La famille Plouffe

La famille Plouffe is a Canadian television drama, more specifically a téléroman, about a Quebec City family that first aired in the French language on Société Radio-Canada in 1953. The show was created to fill a void in French-language television in Canada. Whereas the anglophone television branch of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation could broadcast English-language shows from American stations, the francophone component of the CBC, Radio-Canada had to develop its own programs for its viewers from the earliest days of television in Canada. The show was one of the few that helped to launch the téléroman genre of programming in French Canada around the same time that the first telenovelas aired in Latin America.