In article >,
Michel Boucher > wrote:

> Kajikit > wrote in
> :
>
> > 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.

Michel,

Where is MacLeod's? We are going to Vancouver this weekend, partly (we
hope) to see the Rembrandt-Vermeer exhibit and to do some hiking.

Cindy

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