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, and Shane Meier.Ted Shaw, "New role mirrors Dunsmore herself". ''

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'', October 12, 1990. Dunsmore plays eternal optimist Sally Sullivan, a recently widowed mother of two supporting her family as a waitress in a working-class diner, who talks her way into a job as assistant to grumpy, cynical private eye Bernie Fox (Margolin). The head writer for the show was

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, who later created the much grittier ''

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'' and ''

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'', also for the CBC.

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1990 Canadian television series debuts 1992 Canadian television series endings CBC Television original programming Television shows set in Vancouver Television shows filmed in Vancouver 1990s Canadian comedy-drama television series {{Canada-comedy-tv-prog-stub