Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Brad Wheeler
Publication Date: October 17, 2024 - 18:00
Emmy-winning comedy writer Allan Blye had an early role alongside Fred Rogers
October 17, 2024
When it comes to the early breaks that advanced his show business career, the television writer-producer Allan Blye owed much to Elvis Presley and the Smothers Brothers but also to Henrietta Pussycat and King Friday XIII.In the early 1960s, at the old CBC building on Sumach Street in Toronto, Mr. Blye was a young singer-actor headed to rehearsals for the variety show Parade when he happened upon a man in another studio alone with two hand puppets.
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