Max Glick is a Canadian television comedy-drama series, which aired on CBC Television from 1990 to 1991.[1] Based on the Morley Torgov novel The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick and its 1988 film adaptation, the series centred on Maximilian Glick, a young Jewish boy coming-of-age in Beausejour, Manitoba in the 1960s.[2] Though set in Beausejour, the series was filmed on location in Vancouver and Agassiz, British Columbia.
| Max Glick | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Comedy drama |
| Created by | Phil Savath Stephen Foster |
| Based on | The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick by Morley Torgov |
| Starring |
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| Composer | Graeme Coleman |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 26 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Stephen Foster |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production companies | Glick Productions Sunrise Films Fosterfilm Productions |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBC Television |
| Original release | November 5, 1990 (1990-11-05) – December 27, 1991 (1991-12-27) |
The series starred Josh Garbe as Max, Alec Willows and Linda Kash as his parents Henry and Sarah, Jan Rubeš and Susan Douglas Rubeš as his grandparents Augustus and Bryna, Melyssa Ade as his classmate and love interest Celia, and Jason Blicker as Rabbi Teitelman. Jan and Susan Rubeš were the only cast members to reprise their roles from the film;[3] Noam Zylberman, who had played Max in the film, was also originally slated to star in the series, but had undergone puberty and grown too tall to believably play a 13-year-old by the time the series entered production.[4] The series was created by Stephen Foster and Phil Savath, who had been the producer and screenwriter of the original film.[5]
Critics commonly compared the series to the contemporaneous American series The Wonder Years.[6]
The series aired 26 episodes over two seasons in the fall of 1990 and 1991, and then aired in reruns in 1992.[7] It was not renewed for a third season.[8]
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "The Power of Positive Thinking" | Unknown | Unknown | November 5, 1990 (1990-11-05) |
| 2 | 2 | "Love's Labour" | Unknown | Unknown | November 12, 1990 (1990-11-12) |
| 3 | 3 | "Can I Get a Witness?" | Unknown | Unknown | November 19, 1990 (1990-11-19) |
| 4 | 4 | "The Beausejour Bonspiel" | Unknown | Unknown | November 26, 1990 (1990-11-26) |
| 5 | 5 | "The Nuclear Family" | Unknown | Unknown | December 3, 1990 (1990-12-03) |
| 6 | 6 | "Special Segment" | TBD | TBD | 1989 (1989) |
| 7 | 7 | "Special Segment" | TBD | TBD | 1989 (1989) |
| 8 | 8 | "Special Segment" | TBD | TBD | 1989 (1989) |
| 9 | 9 | "Special Segment" | TBD | TBD | 1989 (1989) |
| 10 | 10 | "Special Segment" | TBD | TBD | 1989 (1989) |
| 11 | 11 | "Special Segment" | Unknown | Unknown | February 4, 1991 (1991-02-04) |
| 12 | 12 | "Watch the Skies" | Unknown | Unknown | February 11, 1991 (1991-02-11) |
| 13 | 13 | "Give Me Puberty or Give Me Death" | Unknown | Unknown | March 4, 1991 (1991-03-04) |
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 1 | "The Wife of Bath's Tale" | Unknown | Unknown | October 4, 1991 (1991-10-04) |
| 15 | 2 | "Future Shock" | Unknown | Unknown | October 11, 1991 (1991-10-11) |
| 16 | 3 | "Career Moves" | Unknown | Unknown | October 18, 1991 (1991-10-18) |
| 17 | 4 | "Cousin Sophie" | Unknown | Unknown | October 25, 1991 (1991-10-25) |
| 18 | 5 | "Odd Couple" | Unknown | Unknown | November 1, 1991 (1991-11-01) |
| 19 | 6 | "Max and Dougie and Stephanie and Max" | Unknown | Unknown | November 8, 1991 (1991-11-08) |
| 20 | 7 | "We Stand on Guard" | Unknown | Unknown | November 15, 1991 (1991-11-15) |
| 21 | 8 | "Get an Afterlife" | Unknown | Unknown | November 22, 1991 (1991-11-22) |
| 22 | 9 | "Anybody Feel a Draft?" | Unknown | Unknown | November 29, 1991 (1991-11-29) |
| 23 | 10 | "Das Winnebago" | Unknown | Unknown | December 6, 1991 (1991-12-06) |
| 24 | 11 | "Of Mice and Max" | Unknown | Unknown | December 13, 1991 (1991-12-13) |
| 25 | 12 | "Dear Sarah" | Unknown | Unknown | December 20, 1991 (1991-12-20) |
| 26 | 13 | "This Half-Hour Has 2 1/2 Days" | Unknown | Unknown | December 27, 1991 (1991-12-27) |
The series received three Gemini Award nominations at the 6th Gemini Awards in 1992, for Best Guest Performance in a Series (Marilyn Lightstone), Best Costume Design (Karen L. Matthews) and Best Original Music Score for a Series (Graeme Coleman);[9] at the 7th Gemini Awards in 1993, Coleman was again nominated for Best Original Music while David Barlow won the award for Best Writing in a Dramatic Series.[10]