Cities is a Canadian documentary

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 television series broadcast on CBC Television

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 from 1979 to 1980, followed by repeats for two years. Produced

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 and directed

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 by John McGreevy

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The series featured a celebrity

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 who would appear in an episode on location

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 in a personal favourite city or more specific location. Appearances included Glenn Gould

Glenn Gould

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 (Toronto, Canada), Peter Ustinov

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Peter Alexander Ustinov CBE was an English actor, writer and dramatist. He was also renowned as a filmmaker, theatre and opera director, stage designer, author, screenwriter, comedian, humourist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster and television presenter...

 (Leningrad, Russia), Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel

Sir Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel KBE; born September 30, 1928) is a Hungarian-born Jewish-American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He is the author of 57 books, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz, Buna, and...

 (Jerusalem, Israel), George Plimpton

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  (New York City, United States) and Mai Zetterling

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 (Stockholm, Sweden). Also appearing were Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess

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, John Huston

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, Melina Mercouri

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 and Hildegard Knef

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