Write On
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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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Episode 30 : Lucretia: Like, As
January. 01,0001
A distraught witch enters the offices in need of Henry and Miss Newton's help. No matter how she tries, the witch can't get her written commands to work her magic. It turns out all her commands were written with the word ""like,"" when it should be ""as.""
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Episode 29 : You Bet Your Life: Already, All Ready / Further, Farther
January. 01,0001
Mr. Morton reprimands Henry's quotation of the Mayor: ""No farther comment."" The paper will print the correct usage, if the Mayor did not say it. At the end of his diatribe, Morton asks Henry, ""What do you think this is, a game?"" This leads to Henry's daydream of a game show. He plays a contestant who must teach host Morton his mistakes.
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Episode 28 : The Mad Bomber: Is Where, Is When
January. 01,0001
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Episode 27 : Reginald Parse: Differ with, Differ from / Continual, Continuous / Imply, Infer
January. 01,0001
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Episode 26 : Cinderella Newton: Sit, Set / Lay, Lie
January. 01,0001
It's time for both Miss Newton and Henry to fantasize a Cinderella story. This time, the grand prize goes to the girl who can distinguish the verbs sit from set and lay from lie.
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Episode 25 : Captain Kent: Hyphens
January. 01,0001
Henry has left out all the hyphens in his story on an ex-general's peace policy. To prove his point, Morton moves his hand horizontally to simulate hyphens: ""Anti- (moves hand) tanks."" This prompts Henry's war dream as a wounded Captain Kent.
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Episode 24 : Comrades X and B: Apostrophes
January. 01,0001
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Episode 23 : Dracula's Defeat: Quotation Marks 2
January. 01,0001
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Episode 22 : Irma Faust: Quotation Marks
January. 01,0001
A tattooed lady named Irma Faust threatens to sue the newspaper over an advertisement. The eulogy of her husband, tattooed on her back, has misused quotation marks everywhere. Mr. Morton and Henry help to make the corrections before they get a call from the tattoo parlor. It turns out the tattoo is only a first draft , done in Magic Marker. With that, Irma Faust coaxes Mr. Morton to the parlor as a proofreader.
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Episode 21 : The Comma Kid: Semicolons
January. 01,0001
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Episode 20 : Peter Berton: Commas with Dates and Addresses
January. 01,0001
The newspaper has secretly plotted to replace both Henry Kent and Miss Newton with a professional named Peter Berton. He claims to know where to type commas in dates and addresses with his eyes closed. Henry challenges Berton, lending him the use of a faulty typewriter that can't print the comma. Mr. Morton goes belligerent at the site of Berton's apparent résumé and tells Henry to put it in the ""People Not to Hire"" file.
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Episode 19 : The Bard: Commas with Introductory Adverb Clauses
January. 01,0001
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Episode 18 : Miss Newton's Trial: Commas in a Series
January. 01,0001
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Episode 17 : Goodbye, Cruel World: Commas with Parenthetical Expressions
January. 01,0001
An acrophobic threatens to jump from the window near Henry's and Miss Newton's desks. Both of them ask to see his suicide note, which lacks a few commas. Once they correct the note, the poor man declines the opportunity to jump.
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Episode 16 : Henry Chan: Commas with Appositives
January. 01,0001
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Episode 15 : Rhubarb Power: Pronoun Reference
January. 01,0001
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Episode 14 : The Robber's Guide: Correlative Conjunctions
January. 01,0001
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Episode 13 : The Making of Flaws: Active and Passive Voice
January. 01,0001
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Episode 12 : Paolo Carbonara: Subject-Verb Agreement
January. 01,0001
An organ grinder named Paolo Carbonara is searching for his monkey. It turns out the monkey walked out because he could not stand the sign on Paolo's back: ""A gift of dollar bills are greatly welcome."" Henry and Miss Newton convince Paolo to change the sign to ""A gift of dollar bills [b]is[/b] greatly welcome."" It's just what Paolo needs to win back the monkey's favor.
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Episode 11 : King Kane: Misplaced Modifiers
January. 01,0001
Mr. Morton has fired Henry because he was out of the office when a gorilla escaped from the zoo. But Morton's note to Henry reads (in part), ""A gorilla broke out of his cage with a bunch of bananas."" It's a misplaced modifier that Miss Newton and Henry correct, but not the last mistake. The gorilla shows up at the office, pointing out a misplaced modifier on the sign that stood at his zoo cage. Henry gets the sign corrected. This leads to a surprise for Mr. Morton.
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Episode 10 : Slick Stagger: Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
January. 01,0001
What kind of rotten music is that English rock band playing? It's littered with sentences fused together with no periods, plus some badly-placed commas. Henry and Miss Newton tell band leader Slick Stagger that comma splices and fused sentences can't be expected to sell records. This leads to a spontaneous new song.
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Episode 9 : Fragment Fred: Sentence Fragments
January. 01,0001
Mr. Morton reminds Henry that he is too inexperienced to gamble with sentence fragments. It prompts Henry to daydream of a Mississippi Riverboat showdown. To win Miss Newton, Henry must beat the sneaky Fragment Fred in a game of ""Five-Word Stud.""
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Episode 8 : The Spice of Life: Variety in Word Order
January. 01,0001
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Episode 7 : The Foolish Suitor: Figures of Speech
January. 01,0001
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Episode 5 : Miss Grouse: Avoiding Clichés
January. 01,0001
Miss Grouse, the garden columnist for the newspaper, is about to be relieved of her duties because she has re-used clichés in her work. Her dog groans at her very mention of a cliché. It is up to Henry to help Miss Grouse get a fresh approach to her column.
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Episode 4 : The Escaped Convict: Adjectives
January. 01,0001
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Episode 3 : Calling Dr. Kent: Concrete Nouns
January. 01,0001
The first of Henry Kent's daydreams materializes when Morton chides him for not using specific nouns. In the dream, Henry is a famous surgeon who gives direction to befuddled compatriots.
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Episode 2 : La Bellicosa: Adverbs
January. 01,0001
Henry submits a poorly-written review of an opera. It lacks adverbs, implores Morton. But if the editor's remarks are bad enough for Henry, he must also deal with opera singer La Bellicosa, for it was her nephew's opera that Henry criticized.
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Episode 1 : Stocky Mariano: Vigorous Verbs
January. 01,0001
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