Overview
Write On was an educational television show which was produced and broadcast by TVOntario. The series starred Jack Creley as Mr. R.H. Morton, Diane Dewey as Miss Newton, and Paul Brown as Henry Kent. The premise of the series is of the misadventures of the staff of a small newspaper under the editorship of the tyrannical Morton with his subordinates, Miss Newton the secretary and Henry Kent, a young reporter. Considering Kent has poor writing and grammatical skills for a professional journalist, the staff have numerous events that illustrate various lessons about writing. Furthermore, Kent often have equally educational daydreams where he is a dashing hero illustrating various writing concepts. Every episode of Write On was five minutes in length. They were written by Ken MacKay and Jed MacKay.
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2 seasons
Season 1
· 30 episodes
- 1 1. Stocky Mariano: Vigorous Verbs
- 2 2. La Bellicosa: Adverbs
- 3 3. Calling Dr. Kent: Concrete Nouns
- 4 4. The Escaped Convict: Adjectives
- 5 5. Miss Grouse: Avoiding Clichés
- 6 6. The U.F.O.: Avoiding Jargon
- 7 7. The Foolish Suitor: Figures of Speech
- 8 8. The Spice of Life: Variety in Word Order
- 9 9. Fragment Fred: Sentence Fragments
- 10 10. Slick Stagger: Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
- 11 11. King Kane: Misplaced Modifiers
- 12 12. Paolo Carbonara: Subject-Verb Agreement
- 13 13. The Making of Flaws: Active and Passive Voice
- 14 14. The Robber's Guide: Correlative Conjunctions
- 15 15. Rhubarb Power: Pronoun Reference
- 16 16. Henry Chan: Commas with Appositives
- 17 17. Goodbye, Cruel World: Commas with Parenthetical Expressions
- 18 18. Miss Newton's Trial: Commas in a Series
- 19 19. The Bard: Commas with Introductory Adverb Clauses
- 20 20. Peter Berton: Commas with Dates and Addresses
- 21 21. The Comma Kid: Semicolons
- 22 22. Irma Faust: Quotation Marks
- 23 23. Dracula's Defeat: Quotation Marks 2
- 24 24. Comrades X and B: Apostrophes
- 25 25. Captain Kent: Hyphens
- 26 26. Cinderella Newton: Sit, Set / Lay, Lie
- 27 27. Reginald Parse: Differ with, Differ from / Continual, Continuous / Imply, Infer
- 28 28. The Mad Bomber: Is Where, Is When
- 29 29. You Bet Your Life: Already, All Ready / Further, Farther
- 30 30. Lucretia: Like, As
Season 2
· 30 episodes
- 1 1. The Dreamer: Review 1
- 2 2. Perchance to Dream: Review 2
- 3 3. Curses, Foiled Again: Parallelism
- 4 4. The Night Before: Effective Subordination
- 5 5. Show Business: Sentence Length
- 6 6. The Pharaoh's Daughter: The Outline
- 7 7. The Almost Dangerous Game: The Topic Sentence
- 8 8. Happy Daze: Paragraph Development through Details
- 9 9. The Old Man and the Paragraph: Paragraph Development through Comparison
- 10 10. The Scarlet Pen Pal: Paragraph Development through Contrast
- 11 11. A Critical Lapse: Paragraph Development through Cause and Effect
- 12 12. Gone with the Paragraph: Paragraph Development through Definition
- 13 13. I, Henry: Unity
- 14 14. Scribbling Beauty 1: Coherence 1
- 15 15. Scribbling Beauty 2: Coherence 2
- 16 16. The Rocking Horse Writer: Emphasis 1
- 17 17. Their Finest Paragraph: Emphasis 2
- 18 18. The Case of the Missing Editor: Tone
- 19 19. Transition Trek: Transitions
- 20 20. The Devil and Henry Kent: Rewriting
- 21 21. An SOS: Loose, Lose / Passed, Past
- 22 22. Jungle Madness: Amount, Number / Fewer, Less
- 23 23. The Revengers: Could Have, Should Have
- 24 24. Beau Jest: Affect, Effect
- 25 25. MacHenry: Awful, Terrible, Nice
- 26 26. Henry Kent, Tycoon: Practical, Practicable / Raise, Rise
- 27 27. Henry's Angels: Regardless, Uninterested, Stationary
- 28 28. Leo Claws: The Business Letter
- 29 29. Dream Weaving: Review 3
- 30 30. Dream On: Review 4
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