Front Page Challenge

From the mid-fifties to the mid sixties, Front Page Challenge was one of my family's favorite TV shows. This was the period in which we only received two channels over a fifty-foot Yagi antenna connected to a black & white Sears TV receiver. We loved the regular panelists and their host, but we also looked forward to the guest-panelist, who often was quite famous and had to be hidden from the panel along with his or her voice disguised. Besides always being interesting, there were plenty of laughs and usually an opportunity to learn something, as the guest was subjected to even more questions from the panel, once his or her mystery subject was revealed. I was always proud of the CBC for coming up with such a unique and original program, that is, until the Internet came along and I stumbled across a YouTube video showing an episode of CBC's I've Got A Secret. I then learned that this show began in 1952, about 5 years earlier than did Front Page Challenge.