''Twenty Questions'' was a

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, which aired on CTV in the 1961–62 television season. Produced by CJAY-TV in

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and hosted by

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, the show was an adaptation of the earlier

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game show '' Twenty Questions''. Panelists on the show included Rassy Ragland, the mother of

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. ''Twenty Questions'' was broadcast on Wednesday evenings, 19:30 in Toronto, beginning 4 October 1961. The program lasted only a single season on CTV. MacPherson, who had previously hosted a radio version of the show in Britain, subsequently went on to host a

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adaptation of ''Twenty Questions'' for

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. Les Wedman, television columnist for ''

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'', deemed the production to be a "dull, witless presentation of a parlor icgame".

References

External links

''Twenty Questions''
at the

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