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| The tv series "How To Marry A Millionaire" was (loosely) based on the movie of the same name. Who played the Marilyn Monroe "dumb blonde" role in the tv series? | TV Oldies For Baby Boomers
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Barbara Eden. This was prior to her hit in "I Dream of Jeannie". Merry Anders and Lori Nelson starred as the other two money-hungry friends (played in the movie by Lauren Bacall and Betty Grable). Henry had an early role in a tv series "I'm Dickens, He's Fenster" which starred John Astin and Marty Ingels. Langdon starred with Herschel Bernardi in a short-lived sitcom called "Arnie".
Dwayne Hickman. Hickman (in his pre-Dobie Gillis days) was always dazzled by the beautiful women surrounding Cummings (usually played by Lisa Gaye and Joi Lansing). Rosemary DeCamp also starred. Ingels and Astin starred together in a different show - see the note to the preceding question. Lawford starred in "The Thin Man" tv series.
Herschel Bernardi. In the days before Bernardi became a star, he had an early role as the friend of Craig Stevens and Lola Albright. (Bernardi also starred in another tv show, "Arnie".) Carroll starred as "Topper", Maharis starred (with Martin Milner) in" Route 66" and Buchanan starred as "Judge Roy Bean".
Eve Arden and Kaye Ballard. Arden and Ballard traded barbs. Deborah Walley and Jerry Fogel starred as their married kids. Newman and Ames were in the David Frost show "That Was The Week That Was". Neill and Coates were in "Supeman". Lansing and Gaye were in "Love That Bob".
Jean Hagen. Hagen is perhaps best known for her roles in "Singin' In The Rain" and "Asphalt Jungle". She starred with Thomas, Rusty Hamer, Angela Cartwright, and Shery Jackson. Lord succeeded Hagen in the role and continued in "the Danny Thomas Show" (which came later). Lupino starred with then-husband Howard Duff in a different series. Kirk starred in "the Thin Man" series.
| The "Burns & Allen" tv series was an early classic. Who did not play (at one time or another) a neighbor of George and Gracie? | TV Oldies For Baby Boomers
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Ann Sothern. Benaderet, before "Petticoat Junction" (and before her days as a "Flinstones" voice) starred as Gracie's friend and neighbor. At different times, her husband was played by Clark and by Keating. Harry Von Zell also starred. Sothern had her own tv show.
David Brian. Brian played the role. Crawford starred in "Highway Patrol" and Whitmore starred as a lawyer in "The Law and Mr. Jones". Hadley was the narrator in "Racket Squad" (which always ended with the warning: there are people in this world who can slap you on the back with one hand and pick your pocket with the other ... and it could happen to you.").
Raymond Massey. Chamberlain and Edwards had the title roles in "Dr. Kildare" and "Ben Casey", respectively. Massey played the senior doctor in one show; Jaffe had the same role in the other. Cabot starred in the "Checkmate" tv series.
Dinah Shore. That was Dinah's slogan. Como also hosted a variet series, while Powell and Young were the "hosts" of two dramatic series.
| You Boomers remember Rootie Kazootie, don't you? Well, what was the very Italian sounding name of his faithful doggie? | TV Trivia For Boomers
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Gala Poochy Pup. "Rootie Kazootie" was a puppet show about a baseball loving little fella in the very early 50s who had the oddest smile you ever saw! All bottom lip and a few teeth! His girlfriend's name was odd too, but that's another quiz question! There were a bunch of other characters, all with clever, silly names similar to Rootie's, all through the show: Deetle Dottle, El Squeeko and Poison Zoomack being some of the others.
| What was the name of Dobie Gillis' rival on the TV show "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis"? | TV Trivia For Boomers
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Chatsworth Osborne Jr.. Chatsworth Osborne Jr. was Dobie's snotty, rich, high born rival for the affections of one Thalia Meninger, played by Tuesday Weld.
"Dobie" was one of the cleverest shows about teens ever on TV, and had a ton of taglines and innovations associated with it. "Lenny & Squiggy" from "Laverne & Shirley" owe a lot to this show, as did "Parker Lewis Can't Lose".
| Which puppeteer operated Kukla and Ollie on the 50/60s kiddie show "Kukla, Fran & Ollie"? | TV Trivia For Boomers
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Burr Tilstrom. The characters were used a number of times on NBC and CBS, in the 50s, 60s and 70s. Though initially an NBC property, in the 70s they were used as hosts of the "CBS Childrens' Film Festival". Burr Tilstrom also was part of a satirical show of the sixties that was a clone of a British show.
| There was one TV show that comedy writer Buck Henry was a regular performer on and contributor to. Englishman David Frost and regular "What's My Line?" panelist Henry Morgan also appeared on this show. What was its name? | TV Trivia For Boomers
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That Was The Week That Was. "That Was The Week That Was", or "TW3" as it was called by its shrill fans, was the pretentious, weak clone of a British hit show that featured parodies of topical news stories and supposedly scathing satire in general. David Frost also managed to appear on this one as he had in the British version.
It was on opposite "Peyton Place" on NBC on Tuesdays and was routinely clobbered in the ratings. It only lasted one year.
| Okay...you might know his dog's name, but what was the name of Rootie Kazootie's girlfriend? | TV Trivia For Boomers
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Polka Dottie. Yep...Polka Dottie...now you know why "Howdy Doody" kicked his butt in Kiddie Nielsen Land.
"Rootie" was also one of the few 50s kiddie icons that either wasn't revived on TV or kept alive in print or toys more than two years beyond its TV demise. "Winky Dink" came back, so did "Howdy", Lord knows how many times, Shari Lewis, "Yogi Bear", "Kukla, Fran and Ollie".... "Captain Kangaroo" lasted well into the 80s....what happened to li'l Rootie and his pals?
| What famous musical about baseball was Ray Walston, of TV's "My Favorite Martian", a major player in, both stage and screen? | TV Trivia For Boomers
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Damn Yankees. Ray Walston, as a matter of fact, was a major denizen of Broadway, period. He was also in "South Pacific", and frequently repeated his Broadway roles in the film versions of the plays. He had very good comic timing and made anal retentives respectable.
| Remember "Bewitched", a show that was sort of a typical, plastic 60s TV sitcom, that wasted some terrific talent? Hold on to your hat! What famous director/producer/writer/wunderkind did Agnes Moorehead work with in TV a few years before she became "Endora"? | TV Trivia For Boomers
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Rod Serling. Like many of the members of the show's cast, Moorehead had worked in much better quality fare than the saccharine "Bewitched". She was, in fact, in Orson Welles' most famous film, "Citizen Kane". The _other_ "wunderkind" she worked with, in TV, was Rod Serling, on the classic "Twilight Zone" episode, "The Invaders", about an old lady and a miniature UFO. She also won a Golden Globe for best supporting actress for her role in "Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte". We lost Ms. Moorehead in 1974 to lung cancer.
| Alice Ghostley, who played Esmeralda, went on to play a character on a popular CBS sitcom of the 90s, often singing the praises of the one black character on the show. What was the name of this sitcom? | TV Trivia For Boomers
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"Designing Women". Alice Ghostley, believe it or not, was one of the oldest members of the cast of "Bewitched", and she survived just about everybody! Ms. Ghostley played the funny character Bernice Clifton, a character written much funnier than poor, bedraggled Esmeralda on "Bewitched", on this CBS show about two sisters and two friends who ran an interior design business in the laid back, liberalized Georgia of the 1990s. She usually played domestics or harried, working-class housewives all through her career. She had been working in TV since the early 50s!
| Maurice Evans played "Maurice", (oddly enough,) Samantha's father on the show. But what venerated British theatrical play was he in that was televised two years before "Bewitched"? | TV Trivia For Boomers
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Shakespeare's "The Tempest". Can you believe such a stellar acting personage would waste his time and reputation on this show? Thankfully, he compensated for it to some degree by portraying the curmudgeonly Dr. Zaius in the far more clever "The Planet of the Apes" while he was also acting on "Bewitched".
Evans had an extremely varied career, starring in everything from "Bewitched" to "Planet of the Apes" to the early 60s teleplay of Shakespeare's "The Tempest" to "Androcles & The Lion" and (shudder!) Rosemary's Baby" (look...yet another link!). He worked more than once with Charlton Heston as well, co-starring with him in the forgettable "The War Lord". Also, while he was doing "Bewitched", he was head of the venerable "Old Vic" theatre company in Great Britain. He, like most of the cast of the show, is no longer with us, having exited this mortal coil 15 years after his "wife", Agnes Moorehead. What a waste!
| Even Sam herself, Elizabeth Montgomery, had been in some things that would put the silly show about witchcraft to shame. What classic anthology TV show, about the weird way fate exacts justice sometimes, did she play a one-time role in? | TV Trivia For Boomers
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The Twilight Zone. She was in the episode "Two" along with Charles Bronson, of all people, playing what looked like the last woman on Earth after a devastating war. The union of these two was inevitable, considering that Bronson was playing what was more than likely the last man alive.
We lost the elfin, very pretty Ms. Montgomery to colorectal cancer in 1995, at the too-young age of 62.
| Steve Franken, who played wise guy Cousin Henry, as well as other roles on the show, was in a sitcom that walked all over "Bewitched" with combat boots, or in Franken's case, opera pumps. What early 60s sitcom about teens did Franken co-star in, and what was his character? | TV Trivia For Boomers
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"The Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis", as Chatsworth Osborne Jr.. Steve Franken was an actor who showed up in an awful lot of vehicles, both TV and movie. He was in a show about three medical students living together called "Tom, Dick and Mary" right after "Dobie" was woefully cancelled; played the mischievious relative of Sam's in "Bewitched" and played a technician in the classic sci-fi thriller "WestWorld". He's turned up in numerous shows and films since, as well.
| Tim Moore gave form to what had to be one of the funniest black sitcom characters ever, though the show he was on was taken to task as being disgraceful to African Americans. What show was this, and what was the character? | TV Trivia For Boomers
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"Amos & Andy", as George "Kingfish" Stevens. "Kingfish" had to be one of the best realized black comedy characters ever! He was an inept, funny schemer who murdered the king's English but had you in stiches as he tried to pull a fast one on just about every other character on the show. His wife, Sapphire, has become synonymous with contrary black womanhood.
| What late 50s, ill-advised game show had Jackie Gleason, the host, actually apologizing for it the very first week after it premiered? | TV Trivia For Boomers
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You're In The Picture. This show, which lasted exactly two months, was a summer replacement show for Jackie Gleason's own regular show. In it, celebrity panel members would stick their heads through a carnival-type poster that portrayed a scene or person, and they would have to guess what type of picture they were part of. Gleason felt honor-bound to apologize to the studio and TV audiences for what he felt was an incredible bomb.
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