History Series / Beachcombers

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: John is generally willing to help the town's residents, at least whenever laws don't force him to work against them or he isn't rendered impotent due to circumstances outside of his control.

* SaveTheVillain: It may be too harsh to considering Relic the villain, but for all his unsavory nature, when Relic found himself in deadly danger, Nick and company did not hesitate to help him.
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: It was still a hit when the CBC cancelled it due to budget cuts.

* FakeNationality: Bruno Gerussi, who played Nick, is actually Italo-Canadian.

* TheCharacterDiedWithHim: By the time the reunion movies aired in the early 2000s, Bruno Gerussi (Nick) and Robert Clothier (Relic) were deceased, as were their characters.

* CoolBoat: While Nick has the ''Persephone'', a reasonably reliable tugboat, Relic uses a much faster jet boat, ''Hi-Baller I & II'' that he frequently uses to jump around with.

* CoolBoat: While Nick has the ''Persephone'', a reasonably reliable tugboat, Relic uses a much faster jet boat that he frequently uses to jump around with.

''The Beachcombers'' was an iconic Canadian television dramedy that featured a multicultural cast in the real-life town of Gibsons, B.C. The cast centered around Greek immigrant Nick Adonidas and his log salvage company. His rival and source of much aggravation in the community was scruffy curmudgeon Relic.

* SitcomArchNemesis: Nick and Relic. They spent the entire series childishly bickering over logs

* CoolBoat: While Nick has the ''Persephone'', a reasonably reliable boat, Relic uses a much faster speedboat that he frequently uses to jump around with.

* CoolBoat: While Nick has the ''Persephone'', a reasonably reliable boat, Relic uses a much faster air boat that he frequently uses to jump around with.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: It was still a hit when the CBC cancelled it due to budget cuts.

Iconic Canadian television show that featured a multicultural cast in the real-life town of Gibsons, B.C. The cast centered around Greek immigrant Nick Adonidas and his log salvage company. His rival and source of much aggravation in the community was scruffy curmudgeon Relic.

The show was one of the longest running dramatic series on Canadian television, with 387 episodes spanning from 1972 to 1991. The show aired in the United States on FamliyNet on weekday afternoons starting September 1, 2011, but was removed from the line-up after September 28, 2012 due to the network falling into new ownership that felt the show did not fit in with the new rural-themed direction they wanted the station to go and replaced it with ''Series/HighwayToHeaven'' reruns.

* TheCharacterDiedWithHim

* LongRunners

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* InstantDramaJustAddTracheotomy

The show was one of the longest running dramatic series on Canadian television, with 387 episodes spanning from 1972 to 1991. The show aired in the United States on FamliyNet on weekday afternoons starting September 1, 2011, but was removed from the line-up after September 28, 2012 due to the network falling into new ownership that felt the show did not fit in with the new rural-themed direction they wanted the station to go and replaced it with ''HighwayToHeaven'' reruns.

The show was one of the longest running dramatic series on Canadian television, with 387 episodes spanning from 1972 to 1991. The show will air in the United States on FamliyNet on weekday afternoons starting September 1, 2011.