General TV trivia
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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".
What show featured ''shows-within-shows' named Missile Mike and Whackets?
Correct!
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.
I'm going to claim this one. It's Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless for Cagney and Lacey.
Nope.
I'm going to claim this one. It's Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless for Cagney and Lacey.
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?
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.
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.
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.
I'll be providing answers in chronological order, from oldest, so there's still time to answer anything recent.
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Did Ed Sullivan ever appear in Wayne and Shuster? If so, then that could count.....
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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 Barney Rubble's name on Les Pierreafeu, the French version of The Flintstones?
Stump.
Arthur LaRoche.
Stump.
Arthur LaRoche.
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Stump.
What's his name?
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.
