The Beachcombers

  • Rank #
  • Premiered: Oct 1972
  • Episodes: 321
  • Followers: 0
  • Ended
  • CBC
  • Unknown
  • Adventure Comedy Drama

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Season 5
5x1
The Crash (1)
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 19, 1976
A light plane crashes on a remote mountainside with Jesse Jim and one of Nick's oldest upcoast buddies aboard. Nick must choose between sitting tight with two badly injured men, or making the desperate rescue attempt with all odds against him.
5x2
The Crash (2)
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 26, 1976
Conclusion of two-part story.
5x3
Sara
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 03, 1976
Introduces Charlene Aleck as Sara, Jesse's six-year-old sister. She is unceremoniously presented at the Reach by Grandpa Jim and Uncle Louie. Troubles follow swiftly as the family .. show full overview
5x4
Love Letter
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 10, 1976
Margaret and Nick mistakenly imagine a love affair between Ol' Relic and Sadie, a lady trapper from upcoast whose notion of romance goes no farther than skinnin' her next coyote. Relic .. show full overview
5x5
A Salmon for Sara
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 17, 1976
It's the Gibsons Annual Salmon Derby and Sara has her heart set on winning the third prize for kids - a cowboy suit. Relic and Mcloskey hatch an elaborate hoax to ensure first prize for .. show full overview
5x6
The Barge
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 24, 1976
A bargeload of heavy construction machinery goes adrift in a storm. Relic and Margaret are trapped thereon, and Nick's every effort to rescue them threatens to bring tons of equipment showering down on the helpless pair.
5x7
Round Up
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 31, 1976
The idyllic existence of thirty-eight goats is threatened when their peaceful island home becomes the site for a new highway. Ecology-minded Margaret enlists Mcloskey's help to save Goat .. show full overview
5x8
Swamped
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 07, 1976
Persephone is swamped by heavy seas that turn the cabin upside down and leave her immobilized. Nick, Jesse and Hugh fight to keep her from being wrecked on the rocks. The exertion proves .. show full overview
5x9
The Meanest Man in Town
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 14, 1976
Sara's innocent determination to crack Relic's tough shell is the driving force in this touching comedy about the battle of wits between the little girl and the 'meanest man in town'. And who's the meanest man? Ol' Relic, of course.
5x10
Hail to the Chief
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 21, 1976
Self-styled "progressive" elements in Jesse Jim's former home on the Seahost Reserve are making trouble for the wise old chief. The old man, with an assist from Nick, conspires to teach .. show full overview
5x11
The Alchemist
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 28, 1976
Gus Calhoun has his heart set on a chemistry set- one that will make invisible ink. Nick promises to get It for him, and then leads Gus on a merry chase from store to store up the .. show full overview
5x12
The Great Shaman of the North
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 12, 1976
Christmas is coming and little Sara is sick. In the mind of the feverish six-year-old Santa Claus becomes confused with the Great Shaman, who comes like a sinister Angel of Death, .. show full overview
5x13
The Old Man and the Greek
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 09, 1977
Good Samaritans Nick and Jesse attempt to rescue an old curmudgeon who's determined, despite ill health, to sail his decrepit vessel to the South Seas. In the course of nursing the .. show full overview
5x14
James Island Lure
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 16, 1977
Relic and Mcloskey are at it again-- this time with an illegal get-rich-quick scheme for dynamiting fish. It's known as "The Games Island Lure". They deliberately involve Nick in their .. show full overview
5x15
No One's Shepherd
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 23, 1977
Every year hundreds of unwanted dogs and cats are "dumped" in the Gibsons area-- turned loose to forage and eventually starve or be eaten by bigger game. Among them is a splendid German .. show full overview
5x16
My Valentine
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 13, 1977
The unlikely victim of Margaret's first crush is none other than Jesse Jim, seen in a new heroic light by the starry-eyed girl. Jesse wants none of it, but Nick is determined to ease .. show full overview
5x17
The Witness
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 27, 1977
Hughie tries to save a bunch of arrogant Sunday sailors from a nasty accident with their boat, and suddenly finds himself facing possible charges for theft and assault. Hughie's only .. show full overview
5x18
A Gift Horse
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 20, 1977
To atone for forgetting Margaret's grade-school graduation, Hugh makes a silly promise - he'll buy Margaret a one-hundred dollar gift! It's the beginning of a hundred-dollar .. show full overview
5x19
Out of the Past
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 03, 1977
Hughie has flunked his university entrance exams, and cannot share the festive mood of the Reach when his great-uncle, Sam Carmody, is welcomed back after an absence of many years. The .. show full overview
5x20 Season finale
Hitch-hiker
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 10, 1977
The Sunshine Coast in summer is strewn with young hitchhikers; their example is hard for Sara to resist, despite repeated warnings by the family. When Sara does take a ride from a .. show full overview

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