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With our 14th pick, The Channel Surfers select The Odyssey in the Canadian category.

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The Odyssey is a Canadian-produced half-hour adventure-fantasy television series for children, originally broadcast 1992-95 on CBC Television. It starred Illya Woloshyn as Jay Ziegler, Ashleigh Aston Moore as Donna/Alpha (credited as Ashley Rogers), Tony Sampson as Keith/Flash, Andrea Nemeth as Medea/Sierra Jones, Mark Hildreth as Finger, Ryan Reynolds as Macro, Janet Hodgkinson as Val Ziegler (Jay's mother), and Devon Sawa as Yudo.

In the series pilot, 11-year-old Jay tries to join a tree-fort club, and a telescope that belonged to his father (who has been missing several years and is presumed dead) is stolen. When Jay tries to retrieve the telescope, he falls from the tree-fort, injures his head, and lapses into a coma.


In the coma, Jay finds himself in a fantasy world where no one reaches the age of 16. Not having heard of adults, the children here have shaped society in their own ways, sometimes resembling a police state. Jay, not knowing how he has got here, embarks on a journey to return home—a place he can't remember. The journey becomes a quest to find his long-lost father, who fell overboard from a small boat into a lake whilst they were on a fishing trip together, and has not been seen since.

Used to watch this all the time when I was a kid. It was pretty dark and serious stuff for a "children's" television programme.