Power Play (1998 TV series)
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Power Play | |
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Created by | Glenn Davis William Laurin |
Starring | |
Opening theme | "The Hockey Song" Performed by Stompin' Tom Connors |
Country of origin | Canada |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 26 |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Glenn Davis Robert Lantos |
Camera setup | Multi-camera |
Running time | 44 minutes |
Production company(s) | CTV Originals N.D.G Productions Serendipity Point Films Alliance Atlantis |
Release | |
Original network | CTV |
Original release | October 15, 1998 February 17, 2000 | –
Power Play is a Canadian television drama series, which aired on CTV from 1998 to 2000. The series was filmed at Copps Coliseum (now FirstOntario Centre) in Hamilton, Ontario.[1]
The show starred Michael Riley as Brett Parker, a former New York City sports agent who became the general manager of a (fictional) National Hockey League franchise, the Hamilton Steelheads.
One of the throughline plots of the series dealt with Parker's ongoing love–hate relationships with the sport, the team and his superior at McArdle Industries, corporate executive Colleen Blessed, played by Kari Matchett.
The cast also included Gordon Pinsent as team owner Duff McArdle, Jonathan Crombie, Jennifer Dale and Al Waxman. The show's theme song was a modernized version of the Stompin' Tom Connors classic, "The Hockey Song", performed partly by Connors himself, and then transitioning to the performance of the band Rusty.
The show was briefly aired on the United States broadcast network UPN, starting in 1999, but was pulled after just two episodes. The second episode aired in the United States has the distinction of being the lowest-rated episode (since the Nielsen ratings service began in the 1950s) of any prime-time TV series ever aired by any United States network.[citation needed]
Cast[edit]
Main[edit]
- Michael Riley – Brett Parker
- Kari Matchett – Colleen Blessed
- Dean McDermott – Mark Simpson
- Caterina Scorsone – Michelle Parker
- Gordon Pinsent – Duff McArdle
Recurring[edit]
- Jonathan Rannells – Todd Maplethorpe
- Mark Lutz – Jukka Branny-Acke
- Krista Bridges – Rose Thorton
- Normand Bissonnette – Al Tremblay
- Lori Anne Alter – Renata D'Allesandro
- Greg Spottiswood – Joe Harriman
- Al Waxman – Lloyd Gorman
- Johanna Black – Andrea Stuyvesant
- Neil Crone – Harry Strand
- Jonathan Crombie – Hudson James
- Fiona Highet – Rayanne Simpson
- David Keeley – Bud Travis
- Jennifer Dale – Samantha Robbins
- Don Cherry – Jake Nelson
- Tanja Jacobs – SM3 Reagan Sexsmith
- Chris Tessaro – Marshak
- Rob Faulds – Play-by-Play Announcer
- Sean McCann – Ray Malone
All-time Hamilton Steelheads roster[edit]
The following players have been seen playing for the Steelheads over the course of the series:
- 1 Tremblay
- 1 McCloud
- 2 Banks
- 3 Kudlow
- 4 Borden
- 7 Schmöckel
- 9 Simpson
- 10 Wynn
- 12 Sauvé
- 13 Bränny-Acke
- 14 Marshak
- 16 Lalonde
- 18 Grant
- 22 Maplethorpe
- 23 Dee
- 24 Stephanovic
- 25 St. Germaine
- 26 Pacelli
- 28 Chartraw
- 29 Alexander: D. Parent
- 30 MacDougall
- 32 Shipton
- 37 Ignarson
- 40 Zinoviev
- 44 Bedard
- 48 McNally
- 55 Gunn
- 75 Kerensky
- 75 Robinson
Episodes[edit]
Season one[edit]
- "Perambulate Me Back to My Habitual Abode" (Sept 21 1998)
- "Changing the Luck" (Sept 28 1998)
- "All for One"
- "Seventh Game"
- "Off Season"
- "Brothers in Arms"
- "The Bad Boy"
- "Purple Hazing"
- "Family Values"
- "Pucks the Size of Beach Balls"
- "High Noon"
- "Dire Straits"
- "Waked at the Forum"
Season two[edit]
- "Everything is Broken"
- "Resign or Re-Sign"
- "Manipulation"
- "Evasion"
- "Temptation"
- "The Truth"
- "The Jumper"
- "The Mask"
- "Foolish Hearts"
- "The Quarter Finals"
- "The Cubicle"
- "The Finals"
- "What It All Meant"
References[edit]
- ^ "Internet Movie Database – List of Films shot in Hamilton, Ontario". Retrieved 2008-01-29.
External links[edit]
- Power Play on IMDb
- Power Play at TV.com
- CTV Television Network shows
- UPN original programming
- History of Hamilton, Ontario
- Sport in Hamilton, Ontario
- Ice hockey television series
- 1998 Canadian television series debuts
- 2000 Canadian television series endings
- Television shows set in Hamilton, Ontario
- 1990s Canadian drama television series
- 2000s Canadian drama television series
- Television series by Alliance Atlantis
- Television series by Bell Media
- Television series produced in Hamilton, Ontario
- 20th century in Hamilton, Ontario