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American TV Series
YGK These Classic American Television Series
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the time slot and network for The Ed Sullivan Show? | Sunday night at 8 pm on CBS |
| Where did The Ed Sullivan Show broadcast live from? | The Ed Sullivan Theater on Broadway (home of the Late Show with Stephen Colbert) |
| Which Spanish ventriloquist was a character on The Ed Sullivan Show? | Señor Wences |
| Which Italian mouse puppet was a character on The Ed Sullivan Show? | Topo Gigio |
| Which band's 1964 appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show are credited with launching the “British Invasion”? | The Beatles |
| What were the names of the main characters in I Love Lucy? | Lucy and Ricky Ricardo |
| What were the names of the Ricardos’ neighbors in I Love Lucy? | Fred and Ethel Mertz |
| In a famous I Love Lucy episode, what health tonic caused Lucy to become inebriated? | Vitameatavegamin |
| Which show is considered the first TV spinoff? | The Honeymooners |
| What was the name of the Brooklyn bus driver played by Jackie Gleason in The Honeymooners? | Ralph Kramden |
| What was Ralph Kramden’s signature bombastic threat to his wife Alice? | “Bang zoom, straight to the moon!” |
| Who were the neighbor couple in The Honeymooners? | Ed and Trixie Norton |
| How many episodes of The Honeymooners aired in its original one-season run? | 39 |
| What was the longest-running prime-time series in American history until The Simpsons overtook it? | Gunsmoke |
| Who was the U.S. marshal at the center of Gunsmoke? | Matt Dillon |
| What young actor played the blacksmith Quint Asper on Gunsmoke? | Burt Reynolds |
| What kind of horse was Mr. Ed? | A palomino |
| Who was the owner of the talking horse Mr. Ed? | Wilbur Post |
| Who was the talking mule from 1950s films that Mr. Ed should not be confused with? | Francis the Talking Mule |
| Who created the anthology series The Twilight Zone? | Rod Serling |
| Who composed the iconic theme for The Twilight Zone? | Bernard Herrmann |
| Which actor starred as a salesman seeing a gremlin in the episode “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet”? | William Shatner |
| In what fictional North Carolina town was The Andy Griffith Show set? | Mayberry |
| Who was Andy Taylor’s awkward deputy sheriff on The Andy Griffith Show? | Barney Fife |
| What child actor played Opie Taylor before becoming a famous director? | Ron Howard |
| What was the name of the Minneapolis news station where Mary Richards worked? | WJM-TV |
| Which three supporting characters from The Mary Tyler Moore Show received their own spinoffs? | Phyllis, Rhoda, and Lou Grant |
| Which Mary Tyler Moore Show spinoff was a drama instead of a sitcom? | Lou Grant |
| Producer Norman Lear based All in the Family on which British series? | Till Death Us Do Part |
| What were the names of the central couple in All in the Family? | Archie and Edith Bunker |
| What nickname did Archie Bunker frequently use for his wife Edith? | Dingbat |
| Which All in the Family character eventually "moved on up" to his own spinoff set in Manhattan? | George Jefferson |
| MASH was adapted from a 1970 film directed by whom? | Robert Altman |
| Who played the wisecracking surgeon Hawkeye Pierce? | Alan Alda |
| Which character on MASH wore women’s clothing in hopes of receiving a discharge? | Corporal Klinger |
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