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When Front Page Challenge ceased production in 1995, it was the longest continually running non-news program in Canadian television history. [13] Among the contestants on the final show was then-emerging country music superstar Shania Twain .
Apr 7, 2010 · In this clip from 1965, after leaving the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X appears on CBC-TV's 'Front Page Challenge' weeks before his assassination. He proclaims,...
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Front Page Challenge: Created by John Aylesworth. With Pierre Berton, Fred Davis, Gordon Sinclair, Betty Kennedy. A game show where noted Canadian journalists guess the news story associated with the mystery guests and then conduct interviews with them.
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When the show debuted, the CBC Times program guide described Flashback as a show that featured "persons, fads or objects once well-known but now in relative obscurity." Paul Soles, an actor who simultaneously co-hosted CBC's Take 30, was Flashback's first host. "Emphasis will be on the drama of personal stories told by men and women whose names wer...
CBC's television catalog records the details of some 97 episodes of Flashback. Among the more durable celebrities featured on Flashback were actors Olivia de Havilland (who died in July 2020 at the age of 104), Buster Keaton and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Actress Betty White, who had won an Emmy Award for her work on a comedy series called Life With El...
"Viewers are invited to submit suggestions to the program for identification by the panel," noted the CBC program guide. "If the suggestion is used, the person submitting the idea will receive $25; if the panel is stumped, the prize money will be doubled to $50." (That's a stump-the-panel payout equivalent to $430 in 2020 dollars.) The Toronto Star...
Sep 30, 2019 · CBC officially cancelled “Front Page Challenge” on February 10, 1995. With a star-studded guest list and a historic 38-year run, “Front Page Challenge” was a Canadian TV staple that put current events in the spotlight in an entertaining way.
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Sep 27, 2007 · Beginning in 1957 as a summer replacement quiz show, Front Page Challenge ran for 38 years, ending in April 1995. The show attracted well-known guests from around the world, most of whom were in the news at the time.
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Created by John Aylesworth, Front Page Challenge was originally telecast by the CBC beginning June 24, 1957, and ending in the fall of 1995.
