TV and Television Trivia Questions and Answers About TV Shows Like Beat The Clock, The Flintsones, The Mary Tyler More Show and Others

TV trivia questions and answers about TV shows and actors like J.R. Ewing, Beat the Clock, Baretta, The Flintsones, The Mary Tyler More Show and Others.

What was the name of the lawyer who never lost a case on TV's cartoon sitcom The Flintstones?
A: Perry Masonry.

What was the name of TV detective Baretta's pet cockatoo?
A:Fred.

What TV character did Time magazine describe as a "human oil slick"?
A: Dallas villain J. R. Ewing.

On the TV sitcom My Mother, the Car, who was the voice of the car?
A: Ann Southern.

As a struggling young actor, James Dean helped support himself by testing stunts for what TV games show?
A: Beat the Clock.

What was the name of Phyllis Diller's short-lived 1968 TV variety show?
A: The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show.

The producer of what TV series once said that sometimes his actors' "faces get so green you can't shoot them"?
A: Sea Hunt--he was referring to his regularly seasick cast.

Why did the fourteenth screen Tarzan, former L A Rams linebacker Mike Henry, sue for physical and mental injury following his third and final film?
A: Dinky the Chimp bit him.

What was the name of the lurid novel written by Det. Ron Harris on the Barney Miller TV show?
A: Blood on the Badge.

How much were Dean martin and Jerry Lewis paid for their appearance on the first Ed Sullivan Show in June 1948?
A: They shared $200.00

What was Maxwell Smart's cover on the TV spy comedy Get Smart?
A: Salesman for the Pontiac Greeting Card Co.

What was the Skipper's full name on TV's Gilligan's Island?
A: Jonas Grumby, played by Alan Hale Jr.

For what film role did Telly Savalas first shave his head?
A: Pontius Pilate, in The greatest Story Ever Told, in 1965.

What popular actor once noted, "I am a slob, but nobody will believe it"?
A: Tony Randall, who portrayed Felix Unger, the fussy roommate in the Odd Couple television series.

Comedienne Joan Rivers has a registered trademark. What is it?
A: Her famous line; "Can we talk?"

Whose TV contract stipulated that she stay overweight and wear dumpy dresses so she'd look frumpier that the show's star?
A: Vivian Vance's contract--to play Ethel Mertz on the I Love Lucy show.

What role did mystery writer Erle Stanley Gardner, creator of the character of Perry Mason, play in the last TV episode of The Perry Mason Show?
A: He played the judge.

What was the "line" of the very first contestant on What's my Line, which premiered on February 16, 1950?
A: Hat check girl at the Stork Club.

What was the name of Col. Sherman Potter's horse in the M*A*S*H TV series?
A: Sophie.

How did the last episode of TV's Mary Tyler Moore Show end?
A: Everyone but incompetent newscaster Ted Baxter was fired.

Where did Rocket J. Squirrel and Bullwinkle Moose live in the animated TV mock adventure series Rocky and His Friends.?
A: Frostbite Falls, Minnesota.

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