The Adventures of Tugboat Annie (1958)
Synopsis
The Adventures of Tugboat Annie is a 1957 Canadian-filmed television series starring Minerva Urecal as Annie Brennan, the role originated by Marie Dressler in the 1933 screen classic Tugboat Annie. Urecal was the fourth actress to portray Tugboat Annie; the others were Dressler, Marjorie Rambeau in Tugboat Annie Sails Again, and Jane Darwell in Captain Tugboat Annie. Norman Reilly Raine's stories of the salty tugboat captain Annie Brennan, a character based on the life of Thea Foss, first appeared in prose form in the weekly US journal Saturday Evening Post in the late 1920s. She was soon developed into a movie character, depicted in three films, portrayed by a different actress in each. Finally, in 1954, a television series was commissioned by the independent American production company TPA. The pilot took two whole years to complete, at a then-record cost of $129,000. Elsa Lanchester, Jay C. Flippen, and Chill Wills were all in line for major roles at one point or another at this early stage. The series was filmed in Toronto harbor and was first shown in Canada, having attracted ratings good enough to interest American television stations. What had succeeded in Canada proved a disappointment in the United States, where the viewing audiences had presumably become accustomed to greater sophistication than the simplistic humor of this series.
First Air Date: 1958-06-30
Last Air Date: 1959-03-12
Number of Seasons: 1
Number of Episodes: 14
Top Cast
- Minerva Urecal as N/A
- Walter Sande as N/A
- Bud Browning as Tony
Seasons
Season 1 (1958)
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Episodes:
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Ep. 1: Home Is The Sailor
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Ep. 2: Queen Annie
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Ep. 3: Tugboat Annie's Chicken Farm
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Ep. 4: Sophisticated Annie
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Ep. 5: Tugboat Annie, Psychologist
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Ep. 6: Stowaway
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Ep. 7: Tugboat Annie Meets The Texan
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Ep. 8: Pizza Romance
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Ep. 9: Commodore Bullwinkle
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Ep. 10: Annie's Racehorse
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Ep. 11: Annie's Retirement
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Ep. 12: Tugboat Annie and The Admiral
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Ep. 13: Annie is a Lady
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Ep. 37: A Medal For Annie
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