The Red Green Show 

Red Green airs his handyman show from Possum Lodge, Canada, and also experiences some zany adventures in real life.

Creators:

Rick Green, Steve Smith

Stars:

Steve Smith, Patrick McKenna, Rick Green

1 win & 24 nominations.

Cast

Series cast summary:
Steve Smith	...	Red Green / ... 299 episodes, 1991-2006
Patrick McKenna	...	Harold Green 237 episodes, 1991-2006
Rick Green	...	Bill Smith 198 episodes, 1991-2006
Bob Bainborough	...	Dalton Humphrey / ... 147 episodes, 1994-2006

Storyline

Red Green is a bearded Canadian carpenter who's really handy with his hands, and can find great uses for duct tape. He hosts "The Red Green Show", where he and his nerdy nephew, Harold, teach the viewers how to make excellent and useful crafts, as well as give marriage advice, from their home at Possum Lodge. Also, he plays games with Dalton Humphries where he must try to get him to guess a word by giving examples of it or saying a sentence it would be used in. Red also appears in a black-and-white series with the bungling Bill Smith were they show young viewers things like how to hunt and the existence of gravity. Other characters who frequently appear are the deprived Ranger Gord, who lives on top of a 100-foot tower on top of a 200-foot hill, has been guarding the watch tower for 16 years without a vacation and has no friends; the golf-obsessed loser Bob Stuyvestant who knows nothing about women; Buzz Sherwood, a daredevil pilot; and Winston Rothschild III, a loyal!

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Plot Keywords:

lodge | canada | handyman | duct tape | spoof | 

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Genres:

Comedy

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Certificate:

TV-G

Details

Official Sites:

Official Site The New Red Green Show

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Release Date:

25 September 1991 (USA)

Also Known As:

The New Red Green Show

Filming Locations:

28 Rowanwood Street, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Company Credits

Production Co:

Red Green Productions,S&S Productions,Smith & Smith Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

25 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color Black and White

Did You Know?

Trivia

The baseball cap Hap wears has the logo for the Royal Canadian Regiment, which is a nod to Gordon Pinsent's own military service as a soldier in the Regiment during the early 1950s.

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Goofs

Dalton's last name changes from Humphries to Humphrey over the course of the series.

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Quotes

Red Green: You can't be forgetting your wedding anniversary, Dalton.
Dalton Humphries: Yeah, it's kind of ironic when the second dumbest think you ever did was to forget the dumbest thing you ever did.

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Crazy Credits

Women appreciate creative input. Men appreciate silence.

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Connections

Followed by Duct Tape Forever (2002)

User Reviews

Hit and miss, but when it hits...

Look out! This show has supplied me life-saving laughs since the early 90s. I feel so lucky to have on tape nearly every episode, from the very beginning of the series - when old Red was so clean-cut and young that you can hardly recognize him as Steve Smith.

It definitely has lost its edge in the last couple of years, but the rustic humor is still pure. They just seem to be out new ideas for the Bill segments, The Experts and the Word Game.

I can't think of any other show or movie that could match this, in its style of humor and its near-accidental staging. This kind of show only comes along once. The way it's staged, it could have been a great live hit in the earliest days of TV.

It's more than likely that I love this show because it talks about people like me, who'll use duct-tape to fix a machine I depend on my life for, because it's easier than drilling holes and setting bolts.

No show that I'm aware of has done so much to celebrate men, even though the show mostly ridicules them. I'm sorry to see how much it's degenerated, in the last season, but you can only come up with so many believably outrageous (or is it outrageously believable) stunts.

I don't know from whence the concept originated, but I'll always love Steve Smith and Pat McKenna for giving me a show about myself, and the people I know.