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  • CBC Front Page Challenge - Alexander Kerensky

    From The Horny Goat@lcraver@home.ca to rec.arts.tv,soc.history.what-if on Sun May 24 11:26:56 2020
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    Front Page Challenge was a CBC news-related quiz show where 4
    panelists (usually Pierre Berton, Gordon Sinclair, Betty Kennedy and a revolving guest) were given news headlines and a hidden guest who was
    connected to the headline and given 30 seconds each to quiz the guest
    in an effort to figure out who the hidden guest was.

    The show ran for 25+ years in the 60s through 90s (and was considered
    iconic in its day) and had some fascinating guests all the way from
    Alexander Kerensky through Malcolm X. The Malcolm X show is on Youtube
    - I am looking for a copy of the Kerensky show (which I saw live
    sometime between my high school junior year and my undergraduate days)
    which would have been early 1970s.

    Anybody know if it's available anywhere?
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  • From Rhino@no_offline_contact@example.com to rec.arts.tv,soc.history.what-if on Sun May 24 15:16:52 2020
    From Newsgroup: soc.history.what-if

    On 2020-05-24 2:26 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
    Front Page Challenge was a CBC news-related quiz show where 4
    panelists (usually Pierre Berton, Gordon Sinclair, Betty Kennedy and a revolving guest) were given news headlines and a hidden guest who was connected to the headline and given 30 seconds each to quiz the guest
    in an effort to figure out who the hidden guest was.

    The show ran for 25+ years in the 60s through 90s (and was considered
    iconic in its day) and had some fascinating guests all the way from
    Alexander Kerensky through Malcolm X. The Malcolm X show is on Youtube
    - I am looking for a copy of the Kerensky show (which I saw live
    sometime between my high school junior year and my undergraduate days)
    which would have been early 1970s.

    Anybody know if it's available anywhere?

    The Wikipedia article on Front Page Challenge gave me the idea to check
    the CBC archives and a search there turned up an interview of Kerensky
    by Charles Templeton, but not a Front Page Challenge clip. (I wonder if perhaps that's what you actually saw, not an appearance on Front Page Challenge?) Unfortunately, when I clicked on the Templeton interview, I
    got a 404 error. This URL should show the search result: https://www.cbc.ca/search?q=Kerensky&section=all&sortOrder=relevance

    Maybe you could contact the CBC and see if they could restore that
    interview to the website if they still have it? Or, if you're certain
    you saw Kerensky on Front Page Challenge, you could ask them to hunt for
    that clip and make it available on their website?

    Given all the tax money we give to the CBC every year, you'd think they
    might actually respond favourably to a viewer request like that if they
    still have it.
    --
    Rhino
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  • From The Horny Goat@lcraver@home.ca to soc.history.what-if on Sun May 24 17:31:40 2020
    From Newsgroup: soc.history.what-if

    On Sun, 24 May 2020 15:16:52 -0400, Rhino
    <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

    Maybe you could contact the CBC and see if they could restore that
    interview to the website if they still have it? Or, if you're certain
    you saw Kerensky on Front Page Challenge, you could ask them to hunt for >that clip and make it available on their website?

    Given all the tax money we give to the CBC every year, you'd think they >might actually respond favourably to a viewer request like that if they >still have it.

    Thanks for the tips. The interest mostly came when I was chatting with
    my daughter (who is a Carleton combined honours History / Russian
    grad) about videos I thought she might be interested in.

    On another occasion she asked me to tell her about "something that
    happened in my lifetime but which I'd be too young to remember" (Given
    she was born in 1987 that would give me a fair bit to go on)

    I suggested "well how about the time President Bush senior barfed on
    the Japanese prime minister?" She figured I was teasing her but
    checked Youtube after I insisted I was serious. She quickly found the
    clip and was amazed. She likes sushi so I said "See what happens when
    you eat bad sushi?"
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