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|writer = [[Bernard Slade]]
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|presenter = [[Charles Templeton]]
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|first_aired = 1 July 1959
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'''''Live a Borrowed Life''''' was a [[Television in Canada|Canadian]] quiz show television series which aired on [[CBC Television]] from 1959 to 1962.

==Premise==
This series adopted the ''[[Front Page Challenge]]'' concept for the realm of biography. In each episode, each of three guests would represent a historical person whose identity the panelists would guess.<ref>{{cite book | title=When Television Was Young: Primetime Canada 1952-1967 | first=Paul | last=Rutherford | publisher=[[University of Toronto Press]] | isbn=0-8020-5830-2 | page=233 | year=1990 }}</ref> [[Charles Templeton]] was the series host.<ref name=CCF>{{cite web | url=http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/programming/television/programming_popup.php?id=727 | first=John | last=Corcelli | date=February 2005 | title=Live a Borrowed Life | publisher=Canadian Communications Foundation | accessdate=7 May 2010 }}</ref>

Initially, the regular panelists were Anna Cameron (of ''Open House''), Bill Walker and [[Elwy Yost]], joined by a guest panelist. By the 1960-1961 season, Cameron had moved to the United Kingdom and was replaced by a second guest panelist. In the middle months of 1960, the series was produced in other locations, namely Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver and Winnipeg.

==Scheduling==
The initial episodes of this half-hour series was broadcast on Wednesdays at 8:30 p.m. (Eastern) from 1 July to 23 Septmber 1959. It was picked up for a full season in the same day and time slot from 30 September 1959 to 21 September 1960. Its second full season was seen on Thursdays at 8:00 p.m. (29 September 1960 &ndash; 29 June 1961), then its final season moved to Mondays at 8:30 p.m. from 25 September 1961 to 25 June 1962.

==Controversy==
The series drew some controversy when George Rolland, who promoted white racial supremacist views, was brought on the show to represent [[Abraham Lincoln]].<ref>{{cite book | title=When Television Was Young: Primetime Canada 1952-1967 | first=Paul | last=Rutherford | publisher=[[University of Toronto Press]] | isbn=0-8020-5830-2 | page=236 | year=1990 }}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{cite web | url=http://www.film.queensu.ca/CBC/L.html | first=Blaine | last=Allan | title=Live a Borrowed Life | publisher=[[Queen's University]] | year=1996 | accessdate=7 May 2010}}

[[Category:CBC network shows]]
[[Category:1959 Canadian television series debuts]]
[[Category:1962 Canadian television series endings]]