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Directed by
  
Norman Jewison

Original language(s)
  
English

First episode date
  
9 September 1952

Director
  
Norman Jewison

4.7/10
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Country of origin
  
Canada

Running time
  
60 minutes

Final episode date
  
1 May 1953

Language
  
English

Presented by
  
Budd Knapp Donald Harron

Original release
  
9 September 1952 – 1 May 1953

Production company
  
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Written by
  
John Aylesworth, Frank Peppiatt

Similar
  
Front Page Challenge, The Rez, Ford Star Jubilee, The Judy Garland Show, Life with Judy Garland

The Big Revue was a Canadian variety television show. It was the first ever production of CBC Television when both debuted in 1952. The show was directed by Norman Jewison and written by John Aylesworth and Frank Peppiatt. The pilot episode first aired on 9 September 1952.

The series was hosted by actress Toby Robins who would later rise to fame as a panelist on Front Page Challenge. It was on The Big Revue that Don Harron introduced TV audiences to his country bumpkin alter ego, "Charlie Farquharson" (who years later would be immortalized on the American series Hee Haw and the Canadian series The Red Green Show.).

References

The Big Revue Wikipedia