Season 1 • Episode 2
LatestThe story of the people building the AVRO Arrow, an advanced jet fighter-interceptor designed to defend Canada's vast territory during the Cold War. Though the jet was an engineering marvel, cost over-runs, U.S. government pressure from the military industrial complex, and the election of the Progressive Conservative Diefenbaker government, stopped the jet just as it was getting off the ground.
Acting
Dan Aykroyd finally serious, carrying wounded national pride.
Production
Period-perfect 1950s aerospace engineering detail porn.
Dan Aykroyd
Crawford Gordon
Nigel Bennett
James (Jim) Floyd
Sara Botsford
Kate O'Hara
Ron White
Jack Woodman
Aidan Devine
Jim Chamberlain
Jonathan Whittaker
Fred Syme
Ian D. Clark
Edward Chritchley
David Lawrence Brown
Joe Paloffski
Catherine Fitch
Ruby Paloffski
Robin Gammell
CD Howe
Robert Haley
John Diefenbaker
Michael Moriarty
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Michael Ironside
CIA Director
Christopher Plummer
George Hees
Mauralea Austin
June Callwood
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Arrow's blueprints were supposedly destroyed, but conspiracy theorists insist one prototype survived secret testing.
This miniseries single-handedly revived Canadian Arrow mythology; before 1997, most Canadians under 40 had never heard of it.
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