Across the River to Motor City
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| Across the River to Motor City | |
|---|---|
| Format | drama/mystery |
| Created by | Denis McGrath Robert Wertheimer |
| Written by | Jocelyn Cornforth Denis McGrath Robert Wertheimer |
| Directed by | Michael DeCarlo |
| Starring | Sasha Roiz David Fox Anne Openshaw Joe Pingue Howard Jerome Matthew Deslippe Raven Dauda |
| Country of origin |  Canada |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Wanda Chaffey David Devine Bryn Garrison Denis McGrath Richard Mozer Robert Wertheimer |
| Running time | 48 min |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Citytv |
| Original airing | November 22, 2007 |
| External links | |
| IMDb profile | |
Across The River To Motor City is a Canadian television drama series, that airs on Citytv stations. It debuted November 22nd, 2007. The series is about an insurance investigator named Ben Ford who works the border in both Detroit and Windsor. The story takes into account the shifting allegiances and ambitions that straddle the Detroit/Windsor Canada/US border.
Benjamin Ford's 30th birthday happens to fall on a fateful day: November 22, 1963, the day of the Kennedy assassination. Coincidentally, it is also the day that his flight attendant girlfriend, Katie, disappears on a flight back from Dallas.
The mystery of what happened to her, and why, consumes the life of Ben Ford; it eventually involves his adult daughter, Kathleen, when Katie's body turns up 40 years later. Family mysteries and intrigue play out against a spectacular backdrop of some of the more momentous events of recent American and Canadian history.
The six-episode series was shot in the Canadian cities of Hamilton, Ontario, Toronto, Ontario and Windsor, Ontario as well as the American city of Detroit, Michigan.
