TV Show Trivia Questions V

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Originally a radio show, launched by NBC in 1937, what CBS soap opera followed the Bauer family of Springfield until finally being cancelled in 2009?

       a. As the World Turns
       b. Guiding Light
       c. Days of Our Lives
       d. The Bold and the Beautiful


What family's kids performed "Keep On" as the Silver Platters on the "Pete Sterne Amateur Hour," to earn money to pay for Mike and Carol's anniversary present?

       a. Huxtable
       b. Partridge
       c. Brady
       d. Seaver


After actor Tony Musante left "Toma", he was replaced by Robert Blake. What was the show renamed?

       a. McCloud
       b. Mannix
       c. Baretta
       d. Ironside


Dennis Weaver played the titular Manhattan detective on "McCloud." What was the show's gimmick?

       a. McCloud was in a wheelchair
       b. McCloud was elderly
       c. McCloud was a cowboy from Taos
       d. McCloud was bionic


After Freddie Prinze killed himself, a little kid became the new "Chico", while what actor remained as "the Man"?

       a. Dick York
       b. Jack Albertson
       c. Eddie Albert
       d. Dick Sargent


American Graffiti was inspired by a 1972 segment on what TV show, from which the TV show Happy Days was also spun off?

       a. Love, American Style
       b. Saturday Night Live
       c. Laugh-In
       d. Carol Burnett Show


Who was TV's first Jewish police captain?

       a. Frank Furillo
       b. Tony J Scali
       c. Barney Miller
       d. Donald Cragen


What titular TV character would tell her husband, an appliance dealer named Walter, that "God will get you for that"?

       a. Maude
       b. Alice
       c. Angie
       d. Rhoda


What TV series featured such neighbors as Helen and Tom Willis (the first interracial couple cast as sitcom regulars)?

       a. All in the Family
       b. One Day at a Time
       c. The Jeffersons
       d. Three's Company


Born Tadewurz Konopka, he had a bit part in Psycho, leading Norman Bates to the asylum. He went on to star on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Who?

       a. Ted Knight
       b. Gavin MacLeod
       c. Ed Asner
       d. John Amos


The daughter of a producer, who had been considered for the role of Gloria Stivic and eventually married Rob Reiner, who played Gloria's husband?

       a. Linda Lavin
       b. Penny Marshall
       c. Mary Tyler Moore
       d. Loretta Swit


I am not a number. I am a free man! But on the UK cult classic "The Prisoner," what was the Prisoner's number?

       a. 13225
       b. 3.1416
       c. Number Six
       d. Zero


Irna Phillips originally developed Another World as a spin-off of what show, launched in 1956 on CBS as a legal soap opera set in Oakdale?

       a. Guiding Light
       b. As the World Turns
       c. The Bold and the Beautiful
       d. The Young and the Restless


On the Danny Thomas Show, he played Danny Williams, a New York nightclub entertainer who, like Thomas himself, was of what ethnicity?

       a. Irish American
       b. Lebanese American
       c. Cuban American
       d. Russian American


Jack Soo, who had been in a Japanese internment camp, died in 1979 while playing Nick Yemana on what TV series?

       a. Barney Miller
       b. Laverne and Shirley
       c. The Mod Squad
       d. The Rockford Files




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