that established the Communist Party as the government of China wasn't until 1949.
[hide] - Goof (anachronisms): In Tommy Douglas's first election campaign in the 1930s, he is shown using his famous Mouseland speech. In reality, that speech was first given in 1961.
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