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 outlets throughout the province. It has been on the air since 1964, with the exception of one year in the early 1990s when it was initially cancelled but an overwhelming fan protest prompted executives to reverse that decision.

Hosts

There have been several hosts of Land and Sea over the years. Dave Quinton was one of the show's original hosts. Other hosts with Quinton included Rab Carnell, Hal Andrews, Des Brown, Mike Martin, Herb Davis, and Paul Harrington. Bill Kelly joined the show in 1983 and stayed until he retired in 1993. The current host is Pauline Thornhill. Some episodes are narrated by Fred Greening.

Episode guide

NOTE: This guide is a work in progress and changes will be made when more accurate information becomes available.

Season 15 (1978-1979) (Incomplete)

1. "The New Squid Salesman" (October 24, 1978)
2. "Cape Shore Songs and Stories" (January 23, 1979)
3. "The Clarenville Shipyard" (January 30, 1979)

Season 16 (1979-1980) (Incomplete)

1. "Herb Pittman" (October 24, 1979)
2. "The Mackerel Fishery" (January 9, 1980)
3. "Port aux Choix" (April 9, 1980)

Season 17 (1980-1981) (Incomplete)

1. "Martin Flynn" (January 6, 1981)
2. "Them Days" (February 3, 1981)
3. "Air Sea Rescues" (February 24, 1981)
4. "Change Islands" (Part 1) (March 10, 1981)
5. "Change Islands" (Part 2) (March 17, 1981)

Season 18 (1981-1982) (Incomplete)

1. "Troubled Waters" (October 6, 1981)
2. "A Trip to the Ice Fields" (March 9, 1982)
3. "Off to Boston" (March 16, 1982)

Season 19 (1982-1983) (Incomplete)

1. "Nordetor" (November 17, 1982)
2. "Centreville and Fair Island" (March 9, 1983)
3. "The Coates Family of Main Brook" (March 23, 1983)
4. "Silviculture" (June 1, 1983)

Season 20 (1983-1984) (Incomplete)

1. "Rennies River" (November 21, 1983)
2. "Baskets of Grass" (December 19, 1983)
3. "Talamh An Eisc: The Land of Fish" (January 2 and 9, 1984)
4. "A Question of Quality" (February 20, 1984)

Season 21 (1984-1985) (Incomplete)

NOTE: Originally broadcast on Monday nights.

1. "Our Forest: Life or Death" (October 15, 1984)
2. "Mackerel: the Last Chance" (December 10, 1984)
3. "A Job's Cove Christmas" (December 1984)

Season 22 (1985-1986) (Incomplete)

NOTE: Originally broadcast on Monday nights.

1. "The Waiting Game" (November 11, 1985)
2. "Scallops: A Last Resort" (December 9, 1985)
3. "A Fortune Bay Christmas" (January 6, 1986)
4. "Winter Fishery Revisited" (March 10, 1986)
5. "Herring: A Revival" (April 21, 1986)

Season 23 (1986-1987) (Incomplete)

NOTE: Originally broadcast on Monday nights.

1. "St. Pierre" (December 1, 1986)
2. "Fishing Along the French Shore" (December 8, 1986)
3. "Remembering This Land" (December 15, 1986)
4. "A Fortune Bay Christmas" (Archival from Season 22) (December 29, 1986)
5. "Peddling Fish the American Way" (February 16, 1987)

Season 25 (1988-1989) (Incomplete)

1. "Trucking Industry" (January 16, 1989)
2. "Managing Our Moose" (March 6, 1989)
3. "Foley's New Boat" (May 15, 1989)

Season 26 (1989-1990) (Incomplete)

NOTE: Originally broadcast on Monday nights.

1. "T&H Fishery of Cox's Cove" (December 4, 1989)
2. "Gaultois: The Waiting Game" (January 8, 1990)
3. "Twillingate Fishery" (January 15, 1990)
4. "Newfoundland Silvers" (February 12, 1990)
5. "Port aux Basques Winter Fishery" (February 19, 1990)
6. "Fish Farming" (March 12, 1990)

Season 27 (1990-1991) (Incomplete)

1. "Trouble at the Tip" (October 15, 1990)
2. "Rencontre East" (November 5, 1990)
3. "Soulie's Lost Mine" (November 26, 1990)

Season 30 (1994-1995) (Incomplete)

1. "The Trouble with Beavers" (April 3, 1995)
2. "The Plant Workers of Charleston" (May 1, 1995)
3. "Last of the Lighthouse Keepers" (May 8, 1995)

Season 31 (1995-1996) (Incomplete)

NOTE: Originally broadcast on Monday nights.

1. "The Tavernor's Last Run" (October 23, 1995)
2. "For the Love of Goats" (November 6, 1995)
3. "The Burgeo Story" (February 12, 1996)
4. "Sheep Farming on Mud Island" (February 19, 1996)

Season 32 (1996-1997) (Incomplete)

NOTE: Originally broadcast on Monday nights.

1. "In Search of Moose" (February 3, 1997)
2. "To Seek and Save" (Part 1) (February 10, 1997)
3. "To Seek and Save" (Part 2) (February 17, 1997)

Season 33 (1997-1998) (Incomplete)

NOTE: Originally broadcast on Monday nights.

1. "Falabella Man" (November 3, 1997)
2. "Back on the Water" (December 8, 1997)
3. "Songs of the Irish Cape Shore" (January 5, 1998)
4. "The Mushauau Innu" (January 12, 1998)
5. "The Loss of the Myers III" (Archival from 1988) (January 19, 1998)
6. "The Pig Farmer of Ferryland" (February 2, 1998)
7. "Silver Fox Island" (February 9, 1998)
8. "Becoming an Outdoors Woman" (February 16, 1998)
9. "Red Cliff Times" (March 2, 1998)
10. "In the Name of the Pine Marten" (March 9, 1998)
11. "Pine Marten Country" (March 23, 1998)
12. "Harry Martin's Labrador" (April 6, 1998)
13. "Labrador Road" (April 13, 1998)
14. "The Ashuanipi Reunion" (April 20, 1998)

Season 34 (1998-1999) (Incomplete)

1. "The Labrador Seamstress" (October 9, 1998)
2. "Bog Farmers of Seal Cove" (October 23, 1998)
3. "Boston Seafood" (November 6, 1998)
4. "In the Name of the Pine Martin" (November 20, 1998)
5. "Mountain Bikers" (December 11, 1998)
6. "Once Upon a Christmas Time" (December 25, 1998)
7. "The Woodswoman" (January 15, 1999)
8. "Bringing Back the Lobsters" (January 29, 1999)
9. "A Private Issue" (February 12, 1999)
10. "Caribou Concerns" (April 23, 1999)
11. "Flying with Falcons" (April 30, 1999)

Season 35 (1999-2000)

NOTE: Originally broadcast every second Friday night.

1. "The Land Of Cod And Copper" (October 15, 1999)
2. "Railway Walk" (October 29, 1999)
3. "The Perfect Storm" (Part 1) (November 12, 1999)
4. "The Perfect Storm" (Part 2) (November 26, 1999)
5. "Once Upon A Christmas Time" (Archival from 1998) (December 10, 1999)
6. "A Fortune Bay Christmas" (Archival from Season 22) (December 24, 1999)
7. "Milking The Market" (January 7, 2000)
8. "The Food Fishery" (January 21, 2000)
9. "The Artist As A Fisherman" (February 4, 2000)
10. "If Wishes Were Horses" (February 18, 2000)
11. "A Labrador Homecoming" (March 3, 2000)
12. "The Unforgettable Fisherman" (March 23, 2000)
13. "The Alpacas Of Port Au Port" (April 7, 2000)
14. "The Mattea" (April 21, 2000)
15. "Adventure Kayaking" (May 5, 2000)

Season 36 (2000-2001)

NOTE: Originally broadcast every Tuesday night.

1. "Sabrina Of St. Carol's" (January 23, 2001)
2. "A Picture Of Exploits" (January 30, 2001)
3. "Jacky's Giants" (February 6, 2001)
4. "Cathi And Clayton" (February 13, 2001)
5. "The Bonds Of Earth" (Part 1) (February 20, 2001)
6. "The Bonds Of Earth" (Part 2) (February 27, 2001)
7. "Rideout's Recipe For Homegrown Retirement" (March 6, 2001)
8. "The Railway Ride" (March 13, 2001)
9. "The Last Of The Carbonear Stationers" (March 20, 2001)
10. "Death Of A Fisherman" (March 27, 2001)
11. "Changing Course" (April 3, 2001)
12. "Ray Lake, A Son Of St. Lawrence" (April 10, 2001)
13. "A Thousand Flights And More" (April 17, 2001)
14. "From The Stump Up" (April 24, 2001)

Season 37 (2001-2002)

NOTE: Originally broadcast every Tuesday then Monday night.

1. "The Wonderful Grand Hikers" (November 6, 2001)
2. "An Ordinary Second" (November 13, 2001)
3. "The Greenspond Letter" (November 20, 2001)
4. "The Keeper Of The Cape" (November 27, 2001)
5. "The Bee Charmers" (December 4, 2001)
6. "A Lifetime of Seasons" (February 25, 2002)
7. "Seven Days" (March 4, 2002)
8. "Quest for a Catamaran" (March 11, 2002)
9. "The Rangers" (March 18, 2002)
10. "O'Grady's Irish Pipes" (March 25, 2002)
11. "The Hero" (April 1, 2002)
12. "The Springdale Christmas Whales" (April 8, 2002)
13. "Musical Memories" (April 15, 2002)

Season 38 (2002-2003)

NOTE: Originally broadcast on Wednesday nights.

1. "The Southern Reflections" (October 23, 2002)
2. "The Grand River" (October 30, 2002)
3. "The Wreck Of The Florizel" (November 6, 2002)
4. "More Than Just A Pretty Place" (November 13, 2002)
5. "The White Fleet" (November 20, 2002)
6. "The Dust Of His Ancestors" (January 15, 2003)
7. "The Ocean Traveller" (January 22, 2003)
8. "The Truth Lies In The Rocks" (January 29, 2003)
9. "A Harvest Of Seals" (February 5, 2003)
10. "And Then There Was Light" (February 19, 2003)
11. "A Portrait Of Lights" (February 26, 2003)
12. "The Gift" (March 5, 2003)
13. "Resettlement: A Look Back" (March 12, 2003)
14. "In Love With The Gander" (March 19, 2003)
15. "Counting Coyotes" (April 2, 2003)
16. "Fish Enough" (April 9, 2003)

Season 39 (2003-2004)

NOTE: Originally broadcast on Friday nights.

1. "The Hugh Brothers" (October 24, 2003)
2. "It's A Life" (October 31, 2003)
3. "Their Story" (November 7, 2003)
4. "A Dream Come True" (November 21, 2003)
5. "Chatman's Bakery" (November 28, 2003)
6. "A Fortune Bay Christmas" (Archival from Season 22) (December 5, 2003)
7. "Twin Cities Seniors Most Excellent Adventure" (January 30, 2004)
8. "A Rare Breed" (February 6, 2004)
9. "Torn From The Sea" (Archival from 1971) (February 13, 2004)
10. "A Story With A Hook" (February 20, 2004)
11. "Why They Stayed" (February 27, 2004)
12. "The Early Years" (Archival from the 1970s) (March 5, 2004)
13. "The Peacemaker" (March 12, 2004)
14. "Built With Pride" (March 19, 2004)
15. "Seasons Remembered" (March 26, 2004)

Season 40 (2004-2005)

NOTE: Originally broadcast every Friday night.

1. "Our Story" (October 15, 2004)
2. "The Split Peas" (October 22, 2004)
3. "The Grey Islands' Eiders" (October 29, 2004)
4. "The Irish Loop" (November 5, 2004)
5. "Sole Survivor" (Part 1) (November 12, 2004)
6. "Sole Survivor" (Part 2) (November 19, 2004)
7. "The Farmer's Daughters" (November 26, 2004)
8. "The Parsons Of Lethbridge" (Archival from 1981) (December 3, 2004)
9. "Once Upon A Christmas Time" (Archival from 1998) (December 10, 2004)
10. "A Fortune Bay Christmas" (Archival from Season 22) (December 17, 2004)
11. "The Snowshoe Man" (January 28, 2005)
12. "I Arose From The Woodlands" (February 4, 2005)
13. "The People Of The Torngats" (Archival from 1972) (February 11, 2005)
14. "The Northern Nurse" (Part 1) (February 18, 2005)
15. "The Northern Nurse" (Part 2) (February 25, 2005)
16. "Salt Water Music" (March 4, 2005)
17. "The Willing Lass" (Archival from 1985) (March 11, 2005)
18. "From Wilderness To Wooddale" (March 18, 2005)

Season 41 (2005-2006)

NOTE: Originally broadcast on Monday nights.

1. "The King Of The Sheep" (November 21, 2005)
2. "Paddy Miller's House" (November 28, 2005)
3. "The Saltwater Boys" (December 5, 2005)
4. "A Fortune Bay Christmas" (Archival from Season 22) (December 16, 2005)
5. "Once Upon A Christmas Time" (Archival from 1998) (December 16, 2005)
6. "Uncle Jim" (January 16, 2006)
7. "Leaving Home" (January 30, 2006)
8. "People Who Live By The Sea" (February 6, 2006)
9. "Root Cellar Pride" (February 27, 2006)
10. "Mining Memories" (March 6, 2006)
11. "An Animal's Best Friend" (March 13, 2006)
12. "The Valley Of The Winds" (Archival from 1967) (March 20, 2006)
13. "My Burgeo Home" (March 27, 2006)
14. "The Fruits Of His Labour" (April 3, 2006)

Season 42 (2006-2007)

NOTE: Originally broadcast on Monday nights.

1. "A Few Tunes, Between Friends" (October 16, 2006)
2. "A Family Affair" (October 23, 2006)
3. "Boys and Their Toys" (October 30, 2006)
4. "The Planters" (November 6, 2006)
5. "Labrador Diary" (November 13, 2006) (Archival from 1988)
6. "My Highway, the Sea" (November 20, 2006)
7. "The Organ Master" (November 27, 2006)
8. "A Fortune Bay Christmas" (Archival from Season 22) (December 4, 2006)
9. "Wolf Dogs" (February 19, 2007)
10. "Lawrence of the Lake" (February 26, 2007)
11. "Music and Friends" (March 5, 2007)
12. "The Daughter Who Did" (March 12, 2007)
13. "Sunday Hunters" (March 26, 2007)
14. "Torn From the Labrador Sea" (a continuation of Dave Quinton's "Labrador Diary") (April 2, 2007)
15. "St. John's Harbour" (April 9, 2007)
16. "The Cove of Love" (April 23, 2007) (Season Finale)

NOTE: "The Cove of Love" was to have aired on April 16 but an episode of Living Newfoundland and Labrador aired instead.

Season 43 (2007-2008)

NOTE: Originally broadcast on Monday nights.

1. "The Traveling Pig Farmer" (October 15, 2007)
2. "Tony the Tailor" (October 22, 2007)
3. "Changing Change Islands" (October 29, 2007)
4. "Change Islands" (Archival from March 1981) (November 5, 2007)
5. "The Perfect Little Goat" (November 12, 2007)
6. "The Mighty Churchill" (November 19, 2007)
7. "The Tapestry of Conche" (November 26, 2007)
8. "Any Mummers Allowed In?" (Archival from Season 22) (December 3, 2007)
9. "Never Forgotten" (January 21, 2008)
10. "If It Looks Good, Shoot It" (January 28, 2008)
11. "From Fortune Bay to Lourdes" (February 4, 2008)
12. "Coaker" (Archival from 1979) (February 11, 2008)
13. "Zita of Fogo Island" (February 18, 2008)
14. "Celie's Story" (February 25, 2008)
15. "Caught Out in a Storm" (March 3, 2008)
16. "Where Old Horses Go" (March 10, 2008)

Season 44 (2008-2009)

NOTE: These episode titles are subject to change at any time prior to broadcast. Also, unless noted, new episodes are now produced in 16:9 widescreen.

1. "The Edge of the Ice" (October 20, 2008)
2. "Ashes Island" (October 27, 2008)
3. "When I was in the San" (November 3, 2008)
4. "The Horse Lady" (November 10, 2008)
5. "The Land of Fish" (Part 2) (Archival from 1983–84; see below) (November 17, 2008)
6. "All Around the Family" (November 24, 2008)
7. "A Man Called Muck" (December 1, 2008)
8. "Tracy Reid's Second Chance" (February 2, 2009)
9. "A Lot of Good Memories" (February 9, 2009)
10. "The Westport of Westports" (February 16, 2009)
11. "Newtown, the Way it Used to Be" (Archival from the early 1980s) (February 23, 2009)
12. "A Fisherman's Daughter" (March 2, 2009)
13. "The Crest of the Wave" (March 9, 2009)
14. "Dr. Jeon" (March 16, 2009)
15. "The Trouble with Whales" (Archival from 1979) (March 23, 2009)
16. "The Cormiers of the Valley" (March 30, 2009) (Season Finale)

NOTE: "The Land of Fish" was broadcast nationally on the CBC series This Land in 1983 and in Newfoundland in early 1984. The first half featured Otto Tucker, whose ancestral roots found him in England's West Country; the second half featured the late Aloysius (Aly) O'Brien and his Irish ancestral roots. Land and Sea aired Part 2 during this season. Part 1 aired during the following season.

Season 45 (2009-2010)

NOTE: Because of the expansion of CBC's hour-long local newscasts to 90 minutes, Land and Sea now airs separate feeds on Sunday afternoons at 12:00 pm (12:30 in Newfoundland). Episodes listed here will be Newfoundland and Labrador-based. Maritime-based episodes are not listed here. The new season started on October 18, 2009.

1. "Wood or Nothing" (October 18, 2009)
2. "Politics of the Pelt" (October 25, 2009)
3. "Honouring Their Own" (November 1, 2009)
4. "The Land of Fish" (Part 1) (Archival from 1983–84; see above) (November 8, 2009)
5. "The Only Child" (November 22, 2009) (See below)
6. "Racing Forwards" (November 29, 2009)
7. "Gaby Gale" (December 6, 2009)
8. "The Garden of Mancel" (January 31, 2010)
9. "Pretty as a Pitcher" (February 7, 2010)
10. "The Finest of Firs" (February 14, 2010)
11. "What They'll Leave Behind" (February 21, 2010)
12. "Baskets of Grass" (Archival from 1983) (February 28, 2010)
13. "Shades of the Past" (March 7, 2010)
14. "The Story of a Quarry" (March 14, 2010)
15. "Fried Squirrels and Beaver Tails" (March 21, 2010)

NOTE: "The Only Child" was supposed to air on November 15, with the subsequent episodes up to "Gaby Gale" intended to air a week before they actually did, but due to an error in Toronto, the dates were pushed back.

Noted episodes

• On January 6, 1986, a well-known Christmas episode called "A Fortune Bay Christmas" was broadcast. That episode was, appropriately enough, filmed in Fortune Bay. It has been re-broadcast several times in recent years. A song in the episode -- "Any Mummers Allowed In?" -- was used in commercials for Purity products in Newfoundland and Labrador in the early '90s.
• Though not as well-known as "A Fortune Bay Christmas", a 1984 episode videotaped in the Codroy Valley on the southwest coast of Newfoundland called "West Coast Dairy" featured Gerard Cormier and his dairy farm. Twenty years later, Mr. Cormier and Brent Chaffey joined together to launch a new line of yogurt products with the brand name Good Natured.
  • See Georgian article from February 1, 2005
  • See Newfoundland and Labrador Government release from January 27, 2005
• Though there is plenty of controversy now regarding the seal hunt (also known as a "seal fishery"), an episode from 1977 (itself a rebroadcast from a few years earlier) called the "Newfoundland Sealing Disaster" featured an interview with survivor Cecil Mouland as he told about what happened on the S.S. Newfoundland back in 1914. (A novel has been written about the Newfoundland sealing disaster called Death On The Ice, written by Cassie Brown
  Cassie Brown
  Cassie Eileen Brown was a journalist, author, publisher and editor born in Rose Blanche, Newfoundland, Canada, and moved to St. John's with her family in the 1930s...
  
  .)

Other information

• Originally a black-and-white program, it began broadcasting in colour in the late '60s/early '70s. The first colour episode was called "The Cliffs of Baccalieu".
• Land and Sea started its newest season on October 20, 2008.
• There is also a Maritime version of Land and Sea which is broadcast on the full CBC network on Sunday afternoons, and episodes from that version are often alternated with Newfoundland-based episodes.
• Current host Pauline Thornhill's first story for Land and Sea was titled "The Goat Dance", which was broadcast on CBC Newfoundland's news program Here and Now in the 1991-92 season.

External links

• CBC Newfoundland and Labrador's Land and Sea website
• CBC's national Land and Sea website
• CBC Newfoundland and Labrador's Land and Sea 40th anniversary page (designed for the 2004-05 season)