One of television’s most admired family dramas comes to VisionTV on weekdays. Set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, The Waltons tells the story of a poor but upright American family struggling to stay together through the hardships of the Great Depression and the dark days of World War Two. Their trials and tribulations are seen through the eyes of John-Boy Walton (Richard Thomas), the eldest of seven children and an aspiring writer. Through good times and bad, his parents (Ralph Waite, Michael Learned) and grandparents (Will Geer, Ellen Corby) do their utmost to set an example of strength, determination, decency and compassion. The winner of 13 Emmy Awards, including best drama series.

Set in the 1860s, this hit series stars Jane Seymour (Wedding Crashers) as Dr. Michaela ("Mike") Quinn, a strong-willed Boston physician practicing in a small Colorado town, where her liberal-minded ways clash with the rugged values of the Western frontier. Joe Lando (Higher Ground) also stars.

Once upon a time, the TV murder mystery was a genteel and tasteful affair. Then came the CSI franchise and its hell-spawn, trailing blood and body parts. For those who prefer their whodunits without the autopsy footage, VisionTV has a special treat: all 264 episodes of Murder, She Wrote, returning to the Canadian airwaves for the first time in more than four years.

Alexandra DeMonaco (Elizabeth Lackey) was a good citizen and devoted mother – until her husband made Alex the scapegoat for his medical insurance scam. While she went to prison, he walked away with $5 million – and their daughter Mia. Determined never again to be a victim, she earned a law degree behind bars, and now, out on parole, works as an assistant to San Francisco civil attorney Hamilton Whitney III (Richard Thomas). Alex uses her knowledge of the law to help those who have been abandoned by the system, while fighting to clear her own name and locate her vanished daughter.

Country music performer Billy Ray Cyrus stars as doctor Clint "Doc" Cassidy who gives up the simple life in Montana and takes a position at Westbury Clinic, a small medical center in New York, NY, only to find that practicing his brand of down-home medicine in the Big Apple isn't always easy.

Before House, before Doc Martin, a Canadian took the gold medal for TV’s least lovable doctor. As portrayed on the drama series Side Effects by the ever-reliable Albert Schultz (Shades of Black: The Conrad Black Story), Dr. Noah Knelman was a cynical, smug, self-serving – and thoroughly compelling – character (even if you’d never want him as your physician in real life).

At Johannesburg Metropolitan Hospital, cutting-edge modern medical technology collides with centuries-old African healing traditions. Jozi-H delves into the personal and professional lives of an international team of doctors and nurses working in the trauma department. Drawn from South Africa, Canada, the U.S. and Britain, these dedicated healers confront the sometimes violent reality of the post-apartheid era, while operating at the very front line of Africa’s HIV/AIDS crisis.

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Set in 1989. Eric Miyeni stars as Darryl, an expatriate South African writer living in Toronto with his Canadian wife Rosa (Julie Stewart). Darryl obsesses over the possibility that he is still being stalked by the South African secret police, and recalls the tragedies and deprivations experienced by himself and his family under the oppressive Apartheid system. Ultimately, Darryl develops into a firebrand political activist, determined to return to South Africa to right old wrongs, even if it may cost him his life.