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To: Rambi who wrote (62691)	5/21/2002 8:03:45 PM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

We watched a lot of American shows, but our CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) always produced TV with a very different feel to it. The other day, I was thinking about one of the most popular and longest running shows up here -- Front Page Challenge. Each week, 4 panelists (3 regulars and 1 guest), would take turns..maybe 2 minutes each, to question a guest who stood where they couldn't see her/him. The object of the questioning was to try to identify the front page news story that the guest was associated with. Sometimes the guest was well known and the voice would be muffled in some way to hide the identity, but most of the time they didn't do that as the stories were often difficult and obscure and the challenge guest wouldn't have been identifiable. The panelists were a group of very well known veteran journalists, so they were pretty sharp and one or the other of them would usually identify the story. Really good show. I think everyone up here used to watch it.. It was just one of those things that the whole family would watch together. Probably sounds kind of nerdy, but I think it was the kind of show that helped to create an awareness of news and life in cities across Canada. Gee, I think you got off kind of easy with CW. When I was small, I was just about as much of an insomniac as I am now. My Dad sometimes took me out for a drive around the neighbourhood as car rides made me sleepy. Then, one summer, he discovered that I would go to sleep almost immediately if he took me to a little park to ride on the carousel. So every night, we would drive over to the park, I would take one or two rides on one of the carousel horses, then come home and go to sleep. Somehow, I think watching Hill Street Blues while lying in a big brass bed would have appealed to him a little more.

To: Rambi who wrote (62691)	5/21/2002 8:34:01 PM
From: maried.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

What a great story. I know that certain music puts us all back in that time and place when we first heard it...I can never listen to the song " Alone again...naturally" without thinking of the day my Dad died and I pulled off to the side of the road and wept for hours. So many songs put us back in a happy or sad time or place... But television shows bring me other memories..." I Remember Mama" coming from our first TV in the early fifties...brings me back to my old childhood home...with the fireplace ablaze and our steaming cups of cocoa. I had all of my kids in the late sixties...and my memory of television at that time is watching test patterns as I walked any one of our munchkins to sleep.(I missed the entire Vietnam war!) Archie Bunker in the seventies brings my outrageous Dad back to me as soon as I hear that theme song. Dad was one step to the right of Archie! And "Hill Street Blues"? I watched every episode during the winter and all the reruns during the summer. My kids were finally sleeping in their own bed by then and went down at a reasonable time! Ahhh... the pizza man! I thought he was so cool! Now I love it when one of my grandboys comes to visit. I have a chance to spend the day making sand castles, swinging, sliding, building with Legos and then gladly curl up to sleep with the tired little guys and fall asleep before they do. Yesterday, after a morning swim,kick ball, two hours on the beach,and a trip to the park, my three year old said, "Nanny, it's time for you to let me to rest." We both took a nap!