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For its initial summer 1957 run, the show was hosted by Win Barron, best known for his voice-over narration of newsreels produced by the Canadian division of Paramount Pictures.

However, Barron proved ill at ease in the moderator's seat, so both Fred Davis and panelist Alex Barris rotated as guest hosts in the early part of the fall before Davis was chosen to take over as host full-time ( a position he retained for the rest of the show's run ), though Barris continued to appear as a guest panelist occasionally.

Years later, Barris published a history of the program ( titled Front Page Challenge: The 25th Anniversary, CBC Books, 1981 ).

After the show's cancellation, Barris published an updated version of the book in 1999.