Celebrity Cooks

Celebrity Cooks was a Canadian cooking show produced by the CBC in the late 1970s starring Bruno Gerussi who introduced various celebrities who chatted with Gerussi and prepared dishes for the audience.

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Canadian - Cooking show - CBC - Bruno Gerussi

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The show was mocked for its low budget and apparent inability to get more than strictly minor celebrities for the show, although it was still a highly rated program at the time. Gerrusi hosted the show, which was taped in Vancouver, British Columbia, concurrently with his starring role in The Beachcombers. Due to his visibility on Celebrity Cooks, Gerrusi became the pitchman for one of the first brands of microwave ovens to be sold for home use in Canada.

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Vancouver, British Columbia - The Beachcombers - Microwave oven

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The show is best known internationally as featuring the last recorded appearance of Hogan's Heroes actor Bob Crane which was taped shortly before he was murdered. The episode was partially recreated in the biographical film, Auto Focus.

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Hogan's Heroes - Bob Crane - Biographical film - Auto Focus

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