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Write On Season 2

January. 01,1900

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Write On

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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Write On Season 2 Full Episode Guide

Episode 30 - Dream On: Review 4

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Finally, Mr. Morton learns that Henry's daydreams are his way to learning good writing skills.

Episode 29 - Dream Weaving: Review 3

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 28 - Leo Claws: The Business Letter

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 27 - Henry's Angels: Regardless, Uninterested, Stationary

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 26 - Henry Kent, Tycoon: Practical, Practicable / Raise, Rise

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 25 - MacHenry: Awful, Terrible, Nice

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Morton claims Henry's casual use of ""awful,"" ""terrible,"" and ""nice"" embarrasses him almost to death. That drifts Henry into a tragic parallel of Macbeth.

Episode 24 - Beau Jest: Affect, Effect

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 23 - The Revengers: Could Have, Should Have

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 22 - Jungle Madness: Amount, Number / Fewer, Less

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 21 - An SOS: Loose, Lose / Passed, Past

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 20 - The Devil and Henry Kent: Rewriting

First Aired: January. 01,0001

On a March day, Henry doesn't believe Mr. Morton's advice that good writing comes from rewriting. That leads to Henry's deal with the Devil: he can write anything he wants in one draft. The Devil will take care of the rest, until the end of the month. Come April Fool's Day, who knows what will happen?

Episode 19 - Transition Trek: Transitions

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 18 - The Case of the Missing Editor: Tone

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 17 - Their Finest Paragraph: Emphasis 2

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 16 - The Rocking Horse Writer: Emphasis 1

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 15 - Scribbling Beauty 2: Coherence 2

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 14 - Scribbling Beauty 1: Coherence 1

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 13 - I, Henry: Unity

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 12 - Gone with the Paragraph: Paragraph Development through Definition

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 11 - A Critical Lapse: Paragraph Development through Cause and Effect

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Miss Newton is scheduled to appear in a play, and Henry has been asked to review it. Sadly, Henry falls asleep in the office, dreaming of Miss Newton's stellar performance. He ends up faking a review, which doesn't fool Mr. Morton anyâ€“not when a strike closed the theater.

Episode 10 - The Scarlet Pen Pal: Paragraph Development through Contrast

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 9 - The Old Man and the Paragraph: Paragraph Development through Comparison

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 8 - Happy Daze: Paragraph Development through Details

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 7 - The Almost Dangerous Game: The Topic Sentence

First Aired: January. 01,0001

""You are playing a dangerous game,"" Morton scolds when Henry's latest story lacks a topic sentence. This leads to a dream sequence in which Henry and Miss Newton wash up on an island. He accepts the challenge to write a cohesive paragraph. If the enemy (Morton) spies the mistake, Henry will lose.

Episode 6 - The Pharaoh's Daughter: The Outline

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 5 - Show Business: Sentence Length

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 4 - The Night Before: Effective Subordination

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 3 - Curses, Foiled Again: Parallelism

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 2 - Perchance to Dream: Review 2

First Aired: January. 01,0001

When Miss Newton criticizes one of his daydreams, Henry tells her of how he learned correct use of the semicolon, quotation marks, and hyphens.

Episode 1 - The Dreamer: Review 1

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Henry reveals to Miss Newton the lessons he has learned through daydreams. Flashbacks retell the need for concrete nouns, the difference between sentences and fragments, commas used with appositives and commas in a series.

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