A Population of One is a Canadian television film, directed by Robert Sherrin and broadcast by CBC Television in 1980.Rick Groen, "Change in time warps plot of A Population of One". The Globe and Mail, September 13, 1980. Based on the novel by Constance Beresford-Howe, the film stars Dixie Seatle as Willy Doyle, a young woman who gets her first job as a professor of 19th-century English literature at a university, where she finds herself romantically attracted to her colleague John Trueman (R. H. Thomson)."A Population of One 90-minute TV drama". North Bay Nugget, August 29, 1980.
The cast also includes Tony Van Bridge as Archie Clark, the head of the English faculty; Kate Lynch as Marg, a faculty colleague; Jonathan Welsh as Marg's boyfriend Harry, an activist who is lobbying to get Archie deposed as department head in favour of a younger professor with more modern teaching methods; and Nicholas Campbell as Mike, a student with his own interest in Willy.
The teleplay was written by Anna Sandor.
Cast Nicholas Campbell as Mike Kate Lynch as Marg Dixie Seatle as Willy Doyle R.H. Thomson as John Trueman Tony Van Bridge as Archie Jonathan Welsh as Harry
Awards and nominations + Award Year Category Nominee(s) Result ACTRA Awards April 10, 1981 Best Television Actor Dixie Seatle "Nominees announced for ACTRAs". The Globe and Mail, March 13, 1981. Bijou Awards October 28, 1981 Best Actress, Non-Feature "War Brides top Bijou winner". Regina Leader-Post, October 30, 1981.
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