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What show featured 2 guest stars that were main stars together of their own show in which the star of the show in question played a minor recurring character in the 2 guest stars' show?
I can only think of one show.

Spin off shows do not count.
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This sort of meets those conditions:

Billy Crystal and Christopher Guest both appeared in the first episode of Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell, (1975). Cosell hosted the last episode of Season 10 of Saturday Night Live, when both Crystal and Guest were main cast members. Crystal was a guest on Cosell's show; Guest was one of the "Prime Time Players", along with Bill Murray and Brian Doyle-Murray. Cosell played a fictional version of himself in several sketches in his SNL appearance, most notably as the host of "The Run, Throw and Catch Like a Girl Olympics".
 
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Two different women won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in consecutive years, for different roles on the same show. Name them both, and the show.

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I am going to guess Joan Collins and Linda Evans (Dynasty)
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Nope.

I'm going to claim this one. It's Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless for Cagney and Lacey.
 
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What 90's US Network, (CBS, NBC, Fox, ABC) filmed comedy from Castle Rock Entertainment was the last series to be broadcast primarily, but not exclusively, in black and white?



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Pleasantville?
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Nope.

Pleasantville was a movie, not a TV series.

I'm going to claim this one. It's Morton & Hayes, which aired on CBS in July - August, 1991 for six episodes. It was a great show, hosted by Rob Reiner, and five of the six episodes were directed by Christopher Guest. The premise was that Morton and Hayes had made many theatrical shorts in the 1930's and 40's, but all of there films had been destroyed in a fire, until some copies were found, and they were being shown again for the first time in fifty years. In reality, they were new short films, made to look like they had been made fifty years previously. The show was an homage to classic comedy, rather than a parody.

Despite airing against reruns on the other three networks, Morton & Hayes consistently finished dead last in the weekly Neilsen ratings - The full list used to appear in Wednesday's USA Today.
 
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I'm going to start to collect my stump points soon, so it's last call on all of my unanswered questions. My oldest unanswered question is post #68 on page 4. All of my questions which have been correctly answered have been acknowledged in green. Some correct answers to unanswered questions have been provided by ineligible players; either they answered a second time after a Nope, or they gave a partial answer. Only answers that are completely correct are acknowledged as such, unless the question states otherwise.

I'll be providing answers in chronological order, from oldest, so there's still time to answer anything recent.
 
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Correct, but the correct spelling is Chubbuck. I believe she was 29 in 1974 working as a newscaster/journalist for a small local station in Florida. She battled depression and had professional differences of opinion with her manager/employer. She wanted to do more serious journalism, but the station wanted "fluff" pieces for ratings. The station normally didn't videotape the show because back then the cost of videotape was very high. On one particular morning she asked that they tape that day's show. At one point in the show she made a comment about giving the viewers more blood and guts as the station wanted, then announced they would see a suicide. She pulled out a hand gun and fatally shot herself behind the ear.

Over the years there has been a lot of speculation regarding the existence of the videotape. Several years ago, the widow of the man who owned the station confirmed her husband owned the videotape and had given it to his lawyers for safe keeping, with the understanding it would not be shown. It has long been sought by collectors of rare film/videotape. Somehow, a few years ago someone posted the audio tape of the incident on you tube. RIP Christine Chubbuck.

As a follow up question: 13 years after this incident a man would take his own life on live tv. Can anyone name him?
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He was a politician who was wrongly accused of some crime. Instead of fighting it, he just shot himself on live television.....
 
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onomatopoeia said:
I have attempted, unsuccessfully so far, to prove you wrong that this is the only such show. I thought that Friends would meet the conditions, as Lisa Kudrow played a recurring minor character on Mad About You, and Helen Hunt and Leila Kenzle were guest stars on an episode of Friends, but Leila wasn't a main star on MAY. Paul Reiser did not guest star on Friends.

NBC in particular does a lot of cross-over episodes, like Law and Order SVU with Chicago PD. I would think more than one Dick Wolf show should meet your conditions, since all of them have at least 2 main stars, Wolf reuses the same actors regularly, and the main actors often changed, especially on Law and Order. Some Dick Wolf shows are NOT spinoffs; the Law and Order, Chicago, and FBI are all separate franchises.

I haven't given up yet.
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Did Ed Sullivan ever appear in Wayne and Shuster? If so, then that could count.....
 
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On Seinfeld, which character's breasts were 'real and spectacular'?

On Seinfeld, which character was 'the braless wonder"? The actress, Brenda Strong, narrated a comedy-drama-mystery show that was a top 10 show in the Neilsen ratings for five of its eight seasons. Name BOTH her Seinfeld character, and the show she narrated.
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Stump.

1)Sidra, (Teri Hatcher).

2)Sue Ellen Mischke, Desperate Housewives.
 
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Which cast member on Hee Haw had been a Playboy Playmate of the Month?


Which cast member on Hee Haw was the longterm girlfriend of Elvis Presley, and married Caitlyn Jenner when they were still Bruce?
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Stump and Special Prize.

1)None. Barbie Benton appeared in Playboy multiple times, and dated Hef, but she was never Playmate of the Month. Special Prize awarded to westendman.

2)Linda Thompson.

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What's his name?
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Stump.

Paulus, the little gnome in the song, Paulus the Woodgnome in the titles.

Back in the day, when an afternoon CBC show ended before the hour or half hour, they would play part of an episode of Paulus to fill the time. I never saw a complete episode of the show, but I knew 90% of the song lyrics 40 years later.

 
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