The Beachcombers Years
The role of his career arrived in 1972 when he was signed to play Nick Adonidas in The Beachcombers, a comedy-adventure-drama set on the west coast of Canada. The Beachcombers ran for 387 episodes between 1972 and 1990 and remains Canada's longest-ever running weekly dramatic series.
During part of his time with The Beachcombers, Gerussi hosted the popular CBC cooking program Celebrity Cooks in the late 1970s. The series featured the last public appearance of actor Bob Crane of Hogan's Heroes fame, who was murdered soon afterwards. The taping of Crane's episode was recreated in the 2002 film, Auto Focus in which actor John Kapelos portrayed Gerussi.
Gerussi's popularity in Celebrity Cooks led him to become commercial spokesperson for one of the first lines of microwave ovens to be made available for home use in Canada in the late-1970s/early-1980s.
He was the host of the first Genie Awards broadcast in 1980. The Genies are the primary honours for Canadian cinema.
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“The years go by in single file;
But none has merited my fear,
And none has quite escaped my smile.”
—Elinor Wylie (1885–1928)