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Robson Arms
	Robson Arms title screen
Created by	Gary Harvey; Susin Nielsen
Country of origin	Canada
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	39
Production
Executive producers	Gary Harvey; Susin Nielsen; Brian Hamilton
Running time	22 minutes
Original release
Network	CTV
Release	June 17, 2005 –; June 30, 2008

Robson Arms is a Canadian television series that began airing on CTV on June 17, 2005, and ended on June 30, 2008. Robson Arms is a co-production between Vancouver-based Omni Film Productions Limited and Halifax's Creative Atlantic Communications.

The show is a comedy-drama (dramedy) anthology organized around the Robson Arms, an apartment building in Vancouver, at the fictional address of 951 Pendrell Street. Each of the show's episodes focuses principally on a different tenant of the building, although the core cast members interact in minor roles throughout the series. In each episode, the Troubadours comment on the storyline through song.

The show was created to fulfill a licensing requirement of CTV's Vancouver station, CIVT, which originally promised, as an independent station, to produce 20 episodes of an anthology series entitled The Storytellers. Only ten such episodes were produced. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) did not agree that CIVT's new network programming supplanted this commitment and asked the station to fulfill its promise.^[1] CTV believed the anthology would be more successful as a series with common characters, and Robson Arms was the result.

Two of the show's regular cast members, Gabrielle Miller and Fred Ewanuick, appeared in this series concurrent with their continuing roles in another CTV production, Corner Gas.

The series currently airs in reruns on CTV's secondary CTV Two system.

Cast and characters

The season(s) during which each actor has been included in the main cast are marked in black. White square means the actor doesn't appear in that season at all.

Actor(s)	Character	Appearances
Actor(s)	Character	S 1	S 2	S 3
Tom Saunders	The Tall Troubadour
Jason Dedrick	The Not as Tall Troubadour
John Cassini	Yuri Kukoc
Helena Yea	Grandma Tan
Colin Foo	Bao Tan
Gabrielle Rose	Toni Mastroianni-Tan
Justine Wong	Ruby Tan
Zak Santiago	Hal Garcia
Alisen Down	Sault Ste. Marie
David Richmond-Peck	Geoff McAlister
Fred Ewanuick	Nick Papathanasiou
Kevin McNulty	Stanley Wasserman
Haig Sutherland	Fred Fochs
Jane McGregor	Alicia Plecas-Fochs
Gabrielle Miller	Bobbi Briggs
Tobias Mehler	Bobby Briggs
William B. Davis	Dr. Carlisle Wainwright
Margot Kidder	Elaine Wainwright
Jim Tai	Ricky Tan
Maxine Miller	Beatrice Dubois
Shirley Douglas	Pauline Dubois
Mark McKinney	Tom Goldblum
Megan Follows	Janice Keneally
Peter DeLuise	Wayne Ross
Laura Bertram	Chris Colton
Gabriel Hogan	Andrew Colton
Linda Kash	Carol Goldstein
Tegan Moss	Georgie Goldstein
Bill Mondy	Val Kukoc
April Telek	Sasha Kowalski
Allison Hossack	Trixie Hoskins
Dave Foley	Chuck Hoskins

Robson Arms, the Building

The structure used as the apartment building is not located in Vancouver's West End, but rather is located at 951 Boundary Road on the east side of the City of Vancouver. It is called Taylor Manor, and is on the City of Vancouver's historic building registry.^[2] The skyscraper skyline behind the building is superimposed to make it look like it is located in Vancouver's West End.

Episodes

Season 1 (2005)

Episode #	Original Air Date (CTV)	Episode Title
1	June 17, 2005	Dancing the Horizontal Mambo
2	June 17, 2005	The Tell-Tale Latex
3	June 24, 2005	The Eyes of Grandma Tan
4	June 24, 2005	ICQ
5	July 1, 2005	A Certain Vintage
6	July 1, 2005	Sweet City Woman
7	July 8, 2005	Hairpiece of Mind
8	July 8, 2005	A Material Breach
9	July 15, 2005	The Lonely Passion of Mr. Tan
10	July 15, 2005	Educating Alicia
11	July 22, 2005	The Recipe
12	July 22, 2005	The Misses Dubois Turn Out the Lights
13	July 29, 2005	Aftershock

Season 2 (2007)

Episode #	Original Air Date (CTV)	Episode Title
1	February 10, 2007	Ordinary Assholes
2	February 17, 2007	Saultology
3	February 24, 2007	I Did Not Have Sex With That Woman
4	March 3, 2007	Something Straight Between Us
5	March 10, 2007	Mr. Lonely
6	February 27, 2007	Pest Control
7	March 17, 2007	Misery, Inc.
8	March 12, 2007	The Daughter of Frankenstein
9	March 24, 2007	Wayne's World
10	March 31, 2007	Mussolini and Me
11	April 7, 2007	All About Kitty
12	April 14, 2007	Lizard of Doubt
13	April 21, 2007	Texas Birthmark

Season 3 (2008)

Episode #	Original Air Date (CTV)	Episode Title
1	February 26, 2008	Gila Monster
2	February 27, 2008	Geeks in Love
3	May 5, 2008	Positivity
4	May 12, 2008	I Pagliacci
5	April 28, 2008	Mean Girls
6	May 19, 2008	Prince of Nigeria
7	May 26, 2008	Wrong and Wronger
8	June 2, 2008	No Sex in the City
9	March 10, 2008	Cherchez la Femme
10	June 16, 2008	Trixie's Honour
11	June 23, 2008	Baby? What Baby?
12	June 24, 2008	My Brother's Keeper
13	June 30, 2008	Hero