TV Doctors - Grouping Trivia Quiz

Answer: Emergency!

Dr. Early was played by Bobby Troup. He was married to co-star Julie London.

Troup earliest career success was as a song writer and musician in the 1940s and 1950s. He produced Julie London's most popular song "Cry Me a River" (written by Arthur Hamilton).

He started acting as a side career, having parts in the then-popular musical films. He then went on to have a more successful acting career in television, with several guest star appearances. He then was on to star in the medical action series "Emergency!"

Answer: Chicago Med

Played by Jesse Schram, Dr. Asher is a OB/GYN working at Gaffney Chicago Medical Center. Her mother died during childbirth with her, and she harbors resentment because he mother didn't go to a doctor because she didn't want to leave Asher's older siblings.

Dr. Asher was a heroin user, and fell in and out of addiction in the early years of her relationship with Dr. Will Halstead.

Besides being an actress from the age of 18, Jesse Schram is a singer/songwriter.

Answer: Star Trek The Next Generation

Played by Gates McFadden, Dr. Beverly Crusher was the first chief medical officer of the USS Enterprise-D. Since the size of the Enterprise-D allowed families, she brought her son Wesley to this assignment. Her late husband, Jack, was friends with her commanding officer, Captain Jean-Luc Picard.

After a year, she became head of Starfleet Medical and moved back to Earth, leaving her son on the Enterprise. After a year away, she returned to be CMO again.

Gates McFadden's careers before acting were extensive. After graduating from Brandeis University in 1970, she taught at the University of Pittsburgh, Harvard University, and George Washington University. McFadden is an accomplished dancer and puppeteer. She has worked as a choreographer with Jim Henson, notably on the fantasy film "Labyrinth".

Her character's one-year hiatus was not voluntary; the producers of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" fired her most probably because of feedback she'd given them that the scripts for the first season episodes were sexist. Thanks to a letter-writing campaign by fans and support from co-star Patrick Stewart, she was re-hired for the remaining seasons of the show. Series creator Gene Roddenberry had noted that her character was the third-most popular among fans.

Answer: Quincy

Played by Anita Gillette, Dr. Hanover appeared in the eighth season (the last) of "Quincy". She became Dr. Quincy's girlfriend, and later wife. Even as close as they became, Dr. Quincy would not reveal his first name, even when Emily asked him directly. This was a running joke throughout the series. The only clue was that his name started with an "R".

This was not Anita Gillette's first appearance on "Quincy". In a fourth season flashback scene, she portrayed Dr. Quincy's first wife, Helen.

Answer: Chicago Med

Played by Steven Weber, Dr. Archer is a Navy veteran who struggles with PTSD. He disdains anything to do with mental illness and psychiatry, which pits him against Dr. Charles.

Steven Weber entered into television acting with a role in the long-running soap opera "As the World Turns". He played John F. Kennedy in the miniseries "The Kennedys of Massachusetts". He then got tapped to play Brian Hackett, the goofy, aimless kid brother to Joe Hackett (Tim Daly) in the successful series "Wings".

Facing the prospect of getting pigeonholed as lovable loser like Brian, Weber turned to accepting more serious roles. His role as John Torrance in the remake of "The Shining" earned him a Saturn Award for his chilling portrayal.

Answer: Emergency!

Played by Robert Fuller, Dr. Brackett began as a doubtful critic of the new paramedic program authorized by Gov. Reagan by the Wedsworth-Townsend Act. In the pilot episode, paramedics DeSoto and Gage work to prove their abilities.

In the aired episodes, his doubt is not portrayed, as series often have a change in premise from their un-aired pilots.

Robert Fuller has been professionally acting since the early 1950s. His biggest role before "Emergency!" was that of Wyoming rancher Jess Harper in the series "Laramie". Nearly four decades later, he had a recurring role on "Walker, Texas Ranger" as Wade Harper, who was said to be the great-great-grandson of Jess Harper.

Answer: Star Trek The Next Generation

Played by Diana Muldaur, Dr. Pulaski was brought on-board the USS Enterprise-D as a replacement for Dr. Crusher. She was quite a bit gruffer than most officers. She didn't think of Data as a sentient being and was dismissive to him initially. She grew to appreciate him and treat him better after he supported her when she contracted an aging disease.

Pulaski and Riker were unknowingly assaulted by the clone colony on Mariposa to obtain DNA samples from them. This was so they could replenish their population's genetic base, as they were all clones of the five survivors of the original colony ship. After generations of cloning clones, enough replicative fade had occurred that they would soon be unable to clone viable replacements and would die out. Geordi LaForge realizes that the clones were up to something covert (by observing their heat signatures with his VISOR), and informs Riker. Pulaski scans Riker, LaForge, and herself and determines that she and Riker are missing epithelial cells, which are largely undifferentiated and are ideal for cloning. They transport back to the planet, find their clones (still being grown) and phaser disintegrate them before they are "born".

Pulaski left the Enterprise-D when Crusher returned as CMO.

Diana Muldaur was no stranger to "Star Trek". In the 1960s, she guest starred as two different characters (also doctors) on the original "Star Trek" series.

Muldaur served as a board member of the Screen Actors Guild. She later served as the president of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

The folk singer Maria Muldaur ("Midnight at the Oasis") is Diana Muldaur's sister-in-law. She was married to Diana's brother Geoff.

Answer: House

Played by Robert Sean Leonard, Dr. Wilson was the Head of Oncology and Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, and was Dr. Gregory House's best (if only) friend. He often ended up being House's conscience, after House's often ill-advised actions based on his medical theories.

Robert Sean Leonard has had an acting career since he was 17. At age 19, he co-starred with Robin Williams and Ethan Hawke in "Dead Poets Society", where he portrayed a student at a private all-boys boarding school with a conflict with his father.

Answer: Scrubs

Played by Sarah Chalke, Dr. Reid was initially a neurotic, quirky intern at Sacred Heart Hospital. Though becoming a competent doctor, she still has issues saying the proper names of sexual organs or sex terms. She had an on-off-on-off-on romantic relationship with Dr. John "J.D." Dorian.

Sarah Chalke has been acting since she was 16. She got a big break when she auditioned and won the role of Becky on "Roseanne"; she was replacing the original actress, Alicia Goranson. The actresses ended up swapping the role three times during the initial run of the show. During the reboot (season 10), Chalke returned to the show, but as a character named Andrea.

Chalke also voices Beth Smith (née Sanchez) in the science fiction cartoon "Rick and Morty".

Answer: Star Trek The Next Generation

Played by Suzie Plakson, Dr. Selar is only portrayed once on-screen in the episode "The Schizoid Man". She is a member of an away team that is quickly beamed down just as the Enterprise warps away to a more-urgent assignment. Throughout the rest of the series, Dr. Selar is often paged on the ship's PA, but not actually appearing.

Suzie Plakson has appeared as four different characters throughout "Star Trek" lore: Dr. Selar, half Klingon/Human K'Ehlar, Andorian Tarah, and as a female Q.

Answer: Emergency!

Played by Ron Pinkard, Dr. Morton was a Navy vet who usually wore an old-style physician's uniform or surgical scrubs. He initially acted pretentious over the paramedics in Squad 51. His attitude softened as the series progressed.

Ron Pinkard studied medicine before he starred in "Emergency!"

Pinkard has played mostly one-episode characters in TV shows since 1969. Some of his more extensive roles are Ed Thomas in the science fiction cartoon "Sealab 2020".

In the 1990s, he was in three "Perry Mason" TV movies. However, each time he was a different character. He had worked as a dialogue coach for Raymond Burr for the latter's television series "Perry Mason" and "Ironside".

Answer: Scrubs

Played by Donald Faison, Dr. Turk (who Dr. Kelso referred to as "Turkleton") was initially a surgical intern at Sacred Heart Hospital. He met and fell in love with Nurse Carla Espinosa, whom he eventually married and had two daughters with. He is Dr. Dorian's best friend, with whom he has several habits in common. He eventually becomes chief of surgery.

Donald Faison has been acting since he was 16. His breakout role was Murray in the movie "Clueless"; he continued the role in the TV show of the same name.

He and his "Scrubs" co-star Zach Braff are characters in T-Mobile Home Internet commercials, playing off their "Scrubs'" characters friendship.

Answer: House

Played by Jennifer Morrison, Dr. Cameron was the youngest and only female on Dr. House's diagnostic team initially. She worked on the team for three years, then transferred to be the Emergency Room Head. She and Dr. Chase married, but divorced him after only two years.

Jennifer Morrison has been acting professionally acting since 1994. After "House", she guest starred as Zoey in "How I Met Your Mother" as a love interest/antagonist for Ted.

Answer: Scrubs

Played by John C. McGinley, Dr. Cox was initially the senior attending physician and Sacred Heart Hospital, later becoming the Chief of Medicine. His abrasive tough-love teaching method weeded out the weaker interns, who either leave medicine, or in the case of Doug Murphy, become a coroner/pathologist. His apparent dislike of his students is ultimately a ploy, expressing his genuine admiration of Dr. Dorian, even though he usually called Dorian by girls' names most of the time.

He gets back together with his ex-wife when she gets pregnant supposedly by someone other than Cox. The truth was that her child was Cox's; she just didn't want to force him into a relationship. The truth of the baby's parentage was eventually revealed, and they later have a daughter.

John C. McGinley's big break came when he was an understudy in a production of "Danny and the Deep Blue Sea". Director Oliver Stone saw him, and cast him in his Vietnam War movie "Platoon". This started a string of collaborations between Stone and McGinley.

His character Dr. Cox's trait of calling Dorian girls' names is actually something McGinley does with all his friends.

Answer: Quincy

Played by Jack Klugman, Dr. Quincy was a Los Angeles County coroner, or medical examiner (M.E.). His suspicions were often aroused when corpses of suspicious deaths arrived at his lab. He would go beyond his duty and investigate outside of his lab and solve murders. He was a widower who tried to avoid long-term relationships. Then in the last season, he met and married his second wife, Emily, who suspiciously looked like his late first wife Helen. (They were portrayed by the same actress, Anita Gillette.)

Jack Klugman was one of the pioneering actors of American television. He had parts in several of the "theatre" series of the 1950s. He had many one to three episode parts in many of the TV shows of the 1950s and 1960s. He also had parts in movies, notably Juror #5 in the acclaimed "Twelve Angry Men".

He won the part of Oscar Madison, the slobbish sports reporter on the TV show "The Odd Couple" (based on the movie of the same name). The show lasted five seasons. Klugman was twice nominated for Emmys for Best Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for his work.

He then was the lead actor in "Quincy, M.E.", which was on the air for eight seasons.

Answer: House

Played by Anne Dudek, Dr. Volakis (who was referred to by Dr. House using a rude nickname) was an applicant for a fellowship position that opened up on House's diagnostic team. She lasted several weeks as House culled the group of potential candidates, until she was eventually dismissed.

However, she had started a romantic relationship with Dr. House's friend, Dr. James Wilson. At first, the relationship was hidden from House, until House's curiosity urged him on to find the truth. Their relationship grew stronger, and they moved in together.

One night, House had gone out drinking. He couldn't drive home, so he called Dr. Wilson. Wilson wasn't home, but Amber answered the call and agreed to help House get home, even though she was nursing a bout of Influenza A, taking amantadine to relieve her symptoms. On a bus ride home, the bus was sideswiped. House sustained a head injury and lost his short term recollection. Amber suffered injury to her kidneys. Unfortunately, with her kidneys damaged, the flu medication wasn't being cleared out of her system. With it continuing to circulate in her blood, it bound to proteins in her organs and poisoned them. Even though House finally remembered that Amber had been with him, it was too late when Amber was found at a different hospital with systemic organ failure.

Anne Dudek started her acting career in the theater. While still in theater school at Northwestern, she got the role of Iphigenia in "The Iphigenia Cycle". The production moved to off-Broadway New York, where she won the Calloway Award for her performance.

On TV after "House", she appeared in recurring roles on "Covert Affairs", "Mad Men", "Those Who Kill", "The Magicians", and "The Flash".

Answer: Chicago Med

Played by Oliver Platt, Dr. Charles is the Head of Psychiatry at Gaffney Chicago Medical Center. He has been married four times; his first and fourth wives were the same woman, who sadly died of lymphoma.

Dr. Charles struggles with depression. He self-medicates by adjusting his dosage because the medicine was making him unideally numb.

Oliver Platt began his professional acting career when he was 27. He had the breakout roll as Porthos is the 1993 production of "The Three Musketeers". On filming this remake, Platt said, "That was a really fun shoot. We were in Vienna and all over Europe in these glamorous locations, and you were getting to be in The Three Musketeers. Riding around on horses with pipes and going wrenching-I got nothing bad to say."

Answer: Quincy

Played by John S. Ragin, Dr. Asten was Dr. Quincy's boss in the Medical Examiners office. He and Quincy would often butt heads, as Quincy would go out-of-office to investigate the crimes that were committed on people whose bodies he examined.

John Ragin was a prolific supporting character actor throughout the 1960s and 1970s.

Answer: Emergency!

Played by Bobby Sherman, Dr. Donaldson, Jr. was an intern that had an attitude problem towards paramedics and accidnet victims. Dr. Brackett sees this attitude as a problem, and assigns Donaldson to ride with the paramedics of Squad 51.

(The list of doctor characters in this show was small, since the focus was mainly on the paramedics and their firefighter colleagues, not the Rampart Hospital staff. Only Dr. Early, Dr. Brackett, and Dr. Morton were regulars. Dr. Donaldson Junior and Senior were only in one episode, "Fools".)

Bobby Sherman, besides being an actor -- most notably on the period series "Here Come The Brides" -- was also a popular singer and teen heartthrob in the 1960s and 1970s. Some of his hit songs were "Cried Like a Baby", "Our Last Song Together", and "Julie, Do Ya Love Me".

Due to part in this episode, Sherman left the entertainment business and became an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), known as paramedic in the 1970s. He worked training cadets at the Los Angeles Police Academy in first aid and CPR. He later worked as a Reserve Depute Sheriff in San Bernardino County, continuing his first aid/CPR training to new deputies.

Somewhere there is a woman named Roberta, who was one of Sherman's patients. She was delivered by EMT Sherman when her mother couldn't get to a hospital in time. Her mother named her Roberta after Robert Sherman, EMT.

Answer: Chicago Med

Played by Nick Gehlfuss, Dr. Halstead grew up in the Chicago area, along with his brother Jay, who became an Intelligence Unit detective for the CPD. Dr. Halstead didn't get support from his father, who wanted him to start work right out of high school. Instead, he went to New York and put himself through college and medical school.

Nick Gehlfuss made his stage debut in New York in the Classic Stage Company's production of "Midsummer Night's Dream" as Lysander, starring opposite Bebe Neuwirth and Christina Ricci, and received the prestigious Rosemarie Tichler award for outstanding performance in a play. In Los Angeles, he starred in Neil LaBute's "Reasons to Be Pretty" at the Geffen Playhouse. Gehlfuss has had recurring roles on "Shameless", "The Newsroom", and "Power", as well as guest spots on "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia", "The Good Wife", "Person of Interest", and "Royal Pains".

Answer: Star Trek The Next Generation

Played by Bill Erwin, Dr. Quaice was a mentor of Dr. Crusher. When he retired, Crusher arranged for him to be picked up to be delivered to his home planet of Kenda II. The next day, Crusher couldn't find him aboard the Enterprise. When she reported his disappearance, nobody seemed to recall him ever boarding. This sets in motion other crew members disappearing, with nobody remembering them except for Dr. Crusher.

Bill Erwin was a character actor from the 1940s through the 2000s. He was known for his world-weary sense of humor. He was married for 47 years to his wife Lucy until her death in 1995.

Answer: Quincy

Played by Charles Aidman, Dr. Colella was a character in a two-part episode of "Quincy". The plot revolved around a doctor who was selling prescriptions to addicts solely for the money.

Charles Aidman was a television character actor from the 1950s through the 1980s. He actually appeared as five different characters on "Quincy". His first -- Dr. Colella -- was for a two-part story.

One of Aidman's last credits was as the narrator for the 1980s remake of "The Twilight Zone".

Aidman passed away in 1993, at the age of 68.

Answer: House

Played by Jesse Spencer, Dr. Chase was a member of Dr. Gregory House's diagnostic team. He was an intensivist and the team's surgeon. Upon the (faked) death of Dr. House in the series finale, he becomes the Head of Diagnostics.

Jesse Spencer is an Australian actor, who has been acting since his teens. He's also a musician, accomplished on violin, guitar, and piano. He has toured with a group of other TV actors/musicians who call themselves "Band from TV".

Answer: Scrubs

Played by Ken Jenkins, Dr. Kelso was the much-maligned chief of medicine at Sacred Heart Hospital. He often had to make hard decisions based on finances, which portrayed him in a negative light, mostly by Dr. Cox. However, when Cox himself was promoted to chief of medicine, he softened his opinion of his former boss.

Ken Jenkins is a veteran stage actor, with more than thirty years in the theater. He was a co-founder of the Actor's Theatre of Louisville, a prestigious institution that has produced some of America's best new playwrights. He gravitated to television in the 1980s.