Wissenswertes

Books: The Golden Age Of BS (1976), and The Platinum Age Of BS (1981).

In the book About Face, by John Reeves (1990), a picture and brief biography of Michael Magee is on page 38.

Made personal appearances in the mid-1970s to promote and sign his new book The Golden Age of BS, dressed as his alter-ego, Fred C. Dobbs.

Dobbs (and his alter ego Michael Magee) first came to the public's attention when a daily telephone call from a crotchety commentator enlivened the Bruno Gerussi network radio program.

In the book Turn Up The Contrast (1987) by Mary Jane Miller, co-published by CBC Enterprises, Michael Magee is mentioned on page 349.

Based Cyril Sneer's reedy voice on a schoolmaster he disliked.

In 1976, Magee lost a suit for damages for wrongful dismissal after he said he was replaced as host of a public-affairs show on Toronto's CITY-TV. An Ontario Supreme Court judge ruled that while Magee had an oral contract with CITY president Moses Znaimer, the conversation took place on a Sunday, contravening the Lord's Day Act.

Was the after-dinner speaker at a conference of the Writers' Union of Canada when his comments, including a description of his fictional wife as "the old mattress," led some members to exit.

Had a thoroughbred named after him who raced at the Downs from 1975 to 1983.