La famille Plouffe

La famille Plouffe was a television drama about a Quebec family that first aired in French on Société Radio-Canada in 1953. The show was created to fill a void in francophone television in Canada. Whereas the English Canadian television branch of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation could broadcast shows from American stations, the francophone component of the CBC, Radio-Canada had to develop its own programs from the earliest days of television in Canada.

The series was also broadcast, dubbed into English as The Plouffe Family, on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation the following year.

The series was based on the novel Les Plouffe, by Roger Lemelin. It chronicled the daily life of a working class family in the years following World War II. The family included patriarch Théophile, a former provincial cycling champion who had settled into life as a plumber, his wife Joséphine, a naive but kind-hearted mother who doted on her adult children, and their children Napoléon, Ovide, Cécile and Guillaume.

Cast

• Théophile Plouffe – Paul Guèvremont
• Joséphine Plouffe – Amanda Alarie
• Napoléon Plouffe – Emile Genest
• Ovide Plouffe – Jean-Louis Roux, Marcel Houben
• Guillaume Plouffe – Pierre Valcour
• Cécile Plouffe – Denise Pelletier
• Gédéon Plouffe – Doris Lussier
• Démérise Plouffe – Nana de Varennes
• Onéisme Ménard – Rolland Bédard
• Rita Toulouse – Lise Roy, Janin Mignolet
• Blanche Toulouse – Lucie Poitras
• Jeanne Labrie – Thérèse Cadorette
• Stan Labrie – Jean Duceppe
• Père Alexandre – Guy Provost
• Martine Plouffe – Margot Campbell
• Aimé Plouffe – Jean Coutu
• Flora Plouffe – Ginette Letondal
• Agathe Plouffe – Clémence Desrochers
• Rosaire Joyeux – Camille Ducharme
• Jacqueline Sévigny – Amulette Garneau
• Alain Richard – Guy Godin
• Hélène Giguère – Françoise Graton
• Alphonse Tremblay – Ernest Guimond