Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Comfort TV Quiz: Which Shows Featured These Characters?

Back in 2014, I created a trivia challenge that most readers seemed to enjoy, so I figured it was long past time to test your classic TV knowledge again.

 

The first time around the quiz mixed character names with actor names, but this time we’ll keep it simpler. The following 30 names belong to characters on very successful shows. Just name the series for each one. The answers will be posted on Monday.

 

1. Margaret Lanterman

 

2. Letitia Lawrence

 

3. Herman Glimscher

 

4. Christine Chapel

 

5. Alexander Cabot III

 

6. Beverly Ann Stickle

 

7. Dominic Luca

 

8. Barney Hefner

 

9. Dana Lambert

 

10. Sindy Cahill

 

11. Craig Carter

 

12. George Wilson

 

13. Wally Plumstead

 

14. Millicent Gordon Woods

 

15. Ed Brown

 

16. Matthew Fordwick

 

17. Thelma Harper

 

18. Walter O’Reilly

 

19. Gordon Sims

 

20. Lillian Bakerman

 

21. Harry Hoo

 

22. Gladys Ormphby

 

23. Peggy Fair

 

24. Charley Pratt

 

25. Beth Davenport

 

26. Nostradamus Shannon

 

27. Rosalie Totsy

 

28. J. Arthur Crank

 

29. Dixie McCall

 

30. Jet Screamer

7 comments:

  1. Haha--I laughed out loud when I saw that last one, I still remember his hit song! I’m sure I could google these, but I want to test MY knowledge so please forgive me for not knowing half of these...

    1. ???
    2. Only her mom called her that, on ‘Family’
    3. ???
    4. Nurse Chapel, Star Trek (TOS)
    5. ???
    6. Facts of Life final season
    7. ???
    8. Love him, Sam the butcher on All in the Family
    9. ???
    10. ???
    11. ???
    12. Mr.Wilson from ‘Dennis the Menace’
    13. Seen way too often on ‘Ozzie & Harriet’!
    14. ???
    15. ???
    16. ‘The Waltons’ of course
    17. Mama’s Family, of course!
    18. MASH?
    19. ???
    20. The lady patient always sewing on ‘The Bob Newhart Show’?
    21. Barney Miller
    22. !!??
    23. Loved her on Mannix!!
    24. ??
    25. ??
    26. ?? (Nostradamus, I am out of my league here)
    27. Welcome Back Kotter, Hotsy?
    28. ??
    29. Emergency! (She might’ve been on Adam-12 too)
    30. Haha, the teen crooner on The Jetsons!

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  2. 19. WKRP
    25. The Rockford Files

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  3. Just filling in here (if I don't mention it, I don't know it):

    2. Specifically, this is Buddy the teen daughter on Family (Kristy McNichol); her mom usually called her "Tizzylish'.
    3. Sally Rogers's semi=regular fella on Dick Van Dyke, played by writer Bill Idelson.
    4. Star Trek's Nurse Chapel, played by Majel Barrett
    (aka Mrs. Gene Roddenberry 2.0).
    7. SWAT member, played by a pre-Barnaby Jones Mark Shera.
    8. Allan Melvin, Archie Bunker's sidekick through two series (when he wasn't on everybody else's shows).
    9. Lesley Warren's temp spy in Season 5 of Mission: Impossible.
    15a. Don Galloway's Det. Sgt. on Ironside.
    15b. Jack Albertson on Chico And The Man.
    (For the nit-pickers in the crowd.)
    19. Venus Flytrap's true identity on WKRP.
    21. Get Smart's Charlie Chan take-off, played by Joey Forman (an old pal of Don Adams from standup days).
    22. You gotta be kidding! Ruth Buzzi on Laugh-In, of course.
    24. The engineer of the Hooterville Cannonball on Petticoat Junction (Smiley Burnette).
    25. Gretchen Corbett as Jim Rockford's attorney of record for most of the series's run.
    26. Bull the Bailiff on Night Court (Richard Moll).
    28. Part of the group on The Electric Company (Jim Boyd).

    1, 5, 10, 11, and 14: Don't know offhand.
    Students?

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  4. 15 is Ironside, 21 is Get Smart...those are the only ones I can add that Apache didn't have. Millicent Woods and Dana Lambert are vaguely familiar names but I can't place their shows.

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  5. 3. The Dick Van Dyke show, Sally Rogers boyfriend.
    11. Here's Lucy, Desi Arnaz Jr. played Craig.

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  6. 3. The Dick Van Dyke Show
    5. Josie and the Pussycats
    6. Facts Of Life
    8. All In The Family and Archie Bunker's Place
    11. Here's Lucy
    12. Dennis The Menace
    13. Ozzie and Harriet
    15. Chico and the Man
    17. Mama's Family
    18. Mash
    19. WKRP
    21. Get Smart
    22. Laugh-In
    24. Petticoat Junction
    26. Night Court
    27. Welcome Back Kotter
    28. The Electric Company
    30. The Jetsons

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