Les Belles Histoires des pays d'en haut — Season 1
About this season
Les Belles Histoires des pays d'en haut is a Canadian television drama series, which aired on Radio-Canada from 1956 to 1970. One of the longest-running programs in the history of Canadian television, the series produced 81 episodes during its 14-year run and was one of the first influential téléromans. Written by Claude-Henri Grignon as an adaptation of his 1933 novel Un Homme et son péché and initially set in the 1880s, the series starred Jean-Pierre Masson as Séraphin Poudrier, the wealthy but miserly mayor of the village of Sainte-Adèle, Quebec, and Andrée Champagne as Donalda Laloge-Poudrier, the young daughter of a village resident who is given in marriage to Séraphin as payment for a family debt even though she remains in love with her suitor Alexis Labranche.
Episodes (6)
1. L'assemblee Politique
Aired 8 October 1956 • 27 min
2. Les Photographies D'arthur Buies
Aired 13 May 1957 • 25 min
3. Rencontre orageuse entre Alexis et le grand William
Aired 1 June 1959 • 26 min
4. Alexis joue toujours a cache-cache
Aired 5 October 1959 • 25 min
5. Jour d'election
Aired 18 January 1960 • 25 min
6. La maison de l'exile
Aired 16 October 1961 • 25 min