Neon Rider

Neon Rider is a Canadian drama television series which first aired between 1990 and 1995. Created by Winston Rekert and Danny Virtue, the show was about the title character, a psychologist named Michael Terry (Rekert) who, after writing a successful book on adolescent psychology, purchases his childhood friend's family ranch just outside of Mission, British Columbia to open a therapeutic residential treatment program for troubled and abused teens. The series was filmed and set in Vancouver, and British Columbia's Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley.[1]

Neon Rider
Genre	Drama
Created by	Winston Rekert Danny Virtue
Directed by	Bruce Pittman George Bloomfield Neill Fearnley Winston Rekert Peter D. Marshall Mick MacKay Joseph L. Scanlan René Bonnière Danny Virtue Allan King Michael Robison Vic Sarin David Winning Nicholas Kendall
Starring	Winston Rekert
Theme music composer	Terry Frewer
Country of origin	Canada
Original language	English
No. of seasons	5
No. of episodes	64
Production
Executive producers	Winston Rekert Michael MacMillan Danny Virtue
Producers	Justis Greene Mary Kahn
Production locations	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Mission, British Columbia, Canada
Editor	Frank Irvine
Running time	60 minutes (including commercials)
Production company	Virtue/Rekert Productions
Release
Original network	CTV (1990-1992) YTV (1992-1995)
Picture format	Color
Audio format	Stereo
Original release	September 15, 1990 (1990-09-15) – November 1, 1995 (1995-11-01)

Other cast members included Samuel Sarkar, William S. Taylor, Peter Williams, Suzanne Errett-Balcom, Antoinette Bower, Barbara Tyson, Alex Bruhanski, Philip Granger and Jim Byrnes.

Neon Rider was produced by Alliance Atlantis and broadcast on the CTV Television Network on Saturdays at 10 PM then moved to 8 PM in 1991. CTV cancelled the series in 1992 after which original episodes continued to air on the youth-oriented cable network YTV and in syndication.

The series was also popular in Gibraltar where it aired on GBC TV.

SciFi veteran David Winning directed the third-season episode "Straight Home" guest-starring Martin Cummins.[2]