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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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