Sidestreet

Season 1

1975 · 8 episodes

Episodes

1. 1

   1. The Hold Out

   14 Sept 1975

   A widow being terrorized by a real-estate developer trying to force her out of her home.

2. 2

   2. The Money-Go-Round

   21 Sept 1975

   A young man turns to crime to pay off inherited debts to a loan shark. Extortion and purse snatching by a bicycling thief heat things up and community service cops Alex Woodward and Johnny Dias move quickly to defuse a dangerous situation.

3. 3

   3. The Rebellion of Bertha Mackenzie

   28 Sept 1975

   Two social workers are involved as a Metis mother of two children fights to keep from being evicted from her home.

4. 4

   4. Perhaps in Dreams Old Man

   5 Oct 1975

   An informer's tip shatters the dreams of two elderly pensioners whose obsession with owning a farm in Alberta leads them to commit a rather unusual robbery.

5. 5

   5. Rape

   12 Oct 1975

   The rape of a young woman soon to be married triggers a series of events affecting the lives of several people in addition to the rapist and his victim.

6. 6

   6. Do You Know Where Your Children Are?

   19 Oct 1975

   A police inspector is torn between a sense of duty and paternal concern when he learns that his son has become involved in organized juvenile crime.

7. 7

   7. Strikebreaker

   26 Oct 1975

   Tempers flare when a professional strikebreaker leads a group of scabs across a picket line.

8. 8

   8. Playing the Game

   2 Nov 1975

   A young parolee is harassed by two overly zealous cops who employ barely-within-the-law tactics to extract information from him.