Kajikit > wrote in
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> We grew up
> watching cooking shows on tv because we all enjoyed them, but we never
> saw hers...

I have a copy of Celebrity Cooks vol. 1 (1975) autographed by Bruno
Gerussi, the host, Julia Child and Bob Crane to someone named Ingrid.
Found it last year at MacLeod's in Vancouver, a used bookstore which has
been the source of many otherwise unavailable books.

The show ran on CBC for four or five seasons and then in syndication on a
never-ending loop. Guests were mostly well-known anglo-Canadians (no
surprise there) but also included Hermione Gingold, Lynn Redgrave, Frankie
Howerd, Noel Harrison (I remember that episode), Theo Bikel, Donald
Pleasence, Dizzy Gillespie, Judy Carne, and many more.

The Bob Crane signature in itself is quite weird, as whatever episode he
was in was never aired due to his demise under questionable circumstances a
short time before the episode was set to go on the air. According to IMDb,
this would then have been signed in January 1978:

"Actor Bob Crane, of "Hogan's Heroes" fame, taped an episode of this show
in January 1978. The episode was scheduled to air on July 10, 1978, but was
never shown to the public because Crane was found murdered in Scottsdale,
Arizona in June 1978. Reportedly in the show, Bob Crane made numerous jokes
about death, which would have made the episode too eerily prophetic."

What Julia Child was doing there, I have no idea. I suspect they taped a
few shows in a day and she and Bob Crane were most likely guests for that
day, but I cannot find any evidence of her appearance listed on IMDb.
However, the list of episodes is pathetically inadequate. She might have
been doing a promo for her series "Julia Child & Company" starting up that
year. Who knows.

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