McQueen

1 9 6 9 – 1 9 7 0 (Canada)
26 x 30 minute episodes

George Salverson created this CBC series – which premiered on 23 September 1969 – revolved around fast-talking, trouble-shooting newspaperman McQueen (former Wojeck costar Ted Follows), who wrote a daily column called “The Actioneer”, which tried to help people with their problems.

Episodes dealt with a range of subject matter, from the operations of con men to injustice in areas like education, immigration and plain old human relations.

McQueen was an unconventional hero – frustrated by red tape and crushed by authority – and his methods were often questionable but effective – although he lost as often as he won.

He was helped in his endeavours by attractive mini-skirted assistants Natasha (Jan Goldin) and Denise (Daphne Gibson).

The first 13 episodes were filmed at the Toronto Telegram. A permanent newspaper office set was eventually built at CBC’s Sumach Street headquarters in Toronto.

Ted Fellows died in Ontario on 21 October 2016, aged 89.

McQueen 
Ted Follows
Denise
Daphne Gibson
Natasha
Jan Goldin

Episodes

You’ll Never Be Lonely | Mr Flim Flam | There’s a Car Upside Down on My Lawn | Faith Healer | Vanity, Vanity | How Could You Use a Poor Maiden So | All the World’s a Stage | Brotherly Love | Home Is Where the Draft Ain’t | Man with the Green Head | Walk, Don’t Run | Carnival | Five Hectic Hours | The Last of the Medicine Men | Rewrite Column Four