''Urban Angel'' is a Canadian television drama series, which aired on

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from 1991 to 1993."Montreal is missing from the programming map"
'' The Gazette'', December 3, 2010. Based on the memoirs of real-life Canadian journalist

Victor Malarek Victor Gregory Malarek (born 26 June 1948) is a Canadian journalist and author, known for his book ''Hey, Malarek!'' and his tenure as one of the hosts of CBC's '' The Fifth Estate'', as well as his depiction in the movie '' Target Number One'' ...

, the show starred

Louis Ferreira Louis Ferreira (born Luís Henrique da Rocha Ferreira; born 20 February 1966) is a Canadian actor. Ferreira is known for his roles in ''Stargate Universe'' as Colonel Everett Young, serial killer Ray Prager in the first season of ''Durham County ...

(credited as Justin Louis) as Victor Torres, a crusading journalist for the ''Montreal Tribune''.Rita Zekas, "Avenging angel". ''

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'', February 2, 1991. Although the series was made by the same production firm behind the 1988 film ''

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'', for the purposes of the television series they chose to create a fictionalized character rather than portraying the real-life Malarek, both to give them more leeway to write original stories not derived from Malarek's book and because they had selected Ferreira, who is of Portuguese descent and could not believably have portrayed a character with a Ukrainian surname, as the lead actor. The series aired in the

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as part of

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's late-night ''

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'' line up. The show's cast also included Paula de Vasconcelos, Vittorio Rossi, Dorothée Berryman,

Vlasta Vrána Vlasta Vrána (born 1950) is a Czech-Canadian actor of stage, film, and television. He has appeared in over 285 films, television, and theatre productions, including voice roles, narration, and advertisements. Early life Vrána was born in Norw ...

Arthur Grosser Arthur Grosser is an American actor and chemist who was a professor of physical chemistry at McGill University, Montreal. He has done a lot of voice acting work in several animated series as well as in video games such as '' Splinter Cell'' and ''A ...

, Ellen David, Dean Marshall,

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, Macha Grenon and Sophie Lorain.

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* CBC Television original programming 1991 Canadian television series debuts 1993 Canadian television series endings Television shows set in Montreal Television series about journalism CBS original programming Canadian English-language television shows 1990s Canadian drama television series {{Canada-drama-tv-prog-stub