Tyler is a Canadian television film, directed by Ralph L. Thomas and broadcast by CBC Television in 1978. The film stars R. H. Thomson as Tyler Dorsett, a young man who aspires to take over ownership and operation of the family farm where he grew up, but becomes drawn into unethical or illegal activities, such as gambling and cockfighting, as he desperately tries to raise the money to buy the farm within the 30-day deadline before his father (Murray Westgate) sells out to a major agribusiness corporation. The film's teleplay was written by journalist Roy MacGregor.