The Day It Rained on Our Parade

The Day It Rained on Our Parade
那一年我们淋着雨
Genre	National Day Historical
Starring	Eelyn Kok Cynthia Koh Pan Lingling Chew Chor Meng Aileen Tan Priscelia Chan Ng Hui
Country of origin	Singapore
Original language	Chinese
No. of episodes	4
Production
Running time	approx. 45 minutes
Original release
Network	MediaCorp Channel 8
Release	4 August (2012-08-04) – 25 August 2012 (2012-08-25)

The Day It Rained on Our Parade (Chinese: 那一年我们淋着雨) is a 4-part Singaporean Chinese drama produced in conjunction with National Day and the 47th anniversary of independence from the British. It starred Eelyn Kok, Cynthia Koh, Pan Lingling, Chew Chor Meng, Aileen Tan, Priscelia Chan & Ng Hui as the casts of the series. It was telecasted on Singapore's free-to-air channel, MediaCorp Channel 8. It debuted on 4 August 2012, and screened every Saturday night at 10:30 pm,[1] with a repeat telecast at Sunday afternoons at 12:00pm. The series was dubbed in English, Malay and Tamil and aired on Channel 5, Suria and Vasantham.

Cast

• Pan Lingling as Lucy / Mu Shu Lan: She acted as the owner of Carnival Beauty Salon
• Cynthia Koh as Lu Lu 露露
• Eelyn Kok as Qiu Yan Ping 邱燕萍
• Chew Chor Meng
• Chen Huihui
• Aileen Tan as 肥妈
• Priscelia Chan as Liu Li Li 刘莉莉
• Ng Hui as Sister Maria 玛利亚修女[1]
• Li Wenhai
• Wang Yuqing

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Plot

The story is about the 1968 National Day Parade and the characters, though fictional, and events are based on eyewitness accounts.

Episodes

Episode	Title	Original airdate	Encore date
1	"Episode One"	4 August 2012 (2012-08-04) PG	5 August 2012 PG
2	"Episode Two"	11 August 2012 (2012-08-11) PG	12 August 2012 PG
3	"Episode Three"	18 August 2012 (2012-08-18)	19 August 2012
4	"Finale"	25 August 2012 (2012-08-25) PG	26 August 2012 PG

Production

To celebrate Singapore's 47th National Day, MediaCorp produced a drama based on the 1968 National Day Parade (NDP). As the 1968 NDP was held on a rainy day, the drama was named after the rainy day.[1][3]

See also

• List of programmes broadcast by Mediacorp Channel 8

References

1. "Mediacorp to produce 4-episode national day drama". sg.news.yahoo.com. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
2. "The Day It Rained on Our Parade《那一年我们淋着雨》 – on bagua8". Archived from the original on 27 June 2012. Retrieved 20 July 2012.
3. "The rugged society's day..." eresources.nlb.gov.sg. Retrieved 9 March 2019.