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Saturday Date with Billy O'Connor
Saturday Date with Billy O'Connor is a Canadian variety television series which aired on CBC Television from 1958 to 1959.
Premise.
Billy O'Connor, a musician who previously hosted CBC series such as "The Billy O'Connor Show" and "Club O'Connor", was seen in this series with performers Allan Blye and Vanda King. The series house band was a quartet featuring an accordionist (Vic Centro), a bassist (Jackie Richardson), a drummer (Doug McLeod) and a guitarist (
rationale for the suicide.
Plot.
Set in 1953, the film explores the budding relationship between teenagers Billy Joe McAllister (Benson) and Bobbie Lee Hartley (O'Connor) (who corresponds to the unnamed narrator of the original song), despite resistance from Hartley's family, who contend she is too young to date. One night at a jamboree, McAllister gets drunk and seems nauseated and confused when entering a makeshift brothel behind the gathering. It turns out that in his inebriated state, he had sex with another