In a stage and screen career that spans six decades, Angela Lansbury has created a whole gallery of memorable characters, from a scheming senator's wife in The Manchurian Candidate to a dotty psychic in the 2009 Broadway production of Blithe Spirit, a perform-ance for which she recently won her fifth Tony Award. But it's in the role of mystery author and amateur sleuth Jessica Fletcher that Lansbury, now 83, became an American icon.

The winner of more than a dozen Emmy Awards, The Waltons stands today as one of television’s finest family dramas: the heartfelt and gentle story of a poor but upright rural American family struggling to stay together through the hardships of the Great Depression and the dark days of World War Two. Starring Richard Thomas, Ralph Waite and Michael Learned.

Here’s a nostalgic treat for retro TV lovers. Set in the picturesque small town of Gibsons, BC, The Beachcombers is Canada’s longest-running and most iconic family drama. The late, great Bruno Gerussi stars as Nick Adonidas, a wily maverick who plies his salvage trade along the Sunshine Coast with the help of friend Jesse Jim (Pat John) and the hindrance of unscrupulous rival Relic (Robert Clothier).

Country music performer Billy Ray Cyrus stars as doctor Clint "Doc" Cassidy who gives up the simple life in Montana and takes a position at Westbury Clinic, a small medical center in New York, NY, only to find that practicing his brand of down-home medicine in the Big Apple isn't always easy.

Created by Oscar-winning screenwriter, producer and director Paul Haggis (Crash, Million Dollar Baby), Due South tells the story of Constable Benton Fraser (Paul Gross), an upright and excruciatingly polite RCMP officer who, accompanied by his loyal canine companion Diefenbaker (a deaf, lip-reading half-wolf), finds himself fighting crime in Chicago with the help of streetwise detective Ray Vecchio (The Shield’s David Marciano). [more]

Based on a series of novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery, this Gemini Award-winning drama stars Martha MacIsaac as Emily Starr, a young girl who is sent to live with relatives on a remote Prince Edward Island farm after the death of her father. An aspiring writer, Emily is haunted by grief and often unhappy in her new surroundings, but finds solace in sudden flights of imagination. Sheila McCarthy and Stephen McHattie also star.

Joe Lando (Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman) stars as Peter Scarbrow, once a Wall Street hotshot, now a recovering drug addict and headmaster of Mt. Horizon High, a wilderness school for at-risk youth. He struggles to help his young charges overcome every kind of crisis, from eating disorders to sexual abuse. Filmed against the backdrop of British Columbia's natural splendour. Also stars Vancouver native Hayden Christensen.

Adrian Pasdar (Heroes) stars as Declan Dunn, a professor of anthropology whose near-death experience drives him to seek out the truth behind mystical phenomena and miraculous happenings. With assistance from co-stars Rae Dawn Chong and Alisen Down, the team set to unravel the unknowns of this world. Filmed in Vancouver, B.C.

Based on a true story, Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye follows the adventures of Sue Thomas at the FBI in Washington, D.C. She's one hard-headed, soft-hearted woman whose talent for reading lips helps crack crimes and bag the bad guys in places listening devices can't penetrate.  Stars Deanne Bray, Yannick Bisson and Rick Peters.