Guest hosts when Frum was absent from The Journal included Bill Cameron, Peter Kent, Keith Morrison, Lyn Whitham and Brian Stewart.
The Friday arts program was anchored by Daniel Richler or David Gilmour.
At other times, an entire show—or even, in one case, an entire week of shows—would be devoted to a single topic, usually in the form of the "full-edition documentary"; documentary topics ranged from the serious (aboriginal land claims and the Oka crisis) to the mundane (a 30-minute exposé on feet).
One of the most memorable documentaries was a two-part travelogue by Allen Abel driving from Budapest to Bucharest two days after the fall of the Ceauşescu regime in Romania.
[4] It also bore many similarities in its format to the American program Nightline which premiered three years earlier, in 1979.