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 Societé Radio-Canada and a newer version on TVA from 2001 to 2006.
A dubbed English version also aired simultaneously on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as He Shoots, He Scores. It was the first television series to air simultaneously on the English and French networks of the CBC. (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 National Hockey League fictional 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 junior team the Trois-Rivieres Dragons.
[edit] Background
Lance et compte is a common hockey expression of Quebec French equivalent to He shoots, he scores. Something the show was known for its somewhat occasional risqué love scenes. The team Le National is a direct calque 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 calque of the Trois-Rivieres Draveurs from the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. Calques 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. A new show called Lance et compte: La nouvelle génération was aired in 2001 with a new breed of players (and presence of the original characters) but was aired onto TQS (Télévision Quatre-Saisons)for that year only, goes back to TVA on the next serie. In 2004, Lance et Compte: la reconquête was aired on TVA and during the Fall of 2006 a new series called Lance et Compte: La revanche was also aired on TVA.
[edit] See also
- List of Quebec television series
- Television of Quebec
- Culture of Quebec
- Ligue virtuel Lance et compte
