Lance et compte
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Lance et compte is a series of Quebec téléromans revolving around a Quebec City ice hockey team. The series aired from 1986 to 1988 on the Radio-Canada network, and a revival series on TVA from 2001 to 2006.
The first season was filmed in both French and English, the English version appearing on CBC Television as He Shoots, He Scores. It was the first television series to air simultaneously in English on CBC and in French on Radio-Canada. (An earlier series, La famille Plouffe, had aired on both networks, but not simultaneously; the English version aired approximately a year behind the French series. Each episode of Lance et compte, however, aired in English as He Shoots, He Scores in the very same week.)
The series was scripted by Réjean Tremblay and Louis Caron for the first season, and by Tremblay and Jacques Jacob after that. Following the end of the regular series, a number of television movies continued to air into the 1990s.
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[edit] Synopsis
The very popular cult series written by Réjean Tremblay and well known novelist Louis Caron for the first season (later replaced by Jacques Jacob), is one of the many distinctive Quebec téléromans, tells the story of the fictional National Hockey League team Le National from Quebec City, and its players. The main protagonist is Pierre Lambert, the young, handsome player drafted by Le National from the Trois-Rivières Dragons junior team.
[edit] Background
Lance et compte is a common Quebec French hockey expression to He shoots, he scores. Something the show was known for is its somewhat occasional risqué love scenes. The team Le National is a direct copy of the real-life Nordiques, up to the logo (the Nordiques have the lower case letter N as symbol; the National has a capital N). The Dragons are themselves a copy of the Trois-Rivieres Draveurs from the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. Copies of real organizations are common in Quebecois téléromans. Examples: La Presse newspaper is L'Express in Scoop and the Sûreté du Québec police force is the Sûreté nationale in Jasmine.
[edit] Incarnations
In addition to its English airing in Canada, the show was adapted in France as Cogne et gagne, with France French dubbing. A well known incarnation of Lance et Compte is the series of parody sketches of Rock et Belles Oreilles dubbed Snappe pis Bourdonne.
Several TV movies have been made in the franchise
- Tous pour un
- Le Crime de Lulu
- Le Moment de vérité
- Le Choix
- Envers et contre tous
- Le Retour du chat
A new show called Lance et compte: La nouvelle génération aired in 2001 with a new breed of players (and presence of the original characters) and aired on TQS (Télévision Quatre-Saisons) for that year only. In 2004, Lance et Compte: la reconquête aired on TVA and during the Fall of 2006 a new series called Lance et Compte: La revanche also aired on TVA. A new saison, Lance et Compte: Le grand duel, is currently under production.
