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The Beachcombers

Season 8 1979 - 1980

  • 1979-09-16T04:00:00Z on CBC Television
  • 30m
  • 9h 54m (20 episodes)
  • Canada
  • English
  • Drama, Family
The Beachcombers followed the life of Nick Adonidas, a Greek-Canadian log salvager in British Columbia who earned a living traveling the coastline northwest of Vancouver with his partner Jesse aboard their logging tug Persephone tracking down logs that had broken away from barges and logging booms. Their chief business competitor is Relic, a somewhat unsavoury person who will occasionally go to great lengths to steal business (and logs) away from Nick. The series also focused on a supporting cast of characters in Nick's hometown of Gibsons, often centering around a cafe, Molly's Reach, run by Molly, a mother figure to virtually all the characters in the series.

20 episodes

Season Premiere

1979-09-16T04:00:00Z

8x01 Songwriters

Season Premiere

8x01 Songwriters

  • 1979-09-16T04:00:00Z24m

Guest star Rene Simard is the focus of attention when Nick and Jesse pursue the vacationing singer up and down the Sunshine coast, determined to sell him a song and become instant celebrities

1979-09-23T04:00:00Z

8x02 Nick's Place

8x02 Nick's Place

  • 1979-09-23T04:00:00Z30m

Nick embarks on a high flying scheme to convert a crumbling slum into Gibsons first after hours coffee house... and discovers that Relic is his landlord

1979-09-30T04:00:00Z

8x03 Nobody's Boy

8x03 Nobody's Boy

  • 1979-09-30T04:00:00Z30m

Relic meets his match in a twelve year old tough named Pat O'Gorman. Young Pat seems destined for the wrong side of the lay until Nick and Molly intervene.

1979-10-14T04:00:00Z

8x04 Boom

8x04 Boom

  • 1979-10-14T04:00:00Z30m

A stolen boom of logs is the hotly contested prize for which Relic, McLoskey, Nick and Ceece Neville compete. A comedy of misunderstandings with a truly 'explosive' ending.

1979-10-28T04:00:00Z

8x05 The Singing Death Man

8x05 The Singing Death Man

  • 1979-10-28T04:00:00Z30m

A collector engages Relic and McLoskey to rob the Seahost graveyard, but they arouse a guardian spirit, the Singing Death Man, who takes fearful revenge against Relic. Chief Moses offers to intervene with the spirit on Relic's behalf, but first they must find and return the loot - an ancient cross

1979-11-04T05:00:00Z

8x06 Sunblind

8x06 Sunblind

  • 1979-11-04T05:00:00Z30m

Relic accuses Nick of getting soft. Attempting to refute the accusation, Nick ends up adrift on a log and blind. His efforts to find his way back to safety forms the substance of this perilous adventure.

1979-11-11T05:00:00Z

8x07 Cargo of Doom

8x07 Cargo of Doom

  • 1979-11-11T05:00:00Z30m

Relic and McLoskey con Nick and Jesse into transporting a cargo of volatile dynamite. A sudden storm threatens to blow the Persephone to smithereens, with all hands aboard.

1979-11-18T05:00:00Z

8x08 A Fool and His Money

8x08 A Fool and His Money

  • 1979-11-18T05:00:00Z30m

Two old prospectors lead Nick, Jesse and Pat O'Gorman a merry chase for several thousand dollars worth of hotly contested highgrade gold ore

1979-11-25T05:00:00Z

8x09 Up The Creek

8x09 Up The Creek

  • 1979-11-25T05:00:00Z30m

Both Nick and Relic, are injured in the bush, and there's no one but little Sara to tend their wounds, try to get them out and fend off a marauding bear. Guests: Gibsons' 1st and 2nd Brownie Pack

1979-12-02T05:00:00Z

8x10 Participaction

8x10 Participaction

  • 1979-12-02T05:00:00Z30m

To help Molly lose weight, Nick and the rest of the family go on a fitness kick which Relic does his utmost to sabotage - with devastating results to himself

1979-12-09T05:00:00Z

8x11 Wheeler Dealer

8x11 Wheeler Dealer

  • 1979-12-09T05:00:00Z30m

A dangerous accident aboard Persephone and a near-fatal fire are among the consequences when Pat O'Gorman sets out to make a fast buck - using money that doesn't belong to him.

1979-12-16T05:00:00Z

8x12 Manhunt

8x12 Manhunt

  • 1979-12-16T05:00:00Z30m

Constable John leads Nick on a calamitous search for a non-existant arsonist. The Constable's dedication to duty is only exceeded by his ruinous ill luck

1979-12-23T05:00:00Z

8x13 Skyhook

8x13 Skyhook

  • 1979-12-23T05:00:00Z30m

Young Pat O'Gorman dreams of becoming a flier. His dreams become nightmares when he finds himself airborne in a Cessna 185 - with Ol' Relic sharing the dual controls. Nick and the Cessna's pilot must try and bring them safely back down

1980-01-06T05:00:00Z

8x14 The Lovely Miss Peachum

8x14 The Lovely Miss Peachum

  • 1980-01-06T05:00:00Z30m

Do you believe Relic is in love? Neither do Nick and Molly but they have a tough time uncovering the hidden motives behind his blundering but determined courtship of the spinster schoolmarm, Gladys Peachum.

1980-01-13T05:00:00Z

8x15 Mystery at Plunket Island

8x15 Mystery at Plunket Island

  • 1980-01-13T05:00:00Z30m

A famous authoress involves Nick in some hair raising hi-jinks as she works out the plot of her next best seller/

1980-01-20T05:00:00Z

8x16 The Scent of Juniper

8x16 The Scent of Juniper

  • 1980-01-20T05:00:00Z30m

Jesse Jim falls in love with a frightened young Indian girl who has retreated from reality after being victimized by a gang of young toughs. Nick and Jesse attempt to help the girl - but almost lose her when she tries to purify her spirit with a seven mile swim through icy waters.

1980-01-27T05:00:00Z

8x17 Boatnappers

8x17 Boatnappers

  • 1980-01-27T05:00:00Z30m

A pair of extortionists meet their match when they 'kidnap' Persephone and the Jet Boat and demand exorbitant ransom money from Nick and Relic.

1980-02-03T05:00:00Z

8x18 Ace

8x18 Ace

  • 1980-02-03T05:00:00Z30m

Margaret battles 'the heartbreak of cellulitis' and the charms of her rival Lola Cross to win the heart of a no-account bum named Ace, who thinks he's 1980's answer to Elvis Presley.

1980-02-10T05:00:00Z

8x19 Mercy Flight

8x19 Mercy Flight

  • 1980-02-10T05:00:00Z30m

Alone in the bush, Sadie has an accident while trapping, Nick and Molly's well intentioned efforts to fly Sadie out for medical help form the basis for a hair-raising adventure

1980-02-17T05:00:00Z

8x20 Windsurfer

8x20 Windsurfer

  • 1980-02-17T05:00:00Z30m

A romantic interest develops between Margaret and her friend, Hans, who is teaching her to windsurf.

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