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Snow Job (TV series)

television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ7548255 ↗
Source-derived summary

Snow Job is a Canadian television sitcom airing on the CTV network. The series, which ran from 1983 to 1985, was set in a ski lodge in the Laurentian Mountains in Quebec. The series was produced by Champlain Productions, the production division of CFCF-TV.

The show's cast included Jack Creley, Rummy Bishop, Richard Rebiere, Liliane Clune, Joanne Cote, and Gabe Cohen.

Guest stars included Jack Duffy, Bruce Gray, Peter Keleghan, Richard Simmons, Dale Hayes and Ruth Buzzi. Wayne Gretzky also appeared as himself, in an episode in which a young woman won a date with him in a contest.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Snow Job (TV series)” is television series. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Snow, series and television, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1983, 1985—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Snow, series and television is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “television series” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7548255. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1983 and 1985.

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This entry incorporates text from “Snow Job (TV series)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.