General TV trivia
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What 2 pro athletes made cameo appearances on "The Rifleman"?
Answer: Duke Snider and Don Drysdale
Answer: Duke Snider and Don Drysdale
Too Close for Comfort:
Name the 2 cartoonists that appeared as themselves on the show.
Answered by bluebro69
Name the 2 cartoonists that appeared as themselves on the show.
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Name the show.
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I never watched The Pig and Whistle, even when we could get only two stations in English in Montreal. All I remember is a verse from the 'fake' version of the show's theme song:
"Grab yourself a hefty lass and take her to the back,
Throw her on a feather bed and give her all you've got."
IIRC, it was the show that came on(often joined in progress) after the Toronto Maple Leafs mid week game on CFTO. That's the only reason I know it.
Per wikipedia, The Pig and Whistle aired on CTV from 1967-77, and had more than one million viewers in the early 1970's. I think it was on at 7:00 or 7:30 PM.
Keep in mind that in the early 1970's, most Canadians had their choice of watching CTV, CBC, or an American station with a snowy picture, (if the weather was good). We had a few other French stations in Montreal.
Nobody had cable TV, only a few people had a rooftop antenna, and the kids had probably broken off the 'rabbit ears' on top of the set, so they had to be jammed into the small portion still attached to the TV.
I really doubt that many people born during or after World War II watched The Pig and Whistle, but a lot of them weren't the ones who chose the show after the news. It's probably a show which had 0% 'diversity'.
I always thought that The Flintstones in French would have been funnier if the scenes where Fred was being chewed out by his boss Mr Slate had kept the English dialogue.
It's possible it was on at both times. After the hockey game they may have just used a repeat as filler to get to the news. Back then Maple Leaf games started at 8:00pm, and finished around 10:30pm. The CBC used the Carol Burnett show as filler on Saturday nights between the hockey game and the news, at least in Toronto.
There were some afternoon shows on CBC in the 1970's which either didn't have commercials, or they were of irregular length. If the show finished 5-10 minutes before a half hour, in Montreal they would always broadcast the first part of an episode of Paulus, the Little Gnome,
then they'd cut it off when the clock reached 30 or 00. I never saw a full episode.
