The Canadian children's television program "Blizzard Island" was created by Terry Angus and Stoney Ripley from Nova Scotia.
Once out of high school they shot a homemade version of the show using a video camera bought by Angus with money from working on Jim Henson's "Fraggle Rock" in Toronto.
[1] Having liked the two pilots the CBC ordered up twelve more episodes which were shot in 1988 in conjunction with Studio East and Telefilm Canada.
The show fell victim to budget cuts at the CBC and failed to return despite better than average ratings in Canada.
Angus and Ripley went on to work together on the projects "Four Fish Fly Free" in Manhattan Kansas and "Tooth And Claw" also out of Halifax Nova Scotia Blizzard Island Episodes