Les Belles Histoires des pays d'en haut (1956)
Les Belles Histoires des pays d'en haut is a Canadian television drama series, which aired on Radio-Canada from 1956 to 1970. One of the longest-running programs in the history of Canadian television, the series produced 81 episodes during its 14-year run and was one of the first influential téléromans. Written by Claude-Henri Grignon as an adaptation of his 1933 novel Un Homme et son péché and initially set in the 1880s, the series starred Jean-Pierre Masson as Séraphin Poudrier, the wealthy but miserly mayor of the village of Sainte-Adèle, Quebec, and Andrée Champagne as Donalda Laloge-Poudrier, the young daughter of a village resident who is given in marriage to Séraphin as payment for a family debt even though she remains in love with her suitor Alexis Labranche.
- First Air Date: 1956-10-08
- Last Air Date: 1961-10-16
- Total Seasons: 1
- Total Episodes: 6
- Episode Runtime: 60 min.
- Network: ICI Radio-Canada Télé
- Director: Fernand Ouirion
- Creator: Louis-Yves Dubois, Claude-Henri Grignon
