Write On
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First Air DateNov 24, 2024
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Original titleWrite On
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ReleaseNov 24, 2024
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Overview
Write On was an educational television show which was produced and broadcast by TVOntario. The series starred Jack Creley as Mr. R.H. Morton, Diane Dewey as Miss Newton, and Paul Brown as Henry Kent. The premise of the series is of the misadventures of the staff of a small newspaper under the editorship of the tyrannical Morton with his subordinates, Miss Newton the secretary and Henry Kent, a young reporter. Considering Kent has poor writing and grammatical skills for a professional journalist, the staff have numerous events that illustrate various lessons about writing. Furthermore, Kent often have equally educational daydreams where he is a dashing hero illustrating various writing concepts. Every episode of Write On was five minutes in length. They were written by Ken MacKay and Jed MacKay.
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Casts
Season 1 ( )
Stocky Mariano: Vigorous Verbs
La Bellicosa: Adverbs
Calling Dr. Kent: Concrete Nouns
The Escaped Convict: Adjectives
Miss Grouse: Avoiding Clichés
The U.F.O.: Avoiding Jargon
The Foolish Suitor: Figures of Speech
The Spice of Life: Variety in Word Order
Fragment Fred: Sentence Fragments
Slick Stagger: Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
King Kane: Misplaced Modifiers
Paolo Carbonara: Subject-Verb Agreement
The Making of Flaws: Active and Passive Voice
The Robber's Guide: Correlative Conjunctions
Rhubarb Power: Pronoun Reference
Henry Chan: Commas with Appositives
Goodbye, Cruel World: Commas with Parenthetical Expressions
Miss Newton's Trial: Commas in a Series
The Bard: Commas with Introductory Adverb Clauses
Peter Berton: Commas with Dates and Addresses
The Comma Kid: Semicolons
Irma Faust: Quotation Marks
Dracula's Defeat: Quotation Marks 2
Comrades X and B: Apostrophes
Captain Kent: Hyphens
Cinderella Newton: Sit, Set / Lay, Lie
Reginald Parse: Differ with, Differ from / Continual, Continuous / Imply, Infer
The Mad Bomber: Is Where, Is When
You Bet Your Life: Already, All Ready / Further, Farther
Lucretia: Like, As
Season 2 ( )
The Dreamer: Review 1
Perchance to Dream: Review 2
Curses, Foiled Again: Parallelism
The Night Before: Effective Subordination
Show Business: Sentence Length
The Pharaoh's Daughter: The Outline
The Almost Dangerous Game: The Topic Sentence
Happy Daze: Paragraph Development through Details
The Old Man and the Paragraph: Paragraph Development through Comparison
The Scarlet Pen Pal: Paragraph Development through Contrast
A Critical Lapse: Paragraph Development through Cause and Effect
Gone with the Paragraph: Paragraph Development through Definition
I, Henry: Unity
Scribbling Beauty 1: Coherence 1
Scribbling Beauty 2: Coherence 2
The Rocking Horse Writer: Emphasis 1
Their Finest Paragraph: Emphasis 2
The Case of the Missing Editor: Tone
Transition Trek: Transitions
The Devil and Henry Kent: Rewriting
An SOS: Loose, Lose / Passed, Past
Jungle Madness: Amount, Number / Fewer, Less
The Revengers: Could Have, Should Have
Beau Jest: Affect, Effect
MacHenry: Awful, Terrible, Nice
Henry Kent, Tycoon: Practical, Practicable / Raise, Rise
Henry's Angels: Regardless, Uninterested, Stationary
Leo Claws: The Business Letter
Dream Weaving: Review 3
Dream On: Review 4
