Network: Reelz
Episodes: 18 (hour) + two-hour movie
Seasons: Two
TV show dates: September 11, 2012 — May 26, 2014
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: Meg Tilly, Jodi Balfour, Charlotte Hegele, Ali Liebert, Antonio Cupo, Sebastian Pigott, Peter Outerbridge, Anastasia Phillips, Jim Codrington, and Lisa Norton.
TV show description:
Set in 1940s Toronto, this TV series explores the lives of various women who find themselves thrust into new worlds. They work in munitions factories, building the arms that keep their overseas husbands, lovers, brothers, and sons alive and fighting.
While they’re building bombs, the women also find themselves flourishing with newfound freedom, discovering strengths they never before imagined. At the same time they’re often woefully under-equipped for the new challenges they face. Amid propaganda and sexual harassment, crossing social and cultural boundaries, these remarkable women form a unique sisterhood.
Lorna Corbett (Meg Tilly) met her husband Bob (Peter Outerbridge) at age 18 before he shipped out to the Great War, and married after their affair left her pregnant. Bob returned a broken man, shell-shocked and paralyzed, and their dream of a happy life vanished. Lorna quietly relishes her new job as it’s a chance to escape an oppressive home and is secretly jealous of the other ladies’ happiness. She’s determined not to let them make the same mistakes she did. Lorna is especially resentful Gladys and seeks to break the spirited girl, even though she recognizes her own long-lost exuberance.
Gladys Witham (Jodi Balfour) is a wild child and the only daughter in a wealthy Rosedale family. Gladys’s privileged life has made her fearless with an appetite for life and she’s always gotten what she wanted. Now, what she wants is changing and its far less superficial. Does this leave room for James Dunn, her fiance?
New to Toronto, Kate Andrews (Charlotte Hegele) is eager to please and gifted at lifting spirits thanks to a staggeringly talented singing voice. Beneath her smile is a sheltered, insecure girl who’s on the run from her abusive street-preaching father. Cobbling together a new identity, Kate appears to have evaded punishment and her past, for now.
Betty McRae (Ali Liebert) is a recent arrival from rural Saskatchewan. An early arrival to Victory Munitions, Betty quickly rose through the ranks to be a well-regarded worker who doubles as Blue Shift’s on-floor trainer of the new workers. She fled her troubling past to live in a place with fewer men to mistrust. Betty has a hard attitude but for some reason, this doesn’t seem to apply to her interactions with Kate.
Blue Shift’s materials controller, Marco Moretti (Antonio Cupo), is responsible for the raw materials coming into the factory, as well as the export of every finished bomb. He gained his experience from his family’s fireworks factory, and now supports his mother, sister and nieces as the sole breadwinner. His father has been locked away in an internment camp alongside hundreds of other Italian immigrants. Though Marco considers himself a Canadian, he knows others see him as a potential enemy and is unable to enlist.
James Dunn (Sebastian Pigott) is smart, attractive, wealthy, and poised to take the world by storm. He’s a decent man whose refinement haven’t resulted in snobbery. Still, having been largely sheltered from the world’s harsh truths, he’s woefully innocent about matters of the heart. While he’s drawn to Gladys, her exuberance often threatens to overwhelm him. He was an American before Pearl Harbor and still doesn’t feel that the war is truly his to fight.
Vera Burr (Anastasia Phillips) is a Blue Shift worker and was disfigured in an accident at the factory and suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. African-American Leon (Jim Codrington) works in the warehouse at Victory Munitions. A jazz musician and singer, he saves Kate from an attempted assault. Edith McAllum (Lisa Norton) is a floor worker at Victory, is close friends with Lorna, and befriends Bob while dealing with the aftermath of her husband’s death.
Bomb Girls: Facing the Enemy (series ending movie)
It is the Spring of 1943 and the Battle for the Atlantic rages as an Axis victory seems inevitable. The one hope the Allies have – production of newly developed sonar equipment – is moved to Victory Munitions when the British factories are bombed. Under the increased pressure, the women of Vic Mu — Gladys, Lorna, Kate, Betty and Vera — band together in a tight bond of support and friendship. Then, in the darkest hour of the war, a new and disturbing menace appears – a saboteur among the factory workers.
First aired: May 26, 2014.
What do you think? Do you like the Bomb Girls TV series? Do you think it should have been cancelled or renewed for a third season?
My wife and I truly enjoy Bomb Girls. It just blows my mind that they continue to produce these retarded reality shows. Why can’t they keep goo TV programmes on?
I can’t believe you are cancelling Bomb Girls! It is one of the best shows that I’ve seen in a long time! My father was in WWII & I love the history of it & the 1940s! Please rethink this!
I think cancelling Bomb Girls is the biggest mistake a Canadian television studio has ever made! Not only is it an insult to Canadians in general for their lack of awareness regarding what their viewers actually want, but its an insult to the women who came before us, the ones who’s story is being retold, the ones who story deserves the attention Bomb Girls does such a great job of sharing with the rest of the world.
Bomb Girls is one of the best shows on television. It is well scripted and well acted. Cancelling a show of this quality would be truly a mistake.
This show is great and needs to be renewed for a third season!
I LOVE THIS SHOW! PLEASE!! DO NOT CANCELLED I look forward to see it…I want Season 1 I just discovered it Meg Tilly is great!
I just found this wonderful series and I love it. I am spreading the word and have increased it’s fans in this area by a substantial number.
yes i love the show please do not cancel the series
Love the Bomb Girls. Please keep it going.
I love the show, it shows it was not just a male era that without woman the so called glamor ara would have been nothing but a male domanated war that woman were behind the sucsess of the time. and makes me proud to be a canadian woman
I really like this show, It shows what the women went through during the war. A thing that has never really been touched on before.
Love it!
I love the Bomb Girls, it was a great show it showed us a part of the war that was not really spoke of. Bring it back.
I just found this show last night and fell in love with it, please keep it going it has a wonderful storyline and I like learning what happeneded during the war.
I thoroughly enjoy this show. I would like to make comment on the last episode, however; when Gladys, Marco and his mother go to Petawawa to visit his father. The time is April 1942, as the Toronto Maple Leafs had just won the Stanley Cup and yet the trees are full of green leaves and the grass is green. They stop for a picnic on the trip. I do not think this would be possible at that time of the year. I know I am a stickler for details. Comments??
i think they sould be a second season very good show