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==Episode status== Reruns of the program were broadcast by Canadian cable channel [[History Television]] (now simply called History) in the late 1990s. At least a few of the episodes from the 1950s and 1960s were not saved.{{Citation needed|date=January 2008}} In his second book about the program, Alex Barris tells an anecdote about what guest panellist [[Bennett Cerf]] said to challenger [[Jesse Owens]] about [[Adolf Hitler]] during a 1958 episode.<ref>{{cite book | author = Barris, Alex | title = Front page challenge: history of a television legend | year = 1999 | publisher = [[Macmillan of Canada]] | isbn = 978-0-771-57662-1 | page = [https://archive.org/details/frontpagechallen0000barr/page/48 48] | url = https://archive.org/details/frontpagechallen0000barr/page/48 }}</ref> The CBC archive has a clip that lasts less than one minute in which Cerf and Owens have this exchange, but the rest of the episode does not survive.{{fact|date=October 2023}} 1960s episodes that featured Menachem Begin, then a Knesset member, Jayne Mansfield, [[William F. Buckley]], [[Arthur Schlesinger Jr.]] and Timothy Leary were lost in their entirety.{{fact|date=October 2023}}
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