Corner Gas – Doyle’s Space: SitCom Hall of Fame

Dog River is certainly small, but it is not presented as an idealized Mayberry-like community. The official description emphasizes that it is a town where everybody knows everybody else’s business, and the characters frequently interfere in one another’s lives.

Corner Gas is a Canadian sitcom created by comedian Brent Butt that became one of the most successful and recognizable television comedies in Canadian history. The series premiered on CTV on January 22, 2004, and ran for six seasons and 107 episodes, ending on April 13, 2009. Its setting was the fictional prairie town of Dog River, Saskatchewan, a place described as being “40 kilometres from nowhere,” where very little seems to happen and the residents are perfectly capable of

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